Finally got to meet Nick

[kiwigeo]

I'm in Christchurch, New Zealand at the moment visiting family and checking out earthquake damage. Thought id catch up with Nick Oliver while in town so last night we did Indian. It was a very pleasant evening indeed....naturally spent talking guitars and not much else. Nick rolled up in a spectacular looking frog green Holden Commodore...luckily his guitars don't come in the same colour!

My 17 year old niece is a student out at the university where Nick works so tagged along as she wanted to meet Nick as well.....I think she didnt realise shed be sitting listening to a couple of die hard luthiers talking guitars for a solid 4 hours. She did pretty well regardless and reckoned Nick was pretty cool.

Cheers Martin

[Kim]

Did ja party Oh never mind.

Sounds like my kind of get together Martin, good food, good company and geetars

Cheers

Kim

[kiwigeo]

No partying Kim....had my niece with us so had to behave. Mind you Nick's green Commodore is definitely a car you'd take out partying.

[Nick]

Mind you Nick's green Commodore is definitely a car you'd take out partying.

Yeah it's a real chick magnet
It was good to finally meet a fellow forum member, feel a little isolated at times here in Hobbiton I enjoyed my evening & thanks Martin for the conversation & curry, felt sorry for your poor neice who had to sit & listen to us old farts talking enthusiastically about wood and guitar construction methodology most of the evening, she did do well.
To show what an in depth topic this guitar stuff is, after four hours there was still plenty left to talk about & delve deeper into, I reckon it definitely will have to be discussed at further meetings ( ). I was thinking more about the 'nut compensation' we (or should that be I?) had touched on, on the drive home, think the fog is clearing slightly on that one Martin



We even had a ride past by some of Allen's mates but the weather wasn't warm enough for them to do a full McFarlen, so the chaps were the fully enclosed versions .