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:smiles: Such will be very useful. My sensei was a carpenter in his working years and made a wooden daisho for very similar purposes :nods:. One thing to note, of course, is that unless they are weighted, you will notice a difference in weight and balance but it shouldn't be enough to be a...

As others have noted, bokken and iaito are very different beasts, most especially when it comes to handling the momentum of cuts, or, indeed, handling the blade itself. For partner forms, a bokken is pretty much essential, but for solo and kata practice then, once you are sure you are committed...

I can also attest to the effectiveness of wearing such insoles in your daily foorwear - I struggled for PF for a long time before I tried them and it didn't take long for them to make a 'believer' out of me :D

A switch to the amped up acoustic side of the street :D. I reckon the amp was on too quiet for this tho' as the raw acoustic sound of the guitar is what you mostly hear ... http://youtu.be/HMEoQ-6sKpo

Another piece of bluesy improv :). This one is marred at the five minute (ish) point by a huge, stumbling, lapse in concentration as I realised how late at night it was and how much noise I was making :o. http://youtu.be/fhb307UFUuA

Absolutely so :nods firmly:. A number of players like the 'brighter' sound of the Strat or the mellower sound of a Les Paul but I think the SG is the best 'dirty' blues instrument - for me at least. I wanted one for years once I'd played enough to have an idea of what I liked. That was...

:smiles: Thank you, Gnarlie and Steve for your kind words and appreciation :bows:. And you certainly know your modern Blues-men, Gnarlie :D.

If I do say so myself, a rather nice little piece of soft and slow Blues ... http://youtu.be/jZnA7K1B_i8

And here is after a bit more loosening up and a more rock orientated setting on the amp ... http://youtu.be/ACW_3Y1lqT8

A bit of an experiment here ... here's me dusting off my SG after about twenty years of not practising :o. http://youtu.be/NuX3F6Herkg

"For the Honour of the Queen" ... Weber's Honor Harrington series being read yet again :D.

At peace with the wildlife ...

Aye, Carol :D. As Monadnock is for you, my dear friend, so is the woodland for me :). OTH? Your mailbox is full, good sir - my reply to your kindhearted PM vanished into the board software with a gentle puff of unsmoke as it bounced :). I thank you greatly for your concern :bows:.

Woodland selfie ... that sounds wrong somehow :D

Some more Laura Cox ... I don't need a reason :p http://youtu.be/8s0t2Pfx6VY

Flooding! :D

I played Traveller too, JKS :). And Aftermath ... and Iron Crown ... and Space Master ... and Runequest ... :o

I've been an RPG'er since the late 70's when Basic D&D came out. Continued playing pencil and paper style until we all got too grown up with work and families to get a group together often enough :(. Now play LOTRO ... a lot! :o.

I too can only post to say that I have not been around here as long as G. ... but I recall her photo in the front end of the site and, tho' I do not wish to cause her blushes, was very stricken by how beautiful she was :o.

I really should stop listening to this song on repeat ... even fourteen months on, the tears flow in torrents as this otherwise wonderfully emotive piece emotes me right back to that night of all nights that I wish with all my heart I could make not be. For the words are just far too apt in my...

One more for good measure: http://youtu.be/VhQ28LnocTA And one to show she has a sense of humour too and acknowledges how the music industry these days unfairly requires its female participants to look as well as sound good {listen for the words as the short clip fades to black :D} ...

There is more than one reason why this cover of Sweet Home Alabama finds favour in my eyes :D. Mostly (honestly!) it is because Laura, the artist, has shown that if you persist and have the talent then you can get to do what it is that you love. She started a few years back putting vids up...

May the road rise up to meet you ... silver birch in the sunshine at the western boundary of the Downs Banks:

I'm not normally one for linking to things that involve money but I thought this was an interesting project and a great use of crowd-funding techniques too :). https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dark-sarah-cinematic-metal-album-episode-ii#home http://youtu.be/Mleh1YzRMxY

I see no issue with keeping your rank at all. I dropped out of training for about a year or so with the illness and loss of my wife and am only returning now. I was on the cusp of taking my fourth dan when I stopped and it'll be a good while before I am ready for that again as I work on...

We've known in a general sort of way that, one day, we need to get our act together as a species when it comes to dealing with asteroid impact threats ... it seems maybe we should get on with it as we've just been lucky so far! BBC News - Asteroid impact risks 'underappreciated'

Hmm, is it just a quirk of my machine or are YouTube videos not loading when linked into threads?

I haven't linked anything in here for quite a while, so here is some excellent culinary advice from one of my most favoured sources ... what? :angel:. I make no pretence that I think Nisha is gorgeous but she also knows what she is talking about :) http://youtu.be/Wq23JuieKGI

I have a few issues with gender, level of good looks and race ... otherwise this is pretty much spot on :) http://www.zimbio.com/quiz/WD6GNmf982W/Lord+Rings+Character?result=JT1Qth6x5HK

A shame I don't have Photoshop any more, this really needs a bit of selective filtering to bring out the blossom - that was what I was after for the white blossom of the hawthorn was a magical cloud in the shadows cast by the bright sun behind: