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[pianotunerwolverhampton]

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[keepthingslocal]

Aristone Opticians: A Clear Vision

Ritesh and Gautam Whether glasses or contacts, repairs or eye screening, the experienced team at Aristone Opticians are Fulham’s optical specialists Not many of us choose our future profession based on a Saturday job, but that's what happened to Ritesh, owner of Aristone on North End Road. ‘I started at my local High Street opticians when I was 16 year old. I was helping customers with frames and lens and enjoyed it so much that I began thinking about theoptical industry as my career.’ Ritesh bought Aristone nine years ago. ‘This building has been an opticians for 60 years, so we’re definitely part of the Fulham community! I did consider a new name, but when I heard people talking about “Aristone" rather than “the opticians” I thought why change it. ‘We are a small team, we’ve all been here at least five years and we’re proud to be an independent family opticians. We have grandparents and children from the same families who come to us knowing that they’ll see a friendly face.’ Providing a personal service is key to Ritesh’s approach. ‘Of course, there are set processes to follow with every eye test. But we never know what issue will arise (we also carry out glaucoma and diabetic screening) or how a customer will respond. That’s why we always tailor what we do to the individual.’ All Aristone glasses are made on site. ‘We have a lab upstairs so we can offer a same-day service (that also applies to repairs); customers can come for an eye test and leave a few hours later with their new pair of glasses. We stock a huge choice of frames (over 800) split evenly between designer and non-designer makes. ‘We also have a wide range of contact lenses. Most importantly, we take the time to sit down with customers and show them how to put the lens in and look after them properly – and we’re always here to help if there are any problems. ‘Whatever the service, I believe that if someone has a positive experience with us they will come back and recommend us to others.’ Aristone Opticians 356 North End Road Fulham SW6 1LY [phone] [email protected] https://www.aristoneopticians.com/ https://www.instagram.com/aristoneopticiansuk/ https://en-gb.facebook.com/aristoneoptical/

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[angualupin]

sathinfection replied to your post:just ran a budget worksheet for med school and...

because being a doctor is the coolest thing ever i’m so jel

you're not going to be jel in five months when I have my fourth day-long examination in a row and I'm weeping on your tumblr shoulder because no one actually gives a fuck about histology especially not me I'm in fucking ID for fuck's sake

[marklester1980]

Nut trouble!

So tuners are done. Rather pleased, thought black might look a bit rubbish but think it suits the guitar very well.

Next stop is the nut. I've measured it lots of times now and to make it exact fitment, I need to find:

48/48mm wide x 4.5mm deep

Not sure how possible this is, is a bit of an odd shape. Still, won't give up yet, there's bound to be something pre-cut just to get me going!

[marklester1980]

The Aristone - doing my nut in!

Well, after a bit more searching on the net about 'The Aristone', I have discovered:

1950s; Jack Duarte, british jazz guitarist, designed the Aristone guitars for Besson that were made by Framus 

So, there you go, another piece of the mystery unlocked.

Spent a good hour last night removing the old nut.  It was bone, which is good, but was filed in a really odd way, so was no use anyway.  It had been glued in badly and was a right mess...not nice.

All clean and ready for new nut now.  Measured the width of the neck at the nut and it was 49mm.  A rather annoying size to be honest.  Fender/gibson types are 42/43mm wide so no can do on that.  Most acoustic guitars seem to have a 52mm nut it seems, so reckon I'll have to go for that and file it down (unless I can get something bespoke made up).

If you have any info that'd help me, please email me at:  [email protected]

[marklester1980]

'The Aristone' project

Framus was a german company. Around the late 1950's, English company beason (could have name wrong), employed framus to make some guitars in their german factory. They were given odd names and sold. 'The Aristone' was one of them and thought to be around 1958.

Here's how I ended up with the guitar:

When I was 17, maybe 18 (1998), the fashion was all about house parties. It was great. Parents away, party time. This was no exception. Drunk as usual and out comes the guitar. But this one was different. Didn't sound all that but played reasonable. It was left leaning up against the table. Someone knocked it. It fell to the ground and as it did it collapsed and folded in half, the neck being ripped off the body. Horror!

I felt so bad for the guy (I didn't knock it over), i offered to buy it. Gave him £20 for the pile of guitar and off I went.

The neck wasn't snapped or anything. The glue must have dried out over time. Didn't take long to glue the neck back on, string it up and it was back making noise again.

Went in the garage and left. Around 2005 maybe we decided to renovate it. The front had been varnished, badly, so we stripped it back as best we could and left naturally and oiled. The metal parts were also re-chromed.

One thing left to another and the project was abandoned and it stayed in the garage until last weekend.

Going to blog my journey revamping a very old guitar!