Adventure in Soundland

The Slinky Reverbatron
The Fuzztave
Clari(not) Delay
CMOS nyquist aliaser
Harmonic Jerkulator


And the Possums, or one of them, who used to live in my workshop.

26/6/09
I started in on making another guitar ages ago after seeing a particularly nicely shaped one in a music shop. It was a Burns Jet-Sonic and I was rather taken with it’s kinda kinky weird shape and when I got home I dug out an old neck that I picked up, with the rest of the guitar, way back in the late eighties.

This is the one I liked and I proceeded to find a bit of fijian kauri that was big enough to get the width of this thing. Did that then found the hardware I needed, did the routing and then carved the top. Then it got put aside until the other day when I was doing the Earth Space wah and decided to do some woodwork and finish this thing off. Not done yet but most of the works done and it should be ready for oil tomorrow.



It’s designed so that the whole electrical loom can be lifted in and out in one piece. Thats one thing I hate about most guitars because the whole things don’t come apart but end up joined by wires. Damned inconvenient. And the developing aesthetic, roughish but finely detailed and handmade… obviously, is coming along nicely. I hope it sounds good. The two pickups will be wired to the centre lug of a on/off/0n switch which means that in the centre position the pickup will be straight out. In the outside positions I’ll turn it off or connect in a tone pot that acts like a mid scope because it’ll cut highs at about 800Hz and a bypass cap will shoot the highs above 2.5kHz straight out. Should work!