Go-Bar Spraying booth and amazing tuners

My Koa uke fell from its wall hanger, landed down on its endpin jack and got six fractures in its back and sides. The end block was split as well. So I had to take the thing apart and do some gluing. All the splits seem to have settled nicely. This felt like a good opportunity to experiment with finishing. So I stripped the box of the shellac finish and sanded down to wood. This time I'm putting on nitrocellulose finish (easy way- in a spray can), to see if it's doable at home, and how it turns out.

Toasting off the bridge. 5 to 10 minutes under the halogen spotlight eases the glue seam

So I needed to improvise a spraying booth to control the dust and spreading lacquer all over my shop. My Go-bar deck seemed like a fitting solution. Plastic walls around and a hole in the roof to hang the guitar body to be sprayed. A few not so goo quality cell pics to demonstrate this.

Very improvised, mobile but able

You need a window to see where the lacquer is going

And this is what it looks like inside

Oh, and a pic of the amazing set of slot-head 3-on plate Waverly tuners with snakewood knobs I got for my next build underway, a 13 fret modeled after SCGC H13. At least tunerwise the guitar's gonna be phenomenal!

Kenosis ukulele with Voicelive 3 in practice

Long time no seen! Sometimes life gets too busy to build guitars. But one can always squeeze in some time to play the UKULELE!

Here's a little live looping demo I did with my home made all koa concert size uke. The uke is miked with a simple piezo disc soundboard transducer (home made, of course). All processing is done in the VL3.

The looper in the device is stereo, and therefore it's possible to pan different parts of the loop to different places in the stereo field. All can be done within one song "preset", using "steps" that can be stored in that preset. Very handy for set list management!

If you're a stringed instrument playing singer (/songwriter) and want to experiment with different sounds, harmonies and effects, and especially if you're into looping as well, the TC Helicon Voicelive 3 is definitely worth a try! I was able to sell my whole vocal-guitar-looper -pedalboard when I got this thing.