Back from ze House of Pain ... (Dave Warning: Spalted Maple Content!!)

[Barklessdog]

Hogan!

[Dave W]

I've been stuck in the Dusseldorf too......

Wasn't that one of Teri Garr's lines in Young Frankenstein? Right after she rolled in ze hay? 

[TBird1958]

Klink!

Ve are zennding you to ze Russian front!

General Burkhartler, let me assure you.........

Hogan!

[Pilgrim]

Sequel to Junk-In-A-Box:  A new Japanese game show called "Slap The Dusseldorf!"  It involves rubber paddles.

Or maybe that was a term used on the CB radio....

[uwe]

I never thought that the mere combination of the name of a tiny River named Düssel and the German word for village (Dorf) would incite so much unadulterated amusement here!!!

[Barklessdog]

Speaking of Dorf....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtR2kGBHEW8&feature=related

I remember as a kid Hogan's Heroes alway talking about Dusseldorf.

[uwe]

Edith's digital camera is much better than my Blackberry thing:



The dreaded bridge:





The beauty of decay:





The Hipshot tuners:




Mathias painted the back in a nice grey-brownish-blackish translucent fin that still lets you detect some of the texture of the limba soft wood used by Epi:

[exiledarchangel]

Very nice photos herr moderator! But I think you should put golden pickup rings and 3-way tip, or maybe black (to go with the big screws of the bridge). Those cream ones look kinda out of place.

[uwe]

I've thought about black actually, because the fungus is black too.

[Freuds_Cat]

I think black would tie in well with the headstock and the bridge bolts.

[uwe]

Enough!!!!!




First guy who says "perhaps the cream surround did look better after all ..." takes ze next train to ze Russian front.

[Dave W]

I have to admit, the hardware and wood colors work well together.

[Highlander]

Err... ze switch, mein Fuhrer...

(where did I leave my learn Russian in a day book... )

So bizarre, seeing all those saddles in a line, but as they say, if it ain't broke...

[TBird1958]

Enough!!!!!

First guy who says "perhaps the cream surround did look better after all ..." takes ze next train to ze Dusseldorf front.

Looks good Herr Moderator 'cept *that* bridge.  

[uwe]

"ze Dusseldorf front"




... was one of the better places to be in spring 1945, resistance groups negotiated a truce behind the back of the Nazis with the US Forces surrounding the city, a final bombing raid was thus averted and the city gave up on April 17, 1945 without a fight, igonoring Nazi evacuation and scorched earth orders: