derek

He has a whole mess of YouTube videos about building archtops on his Ken Parker Archtoppery channel. Never gonna be another one like him

This thing is so overbuilt, it rules

I love it when people do zoom calls with their laptop cameras because I love having conversations with people while they look down at me like I’m a sandwich

a fake screenshot from speedrun.com purporting to show a speedrun for downloading, as fast as possible, the entire discography of a music project named Muslimgauze from a private tracker. The joke is that Bryn Jones (1961 - 1999) was incredibly prolific and it would be a large number of albums to download quickly

pretty sure nobody that follows me is gonna get this one, which is fine because it's not funny enough to warrant how much time it took to make

Acoustic guitars can have feedback too

A photo of Sam Altman at a very important meeting

Sam Altman is such an inspiration

Photo of a guitar headstock with a black sticker with the word LORD in a blackletter gothic font, resting on top of the body of a MIJ hollow body guitar

I have accept the LORD into my life

Photo of Grover sta-tite nickel plated tuning machines, shiny

Photo of Grover sta-tite nickel plated tuning machines, slightly hazy and tarnished from vinegar vapor

I made stuff look worse on purpose by steaming them with vinegar

A photo of a woodchuck and a rabbit in a yard

name a more iconic duo

I have few moments of inner peace in my life but one of them was being high as hell at 5am listening to Kyuss next to a wind generator out in the country

I didn’t know ovation could make a guitar that isn’t ugly as sin

the coureur des bois are back in town

It’s literally down the road from Fertile, IA

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Manly, IA

Ceremoniously throwing a silica gel packet over my shoulder for good luck

rolling up to the gas station in my 2055 Ford Expedition and dropping $450,000 for half a tank of gas refined from hydrocarbon mining on Titan

Proudly announcing “The Bastard File”, a new podcast about the shittiest dudes in the machinist trades

photo of the rosewood fretboard for a 1937 Gibson L-50 (along with the guitar of course) next to a bunch of other junk on my workbench. I’ve started to use a sanding beam to level the fretboard and it’s revealed a ton of low spots from play wear in the locations usually associated with jazz chords

someone used to do a jazz here

should note here maker is in quotes because this guy is doing actual labor and the term “maker” is designed to turn all real labor into mere hobbies that don’t deserve to be paid what they deserve!!

love watching some YouTube “maker” talking about how he’s no expert, anyone can do what he’s doing, and the next shot is him operating a $26k CNC waterjet machine to cut out pieces of glass for the Tiffany style lamp he’s building

the elusive cider has finally materialized

I smell burned toast

don't talk to me or my wayward son ever again

RESURRECT BROOD XI ON PLANET JUPITER

embed a holographic pattern in your frying pan to get structurally colored steak

I bet the bottom of an egg fried in that would be crazy shiny too

Billy Rubin and the Bile Brothers

something extremely funny about me proudly declining enrolling in a biometric scanner at the hospital when I go there for a blood draw every six months

Who killed Hannibal meme. Kermit the frog is turned away from camera shooting Hannibal who is labeled "writing a song about rainbows" then in the next panel he's facing camera asking "why are there so many songs about rainbows"

Ring-Mounted Finger Ukelele

keeping this one in my back pocket for when someone needs me to give a shit about what's going on