I gotta pipe in and say, "WAY Cool..." I have a lot of his art (& musuc!), and it's worth googling "Tim Renner". Shane, any cd's with original art left? Tim,...
Just one: http://tinyurl.com/2lf3of As far as frontpage photos, if you have something, let me know. I try to change it a couple times a month. shane...
To all those who may have emailed regarding the Huntsville Festival, please be patient. My internet provider had a state-wide service outage and I have had no...
BlankI have been lazy over the winter but here are the photos I said I would publish . http://www.flickr.com/photos/59473356@N00/sets/72157594512714241/ Here...
Eric Thanks for looking. No sounds yet cause I have to reset the neck on the Mando. I cant play the lapsteel more that a few notes and sliding chords. Jim...
hey builders, I picked up 10 piezo elements from my local electronics liquidator for $0.50 ea. They are the same ones I just wired into my banzouki. I have ...
A co-op store would be a logical progression of Insurrection Records as I expand. I probably wouldn't be able to do anything like this for at least a year or...
So, I wood burned some frets onto my CBG using a fret calculator. I also put on some new strings that were slightly lighter than the ones recommended on the...
The first thing I would try is to raise the bridge a little. The next is to raise the nut. You should be able to see where the string is hitting and making...
Okay, I see, so you're basically 'fretless' with just lines to mark the fret positions ? I think that mostly wood-burned fret lines are used on CBGs destined...
There's 6 or 7 more....I'll post a new one every other day or so. shane ps. Still one wood box set left ... Thought you guys would like to see another of...
I can 'wang' a bit in bluesy style on my 3 string CGBs. Now I want to go to a higher level of play. I am old guy with arthritic fingers, so it will have to...
A good buzz can be a bummer or a sitar. Fretless and fretted necks should be flat while under tension. Get a long flat file and wrap it in emory paper. with...
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Hi Jack, Im a flatpicker/up pick clawhammer CBG player in Houston, Tx. Im writing a method book with tabs of old banjo and fiddle tunes, for some of my...
It sounds like your string action is too low....However, it could also be that you have no relief in the neck....a concave curve that is lowest at fret 12. It...
Welcome to the world of basement studio! I did exactly that, 5 years ago in my basement. I built in a control room and vocal booth, along with wiring the...
Very cool. My studio is greatly inspired by Hank III's last album, Straight to Hell. Instead of worrying about perfect studio equiptment and a perfect place...
Well, I'll tell you what....those cheapo recording multitrackers nowadays are way better than the 4 track cassette recorders my band did their first release...
One suggestion that I saw in a recording studio that I worked in once. The guy had great wooden walls on his basement but sometimes he wanted a different...
The Fort Payne Times-Journal Prince and his purple are not right By Dusty Plunkett The Times-Journal Published February 02, 2007 Prince will be performing...
Some of us might be dragging our feet on sending something that might be good in print. Do you have an outline yet. Know what Shane, maybe you could throw out...
I haven't posted regular in a long while. I'm caught up in building 'real' guitars. Shane'll tell ya, I tend to OverEngineer things... But I do get to be raw...
great to see how that was done...thanks . I'll never get beyond the playing around stage but would like to try making pickups sometime. Where do you get the...
The outline is done and the whole thing has been formatted. I still have many pages to fill, though. I'm not in a major rush to publish...my studio comes...
