Gathering thoughts…
Launched my web store earlier this month. Trying to turn my passion for building and modifying music and noise effects into a career. I launched the site with a few guitar pedals, contact microphones and some modified guitar amps from tape players and recycled speakers. I am trying to breathe new life into "dead" devices and make things people will enjoy using.
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While the beginning of the year was all about writing, the last few months have shifted to making musical devices again. I kind of abandoned my story after a few months of work. It’s not totally gone though. I still have ideas brewing and I will finish it one day! Right now though I am happy to be making things again and ideas have been flowing nonstop. There aren’t enough…
For about a month now, I’ve been working on writing a novel from an idea I’ve been working out for a few years. While writing a novel is something I’ve always wanted to do it is somewhat daunting. I began writing this story a few years ago as a graphic novel, but found myself discouraged when I couldn’t afford to pay an artist. I came back to the idea as a novel and now I feel…
Recently built my first kit guitar! Really happy with how this one turned out. After years of fixing up cheap guitars I was ready to build one of my own. Picked the kit up as a local guitar show and finished it in about a week. I also picked up a Harley Benton Tele Style guitar a few days before the show. It had a cracked fretboard that I fixed in an afternoon and have also…
I’ve been working on building some reverb tanks the last few weeks. I got the first one wired tonight and I messed up something. The two circuit boards, that are not connected, are somehow interacting with each other. I’m going to try and wire up the second one tomorrow and see if I can find what I did wrong the first time around. I’m hoping for them to be something I can…
I’ve started a blog on my website to write about projects I’m working on. I plan to post build tutorials in the future as well as launch a store to sell some of the noise boxes and guitar pedals I’m working on. Check it out! www.morphinenapkin.com I’ll still be posting quick things here that don’t really fit in anywhere else!
