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gold foil bass finished
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Wooden bass guitar with alternating dark/light/dark wood, a dark wood neck, and a single pickup that has a chrome cover and gold foil accents.
Some small finishing details to do, but it's a complete working bass now. I only have an hour of playing on it so far, but i like it - it's comfortable to play and at least on my little practice amp sounds great.
The project started with the pickup, a re-creation of the gold foil pickups used on 1960s Harmony (and some other) basses. I bought the neck from an eBay seller but modified it a bit for my preferences and to fit the body. The body i built from scratch, it's sapele and maple, with a very thin amber varnish finish. Body shape is a fairly close copy of an aluminum-necked Kramer bass. There's only 1 knob for volume, there's a static tone circuit that's the same as if the tone knob was always turned fully up.
I'll have the first band practice with it tonight, and will probably let it settle in a bit before bringing it to shows. I'm really pleased with how it turned out, just what i was hoping for when it was still just a graph paper drawing earlier this summer.
Full project writeup with many more photos here:
http://bill.fidean.net/projects...
The project started with the pickup, a re-creation of the gold foil pickups used on 1960s Harmony (and some other) basses. I bought the neck from an eBay seller but modified it a bit for my preferences and to fit the body. The body i built from scratch, it's sapele and maple, with a very thin amber varnish finish. Body shape is a fairly close copy of an aluminum-necked Kramer bass. There's only 1 knob for volume, there's a static tone circuit that's the same as if the tone knob was always turned fully up.
I'll have the first band practice with it tonight, and will probably let it settle in a bit before bringing it to shows. I'm really pleased with how it turned out, just what i was hoping for when it was still just a graph paper drawing earlier this summer.
Full project writeup with many more photos here:
http://bill.fidean.net/projects...
Gorgeous!
Woo!
😻😻😻
damn, i love this whole look- the body shape, the wood grain and staining, the "racing stripe" inlays, all of it!
what is the pickup you chose?
damn, i love this whole look- the body shape, the wood grain and staining, the "racing stripe" inlays, all of it!
what is the pickup you chose?
Early Autumn colours
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Walking around the local iron age hillfort yesterday and colours were popping
Spot the mini-me in the medium distance
Back in the bread game
Art With a Plug
∞
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went for a walk today down by the water. saw these trees as i was making my way back.
It's the most
wonderful time
of the year
wonderful time
of the year
Find God
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source https://bsky.app/profile...
You know... I've been looking for Jesus for so long... technically... doesn't that make *him* lost...?
*seasonal noises*
cutie pie
Brad's Drink
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seemingly complete gallery of the 21 stages of the Pepsi Cola logo
TIL Pepsi was originally Brad's Drink, but, more importantly, this shows that:
- Before 1950, branding was the province of mescaline addicts only
- by 1951, branding had already absorbed Baudrillard avant le hashtag
- Before 1950, branding was the province of mescaline addicts only
- by 1951, branding had already absorbed Baudrillard avant le hashtag
Willing to bet the designs 1903-1951 aren't deliberate modifications, but the results of hiring local artists to redraw the logo because they didn't have a clean copy of the previous original.
On the other hand, I'd bet the designs from 1991-onward are the result of marketing executives doing a rebranding purely to pad out their resumes while they hustle on to their next promotion.
On the other hand, I'd bet the designs from 1991-onward are the result of marketing executives doing a rebranding purely to pad out their resumes while they hustle on to their next promotion.
I have a historical trademark book in my office with some additional info... "Brad" is because it was invented and sold by a pharmacist named Caleb D Bradham, before he branded it later as Pepsi Cola. He did really well with it until WW1 when there was sugar rationing and then sugar price fluctuations later. He lost ownership at a specific point when he bought sugar at a high and suddenly had to sell it way low in 1920.
I don't think any of these are very good. 69-71 is the cleanest, but not very interesting. And the 2008-23 attempt to make an equivalent to Coke's "Dynamic Ribbon Device" is a total failure. The black ring around the current one makes the logo look cramped.
#psa
Andy Warhol, Hammer and Sickle with Vibrator and Bread, 1975
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A diptych of black and white studio photographs showing (top) a hammer & sickle with vibrator and (bottom) a hammer & sickle with a loaf of bread
Brings new meaning to “bread and roses”
Penguin serving a strawberry milkshake
dead drop
Maybe…
Enjoy your last day of life, human.
Go Bills!
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GarbagePailKids banner at the top covered in snow. The sky in the background gradients from white to blue to red. The ground is covered in tons of snow. In the center a cartoon Josh Allen looks jolly with rosy cheeks and wearing a Buffalo Bills jersey with a winter BILLS hat, throwing a snow-covered football. A label at the bottom says his name is Arctic Allen.
source: there are new NFL-themed Garbage Pail Kids out from Topps
Now do an Owners series!
@ufez someone _should_ do an actual Garbage Humans series of all the billionaires
@travis It's honestly a pretty good business idea, just have to build a solid legal squadron.
A photo of the look on James Dolan's face the first time he saw his would be a surefire Pulitzer winner.
A photo of the look on James Dolan's face the first time he saw his would be a surefire Pulitzer winner.
bones
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animated gif showing a sequence from an advertisement for 'The Simpsons Halloween Scare-a-Thon' Sunday at 7:00 WFLD FOX CHICAGO. The Simpson family are seated on their couch; lightning strikes, causing an x-ray effect and for Marge's hair to have a Bride-of-Frankenstein style lightning bolt on the side.
Doesn't show Marge's bunny ears: https://www.youtube.com/shorts...
I like how everyone's hair is part of their skeletons, except for Marge.
It doesn't even protect you from rain?
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A stormtrooper with an umbrella walking down a rainy street in Glasgow.
worst. armor. ever.
Not to mention they're literally Stormtroopers, the movie's Nazis by proxy. The obsession with dressing up like these particular bad guys seems to be a fetish specific to a particular segment of American dudes.
Like Olivia's paper dress, it'll melt in the rain
FUCK YEAH POTATOES
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As someone who has enjoyed a few Potato Festivals in Oregon, and worked on a few potato farms in Oregon, I can confirm potato.
I love a museum. I’ll go to ANY kind. My family still “roasts” me over the very underwhelming Potato Museum that is on the far end of Prince Edward Island away from all of the Anne of Green Gables opportunities.
Thanks for coming to my story-time.
Thanks for coming to my story-time.
Plant you now
YOLO GAFT
"Frösche und Kröten." Frogs and toads. Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. v.14. 1892.
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color illustrations of frogs and toads
Ich fresse frische Frösche, ich bin ein Frischefröschefresser
🥶
Size of a barn
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A man wearing magnifiers, holding a power tool, looks into a miniature barn.
Man working on miniature barn, Shelburne, VT, 2004
From Sage Sohier's _Perfectible Worlds_ - the rest of the book is definitely worth exploring: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
source: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
From Sage Sohier's _Perfectible Worlds_ - the rest of the book is definitely worth exploring: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
source: https://sagesohier.com/perfecti...
What is this? A barn for ANTS?!
@dreyfusslugado What else would you have on your ant farm?
@bezt
Goddammit ⭐️
Goddammit ⭐️
Anyone see which way Spock went?...
Ed Emshwiller’s 1957 cover to Space Station #1, by Frank Belknap
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