New stuff....and UPDATE!

Its been a while since I posted for allyall who are interested....here is the Update

1. Amy and I spent the bulk of the summer working on building a Puddle Duck Racer. We finished and took it out to Folsom Lake. We had so much fun setting it up and getting it to sail...the darn thing worked very well. It was a blast. ooops!!! While readjusting the sail rigging I bumped one of the oars into the drink...I told Amy not to jump in after it. I thought we could use the other oar to paddle over to it,,,to no avail we were blown away from the oar ...and by the time we dropped sail and I stopped paddling us in a circle, the oar was out of site...we were pretty much stuck out there. The wind changed pushing us further out and it was getting dark. Luckily though we flagged down the last boat on the lake and they towed us in telling us about the many times they themselves had been towed in...Thanks to Jason and his friends!!!! We learned a few things about preparedness and we also found out that the 'Lucille Gale' FLOATS PERFECTLY....even in big wakes... we will take it out again and do it better....
some pics------->

anyway ..I have a bunch of pic of this lovely boat being built by Amy and I.....a build diary...eventually coming soon

SO.....before the boat launch my side was hurting a bit...like bad gassssss...then it subsided and came back two fold after the launch....the pain did not go away.....then on the day before my vacation started something inside me changed....my appendix... died

acute appendicitis...my brother J.T. had it couple of years ago too...it is not fun...

The first guy I shared a room with coughed so loud I didn't sleep for more than 4 hours in 24... I demanded they move me...the second guy turned out to have some kind of nasty staph infection so they moved me again to next to a guy with deadly bone cancer.....I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there....but I give props to the cook in the cafeteria for saute-ing me some veggies...and Amy, Dad and GLoria, and J.T. and Larry, Idalia, Doug, The Martins for some Awesome support Thanks to all of you.... I love you you're the best

well I don't have to worry about that sill appendix anymore ... no problem....good drugs and good riddance


In the mean time I have been taking it easy and drawing a bit

I also finished my newest build for Antonia...This bike light.....L.E. --yours is coming soon.....

And Finally I updated my website to do some of the things I want it to do..

....www.artlessing.com



the website will have listenables soon enough right now I am sick of being on this computer ......

Promo video

HEy every body I made an animation...for our upcoming show.......do they really look like dancing dicks?

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!!!!