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Hello,

I just finished a few projects and thought I would share them with all of you.

I decided to give my Epiphone Valve Junior head and 1965 Silvertone 1484 cabinet a makeover. First, I started with the cabinet by replacing the old grille cloth white cotton and painting the cabinet satin black. On the cotton I painted Kazimir Malevich's "Design for Suprematist Fabric 3" , a textile pattern from 1919.

The second part involved making a new enclosure for the Epiphone head. I had a bunch of large, thick copper sheets laying around, and bent them into shape, which was very difficult because the copper is so thick. It's a bit sloppy, but it serves its purpose. Oh, if anyone can explain to me how to discharge the caps in that specific amp, please do! (I wasn't injured, just wondering)






A video to go with it:

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The next few projects involved repainting some of my metal working tools. I've been working on developing specific shades of red and green to use for all of my tools in my shop. The hammers are antique hammers that someone recently gave to me. They were really rusty and the handles were just raw wood. I painted the heads the special greens and stained the handles.





Next were anvils and a neat stamping die to make curved circular pieces.







Also, recently a few of my guitars were featured at a Science Fair at Cosi -- a science centre Columbus, OH. I entered my prehistoric and petrified wood/copper/ostrich Jaguar along with my girlfriend's Colour Organ that I helped her with.









Some fun with a TV studio that they had set up where you can control effects and whatnot:










Hopefully I will have a new guitar project to share soon! It should go well with the amplifier.

Awesome... I have been contimplating a similar project but also gutting a Epi VJ and making it a Plexi with THIS....

I really dig the copper...lets hope someone does not snag it for scrap metal....lol...copper is hella expensive these days

Amazing work. The special effects stuff made me lol:

Narco Martenot wrote:

cool stuff as always. what's the color organ thingy?

I forgot to explain that.

Here is the description my girlfriend wrote for it:

"A whimsical handmade keyboard designed to synchronise colour and sound. Each of the seventeen keys activates a light bulb, colour and sound when pressed. Equipped with thirty-second voice recorders, each key can be re-recorded with new sound at any time."

Basically, it's a child-like toy. It has built-in speakers. She used greeting card samplers for each key, so you can record anything to any key at any time.

More information on Color Organs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_organ

The cloth on the cab is fantastic. Excellent choice.

Tres cool.

SO cool!!!

Narco Martenot wrote:"A whimsical handmade keyboard designed to synchronise colour and sound. Each of the seventeen keys activates a light bulb, colour and sound when pressed. Equipped with thirty-second voice recorders, each key can be re-recorded with new sound at any time."

Basically, it's a child-like toy. It has built-in speakers. She used greeting card samplers for each key, so you can record anything to any key at any time.

It's like a Fisher Price Lo-Fi Mellotron, love it! Love all of your other work too, great stuff.

Never ceases to amaze

so sweet it reminds me of the 70s version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Well cool. Almost belongs in the Art forum

Excellent stuff as always. I love the music in the video as well.

Catching up a bunch on your other videos, I found I really dig the production techniques—especially in the OBCA clip. Have you been recording directly to VHS, or sending them out to a VCR and back in again for editing? I love using VHS transport as an analog "filter" much in the same way I've done in the past with sending digitally-recorded audio through a shitty tape deck and back.

Thanks all.

As for the video production -- the OBCA video was not actually sourced from VHS. Although the actual racing footage looks exactly how it did when I recorded it with a special toy camera, the rest was edited to appear as if it came from a VHS tape. I wanted to recapture the feeling of the many VHS tapes that I have from when I was a child, when I used to recorded various things on tapes, with segments ending abruptly or fading into each other; all while showing footage of the toy race track that I had built.

720p VHS FTW.

I'm in awe of your skills as ever.

that looks terrific. If I didn't draw/paint/write/smell/playguitar like a second grader, I would copy the shit out of your idea...