My good buddy Rich has done an awesome rendition of Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen on the Motinjo. There’s just one day left on the auction, so don’t forget to bid here! All proceeds from the auction will go towards Movember.
Category Archives: News and Events
Latest Collaboration
For my latest piece, I collaborated with my wife to create one of these: It should be ready and making lots of noise in March 2013!
Sketches
I thought I’d share a few pages from my sketchbook with you all. You may or may not find them interesting! Various ideas for alternatives to standard frets to shorten the length of a wire. Ideas for the Dronemachine improvements. Ideas for variations on a psaltry theme. Sketches for the design ofContinue reading “Sketches”
The poorly edited portfolio and other news
I’ve had a re-organise of the site to make it a bit easier to navigate, also I’m going to start posting some more tutorials and tips/ideas for aspiring instrument makers to show them just how easy it can be to make cheap but awesome instruments! Also, using youtube’s new video editing service, I’ve thrown thisContinue reading “The poorly edited portfolio and other news”
News and Things!
I’ve got a new job, so for the time being my workshop is being packed away and put into storage until further notice! I’m scrambling to finish my unfinished projects and get some good recordings or videos of what i’ve got left, so here is the Bronze Bowl Megaharp being played Also, a video ofContinue reading “News and Things!”
Moonmilk is being awesome again
The ever entertaining and innovative Moonmilk is doing another series of Instrument-a-day projects. You should go check them out. http://www.moonmilk.com/ They’re great… despite the fact that he seems to steal ideas from my head before I tell anyone about them.
sneaky peak
Because I don’t like leaving updates for too long, and because my current ongoing projects are taking a bit of time, I thought i’d upload a sneaky peak at what I’m working on. 10 Points to whoever can correctly guess the 3 instruments-in-progress!
Current Projects…
Pringle Tube Hurdy Gurdy – Megafail. Mic’d Bendjo for awesome guitarist Jake Gold Shouty Mic Box for Hecktate vocalist Jon Echoey Mic tube for Myself misc attachments for the Clampophone Piezo’d Foot stomper pics and info to follow shortly!
Vulpestruments on Odstrument.com
The Steel Rod Box has been featured on the fantastic website The Oddstrument Collection. It’s an amazing site and i’ve gathered quite a lot of inspiration/ideas from their pages, go check ’em out and sign up to their newly launched community pages while you’re at it!