The Tickled Pink Ribbon Relay - NOW FINISHED - RAISING WELL OVER £1500!!
Good citizens of the MR Forum parish. You may remember that a few weeks ago there was some big talk of getting an olympic-torch-style relay together, which would see one of Mrerikryman's new Jooky creations being passed from forumite to forumite, taking a proper roadtrip around the land. Maybe it was all the positive vapors from the olympics, I don't know, but it seemed like a good idea at the time...
But of course, apart from furthering the general air of bonhomie among the good eggs of the forum (and getting a week or so in the company of one of Mark's kooky creations), there is a point: to raise some dosh for a worthy cause. By coincidence, Mark had already agreed to donate a Jooky to be auctioned off via sealed bids at the wedding of a friend, whose fiancee has recently done battle with breast cancer, so a cunning plan has begun to emerge out of the fug...
The guitar will be this one, a tasty Cabronita, covered in the pink ribbon material associated with the Breast Cancer Awareness charity. And the plan, such as it is, is to generate a list of people who are up for it, a log of where they are and an idea of how far they are prepared to travel to receive it and/or pass it on. Then we can try to plot a rough route. I've agreed to be the routemaster , though exactly how well I'll be able to control this is a matter of some conjecture, at least in McToot Towers. I certainly want to have a few days with it and will deliver to any adjacent county...
In return for a donation (suggested minimum a tenner) at this Just Giving Site, people would get up to a week with the guitar, perhaps take a pic for the blog (clothed, please) before committing to deliver it to the next temporary custodian. If people fancy, they can submit a sealed bid for the guitar, to be unveiled at the wedding of Mark's mate in February next year.
The Tickled Pink One, will be ready to begin its journey in the next couple of weeks and we only have a relatively limited window, so in the immortal, and slightly slurry, words of Delia:
Where are you? Let's be 'avin you!
PM me if you are up for it. Please indicate where you are and how far you might be able to travel to collect/deliver. If you travel a lot with work, maybe that would be worth mentioning.
Cheers
Last edited by mctoot; 24th February 2013 at 10:43 AM.
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must've kicked you around some
EDIT 9/10/2012 - THE RELAY IS UNDERWAY...
The below will now be a kind of route map of who's got it and roughly where it's headed. Obviously I can't be sure of where it will go beyond the next few but over a period of days I will try to juggle it into some sort of order. Liable to change though...
The current holder will be in green, the next batter up will be in a fetching shade of purple...
* Dean2371 - Bristol to Cardiff area
* Dilbert - Cardiff and 50 miles around
* Guitarcookie1 - South Wales - Cardiff to Swansea (Newport-Carmarthen if nec)
* Dean2371 (again)
* Mrerikryman (again)
* Maltingsaudio - Shepton
* Koneguitarist - not too for from Maltingsaudio, over the border in Dorset...
* Travisthedog - Dorchester
* McToot - Haywards Heath, West Sussex (happy to travel 50-odd miles)
* FlangingFred - Crawley
* Springworks - just up the road from McToot in Haywards Heath
* Fatoldman - Eastbourne
* chrispy108 - Brighton (and an alumus of the recent gearfest!)
* Monquixote - Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and the Cambridge area.
* Trotter - st ives cambs & will go an hour or so in any direction
* Stickyfiddle - London E3, happy to travel an hour so for a fellow forumite
* Octatonic - London, W3. Happy to drive an hour-ish in any direction.
* Dindude - Middlesex, North West London HA5, an hour in any direction
*Jalapeno - Herts/Bucks border - near Aylesbury/Oxford/Hemel Hemspstead
* Zenzeypher - Oxford
* impmann - Daventry, Northants. Prepared to drive 30 or so miles to meet someone
* JMP220478 - North West, but monthly trips to London / South West
* WezV - burton on trent (de14) so can easily cover a lot of the midlands area
* Not_the_DJ is in Kenilworth, CV8 and works in Banbury
* erictheweary - West Midlands, the top end of the M5 ( junc 1 and down a few).
* RocknRollDave - Same as Eric (above) but also works in CV7
* ANeutron - Lancashire/the North West.
* Littlegreenman - Lancs/NW
* Marc from Mojo Pickups who is in Halifax,
*Moz91 - Leeds/Bradford - my old stomping ground
* Erin Bennett from Syren who is about 25 miles from Glasgow and happy to travel
* Jock2020 - Glasgow and can deliver/collect within approx 50 mile radius
* Failedastronaut - Glasgow and 100 miles or so North or South...
* DiscoStu - Elgin, Moray. I'd happily drive an hour/hour and a half
* Johnnyurq - North of Scotland
Last edited by mctoot; 11th December 2012 at 08:04 AM.
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must've kicked you around some
Cheers Tootsy...
For the record, it is a swamp ash bodied Tele/La Cab, which has been mahogany stained and then hard wax oiled.
The fabric on top has been stuck, grain filled and then treated with an antiquing varnish, which looks pretty swish.
The pickup has been wound specially by Marc Ransley at Mojo Pickups, and is a TV Jones/Gretsch Sized P90.
He has also done the Ye Olde wiring thing, with a pink PIO cap, CTS pots and the rest.
The guitar will hopefully be finished in the next week or so, so if there is anybody in Bristol or close by wanting to join in, I'll happily meet/deliver to pass it on.I'll upload some proper pictures like, once it be finished...
On reflection - maybe peeps should indicate their interest on this thread (rather than sending me PMs, though that is also fine, I like the attention), stating their location and how far they can travel to meet, etc.
I will just update the main list on the second post in this thread.
Fanks
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must've kicked you around some
If it makes its way northwards, and then northwards some more, then count me in. I'm in Elgin, Moray.
I'd happily drive an hour/hour and a half if it becomes Scotland bound. So what's that, about 70 miles?
I'm in London, W3.
Happy to drive an hour-ish in any direction.
I'm up for this - nw based but monthly trips in n out of london / south west ( Trowbridge - Bath - Bristol ) - Dublin's a regular jaunt too ...
Fantastic idea and excellent cause ..
Last edited by jmp220478; 22nd September 2012 at 07:46 PM.
This.Originally Posted by jmp220478
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