Artsy Fartsy

Thanks!  Those two smaller pin looking things are actually pieces that we bought to decorate our Magicbands when we went to Disneyworld in October.  I lost the really cool Yoda, Stormtrooper, and Vader ones.  So, I decided to use these last two and glue them on to the collage.

And another I did today!

Here's the Star Trek Mod Podge Collage that I finished this morning!

Bonus points for using the Christopher Lloyd Klingon!! 
Lloyd also played Doc Emett Brown in the Back to the Future Trilogy for those of you not in the know.

I wanted to capture bits of all Trek but give homage to my favorite eras.  So, while I could have use more TOS or TNG pics, I opted for the pic with all the TV captains, then two original Kirk villians (this Khan being for more superior to the new one), two Enterprises from the TOS movies and TNG series, and finally the cast of the newest crew.  With only a 12 X 12 board, it was hard to decide what to use.

Here's my latest guitar creation from a wine box.  It is simply awaiting strings.  You won't see the bridge in these shots as it is a floating model that the strings will hold in place.






The tail piece is actually a handheld cheese grater that I bought for $1 at the local Dollar Tree.  The strap buttons are actually picture frame holders that you can get in a pack at Walmart.

Well done!

Very nice!

Wow, that is super cool!

Wow!  This page had dropped to page 4!  Is no one doing anything artsy?

No, I quit to be artsy.

I am getting VERY close to finishing several cigar box or homemade guitars.  One is cowboy themed made from a box I bought at Hobby Lobby.  One is a refit of the wine box I showed here previously as the neck bowed.  Another is a Batman license plate guitar, and the 4th is a simple guitar I hope to take with me on an upcoming mission trip if I can finish it in time.  Busy, busy, busy!

With that, I also have vocals, guitars, and bass, done for FIVE new songs and hope to get to do more soon.  I am enlisting the guys from the metal band Free From Fear to help with drums and guitar solos.

I'm currently working on a picture.

xenonlion wrote:

Self portrait?

No. I don't look like that. I just felt inspired to draw a picture of some horned creature. I want to one day draw a non-human-like monster for you guys.

Some of my artsy stuff this year.  Some of you have seen these on Facebook, but I know that some have not.

This one is called "Faith".  I built it to take on my mission trip to Ohio.  I felt like the Lord wanted me to build it and give it away.  I didn't know to whom, though.  At the end of our week, I felt that I was to give it to the pastor of the church where we did VBS all week.  So, I did!  I had posted pics of a winebox build on the previous page.  This is the neck from that build.  That guitar wouldn't tune right, so I was going to strip the hardware and throw away this neck.  Who knew that I could take it apart and put it back together so quickly!  I took this off the previous guitar, made a few cuts, and put it together on Friday night before leaving on my trip.  On Saturday, I strung it up and set the intonation!  I left for Ohio on that Sunday.

This one is called "Third Place".  It was made from a 2010 3rd place trophy from Hunter's Auto Expo in Nashville, TN.  I also have the 1st place.  I need to do a little reworking of this to make the volume knob be on the front.  After that, this one will go up for sale.

This last one I didn't actually name.  I didn't keep it long enough.  This has been my only commissioned piece.  It was ordered for someone who was retiring.  This one is completely acoustic, so it was a simple build and quite affordable!

I bought a couple of old suitcases that I am going to use to put the guts of a couple of guitar amps I have in them.  They are gonna look wicked cool and retro!

Isn't she a beaut?  I built this one some months ago but needed to tweek the intonation.  Well, I did that this weekend and made this picture with my phone.  I uploaded that Saturday, I believe, and have already sold the guitar!  I shipped it to California this afternoon!

Who would buy such a thing from such a great distance?  It was THE Rex Scott of X-Sinner/GX Project!  I now make specialty guitars for the stars! 

alldatndensum wrote:

Isn't she a beaut?  I built this one some months ago but needed to tweek the intonation.  Well, I did that this weekend and made this picture with my phone.  I uploaded that Saturday, I believe, and have already sold the guitar!  I shipped it to California this afternoon!

Who would buy such a thing from such a great distance?  It was THE Rex Scott of X-Sinner/GX Project!  I now make specialty guitars for the stars! 

Very cool!

Wow that's awesome!

Yes, she is.

That's very cool this guitar has shipped to Rex D Scott.
Maybe he's using this guitar on a next album.

Actually, he DID say that this guitar could well end up on the NEXT GX Project album.  He knows how to make me buy one, huh?