$2 garage sale find will make a perfect base for my ouija lapsteel project.
A great set of legs
Category Archives: project
I trust the bish
I spent a couple of hours working on the RV here are a couple of pics of the work in progress.
I started with a scrap canvas drop cloth dyed to match with tan and yellow rit fabric dye. I glued the replacement fabric in place with Bish’s original tear mender.
Before
After
A Busy Sunday III
The last find of the day was a box of tuners for $1 each, I made a $6 investment. I think these should work well with my lap steel project
A Busy Sunday II
I found myself at the central ohio guitar show in the afternoon where I found a “great deal” a fender cyber deluxe for $75. The owner claimed ups damage, it still plays and the presets are accessible via included midi controller. I’m saving this project for the winter when I have more time.
Now That’s an RV Clark!
10 points for whoever gets the quote…..
Oh yet another project…. It’s a hip little pop up camper I purchased two years ago as housing for summer grad school classes. It’s in the process of a makeover, primarily a little repair of some mouse nibbling on canvas and screen that occurred in the past. Anyways, its a cool late 60’s early 70’s camper with a great brown, tan, wood grain, wicker interior. I’ve been thrift store hunting for a while to collect the proper accoutrements. Shown below are the kitchen wares:
The highlights include a couple great tiki glasses, a cocktail shaker, retro felt covered canteen, aluminum tea pot, and some prime retro “Leonora” plastic plates and bowls by Prolon.I just finished dying replacement canvas in an attempt to match the existing brown / mustard color. Detail pics to follow.
Home Rep: I cut the lawn and made a little headway in the lab.
PE: does cutting the lawn count?
Art: Cut and dyed canvas and screen for the RV
Frank Gales DIY record cleaner
via enjoythemusic.com
This is the description of a record cleaning machine I built. It uses an industrial wet vacuum cleaner with 1000W to suck the cleaning fluid from the record. The fluid is applied by swinging a tube over the record and pumping with a manual pump. The platter is rotated manually and a normal paint brush can be used to get the dirt out of the grooves. I use a professional brush from a Moth record cleaning machine. After that the sucking tube is swinged onto the record (please don’t forget to glue the velvet onto the tube, or the first record you cleaned is cleaned to death) and the vacuum cleaner is switched on. One or two spins should be enough to suck all the fluid with the dirt away.
Above is a top view of the record cleaning machine. The plinth is a box which is about 10cm high. I used MDF because it is good if the whole thing is rather heavy, so that the machine does not move while vacuuming. The vacuum is rather high as the air slit is very small compared to a cleaning tube of a vacuum cleaner.
Links:
http://www.soundfountain.com/amb/rc1.html
http://www.musicangle.com/feat.php?id=54
A few great retro finds
Heres the booty from todays shopping:
First and foremost a timbuk2 large laptop bag! Purchased for $2! It’s brand new! It’s $170 on the timbuk2 site. I have a timbuk2 messenger bag that I’ve been using for a few years, ultra rugged, waterproof fabric, but missing a divided pockets that are handy in a bag. My new large laptop messenger is a little bigger and has a few well placed pockets. I also like it because it will hold my Mr. Bento, thermos, and a water bottle. I normally lug all of these to work looking a bit like a refuge traveling with all of their worldly belongings.
I hit another sale and found a cache of cool retro vintage bits
Highlights include a wescott bull’s eye pocket watch ($4), its not very accurate, but it loud tick sounds awesome. The gold tone watch is a Seiko S3 ($2) it runs and appears to be fairly accurate.
I also picked up three old pocket knives ($2 lot) a cool flippy wallet and a black leather cigar case that make great pencil holders.
Oddly my biggest purchase of the day was lunch of a braut, bottled water, and a tasty cookie.
Keith Monks Record Cleaner
This months stereophile (may2009) has a review of a Keith Monks record cleaner, an amazing product but a little out of my price range at $4,000.
I’ve been using a home brew record cleaning solution for a while now and an improvised turntable and shop vac system to clean records. After reading the review of the Keith Monks cleaner I think I want to build an upgrade.
I found a great site http://www.soundfountain.com/amb/rc1.html that breaks down the operation of the Monks cleaner and has some great pictures of the compressor setup of the brushes and vacuum system.
Here’s a cleaner recipe and diagrams from the soundfountian site. It’s very similar to the recipe I blogged here
2 liter distilled water
1 liter alcohol
1/2 liter isopropyl alcohol
20 to 30 drops of liquid detergent
The number of drops depends on the effectiveness of the washing detergent.
Here are the compressor and cleaning fluid containers
Home brew diagram
Monks Diagram
I think I can develop something between the homebrew and monks machine.
Atomic Disruptor Raygun
Here’s the project that led to my 15 minutes of Internet fame….
I’m a scifi fan and I’ve had the idea to build a raygun model tumbling around for a while. After a bountiful hamfest I found the key parts to build and across a weekend I fabricated a raygun model out of an old radio, 8mm movie projector, 35mm slide projector, camera parts, brass sheet stock and assorted rivets, screws, nuts, and bolts.
I photographed the camera in studio and posted to flickr and the makezine pool.
It was blogged on make magazine, and was gizmotos image of the day. and a handful of others sites – 28,000 hits on my flicker account over 24 hours.
About a week later Corey Doctrow blogged in on BoingBoing and kabam another 57,000 hits over a 24 hour period. WOW.
The Bluesbreaker Has Arrived!
This $60 kit from general guitar gadgets is a replica the original marshal blues breaker overdrive petal, blues breaker wiki. Lots of soldering… fun stuff
