Had a blast with the nieces last weekend! We played with the dogs: Butters and Cocoa (Buttmunch and Kaka), watched some movies, and just hung out.
Christina braided my hair, then braided the braids:
In keeping with my role of Weird Uncle Justin, I furthered their corruption by showing them Natalie Portman's first movie:
Tonight I decided to work on one of my guitars, The Test Probe.
It's a little thing I slapped together out of spare parts I had laying around the shop years ago, I kept it around to test amplifiers and stuff because I know that it works and what it's supposed to sound like, thus the name, Test Probe.
You can see on the back of the body where I've drilled three sets of holes.
I've tried various necks on this body before settling on this short scale Danelectro neck. With each neck I had to move the bridge forward or back and drill six new holes for the strings to feed through. Normally when you feed strings through the body like that, there are little cups called ferrules that hold the ball ends of the strings in place. Until tonight, the ball ends just stopped at the body and the guitar would go out of tune as the ball ends sank into the wood. I pieced together enough ferrules out of scrap parts to make a full set.
Like Pinocchio, the Test Probe just got one step closer to being a legitimate guitar.
Tonight's soundtrack:
Christina braided my hair, then braided the braids:
In keeping with my role of Weird Uncle Justin, I furthered their corruption by showing them Natalie Portman's first movie:
Tonight I decided to work on one of my guitars, The Test Probe.
It's a little thing I slapped together out of spare parts I had laying around the shop years ago, I kept it around to test amplifiers and stuff because I know that it works and what it's supposed to sound like, thus the name, Test Probe.
You can see on the back of the body where I've drilled three sets of holes.
I've tried various necks on this body before settling on this short scale Danelectro neck. With each neck I had to move the bridge forward or back and drill six new holes for the strings to feed through. Normally when you feed strings through the body like that, there are little cups called ferrules that hold the ball ends of the strings in place. Until tonight, the ball ends just stopped at the body and the guitar would go out of tune as the ball ends sank into the wood. I pieced together enough ferrules out of scrap parts to make a full set.
Like Pinocchio, the Test Probe just got one step closer to being a legitimate guitar.
Tonight's soundtrack:
VIEW 17 of 17 COMMENTS
zyryx:
I have about half the money I need saved up. hopefully if the sale of trellises actually happens I can get it all taken care of next month
sydfloyd:
The Hellcat would seem ideal but man the strings are huge!