Another Travis Bean make over.

original red finish.Travis bean TB500MM NAMM 2014 prototype

 

flush mount straplocks are possible on a hollow metal guitar after all.

wood refinished with a brass fiber resin mix , burnished to a lustre and aged with a patina to create a metal finish , paintwork done by goodwood finishing.

All breakdown, and reassembly, plus creative thinking for straplocks, and removal of red paint carried out by BoB http://rpguitars.co.uk/

2017, my shortest list yet.

pissed jeans- why love now, purple wax

melvins- atlantic set, limited to 33 handmade covers

cult of luna- mariner , yellow splatter

melvins - stag- haze edition, 122/200 red/blue

melvins/off/redd kross - 10" , 15/100 red/white wax

swans - great annihilator (crappy reissue)

bellringer- jettison, 49/79

hepa titus/teenage larvae- clear wax, rockyshell edition 13/96

dead -the trilogy box set 18/66

the unsemble - s/t

usa/mexico - laredo , green wax

hammerhead- new directionz white wax 112/200

battle of mice- all your sympathy gone

melvins - walk with love and death, pink/violet wax

qui-the bees 7"- oxblood wax

big biz- blacker holes- flexi 7"

dumb numbers- stranger ep olive/oxblood wax

qui with trevor dunn- purple wax

unsane - fix it 7" clear with black/red splatter, wrench cover

cherubs - heroin man- haze edition, yellow rear cover, clear wax with red/orange splatter

bash 17 comp 10" red/orange split wax 50/50 with black splatter

woven skull- they were pebbles 10"

melt banana / napalm death split 7"

 melvins solo lps set of 4 29/140

melvins love and death mackie edition 10/25

crystal fairy - s/t mackie tour edition 26/34 clear wax

dale crover- fickle finger of fate 430/500 black/red wax

liars- tfcf estuary angler edition  red wax

hey colossus- happy birthday

brutus - burst

made out of babies- the ruiner purple marbled wax

unsane- sterilize red wax

seawhores 4x7" poop 13/50

katastrophy wife- heart on 7"

shorty - fresh breath 10"

diamanda galas- all the way

pere ubu- 20 years in a montana missile silo

firewater- get off the cross trans purple wax

electric wizard- bloody wizard  clear wax

dead rider- crew licks

mark lanegan- gargoyle

 

2017, A man with a gig list

25-02-2017 - Oxford Wheatsheaf - Grub, Downard -I am the man with the sandwich. 

19-05-2017- Oxford Cellar - Brickwork Lizards - I am the Rambler with the sandwich. 

19-06-2017- London Barbican - Diamanda Galas - I am the man talking in the balcony, wishing he had bought front row seats when he had the chance!!!!

25-07-2017 - Oxford Wheatsheaf - Woven skull, gift of blindness - I am the man who has been Blinded to deaf. whatever that even means !!!!!!!!!!!!

18-05-2017 - Camden Unicorn- Poisonous cunt, jawless, DTA, kill bitches to dress foxes-
I am the man with the fake tits. 

12-09-2017- Hackney Round chapel - Blondie - I am the man who worked for 29 hours to pay for a pair of tickets for this show. 

09-10-2017 - Bristol exchange - Melvins, Redd Kross,- I am the man who is willing to admit that i dont like redd kross no matter how much street cred the melvins are giving them. (although weirdly i like Steve playing bass in melvins) 

30-11-2017- Camden dublin castle- pussycat and the dirty johnsons, stuntdriver, polly pik pocketz-
I am the man who knows the way, to BLOCKBUSTER