F I N K B U I L T

Baloney Detection Kit

skeptic
How to ask quality skeptical questions. Show this to your kids. Via BB.

I’m Fat and Nobody Likes Me

chair
Awesome teen angst comedy mischief pop by Chair. Kind of NSFW, sophomoric and juvenile.

Surveillance Means Security!

Remixed War Propaganda book.

1972 SSP Lineup

ssp racer Pull that T-stick baby!

Tickler Pineapple Uke Unveiled

ukuleleAmy Crehore has been letting the paint dry on Tickler No.2 for about the last 2 years. It’s now available for viewing, and its a STUNNER!

Seiji Plays Satisfaction

self satisfaction video
A Rolling Stones fan does a nice one-man Satisfaction Cover

Cigar Labels

cigar label artHere and here you will find some nice, high-res cigar label scans to view.

Spoon Slide

spoon slideHere is quite a lovely spoon slide guitar performance.

Iphone + Ukulele = Awesome

ukuleleCheck out this great little ditty produced by Dan Cederholm, using an iphone app called Four Track and Garage Band.

Slide Guitar in D

slide guitar Inspiring tutorial on open D slide blues.

Psycho!

sonics Start your day with some outstanding go-go in-a-box to the Sonics, and the rest will just fall into place naturally.

Thee Headcoats

comanche
Comanche!!

The Hoffmeister Kink

kink Voted the #1 best car design element of all time by Jalopnik readers.

Telecaster Body Blueprints

telecaster plans Here is a pdf of the Fender Telecaster guitar body plan.

Giant Wind Chimes

giant wind chimesGreg Payne’s Giant Wind Chimes.





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Archive for the 'Miscellany' Category

Purple Blown Motor in Stereo

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Stereo pair set up for Cross-Eyed viewing.

A Barbeque Waiting to Happen

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

We Just finished applying a layer of 24” x 24” slate tiles to our back patio. It was a straight-forward enough tiling job, but the scale of it has me feeling like i just finished building the pyramids or something. But I think that it was worth the effort. Just had to show it [...]

Cuckoo For Cocopunk

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Although coconut shells do have some well established niche market uses such as novelty swimwear and small caged-pet shelters, I can’t help but to feel as though too many of them are going to waste.
The New Altoids Tin?
No I don’t mean as a mint holder, but as an improvised homebrew electronics project enclosure. The Altoids [...]

New Blog - Dinosaurs and Robots

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Mark Frauenfelder and Mr. Jalopy have partnered up to write a new blog called Dinosaurs and Robots.
Mark is the founder of Boing Boing and the Editor in Chief of Make Magazine. Mr. Jalopy also writes for Make, and is a curator and purveyor of some of the great forgotten artifacts [...]

1960 Hovercraft Lineup

Monday, February 12th, 2007

When I was in 5th grade, I saw an ad in the back of Boy’s Life magazine for a set of plans that promised show you how to build a personal hovercraft using simple hand tools and old vacuum cleaner motor. Needless to say, I knew that this was going to be the best [...]

Craft: Vol 2 on the stands

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

My testosterone levels have reached alarming highs over the past year, what with all this building of automotive management computers and fuel-injection systems, motor rebuilding, horsepower extraction exercises, and various other grease-monkeying that has been absorbing all of my liesure time.

Mike Yates Remembers 1974

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Mike Yates remembers 1974 (continued)

Mike Yates Remembers 74

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

minibike Yates Update.

Thread cutting for beginners

Monday, April 10th, 2006

tap and die

Make 05 hits mail slots

Monday, February 6th, 2006

make magazineMave vol. 05