Week Twenty – Wherein Rayner Gets At Military Fabrication
Apparently, my chum has a namesake who has done something really bad. The US Embassy people won’t of course reveal what this chap is wanted for, except to say, ‘It’s Federal’, meaning not just the laws of one state but all of them. This means his US green card to allow him to go fabricate carbon fibre in Las Vegas for Mob Customs will be delayed until he has had yet more work done checking stuff in the background. Which is crap for him but has been really jammy for me, frankly, as his continued presence in the UK has meant he has got at a long-threatened project for me. He’s making military parts for tanks and that’s the entirety of the detail he can tell me, like Brian Petrie could admit he was working on Eurofighter but couldn’t answer the first question about it! And he’s cooking something for me in the big oven they use.
A dual-fifteen carbon fibre bass box.
It will have a one-inch Perspex window, internal lighting to show off the military red and black weave carbon on the inside and will be finished in military-only supply yellow and black Kevlar-Carbon weave on the outside.
To say I am excited is to put it mildly.
On the other hand the problems we have with a few mechanical things in my world have cramped the Talk Audio magazine output a bit but I think we shall cope, as the main picture gallery system is now going to be helped out by cloud storage for my shots with a Googley Picasa account. (the upload system to the magazine has some grit in the works after we had to upgrade after some hacker turd found an ‘exploit’, so use of the Talk Audio gallery system has had some problems.) But fret not, dear readerI have chaps with big brains nearby.
Meanwhile the FOUR company, specialist distributors of high end car audio as well as the Hertz line that goes all the way to weapons grade, are going to bring out another of their Driving Sounds magazines. Aimed squarely at grown-ups rather than enthusiasts, it’ll be in FOUR Masters dealers soon. Well written and I know as I have been involved in a microscopic way as a final sub-edit, looking for apostrophes and Proper Nouns. It covers how a FOUR Master works and has case studies of cars and dealerships, as well as some tech stuff digested beautifully, saying it isn’t technical yet arming the reader with real tech savvy. It’ll look sumptuous too, if the last one is anything to go by.
Mad week lined up, so I’ll leave it there and go get on.
Adam Rayner On Line Editor