Doing Things Wrong

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I started putting together the Kubicki guitar. So far, just simple mechanical stuff: tuners, bridge, pickups, etc. In this picture, you can see how the wires pass through the battery compartment and everything collects under the bridge pickup and then goes into the control cavity. Soldering tomorrow.


I'm making the clear pickguard for the guitar. It is a near copy of the bass, so this is easy. I traced the old one onto the masking tape and roughed it out on the scroll saw with a very coarse blade and a light touch. You don't want to melt the blade into the plastic - that is a do-over!


The Mosrite body

I took some time off from luthering, but yesterday I got the urge again. I took down this body and gave it a polishing with my new buffing rig. On the back I was a little too aggressive sanding out the over-spray in some spots, but the front looks like this.


Danelectro Silvertone 1448 Guitar
Danelectro Silvertone 1457 Guitar
Danelectro Silvertone 1457 Rescue Guitar
Danelectro '63 Guitar
Danelectro "Super-63" Guitar
Telestar Mona Guitar

Here are six variations of Danelectro's "Amp-in-Case" guitar - three vintage, two modern, and one hand-made.


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Hollywood and the music industry are not totally bereft of talent today. Here is actress Zooey Deschanel and her musical partner M Ward doing a wonderful rendition of Dusty Springfield's 1964 Stay Awhile:

Deschanel has a very nice singing voice. And while she's not Eleanor Powell or Ann Miller, she competently dances her way through a clever and stylish video. I can't speak for her acting, the only thing I've seen her in is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; the rock I live under gets very bad TV reception. She was good in that though, so I'll give her all three - sing, dance, act.