@palfreyman.bsky.social
Retired IT Engineer, Veteran (SSGT/1LT), Photographer, Artist, Chess Player, Builder of primitive stringed instruments
23.04.2025 02:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finished this earlier this week. 23” scale, tuned EBE. Chromatic but only the pentatonic scale, plus 2 & 6, are actually fretted. The high e is a double course for a mandolin-like sound.
How does it sound to you?
A bit of fun with a 29” scale 3 string fretless cigar box guitar w/fat strings and a deep throaty growl
20.04.2025 12:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A recent build. Something to keep me busy as the world falls down around me
07.04.2025 00:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Jehovahs sent me some more junk mail this week, a pamphlet asking me if the dead can live. So as I debated the question in my mind, I did a doodle on the back of the envelope they sent to me.
16.02.2025 01:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Resurrected this old, moldy Ansco box camera. Used t leather from a thriftstore purse, the empty bag from my Atlas coffee club Subscription and some yellow garage sale paint…
10.02.2025 07:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What can I do with a Japanese ink brush?
10.02.2025 07:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
History may not repeat itself, but it certainly fucking rhymes
09.02.2025 19:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Stoned practice session, mimicking a web toon I saw…
The whole TBI/hand I coordination thing is difficult to overcome. Slowly brother slowly.
04.02.2025 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Another 3 string cigar box guitar off the workbench… The Red Wings come from a bamboo knife block I cut in two , kitchen strainer for the tail piece, Cabinet drawer pull over the saddle
03.02.2025 23:47 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Imma miss my Ripley girl, tho she’s gone onwards to a fuller, richer life.
03.02.2025 23:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I got a postcard from Ukraine today, And the postage stamp is so fucking cute!
03.02.2025 23:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More attempts to learn to draw ;)
03.02.2025 23:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
03.02.2025 23:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sadly, disability forced me to rehome my lovely pibble Ripley. Thankfully I was able to find the perfect loving home for me
03.02.2025 23:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Teaching myself to draw/sketch at this late stage of my life… 61 and struggling with the effects of spinal injury and traumatic brain injury… hand/eye coordination is a challenge for me. Fun tho and therapeutic on several levels
03.02.2025 23:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Found a mint condition Chinon CM-5 (circa 1981) Pentax K-mount 35mm SLR in a discount bin for $6 and some change. It had an M42 screw mount adapter and came with this ugly, barely functional Tamron f7.5 400mm lens. Running a couple rolls of Kodak Gold c41 film through it today.
19.01.2025 05:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Taking a watercolor painting class weekly for the next few months… getting a little practice in at home on this one
19.01.2025 05:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
28.11.2024 07:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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