b'That might make me sound insensitive to others,Guitars team in The Great Egg Race with Heinz but I take my responsibilities as an employer veryWolff and Peter Skellern. We each had various skills seriously. I think Im a good boss, I certainly try toand were not often defeated by technical problems, be, I go out of my way to help, and Ive had a lotso it was a good team. The task was to design and of wonderful people work for me over the years,build a device that could be attached to a piano and but plenty of others as well.At one time I quiteplay a tune automatically. We chose Jesu Joy of enjoyed taking on the difficult ones and givingMans Desiring, and made a machine that had big them a chance, in fact during the snooker yearswooden fingers with pink fingernails, operated by the local job centre sent me all the youths that hada wooden punch card and a crank handle. There failed elsewhere and no one else would touch, Iwere three teams, and we won! I still have the prize could get away with it when making snooker cuesEgg Cup. My parents were in the audience, a lovely and cases, but I wouldnt do it now. I had drugday.Its all on youtube.addicts, burglars and grievous bodily harmersI concentrated on the snooker business until 1990, and even a lad who had broken into my workshopwhen my guardian angel went on holiday again years before. Most of them went on to permanentand didnt leave his number. I had been using employment with me, and underneath the badSantos Rosewood in making component parts for attitudes and the damaged personalities thereanother snooker company. What I didnt realise were some good people, but take my word for it,was that it was poisonous. It triggered a serious there are some people who should wear a placardallergy to many of the other woods that I was using, saying trouble, and even in a well establishedparticularly Indian Rosewood, which has always and properly run business, just one can do a lot ofbeen central to both cues and guitars. Very soon I harm. Every small employer can tell similar stories. wasnt able to spend even a few minutes anywhere TV and Radio seem to like people that makenear the workshop, my skin would swell and unusual things, and there have been about a dozencrack and bleed, mostly my face and hands, but recordings in the workshop over the years. The bestsometimes more or less all over my body. It hurt. television appearance though was when Tonys wifeI couldnt sleep, sometimes I couldnt see. I was Margaret entered Tony, Eddie and myself as a Fyldemarried again, with two lovely daughters, and Michael ChapmanI think Mike was my first customer after I had moved to the Fylde coast. He was regarded as the fastest guitarist around, on acoustic or electric guitar. He was very definite in what he wanted - a black guitar, with a silver vine inlaid into the fingerboard, and a Barcus Berry pickup, which was the peak of technology at the time.I had no idea how to go about any of this, and there wasnt any source that could help me. This is where I started my jump in feet first approach to making Luke Concannon something new. I hardly ever draw things out, I just take a piece of wood and start Luke came to fame in the duo Nizlopishaping it, seems to work ok.with The JCB song. He is a committedMike went on to buy three guitars from conservationist and asked me to makeme. The cover of his album - Life on the him a guitar from non-endangeredceiling is simple - a Fylde Caliban, and materials. He then went on to endanger ithis girlfriendAndru, wearing nothing but himself by digging a big hole in the frontfishnet stockings and high heels. There of it. will now be a rush of searches on eBay Luke drops by sometimes and sets upfor the album. Too late, Ive bought them a primitive tent in any bit of secludedall.woodland he can find. If he is working nearby, check your back garden.71'