This time, try not to make so much noise when you read!

Lately,

 I am lost within all my projects---

am still going to the dentist?
2 more appointments to go and--
it will be a month before my new teeth are ready?

Thanks to my friend Bill---

Excellent..

One of my guitar students is currently at that mental stage of
"I'm just too busy?"

This happens routinely with students
when they discover that playing the guitar is 
actually--well--- 
difficult.
Some make it out of the I'm just too busy for this, depression--

Others never get pass this moment
of insecurity
 and wind up quitting.

Being in this business(?) for a long time--

 it is strange that I still can never predict,
if a student suffering from the "I'm too busy" depression,
will keep at it or not?
This student, I do believe will bounce back?

From the same minds that brought you the
re-chargeable armpit fan--
comes the mini-washing machine.
If you spill alot of shit on yourself traveling this is for you!
If you are incredibly sloppy businessman on the road, this mini-travel,
washing machine is what you have been waiting for..

The truly weirdest part of these 
bizarre things is that somebody in Japan
must buy this shit??

Otherwise why?

MST3K is coming back!

Crowd sourcing has produced 5.7 million dollars raised from fans

for multiple new shows to be broadcasted on Netflix....

YES! YES! YES!

Cannot fucking wait!!!

MST3K I'll be back--

I am done constructing the 4.5 L Bentley model--

Here it is completed:

I really enjoyed building this kit--

I've found that I enjoy building automobile kits,

now more than any other variety of plastic model kit

and they look good on my shelves.

Next up is a 1/24th 1962 Jaguar MkII kit--

This week I began a brand new geezer peccadillo.

 I started building a 

A 1949 Fender "Snake-head" Esquire, solid body guitar copy.

I've never built a guitar before so i am 

studying the process and as a first time

learning experience I am building this guitar

 from a kit.

The 49 "Snake-head" single pickup, solid body,

was the first, real, guitar

offered for sale by Leo Fender out of his

shop in California.

When I was a kid the 1962 model Fender esquire guitar

retailed for $139.00 plus an additional $39.00 for a case.

An impossible sum...

so I never had the opportunity to own one until--

Maybe-possibly-hopefully-i think--If--

NOW!

A real, antique, Esquire in today's world costs a dump truck full of money,

and are utilized by some very eclectic players.
Billy Gibbons

&

David Gilmour

Just to name two--

(I refuse to put a wiki link to either of these guitar greats here--

 if you've never heard of these two guys----fuck you)

Building my own Esquire is the only way for a guy like me to have one...

I have no concept of how this project

will turn out--
There are a tremendous number of variables 
which could, as they say--
Fuck everything up...

All that having been said--here is the guitar-so far..
 laid-out with the parts
simply put in place---

I have currently completed the sanding and staining 

of the neck and body-leaving the fretboard natural maple.

I also have completed poly coating the stain and waxing the back of the neck.

I have ordered and received minor parts to individualize the guitar--

such as the "Chicken-head" control knobs displayed in the photo's,

as well as a blacked-out ashtray to cover the bridge.

To answer your question--

Yes-Telecaster players pull these bridge covers off--

and use them as ashtrays on stage--

(they used to anyway?)

These blacked-out parts will be installed during the guitar's

 final assembly--next week.

I chose a dragonfly decal to use as,

my logo--I guess?

The head stock appeared just too bare without

some type of graphic applied?

If i have any talent at this building process--

my next project could hopefully be my other, ultimate, longed for guitar:

A Double-neck 12/6 Telecaster--

I'll keep you posted on the end result...