Guinevere

#1 — My first guitar.

This one was designed after a '72 thinline. The shade of orange was chosen to match the McLaren F1 colors, as Fender's custom colors used to be automotive paints, but McLaren was a kiwi so it's a cool twist. It features a piezo system to capture the acoustic sounds, and SD Antiquity humbuckers because they sound good and are used by Laura and James of Against Me!. The soundhole is a modified treble clef, as that is a stylized G which matches both my first and last initial.

#2 — A Strat

A stratocaster style design for a very dear friend of mine. The things as heavy as an anchor because of the specific piece of wood used on the body, and the flame figure on the neck is still one of my favorite things. The pickups are made by Mr Glyn, a local maker and someone who was integral to me starting this career.

Bonus! Swamp Kauri LP style thing.

Swamp kauri is incredibly special — wood thousands of years old preserved in the anaerobic environment. I didn't make this, but I did the technical stuff and helped and advised. It was a huge step up for my fretwork, finish work, and inlay work that's now paying off for the current projects. It's now in France!

In progress:

Jazzmaster commission — featuring block inlays, another flame maple neck, binding, and a whole host of fun things. Just about ready for paint but want to string it up first.

Bass — for my lil bro, custom inlays, custom electronic scheme, musicman pickups. Gonna be wild, just need to finish fretboard and neck then it's ready for paint.

Also a myriad of future plans where hopefully the new CNC techniques I'm practicing will massively improve turnaround time, but at the moment I've just been flat out with the maintenance side of the business. Lets me know what not to do tho! So many terrible design decisions I've come across that just don't hold up over time and I just don't want to contribute to making some future repair person sad.

this post is like 11 years old

hey

Hotel Amanauz, Dombai, Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia (Caucasus).

A late-1980s Soviet brutalist project designed with that wild honeycomb facade of modular balconies. It was planned as a huge resort hotel (~480 rooms, cinema for 630) and even had a rumored rotating base to follow the sun.

Construction halted mid-project due to foundation cracks and funding collapse as the USSR fell.

It’s stood abandoned ever since - a concrete monument to ambitious dreams that never finished.

In the four years since Nolan Ryan Trowe acquired a spinal cord injury while cliff diving, he has established himself as an award-winning photographer with a knack for documenting the intimate, often overlooked moments of daily life. His stark black and white imagery often focuses on disability and has been featured in The New York Times and various other outlets. Last Fall, he was awarded first prize in Getty Images’ first-ever Disability-Focused Creative Bursary.

Picture from the Photographer Kalynn Youngblood, in her series Staged Portraiture and Documenting daily Black Life.

Writing 和風細雨 (he2feng1xi4yu3; gentle breeze and light rain) with a cat's tail on a water-writing mat.

Water-writing mats turn black when wet and return to their original colour once dry, so they are often used to practise calligraphy with water. The black colour allows you to see your writing clearly, and the mat can be reused as soon as the writing dries and disappears.

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

the idea that thousands of people are calling alexander hamilton a slut

calling any founding father a slut

the idea that people are SHAMING Alexander Hamilton for being Such A Slut he is being SHAMED for being such a naughty little tart, SPREADING HIS LEGS FOR EVERYONE IN CONGRESS

that this was probably prompted by people expression dissaproval for Alexander Hamilton cheating on his wife - that the OP thinks “slut shaming” and “Isnt it gross that he cheated on his wife” are the same thing

Alexander Hamilton has been dead for 210

210 slutty, slutty years

the way that this is presented in such a CHECKMATE SJWS way when they’re talking about a founding father who cheated on his wife and has been DEAD FOR 210 YEARS

the fact that the words “Slutshaming” and “Alexander Hamilton” have been used in the same sentence

i mean just apply what we’d traditionally think of as “slut shaming” to Alexander Hamilton.

His frock coat is too tight, his breaches are so short, have you SEEN how often he powders his wig??? I heard he gave Thomas Jefferson a handy behind the stables AND that he got fingered by John Hancock