deets #3 (part one)

it's that time again. deets #3 is the new guitar i'm working on. here's what i got. i went to the folk shop and they hooked me up with a box of broken acoustic guitars! two bodies and like seven necks.

i picked a body and neck that i thought might work well together. it looks like all these parts have been chiseled apart. like i said before, i'm not a real man so i don't know about woodworking.

so i called ian dixon up and he agreed to give me woodworking lessons in exchange for my company and being able tell people that i hang out with him once in a while. so i brought this mess over to him.


he asked me if i wanted to drink something and he gave me some kind of wine cooler that tasted like gas and that set the tone for the night.

he said i needed to become a real man and that by the time he was done with me, i would know how to make a dovetail joint and maybe work my way up to a zima.

he said i needed to buy a japanese pull saw and some chisels, so i went and did that. he said i need to wipe the ass of whoever was trying to fix this guitar before me and clean up that neck joint with the saw. he also told me not to screw it up.

so here's a picture of my work so far. i have no idea what i'm doing but i have to say i'm proud of myself for using a saw.

the five alives

just mixing some songs for a young band hot off the detroit scene. they are hard to please and very demanding. at least one of them is. introducing......

the five alives.

their album drops next month.

attaching the neck to the body (guitar refinishing part 26)

i finally got the courage to attach the body to the neck a few days ago. there was something too final about that action, but it had to be done. you might not know this, but i also did a complete re-fret on the neck and i was nervous about it. but i followed instructions. remove, bend, install, glue, file, level and crown. and i can't believe it worked out! here's a picture for all of you haters out there.

you can't tell by the picture but i'm playing a little song called 'the red barchetta'. it's one of the best music songs in the world.

lawsuit

a few months ago, my best friend "paul k" aka/ "the gold state", invited me to his house for a unforgettable night of recording. we were young and full of life, the night felt special. he let me play drums and guitar solos for his new smash single "the golden ache". 

i didn't ask his permission to post this. but since i don't own any land or have any assets, i'm fearless in the face of a lawsuit. plus the world needs this now more than ever. 

i'm going to take it up another notch and also reveal his new underwear lane comic. it's the ultimate screen saver! 

the rolling stones get served

the rolling stones get served.  

on a lighter note, i wish that life was this rad and that this actually happened.

baby bird update....

oh man. it was about a month ago that we found and took care of a baby sparrow. after a few days of round the clock feeding, we noticed that one of his legs might be broken so we rushed him over to the calabasas wildife center. they told us he was screwed and most likely would have to be killed. they took him away from us and we cursed that wildlife center a good one.

we called in everyday for ten days to check on him, after that we stopped because we didn't want to know if he had been put down. we thought we would wait awhile for the wounds to heal before we got the bad news. so a month passed, and we figured he was gone.

boom! fast forward to a few days ago. we got the call that baby bird, aka/ baby dude, was not only going to live, but they wanted us to be there to release him! so on friday we drove over to the center and they handed us a box of three birds and said we could take the box and release them wherever we wanted. what the hell? so we got into the car and drove to malibu state park, walked about a mile in so we could be by a river and let baby dude and two of his closest homies fly away. i might have picked the best spot on this earth to leave them. here's the emotional release.

mike b and his magic piano

trying to meet our deadline, mike b desperately plays piano.