Unheardof Instruments

The Projects that are still not finished.....

8-string fretless electric basses.

Double-Bass-Bongo's

5-string bass

4-string fretted bass with a whammy bar and what may well be another 5-string

Several resonator guitars including an electricky one are underway; a classical,

another 12-string, a two speaker electric and more planned.

The electric-acoustic resonator cello is made out of the back of an old chair back that lay around the workshop for too long and a cello neck I made from New Guinea rosewood and an Indian rosewood fingerboard. The 10"speaker is driven by two pieces of balsa from the carbon fibre bridge and is picked up by an Ashworth piezo-electric pickup on the bridge and under the treble side of the bridge support is a cheap guitar bug. It is set up so you can pan between the two sounds. The bits on the back are an offcut of cedar from my composting toilet project and a broken piece of salad bowl.

I put Gotoh bass machine heads on and have a bass drum leg for the spike. It sounds great plugged in but not as intense acoustically as the resonator guitars yet adequate in volume. I intend to modify it further.

The Plans that are barely started upon......

electronic midi gadgets and crazy effects that I began with a good friend before his untimely death by motorbike, we miss you Brian you freaky genius.. Anyone have a clue on how to get info from a PIC chip and turn it back into code?

I'm also restoring an old arch top guitar

a fretless banjo restoration or was it never fretted and finished? Anyone know about this maker: T. Bostock?

This banjomandolin is asking to be made into a resonator but I may just restore it.

a couple of marimbas awaiting their resonator tubes to appear at the local tip or scrap metal place...

some Ashbory bass experiments that sprouted from a left over piece of the 3000+ year old rosewood slab

which came from a tree that was blown over in a hurricane at my friends property in Cape Trib 30 or so years ago

and which took out a nearby Moody Gum both of which make up the bass necks on the whammybass, the 5-string

and the 6-string. They are undergoing a pre paint sanding ordeal and should come together shortly.

I've started a guitar to put some nice secondhand Kinman pickups in that I once scored for $150. So far it has a slotted ooline fingerboard,

silkwood sides, rosewood neck and decent sand. Needs some fretting, finishing and assembly/setup.
I basically followed what Kinman recommends on the site for good tone; thicker neck, solid bridge, his pickups.

...dreams

another sub with an 18" speaker I got from a hock shop.

another speaker box for bass and a centre speaker for the studio with this nice Celestion

monitor I had repaired.

a dreamt up novelty instrument or three, more cowbells, various other idiophones, a resonator uke, effects, speakerboxes, more electric violins, drums, a wooden timpani, a new kind of log drum, an optical theremin, 5-string Ashbory bass, more didges, more drums, a pyrophonic array, thongophones...