I've just decided on a new project. I will go to the Troubadour in Earls Court, London and buy a couple of their old oak pews (going price GBP 200 at most). At one time or other they must have been sat on by Bob Dylan, Martin Carthy, Paul Simon, Tom Paxton and virtually everyone who was everyone in the London folk scene of the 60's and 70's of the last century.

I will then commission Taylor (who made a guitar out of a pallet, so they have the technology) to make them into a limited edition of, say, twenty guitars, which can then be sold for USD 50,000 each.

Would any venture capitalist Mudcatter care to send me a certified cheque for, say, USD 500,000 as seed capital for this project?

Thought not. Oak would be the basis of a useless guitar, and even USD 5,000 is too much to pay for a guitar.

Now, for coffins (caskets) .......