Free Elixir Optiweb strings...

Dan

Dont really buy mags and only got it really for the strings but its a really good read. Thanks for the heads up.

grappagreen

Now subscribed..

Jalapeno

Got mine, ta !

xchrisv

Thanks folks! 

Ok so after doing some digging, I've discovered that WHSmith Travel copies at airports aren't allowed to have the strings on them for security reasons. Which kind of makes sense. So what has probably happened is that New Street Station have been sent airport copies in error. The distributor and wholesaler are looking into it. 

JerkMoans

chrisv said:

Thanks folks! 

Ok so after doing some digging, I've discovered that WHSmith Travel copies at airports aren't allowed to have the strings on them for security reasons. Which kind of makes sense. So what has probably happened is that New Street Station have been sent airport copies in error. The distributor and wholesaler are looking into it. 

Rail travellers demand garrottes!

xchrisv

Well, maybe for use on those responsible for ticket price rises, overcrowding and horrible delays... 

thecolourbox

I'm glad I took mine home last night as I'd have been tempted to use them on myself during today's train journey into new st

Hattigol

chrisv said:

Thanks folks! 

Ok so after doing some digging, I've discovered that WHSmith Travel copies at airports aren't allowed to have the strings on them for security reasons. Which kind of makes sense. So what has probably happened is that New Street Station have been sent airport copies in error. The distributor and wholesaler are looking into it. 

This is absolutely right. Last thing you want is someone restringing their bloody guitar next to you on a flight...

xscaramanga

chrisv said:

Thanks folks! 

Ok so after doing some digging, I've discovered that WHSmith Travel copies at airports aren't allowed to have the strings on them for security reasons. Which kind of makes sense. So what has probably happened is that New Street Station have been sent airport copies in error. The distributor and wholesaler are looking into it. 

Bit weird, before the clampdown on guitars as carry-on luggage (so up to the end of 2017) I was flying several times a year with sets of strings in my gig bag, and never got stopped by security for it.

LuttiS

Just picked mine up in Rhyl.. pretty sure the airport rules should apply here too... Luckily they don't

EricTheWeary

LuttiS said:

Just picked mine up in Rhyl.. pretty sure the airport rules should apply here too... Luckily they don't

Rhyl is like an airport because people are hoping to get out of there as quickly as possible? 

JerkMoans

Great strings: just tried ‘em on my LPDC.

Decent mag too, @chrisv ;

WHSMith Chancery Lane now 4 copies lighter  

Blackbooks

Managed to pick up a copy in Smith's in Chelmsford station...still had a few left.  The new layout looks good...might even be tempted to subscribe!

toescantalk

Yep, like the new mag layout and looking forward to going back and reading a few of the articles. Nice work!

xchrisv

toescantalk said:

Yep, like the new mag layout and looking forward to going back and reading a few of the articles. Nice work!

Thank you :-)

fretfinder

Found myself in Waitrose this evening buying another two copies, despite having bought one copy already! 

Strat54

Love the new layout, great photography too. Have given the strings away to a friend so he was happy. Seems a hell of a long time since I bought Issue 1...still have it somewhere, must go dig it out. Seem to remember there being article on Tele's and comparing the '52 reissue to a real '52.

TheBigDipper

Just got a copy. The changes are a real improvement. Well done! Now I'll take a proper look at the website.

I've got a bee in my bonnet about the way Future Publishing has sewn up the shelves at my local WH Smiths (more than one of them) and crammed on their "specials" and "annual review" mags - displacing things like this mag and "Acoustic" magazine to the nether regions. I've taken up a subscription now so I don't have to search through piles of "Blues for Dentists". 

The strings will be going on my Strat. I've got far too many sets of Nanowebs (which I like on electrics, but not so much on acoustics) to use up before I can think about changing, but let's see how these do.

stonevibe

Got six copies, still haven't read the magazine yet. But given the spare copies to my friends to read.

JerkMoans

stonevibe said:

Got six copies, still haven't read the magazine yet. But given the spare copies to my friends to read.

Damn. That’s one more than me in the Guitar Magazine Olympiad.

Got some funny looks from the cashier in WHSmith as I cleaned ‘m out. Gonna do wonders for @chrisv ‘s circulation figures