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Some, like the Oberon, I've seen when out gigging. There's a folk singer with one in Nottingham.
The flying visit to London and detour up to Scotland did indeed take a bit of planning! My three days in the south of England were easy as my friend will take care of it all. Apparently it's a 4-hour drive down to the Brook workshop. (I'd have guessed a couple of hours looking at the map.) The rest of the time we will probably spend at his place, walking in the woods and playing guitars.
The trip north I have pondered in some detail. No roads involved, all of it by train (well, some bits on foot) and I've spent days on-line studying timetables and working out connections. Some sections are by first-class express, most are in ordinary second-class commuter trains. But a second-class seat in a commuter train is still 100% better than the nasty little things you have to sit in on an aeroplane, so who cares?
Despite helpful details and advice here, a visit to Flyde isn't on my radar. I won't have time for it and I'm more than happy to be adding a Brook to my little collection.
Why not publish your route, and people could tell you if you are passing nearby.
I'm near J19 of the M6
After leaving my friend's place (visiting there is the chief purpose of my detour to the UK - we grew up together and he's a very good mate I haven't seen for 5 or 10 years) my route is Dorking -> London -> Settle via Leeds (1st day), then a round trip up the Cumbria coast to Carlisle and south to Settle (2nd day), then Settle -> Carlisle -> Glasgow -> Edinburgh and fly out Edinburgh -> Zagreb (3rd day). That first day is the only one with any spare time in it. I have it in mind to use it by spending an hour or so walking around central London - not shopping or anything bar maybe a coffee and a sandwich, just looking around a bit.
I have actually stolen this whole week from Mrs Tannin's and my three week family visit to Croatia. For the sake of domestic peace, I dare not steal any extra days! And anyway, I am as keen on spending some quality time with the in-laws in Croatia as she is. The four of us get onto the interwebby thing every two weeks to talk nonsense and drink rajika and it's always a good night. Looking forward to doing the same with them in real life!
And if you're travelling between Carlisle and Glasgow, there's Mark Bailey, who's just outside Ayr : baileyguitars.co.uk. Not the easiest to get hold of, but I've made 3 excellent guitars in the past on his "Build Your Own Guitar" courses.
Also some train companies have trouble finding drivers some days, so there are often cancellations.
Therefore, try to build in some "Plan B" ideas
@ArchtopDave I'm aware of Turnstone Guitars (in large part thanks to members of this forum). Lovely looking instruments, a bit more than I'm planning on spending this time but not unreasonable or completely out of reach. Somewhere on their site is a link to a video recorded at a guitar show where Rosie has an all-yew guitar (top as well as back and sides), which I watched with considerable interest - and some disappointment as we didn't get to hear what it actually sounded like!
Ayr is a place I'd rather like to go to but won't have time for. I like the look of Mark Bailey's archtops. I guess it's inevitable - one of these days, sooner or later, I'm going to end up with an archtop from somewhere or other.
But not this year.
Summer is often on a Wednesday over here.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
I remember struggling to keep my then Gibson Dove at 50% RH. The volume/tone control wouldn't stay glued to the underside of the top!
A friend of mine recently had a Lamorna built and he wanted to use the reclaimed wood from a fallen French walnut tree from his mother-in-law's house in Picardy (I think it helped with the domestic justification).
Despite it being left out in the open and left to rot for an extended period, through a lot of patience and careful treatment they managed to get a stunning back and sides set from it.