the homepage of David Galbraith
Wide Open Web
Status electro mark one. Just a piezo bridge in this one, no magetic pickups.
Schecter Stilleto 4FL fretless
Fender 1951 Precision re-issue.
Hand built ACG Skelf 5 wenge, sycamore and macassar ebony body, sycamore and maccasar ebony 7 piece laminate neck with pale-moon ebony fretboard.
Warwick Fortress One.
Ken Smith Design '60s Jazz.
Lakland Skyline Bob Glaub
Dean Rhapsody 12-string headstock.
Dean Rhapsody 12-string.
Custom built Roscoe SKB3005, emerald finished AAAAA-grade flame maple over swamp ash with african tulipwood fretboard.
Rickenbacker 4003BB. Limited edition from 2002 in "Blue Boy" colour.
ACG Recurve 4. Custom-build. Spalted beech over black limba body with 5-piece neck of black limba and wenge with acrilycised spalted maple fretboard. ACG custom built electronics.
Welcome...
Wide Open Web is the website of David Galbraith; husband, father, bassist, scout-leader, watch-repairer, aquarist, guitarist, journalist, disc-jockey, film-critic, singer, commerical researcher, charity-worker, marketing consultant and, now, ahem, web-designer.
Blimey.
Watch-repairer
Musician
An all 'round horology fan anyway, watch-repairing is a hobby I took up in mid-2009 after a serious health issue caused me to slow down a little.
I tend to prefer '60s through to '80s Seiko hand-winding and automatic (i.e. non-quartz or kinetic) watches as they are largely unburstable and parts are cheap and readily available.
I have also serviced watches by Elgin, Gruen, Doxa and Citizen.
I'm an avid collector of older watches in general and Seiko watches from the 1960s and 1970s in particular.
A bassist and bit part singer, I'm currently bandless after leaving Dangerous Faith due to illness in mid-2009.
I remain as part of the 3-piece teenage beat combo that is the worship band at the church of St Mary's - Grassendale.
An ex-member of Damn the Torpedoes and Wide Open I now regularly deputise for Liverpool based rock band Naked.
I also play guitar and harmonica but not so well that I'd boast about the fact.
e.mail
I can be contacted at the following e.mail address
david.galbraith_live.co.uk
telephone
try an e.mail and ask for my number. You might get a reply.
Things that float my boat
Apart from playing stringed instruments and fixing watches there are a great many things about which I'm really quite passionate.
Movies is one. I have a DVD collection which contains in excess of 700 titles and I also have over 250 VHS tapes which I no longer use and can't give away. Favourite directors include Akira Kurosawa, Tim Burton and Edward Wood. During my time as a journalist on Kerrang! magazine, the rock and heavy metal publication, I wrote many articles for their Kulture [sic] page , reviewing books and movies and doing occasional feature articles with the likes of Ridley Scott, Francis Ford Coppola, Clive Barker, David Cronenberg and Robert Englund. There was a time, long passed sadly, when I knew the Pinewood Studios complex like the back of my hand.
I'm a fanatical Liverpool Football Club supporter and took fellow LFC nut and horror author Shaun Hutson, as my guest, to his very first game at Anfield, which got me a "thank you" in the flypages of one of his novels. I also take a keen interest in the results of East Fife, Real Betis and Fiorentina for reasons lost in the depths of time. Formula One is also something I follow closely and I'm a keen test match special listener, too.
When my disabled son joined Beaver Scouts at age five in 2004 I decided to stick around for a few weeks and ensure that he was settling in okay. After two weeks I made the mistake of asking if there was anything I could do to help out. I actually meant right there and then but I really should have known better. Within a month I was in uniform and in November 2009 I was awarded the Wood Badge which signified that I had finally completed all of my training. Amongst many other things I can now save your life, should I choose to do so, and light a campfire using nothing other than a brillo pad and a 9 volt battery (seriously). Scouting as an adult leader is great fun and an immensely rewarding pastime. Since September 2009 I have been Akela of the Cub pack at 25th Allerton, St Mary's Grassendale.
And finally, not because I've run out of things to write about but rather because it's very late as I write this and I'd really like to get to bed, I'm an aquarist and dedicated amateur icthyologist with a particular interest in the genus Cichlidae.
Oh, and I really enjoy listening to Frank Zappa.
I'll finish this page
Eventually.
Basses
Watches
Gigs
Scouting
