I have a pretty good archive of circuit diagrams, mostly fx pedals, zipped into a 75,057k zip file here for circuit benders and tweakers looking for ideas. I spent hours on dialup for these once but haven't really got started on them seriously. I do however have many good ideas already... be inspired.
stewmac.com
is where to get your hardware and also a good resource site. Buy
big though because the postage hurts from the U.S.A. to Oz.
www.frets.com,
frankfordsfrets.com, allied luthierie and lmii.com are all recommended
too.
Greg
Smallman makes classicals and has made many strange things in the
past and has a wonderfully innovative classical guitar design.
Peter Biffin from near Armidale makes a tarhu and has developed many innovations in instrument making over the years with Greg Smallman.
Check
out his site at spikefiddle.com it's great.
The
Perch Creek Family Jug Band are a local band who's fearless leader Bob
plays the jug band resonator guitar. A truly professional jug outfit
featuring sizzling tap-dancing, lovely harmonies and some very talented
and hard working (and very nice) young musicians. Catch them at
festivals and busking. Ira will get around to making a site someday.
clatterbox
is a cool Australian site which has something to do with the REV
festival for experimental musical instruments and music - real,
experimental and virtual. Intrigued but not been to it yet.
Novax
guitars have fanned fretboards to balance the string consonance
which seems pretty neat to me.
https//www.create.ucsb.edu/~dano/violin
shows a far out midi violin controller with 6 strings and several
great controllers.
dhyatt.com/craft_workshop/gourd_banjo_making.pdf
shows gourd banjo construction techniques for these
things
as per banjopete.com and rhisong.com. check musica.viva.com too.
blissmongers.com
is a local funky band my friend Murray started some years ago and the Mothership is a local studio where Sue and Jake act as the musical centre of abundant creativity, they do a great job, have wicked jams and I love them to bits.
imembrane.com
is my friend Stef and his various musical creations including a
lovely six string headless bass he made and our banjo-cello collaboration
and more, plus you can hear and download for free some of his wicked
music.
giletguitars.com run by one of Australias pre-eminent guitar makers Gerard Gilet supply parts, Australian and exotic timbers and lots of good specialty woods, kits, tools, advice, contacts, do repairs, make really superb guitars, do a superb Luthiers course and are super helpful and extremely knowledgeable about all aspects of guitar making. I can't recommend them enough, really nice folk. Guitar Woods is them too.
American Luthier has all the plans you might need to create various stringed instruments in their big red books..
liutaiomottola.com has some cool free plans and a good site with some great technical links.
The
Chapman Stick is a very cool instrument which is similar to a Waugh Guitar.
lightwave-systems.com have developed the most amazing light activated pickup system with full midi out haxaphonic man!. Nice people.
ashelectronics.com do excellent piezoelectric pickups and Al is the inventor of the Ashbory bass (and a nice person to do business with - very helpful.)
Samba Music in Maleney have great selections of especially percussion
bits and Ziggy is wonderful. The music shops in Lismore are great too.
erowid.org for all you need to know (and then a lot still) about plants, entheogenic chemistry and all that stuff, linked to everywhere, comprehensive, accurate, broad, up to date, huge great site, congrats!
Luke
Brown does the best eye candy I've seen
Wild
Marmalade rock my dancing world.
Victor
Wooton and his bro 'Futureman' who play with Bela Fleck - wow
Zakir
Hussain - tabla legend
Liquid
Sand Artglass and Alan Ussher make glass things like my slides andbliss
me out at jams, thanks guys!.
oddmusic.com is a great site for checking out some of the worlds most innovative and interesting musical creators works, highly recommended. Here are some of my favourite features;
