YouTuber Startwave’s SX-150 guitar is rather excellent – a quick and terrible demonstration of my modded sx-150. i replaced the original slide thingy with a softpot from trossen robotics and i added an fsr (force sensitive resistor) to control volume or crazy resonance distortion (if the res is switched on). sounds nice, very expressive and […]
Max Flebus, a MAKE subscriber from Milan, sent us a link to this wonderful video of musician Paolo Angeli (who’s worked with Fred Frith) playing a guitar that has motors inside the sound hole whacking away on the strings and robot-finger-like strikers, powered by foot pedals, that Paolo controls while playing the guitar with a […]
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Make a unique one-string, electric or bass guitar out of PVC and wood. Thanks go to Tom Zimmerman for the original article in MAKE, Volume 09. To download The Strung Out MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Strung Out article in MAKE, Volume 09 “Strung Out” and you can see […]
Make a unique one-string, electric or bass guitar out of PVC and wood. Thanks go to Tom Zimmerman for the original article in MAKE, Volume 09.View the PDF of this project. and then subsribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend.
Breeze is an incredible marquetry artist. A few years ago, he stayed with us while showing his work at the Duxbury Art Association. My mother saw his work and commissioned a custom designed table inspired by her photos of Costa Rica. T. Breeze VerDant…started his woodworking experience by building a log cabin from his own […]
Photo from adcurtin This tip came in from the comments: Here’s my mod from back in the day before GH3 for x360 (I preferred the sg to the xplorer): He goes on: I hate the X-plorer with a passion, mostly the fret buttons, but the whammy bar and the part that gets in the way […]
