Category Archives: Commissions

This latest Tinjo was commissioned for a friend of mine for his birthday (these make excellent birthday presents, hint hint). It was constructed from some scrap oak planks I found which were glued together, shaped, sanded, burnt, carved and varnished to end up with this: The frets are simply nails chopped down and grinded toContinue reading “The Oak Tinjo”

This is a custom built moustache shaped Dulcitar that i’m selling to raise funds for my Movember campaign. It’s constructed from Pine with an Oak neck, it uses a contact mic under the bridge to pick up the sound which then needs to be amplified. You can find out more about Movember and prostate cancerContinue reading “The Mocitar!”

This one is a quick mini hollow-body ukulele of sorts I made for my lovely wife.   And here’s a video of it being played badly:

This instrument is a mix of a guitar and a dulcimer more commonly know as a Dulcitar. It’s for the amazingly talented Kate Mullins of The Puppini Sisters fame.    This fella uses scrap wood for the body and neck and nails for frets. I burnt a peacock into it to make it prettier…    Continue reading “Kate’s Dulcitar”

A good friend of mine commisioned me to make a psaltry for him. I had to rush the construction a bit as I only had my workshop for another 2 weeks but the finished result still sounds ok. The wood is taken from a busted old cupboard, the bridge is the plastic teeth bits youContinue reading “Junkwood Psaltry”

This is my latest Tinjo made from old fence posts, BBQ skewers, copper pipe and a travel sweet tin!     My awesome wife got me a Pyrography kit for xmas, so expect to see a lot more wood burning!  

My latest, and so far my favourite, instrument, is another Tinjo, with an awesome goatskull headstock, frets from a barbeque skewer and a piezo mic hooked up inside the tin. http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F5595496&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=583b1c cultlovesyou Tinjo demo by Vulpestruments This one is for my brother who is an awesome designer, check out his stuff which you may haveContinue reading “Cultlovesyou Tinjo”

Alright, I cheated a bit on this one… It was my wife birthday yesterday, she’d always half joked about wanting a ukulele, and she’s had a serious squid obsession since she was a little girl. So I did what any good husband would do, I bought a cheap ukulele and engraved a squid into it!Continue reading “The Ukuleopod or the Squidulele”

My previous attempt at a microphone for Hecktate’s vocalist Jon was a roaring failure. Not because it didn’t work, but because it was far too noisy and didn’t really suit his style of running around and destroying things on stage. So I’ve come up with a much sturdier solution… Amazingly simple, Copper pipe, Hose clips,Continue reading “The Piperophone”

It was my friend’s birthday recently, and considering she’s an unbelievably talented musician I figured if anyone can make this sound good, she can… http://www.myspace.com/hazlittmusic Again based on the chinese Erhu and esentially the same only shorter version of the other hobo-erhu I made. Hopefully if she manages to record something on it i’ll put upContinue reading “Hazlitt’s Ho-Bo-Er-Hu”