So, remember my art/junkyard guitar project? Remember how I said I didn’t originally plan on it being playable, but after painting it I wanted to make it playable? And remember how I said it was expensive to get the bridge set by a pro and how there were a ton of other hurdles in the way, but I was gonna try anyway? Well...

I FUCKING DID IT! I measured and attached the bridge by myself (well, my wife double-checked my measurements because she’s good at that stuff) and IT’S FUCKING PLAYABLE.

Not only is it playable, but it sounds pretty great.

So, this fucking wrecked acoustic guitar that I dug out of the neighbor’s trash and I’ve been carting around for a decade... I revived it. I have given it life.

I’ve been creating a YouTube playlist of the fishiest songs, and discovered a ton of new music in the process. Right now I’ve got 81 songs, and I want to reach a full hundred. If you know some neat music about any aquatic life, let me know (cryptids and mythological creatures DEFINITELY count).

I’m trying to get a wide range of different genres, and songs that bear up to repeated listening, and if the song is actually about the sea life instead of just using it as a metaphor, that’s my favorite (holy grail: song about a hammerhead shark where the hammerhead doesn’t mean someone’s penis). My biggest stretch is where I put “Wish You Were Here” because it has the line “two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl”.

Here’s the playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNL0Sq7W-23x7HcHY3CTNn1aKzn3CCOlC

Here are my overflow playlists for songs about birds and non-aquatic invertebrates, respectively:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNL0Sq7W-23yoClQlFYAEhcBIE45MdEpa

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNL0Sq7W-23zXTCCN8wVgCwyYo6TYcVSx

This is a departure from my usual stitching style. What do you think?

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Because of the recent social distancing/self-isolation fuckery, I found myself in need of a project. So, I dug out that old acoustic and got to work.

(That last pic is of the drying coat of varnish.)

Of course, the downside is now I want to make it playable because... I mean LOOK AT IT! IT’S AWESOME!

But, since the wood where the bridge/saddle should be is now essentially a sanded layer of wood putty, I’m not sure it could take the pressure and string tension of a reglued set-up. (Anyway, I don’t have the tools or knowhow to do it myself and having a pro do it is fucking expensive.)