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Here are photos of my custom Keef Telecaster build, from many years ago.
The neck pup is a Gibson Burstbucker One humbucker; the bridge pup is a Don Mare pedal steel wind single coil. It screams. The middle position is totally killer.
Swamp ash body with Gibson red to gloss black sunburst, painted by me with rattle can lacquer. Came out pretty good! All the wear and tear is 100 percent legit.
Warmoth Strat neck, compound radius, on a third-party Ash body; jumbo frets. Callaham "vintage" tuners, vintage wiring harness, hand-carved bone nut, brass and aluminum compensated bridge saddles (I think they're Glendale; I forget). Glendale bridge plate. All the screws are standard blade, vintage 50s style. This guitar will be in my casket when I'm buried, I will never sell or give it away. It's not a 100 percent correct reproduction of Keith's guitar (I didn't mount the neck humbucker upside down), but sound-wise, it's pretty damn close.
I play it through a Vox AC4C1-12, with the "bright-cap mod." For effects, I stick to some pretty basic stuff: my MXR Dyna Comp compressor (sometimes), a EHX Soul Food overdrive, a Tone City "Tape Machine" delay pedal, and a very cheap Aroma "Ocean Verb" reverb pedal. I usually don't use them all at the same time. I also have a Joyo tremolo pedal, which sounds just like the tremolo on my old Ampeg Reverberocket. One of the great cheap pedals out there ...
I built this model of the Duke of Wellington, an iconic statue in the city of Glasgow, as a goodbye present to my lovely (now ex-)colleagues in the LEGO store in that very city.
If you've ever seen the real thing you will know that this statue is never not adorned with at least one traffic cone. It's tradition, I think.
It was a fun process filled with many challenges, and I am happy with the result.
I finished this model in August, as I moved to Denmark in September. It's been an exciting and crazy few months but I wanted to get the photos edited before doing the 2025 retrospective photo, at least! (That's coming soon too!)
A new, custom fabricated Tommasini 'Tecno' road bike, brought to me for a wheelbuild and
complete assembly. Most of the parts were supplied by the client.
When this bike was finished even I was flabbergasted by how beautiful it was.
Ryan built this display case for one of the new Tony Hawk skate shops circa 2000-2001. This was one of 6 or so that he made. I believe this exact one ended up in Salt Lake City... Each was based in a mannequin head and then custom built up and hand-painted. He did all of the details by hand, including the painting of their eyebrows and lips (and the false eyelashes). This particular model has lettering on her teeth too.
We saw one of the others at the Grove in Hollywood, CA last year, although the store is now a Roxy shop and no longer a Tony Hawk store. It's still there (as far as I know): www.flickr.com/photos/giddygirlie/2237142657/
Slickrock LLC custom home in Bryson City, NC
Vanity tops and shower wall caps by Slab Fab Studio Weaverville, NC
I connected all the power cables, but realized it was a total mess. If I started connecting the data and other cables, it would only become messier.
A quality modular power supply wasn't in the budget for this build.