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Ilford HP5+ pushed to 800 ASA and developed in HC-110 20 degrees for 7.5 minutes. These are some pictures from winter that I've only just go around to finishing and developing.

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Ilford HP5+ pushed to 800 ASA and developed in HC-110 20 degrees for 7.5 minutes. These are some pictures from winter that I've only just go around to finishing and developing.

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Ilford HP5+ pushed to 800 ASA and developed in HC-110 20 degrees for 7.5 minutes. These are some pictures from winter that I've only just go around to finishing and developing.

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Ilford HP5+ pushed to 800 ASA and developed in HC-110 20 degrees for 7.5 minutes. These are some pictures from winter that I've only just go around to finishing and developing.

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The first roll of colour film through the Bronica SQ-A - Fuji pro 160s. It's quite a low saturation film and is good for skin tones so I characteristically decided to shoot no photos of people whatsoever! I'm quite happy with these, although colour medium format could be cost prohibitive unless I find somewhere that can develop them much more cheaply than my local shop, or learn to do it myself.

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The first roll of colour film through the Bronica SQ-A - Fuji pro 160s. It's quite a low saturation film and is good for skin tones so I characteristically decided to shoot no photos of people whatsoever! I'm quite happy with these, although colour medium format could be cost prohibitive unless I find somewhere that can develop them much more cheaply than my local shop, or learn to do it myself. Patch looking through the garden gate that I made to my wife's exacting specifications. It turned out pretty well too. :)

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The first roll of colour film through the Bronica SQ-A - Fuji pro 160s. It's quite a low saturation film and is good for skin tones so I characteristically decided to shoot no photos of people whatsoever! I'm quite happy with these, although colour medium format could be cost prohibitive unless I find somewhere that can develop them much more cheaply than my local shop, or learn to do it myself. Murphy sunning himself in an area he really shouldn't be - typical cat.

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The first roll of colour film through the Bronica SQ-A - Fuji pro 160s. It's quite a low saturation film and is good for skin tones so I characteristically decided to shoot no photos of people whatsoever! I'm quite happy with these, although colour medium format could be cost prohibitive unless I find somewhere that can develop them much more cheaply than my local shop, or learn to do it myself. Patch recently had her third litter of puppies and they make a lovely, if a little bit cutesy, subject.

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The first roll of colour film through the Bronica SQ-A - Fuji pro 160s. It's quite a low saturation film and is good for skin tones so I characteristically decided to shoot no photos of people whatsoever! I'm quite happy with these, although colour medium format could be cost prohibitive unless I find somewhere that can develop them much more cheaply than my local shop, or learn to do it myself. This is a spring that flows quite close to where I live. The water is very clean, in fact, clean enough for watercress to grow in it.

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It's now I wish I'd taken a few pictures between sanding and refinishing. Never mind - this is the neck now that it's been repaired. The dents have been raised and sanded and the area behind the nut has been filled with wood filler. The neck has now had 5 coats of Danish oil and 2 coats of wax polish and is looking rather nice I think. It's all ready for the tuners and decal to be applied. Here you can see the finish has turned out to be quite glossy, even though I was expecting the oil to be quite a matte finish. I decided to give in and put some wax polish on and buff it up to a nice shine.

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It's now I wish I'd taken a few pictures between sanding and refinishing. Never mind - this is the neck now that it's been repaired. The dents have been raised and sanded and the area behind the nut has been filled with wood filler. The neck has now had 5 coats of Danish oil and 2 coats of wax polish and is looking rather nice I think. It's all ready for the tuners and decal to be applied. Believe it or not, the filler is supposed to be 'antique pine' and is the lightest colour I could find. It looks more like brick red to me.

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The body I bought for the tele deluxe project arrived today. It was the cheapest shaped body blank I could find on ebay and I'm quite pleased with it. The wood is basswood which isn't the greatest tonewood on Earth and it looks as though it's made of 5 pieces glued together. There's also a rather unpleasant smell around one of the ends... I can't complain too much though. It looks like all that's needed is a final sanding with fine paper and then painting. Since this is a tele deluxe project there are a few things that need modifying before I can go ahead and finish the body. First is that the routing for the controls and pickups needs to be altered to accommodate a pair of humbuckers and the four pots that go in place of the usual tele set up. I'm going to fill some of the pre routed cavities and re rout some of the others. Secondly, the strat style neck has a curved end whereas the tele necks that this body was designed have flat ends - I've already marked this out. Finally, tele deluxe guitars have a body contour like strats that I've also marked out ready to be attacked with a chisel.

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The body I bought for the tele deluxe project arrived today. It was the cheapest shaped body blank I could find on ebay and I'm quite pleased with it. The wood is basswood which isn't the greatest tonewood on Earth and it looks as though it's made of 5 pieces glued together. There's also a rather unpleasant smell around one of the ends... I can't complain too much though. It looks like all that's needed is a final sanding with fine paper and then painting. Since this is a tele deluxe project there are a few things that need modifying before I can go ahead and finish the body. First is that the routing for the controls and pickups needs to be altered to accommodate a pair of humbuckers and the four pots that go in place of the usual tele set up. I'm going to fill some of the pre routed cavities and re rout some of the others. Secondly, the strat style neck has a curved end whereas the tele necks that this body was designed have flat ends - I've already marked this out. Finally, tele deluxe guitars have a body contour like strats that I've also marked out ready to be attacked with a chisel.

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A made in China Fender Starcaster neck that I bought for a tele deluxe building project. The new necks I've seen online are quite expensive and I really don't want to spend a pile of money since this is my first building project so I bought a second hand one of ebay that required a bit of attention. My plan is to repair and sand it down, and then use an oil to give it a hard matte finish. This is the worst structural damage. Unfortunately there isn't much I can do apart from cut a large lump of the head off, or just fill it with glue and sawdust. I think I'll probably see if it looks better after a bit of sanding.

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A made in China Fender Starcaster neck that I bought for a tele deluxe building project. The new necks I've seen online are quite expensive and I really don't want to spend a pile of money since this is my first building project so I bought a second hand one of ebay that required a bit of attention. My plan is to repair and sand it down, and then use an oil to give it a hard matte finish. The screw holes for fixing the neck to the body have taken a bit of a battering so I've decided to fill them and then re-drill them to line up perfectly with the body. I'm also filling the tuner screw holes since it's very unlikely that the tuners I end up getting will line up with them.

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