Now you can pick up anything!!!!

Here is the example of Andrews ax...


Now you can pick up anything! by Art Lessing


I did this is cool stereophonics and it has a good bass signal best used on headphones.....I used cool edit...line in and mic for the best sound.....word up!

My newest build the Chopsitar!!!!

Congratulations to Andrew Chopstick for becoming the newest proud owner of the one and only Chopsitar.....

and some close ups....

 this is great..its a view from the input  looking in...looks like a big cave!!!...I want ALFV to play in there with a great light show..........

These are copper knobs from scratch

 Copper hardware etched real perty like

this part of the gourd is painted gold!!! and black....

 so is this

more copper

 custom headstock # 7

Gourd from the gourd farm......So there you have it.....this instrument features a newer design to match the headstock.  It has two "shoulders" instead of one with of course the special bridge which makes it create overtones......I hope to figure out a way to upload a sample of the way it sounds

New blog update....My Newest build

ok its been about a month and there is too much to talk about..

first thing ....Greg's sitar is done and he is the new proud owner of it...

My newest build

 custom string tree at work!!

ok so here is a build diary  and a bunch of photos...I figure since I don't post as much as I want...I will dump all of them on you now.......with some captions

 

start with a drawing

I made the template on illustrator according to to drawing of headstock #5

cutting the headstock

done!

swirly twirl carved with small files and knives

back curve

onto the body... which I will do tomorrow!!

Ha!

in other news....the HUB is dead...long live the HUB!!...twas a good run...everybody involved did great....GREAT JOB SACTO!!   To a new era in sacto showdom heres we GOOOOOOOO

went to LA with the BUKS and stayed at DUde house for a couple of days and played lots of nintendo

Thanks dudes!!...I should have gotten a picture....


I will be posting more pics soon of the sitar and ANDREW......Yours is coming soon.

Late

Updates, an Art Lessing REVIEW!! and pics of whatever is in my phone

So I have a feeling this blog is going to end up like some kind of dumping ground for everything that is in my phone..I hope not....lets start this update with a nice picture of clouds...we don't see these kind 'round these parts much...all the wet ass weather pays off with some nice sky mountains....

this was over Davis.......nice twisty shape....

I think this is one of the first reviews of my record......I hope it spreads

Here....

http://still-single.tumblr.com/

     "A decade’s worth of selections from the career of hometaper/visual artist Dan Quillen. Based out of Sacramento, this release qualifies some 24 releases Quillen’s performed on in the past decade, and a symbiotic relationship having formed between him and local freeform college radio station KDVS. Certainly the world wasn’t getting access to Art Lessing’s dozen or so full-lengths and collaborations, and the case could be made that he was making all of this music specifically for airplay on the radio, with an ulterior motive of casting any listeners within his grasp within a very specific moodspace of his own creation. The project shifts between lo-fi basement riff rockin’ and more placid escapes, headtrips blaring back from the history of weird/out there music being reflected onto pockets of Northern California in some sort of perpetual motion device of media influence and … my god this guy is a supervillain (and he draws like Vaughn Bode but with a much thinner point). Get lost in the psychedelic marshes of one sinister man’s mind. It’s a pretty mellow trip, orange sunshine all around. 500 copies, comes with a hand-stitched lyric booklet and sketchpad, containing loads of Quillen’s alternate universe scribbles. (http://www.kdvs.org)
(Doug Mosurock)"

Thank you Doug Mosurock.....

(ps...its Quillan not Quillen....we're picky about that spelling)



Ok so here goes with other shtuff......I have been commissioned to build a couple more of the elecrtic suitar things and have now started the design and building process ..both are custom  to fit the guys who are getting them...the first  one I am working on is going to use headstock number five on my earlier post.... the second one is going to have number seven...the one with number five needs a custom string tree type of thing to get the strings going in the right places.... this is made from copper

3 eggs

My old motercycle

 some capsela

 a few butts

 a bat

 and a hot dog

more stuff......

 Amy at the gourd farm

 More Amy more gourds!

 fabricating more copper hardware

 more gourds

 two parts

fabs

 parts is parts

 etched and ready for other parts

this did not work out

Hey did you all know that if you print out anything with a laser printer you can lay it facedown on any porous surface, brunch lacquer thinner over it and then rub it with a wooden spoon to transfer the tone over......the thing in the middle is two wooden knobs glued together....the result.....

Art lesson.......more later!!!!