Half an hour here, fifteen minutes there and five weeks later I get to take it into the studio. My broken Gibson Flying V from Gumtree.com is finished. The neck crack was tricky, with the neck clamped to a bench I had to spring the headstock back to inject glue into the “greenstick fracture”. I put [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2011 by PTC*
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Haglöfs have quite a bit of revamping coming to the pack range. The Intense packs are all discontinued, which I have mixed feelings about as I like them, and are replaced with a wider range of new models bearing the Gram name. Above and below is the Gram 25, 550g of classic-looking multisport pack. The [...]
Posted on August 18th, 2011 by PTC*
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By the time you read this I’ll be gone. Down the M74, away to the Lakes to look at gear for two days. I’ll be back with all the interesting stuff and many photies of bearded grimacing faces in next years kit. Hurrah. Then I’m going to open two months worth of emails. Hmm. I just [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2011 by PTC*
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Had a meet up with John from Ardblair who had some 2012 bits and pieces to show from their brands. The first good news is that Ardblair are now distrubuting Hillsound Crampons on the UK and they’ll be in the shops for this winter. First up though are some new models coming from AKU. Above [...]
Posted on August 9th, 2011 by PTC*
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Kozi Kidz are Swedish brand who make outdoor clothes exclusively for kids from six months to ten years old. The range of kit has a big technical thread running through it with styles mirroring a regular adult range to kit your little ones out for most outdor activities all year round. Holly has a softshell jacket [...]
Posted on August 7th, 2011 by PTC*
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Mist swirred slowly around the tops and rain scattered itself lazily across the Arrochar Alps. We sat in the motor and opened our picnic as the windows steamed up and raindrops trickled down the outside of the glass sealing us up and shutting out the grey day. Picnic done, out we went. The trees sheltered us from [...]
Posted on August 7th, 2011 by PTC*
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The ink was still wet when it came through the letterbox this morning, just out is Harvey’s new British Mountain Map for Torridon and Fisherfield. It was a joy unfolding this and scanning the contours that I’d been shinning up and down a few weeks ago, Harvey’s British Mountain Maps really are where it’s at. The [...]
Posted on August 5th, 2011 by PTC*
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When I heard the name of this Vaude pack at a trade show last year, I just knew I had to get one on test, here’s the Splock 28. Now looking at it above it looks like a regular pack, but it’s actually a zipped access design, something I’ve used on sub-20litre multisport packs, but [...]
Posted on August 4th, 2011 by PTC*
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Maw and Paw said they’d come out to play, and so they did. I was hot though, the first bit from the roadside is steep and while I parked down at the Inveruglas visitor centre having dropped them off I wondered whether they’d soon be coming back down towards me having decide that this was [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2011 by PTC*
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The world would be a much less weird place without people making stuff like that wee slice of madness below and all the worse for it. I also love that google isn’t as clever as it thinks it is and thinks that this picture will help me in the refurbishment of the flying V a few posts [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2011 by PTC*
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I was musing at a tea break recently, we do a lot of musing at tea breaks, most workie breaks are all about reading the Sun or the Daily Record and talking about tits and fitba, but we take a more esoteric direction or discuss pre 1977 movies (Damn you Lucas). I imagine this is much [...]
Posted on August 1st, 2011 by PTC*
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It was warm and bright, but it was an odd time of day so I flew up the road unhindered with air flowing in through open windows and my blaring metal bothering no one. I had been appeasing customers with a boot full of outdoor gear, conversations that couldn’t be hurried and mind wandering to just [...]
Posted on August 1st, 2011 by PTC*
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