{"id":1846,"date":"2018-04-26T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T14:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2018-04-25T18:18:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T22:18:58","slug":"hamish-troloves-hobopunk-lap-steel-guitar-with-active-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2018\/04\/hamish-troloves-hobopunk-lap-steel-guitar-with-active-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamish Trolove’s Hobopunk Lap Steel Guitar (with Active Electronics!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love hearing from folks who read my DIY books, because they are always up to something that I never\u00a0imagined, and yet love on first sight.\u00a0 Case in point:<\/p>\n

Last December I got an email from Hamish Trolove, a\u00a0Junkyard Jam Band<\/a><\/em> reader who mentioned he was building his own riff on a Shane Speal 2×4 lap steel<\/a>\u00a0with a build-in\u00a0Mud-n-Sizzle pre-amp (project 12\u00a0in Junkyard Jam Band<\/em>) and dual LFO box (translation: It’s a junkyard lap steel electric guitar\u00a0with a built in pre-amp\u2014so things\u00a0might get loud<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u2014and an automated modulator, allowing him to dial in anything from a little honky-tonk\u00a0tremelo shimmer to a big pulsing metal wobble).<\/span><\/p>\n

As Hamish explained:<\/p>\n

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The instrument uses waste cargo palette wood, and TIG welding wire to mark the \u201cfret\u201d spacings. I find that old palettes often have extraordinarily hard wood with some amazing colours when planed down, sanded and varnished. Hopefully by the end of the project I’ll have something that looks fairly tidy-ish in a hobo\/steampunky kind of way.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Fairly tidy-ish” is\u00a0such<\/em> an understantement.\u00a0\u00a0Check this thing out:<\/p>\n

\"Lap_Steel_Paraphenalia2\"<\/p>\n

\"Lap_Steel_Head\" \"Lap_Steel_Tail\"<\/p>\n

\"Detail
Detail of the pre-amp Hamish installed in his guitar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dual_LFO\"
Front panel of Hamish’s Dual LFO box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dual_LFO_Undercovers\"
Interior of Hamish’s Dual LFO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oh daaaaaaamn!<\/em>\u00a0I love everything about this!\u00a0\u00a0He also included\u00a0a schematic of his\u00a0expansion\u00a0of my old\u00a0Universal LFO (Junkyard Jam Band<\/em>\u00a0project 13), for folks interested in doing something similar:<\/p>\n

\"Hamish<\/a>
Hamish Trolove’s Dual LFO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hamish also put me on to\u00a0Frescobaldi<\/a>, a powerful, pretty, and free<\/em>\u00a0sheet music text editor\u00a0that looks amazing<\/em>. (For every\u00a0100 of you who are wondering why you’d ever need such a thing, there is one musical geek who is gonna click that link and weep with joy.\u00a0 Trust me, for I have been that very geek.)<\/p>\n

Incidentally, while you’re clicking links, don’t miss Hamish’s\u00a0Baddest Mountain Dulcimer Ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love hearing from folks who read my DIY books, because they are always up to something that I never\u00a0imagined, and yet love on first sight.\u00a0 Case in point: Last December I got an email from Hamish Trolove, a\u00a0Junkyard Jam Band reader who mentioned he was building his own riff on a Shane Speal 2×4 … Continue reading “Hamish Trolove’s Hobopunk Lap Steel Guitar (with Active Electronics!)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[29,4,6],"tags":[26,21,291,144,35,20,41],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}