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Here's a recent Ebay purchase, perhaps the best Ebay deal of the year for me. This little radio (with its owner's manual, warranty card etc) was listed with a Buy It Now of $4.99. How could I pass that up?
This is a very tiny, eight transistor, AM radio. Standard manufactured a long and successful line of these Micronic Ruby radios starting in 1965. (I believe there were 13 different models)
Most, if not all micro radios were sold with these hardshell (jewelry box) cases.
Most of these Micronic Rubys do not work today and due to their small size they are very difficult to repair. The radio takes two very small "button-sized" sized 1.5 volt batteries.
This is a very tiny, micro transistor, AM radio. Standard manufactured a long and successful line of these Micronic Ruby radios beginning in 1965. (I believe there were 13 different models)
I am uncertain of the model number on this one, the badge on the back is missing.
Most, if not all micro radios were sold with these hardshell (jewelry box) cases. A perfect gift for the lady of the house?
Most of these Micronic Rubys do not work today and due to their small size they are very difficult to repair. The radio takes two very small and odd sized 1.5 volt batteries. Finding replacements is challenging and expensive.
Below is the first Micronic Ruby, the SR-G430.
This is what I normally pack for a 2D1N or 3D2N kind of trip during winter in Australia (its not really that cold). 4789g total weight. This is current as of 18 May 2013 and will be constantly changing as I find new equipment or realise I do not need certain pieces. I know I can cut down weight in certain areas but haven't done so yet due to either cost or safety reasons.
I will normally be wearing on my body a Kathmandu Goretex Hardshell 576g.
Made for Bob Divine of the Fabulous Dialtones to hold his Martin Backpacker. In fact, Bob owns two of the original style Backpackers, one electrified with an under-saddle pick-up, the other plain vanilla acoustic steel string.
Next time you need to book a band to play classic rock in the D.C. area, pick up the phone for the Fabulous Dialtones.
The rear compartment shows some of the construction technique I used to create a mill pond for my sawmill. First I built the perimeter out of 1 inch (2.5 cm) thick Styrofoam sheet. Then I used wadded up newspaper or catalog pages to shape a rough form. Finally I used plaster cloth dipped in water to construct the hardshell. After the hardshell was completely dry, I painted it and added ground foam for soil and grass. The front compartment is a hill in its early stages, and you can see another hill further back on the other side of the creek.
The mill pond required a depression, whereas the hill needed Styrofoam chunks to give added height and strength. If you've ever studied landforms and used contour maps, you know that depressions and hilltops are inverses of each other as are valleys and ridges.
Every little thing you should begin playing right out of the box! Package consists of Fender Squier Guitar, Gearlux Hard-shell Situation, Austin Fete Instructional DVD, Guitar Stand, Clip-On Receiver, Bonus Strings, Band, Picks, String Winder, and also Austin Mart Sprucing up Fabric. The Fender Squier
Yet another sturdy case for travel with your trusty Backpacker - sold, but I will build more Fall, 2014.
Pecky mahogany plywood, leather strap and steel snap closure featuring buffalo head nickels, leather hinges, bamboo handle.
See how the case is made in my albums.
While walking along the shoreline at Cape May Point one morning I came across this female hardshell Blue Crab. Originally I assumed she was just another dead crab that washed up on the shore during the tide change.......
In the words of bassist/vocalist Jonny Bell, "It was mid-summer last year when Crystal Antlers were floating around in a pool and decided to move to Mexico to write our next record. Several months later, after completing our sixth tour in a row, we moved into a barn in a small farming town 100 miles south of the US-Mexico border. This is some of the music that we emerged with from that experience."
BIO
Long Beach, California-based Crystal Antlers first rose to prominence in 2008 with the release of EP, a self-released recording the band supported with heavy touring. That same year, they were signed by Touch and Go Records, who released Tentacles in 2009. Since then, Crystal Antlers have continued to tour heavily, playing anywhere and everywhere, all the while expanding their fringe-psych-meets-garage sound.
COMPONENTS
Video
• YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC4EEUwd7e4lGPoWjP3sBxJONMHN9fING
• Vimeo: vimeo.com/album/2220325
Photos
• Flickr: flic.kr/s/aHsjsxJoNj
Music
• SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/goincase/sets/crystal-antlers-at-room-205
CREDITS
Executive Producer
• Incase: goincase.com
Producer
• Arlie Carstens: disastercasual.typepad.com
Director
• Michael Reich: videothing.com
Set Designer
• Tamarra Younis: union-of-art.net
Audio Engineer
• Butchy Fuego: twitter.com/butchyfuego
Camera
• June Zandona: junezandona.tumblr.com
• Michael Reich: videothing.com
Editor
• Forrest Borie: vimeo.com/forrestborie
Photos
• Arlie Carstens: disastercasual.typepad.com
Performing Artist
• Crystal Antlers: crystalantlers.com
Label:
• Touch and Go: touchandgorecords.com
Room 205 Theme Song
• Cora Foxx: theheapsf.com
Looking at the peghead end of the four custom cases. Redwood end blocks with 1/4" mahogany plywood faces, internal braces and yokes made from white pine - the cases are extremely lightweight and, from my own experience, very durable.
I just never learn. I am making four (or six) new cases to sell. Two are basic brown, will have leather handles and shiny trunk corners and look very retro. One is a wormy piece of spalted veneer that looks like a night sky, and one is the thing I have wanted to do forever: cover a case in Japanese washi paper, in this case oat straw paper, handmade, of course.
I really like the washi case. Gonna be hard to part with it.
At this stage, the four new cases are built as a closed box, trimmed, cut open, sanded, stained (or papered or left natural) and varnished, chamfered relief for hinges cut, more varnish brushed and rolled on. The third milky lid up from the bottom in this shot has a coat of acrylic urethane freshly laid - it goes on like cream and hardens to a very durable, livable surface. By the time the cases are done (I still have to fit the lip, mortice and install hinges, fashion and install yokes to hold the neck, apply a bit of padding and felt, corners, closures, handles - crap, I'm not even halfway done) they will have five or so coats of varnish.
The parts now sit and cure in my hot shop for a week while I go birding with my babe in the mountains. I may yet have them done by the end of June.
April 7, 2017
The best way to eat these little seasonal treats. Plain... no butter.. right of the grill. Cooked right, they make their own briny broth!
Fresh "Spring" quahogs (hard-shell clams) from the town's shellfish beds. For one week in the Spring, and one week in the Fall, the beds are open to recreational license holders to dig their limit.
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
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