Tuesday 2 January 2018

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