Friday, October 23, 2009

Revelation 80

10/23/2009


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Revelation 79

10/23/2009


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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Found Friday 23




a selection of vintage lantern slides

Revelation 78

10/21/2009


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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Revelation 77

10/20/2009


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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Revelation 76

10/19/2009


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Revelation 75

10/18/2009


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Revelation 74

10/17/2009


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Monday, October 19, 2009

Revelation 73

10/16/2009


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Sunday, October 18, 2009

DYI Guitars - II & III

Following my first wine box guitar build I've decided to build some more. For the body of the second guitar I used a stainless steel strongbox that I picked up at our local Goodwill for 99 cents. I sanded off the battleship gray paint for a brushed steel surface and drilled sound holes using our shower drain as a template. Pretty straightforward build - had to use a dremel w/ diamond cutting wheel to cut through the stainless steel box to mount the neck. The most time-consuming steps were sanding the paint off the box and mounting the frets.

Some pix of the finished piece:






view of the bottom of the guitar showing 1/4"output jack



interior view showing piezo mounted to the underside of the neck, and output jack


For the body of the next guitar I decided to use a tin children's tool chest that I picked up on ebay. Again, pretty straightforward build. I was able to do most of the modifications to the body using tin snips, and once again used our shower drain as a template for the sound holes. When I wired this one up I added a pot for volume control, and used an old brass button as the volume knob.

Some pix:




detail showing brass volume knob. "This one goes to 11."


the neck is secured to the tin box body with rivets.



volume control and output jack.


Almost forgot - I also rewired and added a volume control to the wine box guitar. I fashioned a knob out of an old gear and plastic halloween skull:





Friday, October 16, 2009

Revelation 72

10/15/2009


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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Found Friday 22

"Tell Pop to send us some money. How are you?"

Revelation 71

10/15/2009


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Revelation 70

10/14/2009


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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Revelation 69

10/12/2009


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Monday, October 12, 2009

Revelation 68

10/11/2009


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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Revelation 67

10/10/2009


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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Revelation 66

10/9/2009


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