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Then I'd leave the bosses well alone. A washer sounds like the answer, but it needs to be big enough to go round the boss and not hit the end of it, but thin enough not to immobilise the canti.

Taken through a dirty window, but amazed that they come this close.

I'm not sure of this is where we donated to, but you can try Tools for Self Reliance

Charities will collect these. Their bombproofness is valued in developing countries. I'll see if I can find a link.

This has come up before (can't find the thread). The boss is meant to be longer than the body of the brake. If you sand it too much, you'll be clamping the brake between the bolt head and the raise section behind the boss, so it won't be able to turn. How valuable is the frame?

I think there are techniques in rock guitar playing that are probably complete anathema to classical technique, such as wrapping your thumb over the top of the fretboard and using a fretting finger to mute an adjacent string (I don't know, I'm not classically trained). On the other hand, I think being able to place your fingers precisely is going to be useful whatever genre you play in. More importantly I'd say the most useful thing from classical/traditional teaching is to absorb enough music theory to understand why chords look like they do i.e. which notes make up chords, rather than just learning shapes. Once you learn that, you realise that all the notes are all over the fretboard and that chords can be constructed in various different ways so that (i) they sound better and (ii) you don't have to fret them in ways that are awkward to you.

TBH the thumb on the low E is useful for muting if nothing else, that way you can wallop the other strings without it ringing out. Also for playing D/F#.

Classical guitarists hate this one simple trick!

You could go into a shop and try a longer-scale guitar, but TBH I think that nut width probably has more effect on feel than scale length. Also, are you only playing chords or doing single-note exercises too? Doing single-note exercises is possibly a better way to develop feel as you learn how hard you need to fret strings (only just enough) rather than trying to mash down lots of strings together in a chord.

So fresh pants have just opened up as an option for a sort-of birthday stocking filler?

Agreed, but my folks were originally trying to buy me a suit for a lot more.

You could always get a Karl Holtey.

I think 'butterfly' is sometimes used in that sense.

PG Wodehouse used "butterfly" in that sense (through the voice of his characters) to describe someone who "flits from flower to flower" (IIRC) i.e., someone who is unfaithful or moves through partners rapidly. So it's an expression with pedigree @ewanmac, if not exactly current.

Is this to work our where to put new holes in the top to fit a new bridge, or do you just mean that you'll be able to get the new saddles in the right ball-park by measurement? I've never done this, but off the top of my head:

• Action/neck relief can affect intonation
  
• If your frets are worn they will intonate slightly differently from when they are nicely crowned
  
• Is your guitar correctly intonated as it stands? The measurement from the nut to the 12th fret is key.
  
• You'll have to properly intonate it by ear/tuner anyway even if you try to measure it exactly.
  

Just a caveat, gear cable guides can be (so not definitely) narrower than brake cable guides, so it may not fit without some fettling.

@IrPOWERranger's suggestion is a good one, or use a bolt on cable stop like this, or just run an uninterrupted length of out all the way from the lever to the V-brakes.

Awesome thanks for that! Also, how have you been staying in so many hotels recently?!

To be fair, the wire that is breaking is about the thickness of a human hair. I think it just work-hardens as the result of millions of tiny movements and then fractures. TBH, I think those tools are incredibly useful for some things, but there are better tools for most things and they're also incredibly noisy, so I don't use mine much.

Aha! @Trunkie I found the repair vid, although it's in Russian. @Bobbo the broken wire is shown at about 2:30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQekVmqcA9s

Fuji Tahoe F + F

I'd happily pay you for the brakes off that if you could post them.

I'm sure there's many reasons why they can fail, but if it appears completely dead it could be that the vibration has caused the very fine wire that forms the motor windings to break between the circuit board and the motor. There's a bend there that can be a weak spot. That wire can often be resoldered, although you may need to take one turn off the motor to have enough slack to do so. I've saved my Bosch this way, twice.

There's a way that these sometimes fail that is repairable. How is your very fine soldering?

lower-density-than-lead

Pretty much anything then! Certainly entertaining to see iron bolts floating in the melting pot.

Not specifically guitar, but I'm finding that trying to put my playing on a more solid footing in my 40s and mini-m learning an instrument has really helped me engage with music theory in a more productive way. My guitar teacher back in my teens tried to get me to understand some of this stuff (chord families, modal scales, relative minor keys etc.), but I don't think I really put it together. Just wanted to note that this
guy does really good informative videos that explain a lot of relevant stuff really well.

Putin knows that we already know that knows that. The whole farce is utterly transparent. I'm just at a bit of a loss as to what these diplomatic discussions actually amount to. The only reason that I can think of is to make Putin feel important by just turning up, while giving him nothing at all either way so he can't present to the Russian public that the west are being threatening or insultingly dismissive. The alternative is to just call them on their bullshit, which lots of commentators are prepared to do, but apparently none of the people in the room.

It's not clear what grounds could be given for not admitting Ukraine to NATO. They're a sovereign nation and could make the request to be admitted. Saying "we won't admit you because it will annoy Putin" is hardly a respectable response.

This whole thing just utterly stinks, which is why I think Gavin Williamson was right to tell the Russian government to effectively fuck off. We know they lie, which is why we judge them by their actions. Rolling your tanks up to a neighbours border and then both-sidesing the subsequent discussions is just bullshit. NATO existed to prevent expansion of the USSR into Europe. If Putin has to hold the threat of invasion over Ukraine then he's admitting that he can't deal fairly with them as a free sovereign state.

Perhaps Gavin Williamson was right.