@glyphstone.bsky.social
Northwest US queer/trans polymath techie geek community activist. I moved from Seattle to a more rural setting with my Fam for more room to breathe with less hustle. I'm an Internet and tech pioneer who longs to retire and quietly make and play guitars.
This is how we make it.
25.08.2025 04:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Getting started on my acoustic build and exciting things to come
www.glyphstone.studio/post/om-design
I'm going to roll something out soon that I've been working on quietly for quite a while recently and has been gestating for almost 40 years. I'm pretty excited about it and I think it's going to have a positive impact in a realm that means a lot to me.
12.08.2025 04:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I've been building electrics lately but I'm getting back into the acoustic world now. I'm excited to make some announcements soon about my latest project and have some nice soundboards lined up including a few sets that I've been dragging around with me for 40 years.
29.07.2025 04:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's the little things
12.07.2025 20:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tidying up the yurt for family visit.
07.07.2025 19:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Electronics breadboard with components and wires.
Friday night chill out. Analog compressor /sustainer, to be digitally controlled so I can harness it to my MIDI rig. Worked out all out and I think it will be fine. I haven't listened to it yet, just checked it on the oscilloscope which can tell you more than you can hear in some ways.
28.06.2025 06:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ever closer, it's time to build pickups and wire electronics:
Read more on my site
www.glyphstone.studio/post/pickup-...
#electric-guitar #luthier #pickups
Glyphstone LPS 1 is on the table and almost ready to rock. I just need to build the pickups and wire it up, and a few other finishing touches.
22.05.2025 05:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Bessent leaking tariff easing with China in private meetings should be a major corruption scandal. Instead everyone is so relieved that almost nobody is making this the story.
and new chicks! #bessent #treasury #tariffs #china #trump #corruption #incompetence #chicks #spring
This is the Whey!
22.04.2025 04:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Think, Victory garden. I guess my plans are suddenly going to expand. I have the option which I know is a privilege.
18.04.2025 21:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sure, the US is going to hell, but I've got a new bench buffer on the way!!! First test... #luthier #bench-buffer #shop-built
08.04.2025 04:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#transgender #visibility #tdov
I'm 67, a Trans Woman, and have lived my truth for half of my days so far. I've met thousands of gender-voyagers like me across the world. Special love and respect to my hijra sisters in India.
We have always existed.
We always will.
#guitar #cabinet #custom #woodwork #glyphstone
I finished detailing this 1x12" speaker cabinet I made years ago but always kept at home because I never finished up the grill. I'm selling my amps to switch to a more versatile FRFR type rig. This brass detailed beauty will be on sale soon.
Adjustable height acoustic guitar bridge
Just finished up this custom bridge for my experimental acoustic project. Features tusq compensated saddle.
Wood is "red heart" that I picked up from a local wood seller. I was impressed by its resonance indicating high rigidity.
Beautiful work
13.03.2025 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The electric body to the left is big leaf maple top and Sapele body and neck with Paduk fretboard with maple burl headstock vernier and fretboard inlays. That's a Sitka spruce soundboard on been holding on to for 35 years. Maple burl rosette
03.03.2025 21:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Works in progress
#luthier
We visited our waterfall this afternoon. It's quite a blessing. It's not visible from the house but the sound of falling water as I step out the door makes me sigh....
27.02.2025 02:00 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Latest project blog
www.glyphstone.studio/post/next-lp...
Starting my next Les Paul Special derivative guitar, serial #2. This one is for sale, as will the following three. Get your reservations in!
Mostly finished up my lathe stand so it and all the accessories and tools have a place to live. My shop is not so huge that every tool can have its own fixed bench so secondary tools like this need movable stands.
25.02.2025 06:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow, I'm so surprised and pleased it actually happened .
18.02.2025 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bellingham is up in arms.
17.02.2025 20:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Working in wood is constant surprise and discovery.
More here www.glyphstone.studio
Being evil saps your vital essence.
14.02.2025 07:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've been coding professionally, for 40 years. My manager, I guess, who is a really good, smart guy, asked if the somewhat textual 1 pager I wrote for an engineering change, touching three separate systems, could just be fed into an LLM to magically code it. I said: "Nope". !?!?
12.02.2025 01:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It depends on your skill set and taste for diy adventure. I'm a builder and maker and I enjoy the process and using it for work and adventure.
12.02.2025 01:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey all my friends that are in the area: I would like to see you at the Van Zandt Hall Saturday night 6pm for Loveshack Boogie Valentine's dance with me: your funky bassist and the fun High Tide band with old school dance music and cupcakes and stuff.
11.02.2025 01:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ironically, there are probably fewer trans athletes in US schools than people in this picture. The point is Cruelty and using the Other as a unifying actor.
The message is hate to all Trans people of all ages, un-belonging... So horrifying, the way they groom these young people.
