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Haha, there were no guards. . .just 10 acres, a few cows, a full moon and sweet mountain dew! We lived up on a mountain and there was plenty of room to wonder.

Where does everyone here get there RIC strings?

Australia!!

Yeah, they often arrive here in California with wallaby dust all over 'em.

Paul, have you considered mimicking wallaby dust as a finish (I hear you can pull off any finish)? What the hell colour is a wallaby anyway? Excuse my ignorance but we don't get too many of these around Toronto! I'm assuming a sort of brown?

Wallaby-Glo? Gotta think that would only appeal to a small percentage of Ric fans... what say you Howard? I feel funny even bringing this up in a thread entitled "330 for Early Beatles Sound or 325C58."

Wallabyglo would be a bit dull and uninteresting, but if you were going to do it, the Yellow-Footed Rock Wallaby would have to be the one!!



I think it's highly appropriate, Bill. Wallabies were around in the early days of the Beatles!!

I like this version of the wallabee. It would be interesting to incorporate the various shades of color. Somewhat of a . . .multi-color canvas

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Oh my goodness-such beauty, such radiant colours!! I almost had to turn my eyes away it was so spectacular-definitely Wallaby-Glo Paul! Or how about a Wallabyburst-you could go from that majestic grayish brown on the edge of the guitar to the watery yellowy brown on the inside. I smell a hit for the Ric anniversary-are you following this post Ben? Feel free to tell the brass that it was your idea!

Howard, these are marsupials presumably? Looks almost like a very large rodent.

Yes they are, Bill. The rock wallaby is one of the smaller species, along with the brush-tailed, which is quite tiny, as I recall.

The Kangaroo species (Euro in particular) are much larger animals - big reds can be over 8' tall when they stand up and spit and hiss at you just before they rip your guts out with the enormous claws on their two front legs!!

They can do a fair bit of damage with their tail also. When I was a jackaroo I was belted in the shall we say 'lower groin' region by a roo that was stuck in a fence. Very nasty!

When you were a jackaroo? What is that? I love it!

A jackaroo (or jackeroo for some) is a 'roustabout' (do you have them?) or perhaps in your part of the world it may be a sort of 'apprentice cowboy'. I spent 2 years as a jackaroo in 1970-71 in southern New South Wales near such places as Deniliquin and Jerilderie (where Ned Kelly did his first robbery). The nearest pub was the world famous (so I believe) Conargo pub.

It was great work - very hard - more like slave labour in fact! I worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week for $53.20 a month (plus board).

I was a city boy and I had to have 2 years full time paid experience on the land before I could attend agricultural college for farm management training.

The work was varied, much like a regular farm hand, station worker or ranch hand (whatever you want to call it). Everything from mustering sheep and cattle, building and repairing gates and fences, driving bulldozers, tractors, trucks, motorbikes, etc. Some days you spent 12 hours on the back of a horse, others you spent the whole day digging Bathurst Burrs (a noxious weed) out of fire breaks. Others you may be baling hay, cleaning out feed troughs, bringing pastured stock horses back to the yards after a layoff - stuff like that.

I gave it away when the bottom fell out of the wool industry back then. Haven't forgotten much of it, though. I could still 'mules' a sheep or tail and mark it with a knife and my teeth if I had to!!

Believe it or not, the female equivalent is called a 'Jillaroo'! Do a Google search on either!

Cheers,

H

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