Popsicle Sticks

I'm off work and at home now, so I can add this... DAYUM!!! The attention to detail is simply amazing. I could instantly tell this is a cement mixer, beautiful work. Then step around back and there is a staircase, the bucket looking thing that has an actual name, but I don't know what the name is. The slide ramp to pour the mix and did I mention the shovel and extra extensions for extensions for the slide ramp?

All I can say is
DAYUM!!!
 
Those members that have known me over the years from another place and time, know of my love for wood. I prefer to see grain on my guitars, not paint. I put a faux walnut burl dash in my car. My father had a Jaguar XK120 with wood dash and I loved it, that's why I did the dash treatment on my car. When I was very young, my father built a HO scale slot car track with winding mountain road. All built with balsa wood sticks, covered with recycled brown paper bags from the grocery store and lectured with Durham's water putty. He added store bought HO scale buildings, trees and stationary vehicles. My father loved creating things, working with his hands (and mind) with wood being one of the many mediums he worked with. I too love wood. I love the smell when it being sanded. I love bringing life to the grain and making it pop!

Below is Burla, my Epiphone G-400. I made the pick guard, truss rod cover, pickup rings & back cover all out of wood with a real walnut burl veneer.

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Below is a guitar that I had custom built from spalted maple

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Just to show you how much I prefer wood over paint, below is Dirty Girl, she started life as a black painted beater from the swamps. I removed the paint and brought out her true spirit as a Dirty Girl. I made the pick guard from wood also.
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So now that we all know just how much I love wood, perhaps y'all can believe that I am Truss Rod's #1 fan!!!
 
You should build another Telecaster guitar...that first one was awesome and it looked real good. Time to make a trip to the convenience store in the freezer section were all the popsicles are...yum!:wink:


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BlackSG91 said:
You should build another Telecaster guitar...that first one was awesome and it looked real good. Time to make a trip to the convenience store in the freezer section were all the popsicles are...yum!:wink:


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Well Black, give it a few days, I have something else going on in the finish booth.
 
Good lord as much as I spend on popsicle sticks I could have ordered a new MIA Strat by now....
Dream 90s which I really like but the only regret is I bought cheap tuners and that was a huge mistake so next month she is getting a set of Grover's.

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RVA said:
Wow! Very nice! The thing that amazes me the most sis that the sticks can handle the string tension. Quite impressive!
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Thanks Ray, there is a layer of ash in the middle. I didn't trust just the sticks. Popsicle sticks are made of white birch which is a soft flexible hard wood. It probably would handle the tension but I'm not going take that chance.
 
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