Unheardof Instruments

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

Double-Bass-Bongo's

Several resonator guitars including an electricky one are underway; a classical hi fi is nearly done as is another ganja themed 15" another 12-string and more are planned.


There are a constant stream of electric guitars and basses underway which me and my friend Steve have been tweaking and building up from parts and about a dozen are in the happy high herbs shop in Nimbin at present with more on the way. I am churning through the parts stash...
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.

Here are 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 in 2000 and

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

the 6-string. One is sold already for 650 the other two have serious interested parties breathing down my neck.

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?

This banjomandolin is asking to be made into a resonator but I ended up giving it to my buddy Ira who may just restore it.

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

...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, resonators, drums, a Cittern, an appalacian dulcimer, more basses, more electric frankenstein guitars, more resonators, an optical midi theremin, - too many concepts not enough time...

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

I basically followed what Kinman recommends on the site for good tone; thicker neck, solid bridge, his pickups.