Baloney Detection Kit
How to ask quality skeptical questions. Show this to your kids. Via BB.
I’m Fat and Nobody Likes Me
Awesome teen angst comedy mischief pop by Chair. Kind of NSFW, sophomoric and juvenile.
Surveillance Means Security!
Remixed War Propaganda
book.
1972 SSP Lineup
Pull that T-stick baby!
Tickler Pineapple Uke Unveiled
Amy 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
A Rolling Stones fan does a nice one-man Satisfaction Cover
Cigar Labels
Here and here you will find some nice, high-res cigar label scans to view.
Spoon Slide
Here is quite a lovely spoon slide guitar performance.
Iphone + Ukulele = Awesome
Check out this great little ditty produced by Dan Cederholm, using an iphone app called Four Track and Garage Band.
Slide Guitar in D
Inspiring tutorial on open D slide blues.
Psycho!
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!!
The Hoffmeister Kink
Voted the #1 best car design element of all time by Jalopnik readers.
Telecaster Body Blueprints
Here is a pdf of the Fender Telecaster guitar body plan.
Giant Wind Chimes
Greg Payne’s Giant Wind Chimes.
Archive for the 'Reviews' Category
Monday, June 1st, 2009
I am now so close to joining the desktop fabrication/manufacturing revolution that I can smell it. Unfortunately for me, that smell is the reek of burning semiconductor, but I’ll get to that later.
I got the PC controller (EMC running on Ubuntu) and stepper motor driver boards all wired up and working great. The [...]
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
I started assembling my Lumenlab Micro desktop CNC gantry robot and “personal manufacturing workstation”.
All your base are belong to Lumenlab
I was originally going to save a few dollars by making a base for the machine out of MDF, an idea that I never really liked that much. So I started looking for suitable aluminum [...]
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
After about 3 weeks, I could no longer smell the lacquer, so I considered it dry and set about the task of making the guitar shiny.
Wet Sanding
To get the paint level and remove the slight orange peel texture that you will get with all but the most fortuitous rattle-can spray jobs, I wet sanded [...]
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
I really had my heart set on adding an edge binding to my grizzly telecaster kit. The problem is that the guitar body comes supplied with the edges pre-sanded and rounded off to a 1/4″ radius. This curvature was too much to allow for installation of even the thickest edge binding that I [...]
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
I had such a blast putting together the Grizzly Uke kit a few years back, that I thought I would try my hand at a guitar. Having always admired the iconic Fender Telecaster, i ordered myself the Tele’ kit from Grizzly for $129.
If you hanker for a Telecaster kit, you are not limited to Grizzly. [...]
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
I love building things from kits almost as much as I love building things from scratch, and I think that it’s safe to say that the latest kit to show up on my doorstep is going open up a whole new world of scratch-building for me.
MicRo
The micRo is a 3-axis CNC robot being offered by [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Jarle Helland came to the U.S. from Norway in 1920 after serving his compulsory stint in the Norwegian Army. To sample the New World, he purchased a Tin Lizzie and drove it across the continent at a time when (I would imagine) his route was scarcely paved.
Jarle was a tinkerer’s tinkerer. A master [...]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
I was pretty flattered when Mark Frauenfleder asked me to contribute a pearl of wisdom to the “Tips From my Favorite Bloggers” chapter of his newest book, Rule The Web. And I’m really glad that he did, because as much as I admire Mark for his perspective, interests, experience and tastes, the truth is [...]
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
There is looking at life’s debris (see finkbuilt masthead), and then there is encapsulating it in one-inch diameter clear plastic balls and selling it in gumball machines. D.C. junkman/artist Christopher Goodwin does the latter with his wonderful Trashball! project.
Mail Order Trashballs
If you’re not in the D.C. area (currently the only city that has [...]
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Monday, September 4th, 2006
Ice Age Dig Toy Review.
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