Mustard Chicken Tenor Canjo

Mustard Chicken Tenor Canjo

Another canjo for Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5, to support our Pledge Music album fund 

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Oak neck, tin body, pro piezo pick-up, 21 brass frets, chrome tuners, blah-blah...

Mustard Canjo - For Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 - Pledge Music Exclusive

Mustard Canjo 

For Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5

Pledge Music Exclusive

This 17 brass fretted, electro-acoustic canjo, made from a mustard tin, oak neck, mahogany fingerboard and chrome tuners, is EXCLUSIVELY available through www.pledgemusic.com - CLICK HERE

SALE / Gig - 21st March - The Bike Station, Glasgow

SALE & Gig - 21st March 

The Bike Station 65 Haugh Road, Glasgow - 8pm

I will be showing off a couple of Haufcut Instruments at this event, and playing with the Dijon 5... Come along early and have a jam... Maybe even buy an instrument! 10% off if you name the rubber chicken superstar who appears on this blog, and provides security for Colonel Mustard and The Dijon 5

Redundancy, One Day Build, '50 Outrageous Scams & Hustles', Electro-acoustic Ukulele

Redundancy, One Day Build, '50 Outrageous Scams & Hustles', Electro-acoustic Ukulele

As today was the first day that I haven't been in 'full time employment', and since I have lost the use of the studio, at WASPS, I decided to try and make an instrument at home, with just a Black & Decker workbench, and basic tools...

Surprise, surprise! - I managed to make a pretty cool tin box uke, in about six hours (OK, the glue is still drying, and I will probably change the strings from mandolin, to classical guitar strings, but I managed it.) - Obviously I will never make a full time career out of cigar box guitars, and I spent some of the time editing a video, and filling out an application for a stage management job, but if I must be stuck at home, I want to be busy. It's not as good as a workshop, but it's a use for a spare room...

I WISH I HAD A SHED !!!

The dinosaurs show scale ! (Ha ha!) 

The tin was a Xmas present, containing some pretty cool items for street magic and con tricks !

It made a unique instrument, with the usual haufcut key bridge, piezo pick-up, oak neck, mahogany fingerboard, chrome tuners, black dot markers... 4 mandolin strings on it for now... - On sale to anyone who offers me a new job!

AND NOW HOW IT SOUNDS ELECTRIFIED:

Instrument Making Workshops

Instrument Making Workshops

I would be very interested in leading 'Instrument Making' workshops in schools, clubs, hospitals, or anywhere else it might be of interest. Everything from simple cigar box / biscuit tin instruments, made in a few minutes, to more detailed, electrical instruments can be demonstrated. I think there is a lot of fun to be had in making music from junk, and there is a genuine thrill in playing something you have built. - Please get in touch if you would be interested. Cheers.

Haufcut Broons Braw Biscuit Banjo

Haufcut Broons Braw Biscuit Banjo

Very Scottish, very cool, and sounding excellent. A canjo made from a Shortbread tin, featuring 'The Broons' clan. Oak neck, mahogany fingerboard, piezo pick-up, 14 brass frets, chrome tuners.

ON SALE NOW !!!

'Romeo Y Julieta' Cigar Box Ukulele

'Romeo Y Julieta' Cigar Box Ukulele

The first build of 2014, a standard electro-acoustic ukulele, with a 'Romeo Y Julieta Cuban cigar box, piezo pick-up,oak neck, mahogany fingerboard 14 frets, a key bridge, dot markers and chrome tuners.

Tuned 'd' (ADF#B low to high)