b'Looking back over my sparse records of the time, Icompany amicably enough, but I still didnt always notice the Lysander has been the guitar most oftenhave the timber I needed, nor the sales. It was a reported as stolen, and there were less Lysandersdifficult time. We made autoharps to make ends made than any other model, so that is twicemeet, which were incredibly labour intensive and strange - bit of Shakespeare speak there - did youtricky, and with very little money involved. We notice? Anyway, the point Im trying to make is thatmade Piano stools and Violin cases. Each time I the Lysander was obviously attractive to a lot ofinvented jigs and working methods to make the people, including some robbing hoods. You mightmanufacture easier, and I became rather good at get used to my sense of humour by the time you getthat side of things. I soon realised that it was silly to the end of this book. having a distributor who wasnt selling, so I took Bill and I moved the workshop to a factory unitover the sales myself and started looking for my in Kirkham, home to the blue label Fyldes, andown timber supplies. Once I had cut out the middle for a time we both travelled to work on the samelayers the business became a little more viable. train. I had been a hairy person for quite a while,I had my own guitar designs, there were no books but one day I shaved off my beard and had my longor plans, no Internet, and not many good guitars hair cut very short. I sat opposite Bill on the trainto get a close look at. Yamahas and Harmony and I walked behind him when we came out of theSovereigns were the most common instruments, train station, he kept turning round to see who wasbut they were very basic and didnt help much.I following him and didnt recognise me until we gotwas feeling my way technically, trying to work out to work. Sorry Bill, such fun.the structure of a guitar and efficient processes for Bob was sales manager; he had persuaded amaking them. distributor to take on the sales of the guitars, andBeing an engineer, I had thought a lot about the they also supplied most of the materials. Thisstresses and strains within a guitar, and I designed left me terribly vulnerable to changes in timberan aluminium bar that would strengthen the necks. availability, and to sales fashions, and it also meantIt was more or less a small railway line, and for that Bob no longer had a real role. We partedquite some time, that is exactly what I used. Those Alloa Barrel ParkThe photography trip to Alloa barrel park with Keith Beardmore. This was just after 9/11, and they had a risk assessment and emergency procedure for an aeroplane crashing into it. The park included a bonded warehouse, the duty payable from that one site was twenty billion pounds. It is no wonder that Scotland wants independence.Whisky is matured in oak casks, often ones that have been used before for American Bourbon. The empty casks are shipped to Scotland to be rebuilt and reused.34'