http://www.daniyel.com/dlog my ideas Tue, 10 May 2011 19:49:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay. So it happened on Augist 21st of last year. Anyway, that was the day my dream came true. The wedding was a large project that couldn't have gone off without EVERYBODY. So I will expand this post later. But it is high time I put these up for you. If ... http://www.daniyel.com/dlog/just-married/ Well, It has been a long while since I have updated the dlog. So the next few posts will be kind of an exercise in impressionism. I just looked back at the last post about our house and garden and MY, how things have changed. Sheer volume of plants is the ... http://www.daniyel.com/dlog/homestead-update/ Well the housing market is starting to pick up. I sold my first birdhouse today. (The one with the random paint on it.) I have been making them all summer... missing the nesting season, it seems. They are all from reclaimed, recycled materials and found objects. The first few didn't open ... http://www.daniyel.com/dlog/bird-houses/ We have way more space than we could handle this year. So we have stuck with tomatoes, basil, a pepper plant, some squash, green beans, catnip, kale, and some wild flower seeds to fill in some space. We are still discovering the state of the soil and such, so the ... http://www.daniyel.com/dlog/the-yard/ Click the smaller image for a larger view. Grin. The weather was incredible this weekend so I propped the shop doors open and spent some hours on a Classical Cigar Box Guitar. As usual, I am not finished with this project but am too excited to wait to post it. Of note, ... http://www.daniyel.com/dlog/classical-cigar-box-guitar/ Original bass blog here. Hey there! Yesterday I etched the control plate for the Suitcase Bass. All traditional intaglio process, 1. Cleaned and prepped the brass plate. 2. Put a soft ground on it. (Some kid of tar, brushed on, then cooked.) 3. Hours of carving the ground off. 4. Then 1 ... http://www.daniyel.com/dlog/bass-update-2-brass-etching/ For the love of my children, and yours, please vote for Barack Obama for president of the United States. http://www.daniyel.com/dlog/i-trust-my-friends-and-family-to-look-into-their-own-hearts-and-make-honest-thoughtful-decisions/ So this one is perhaps the wierdest, a hybrid of chimeric ilk. (Heh, Heh.) It started with a film reel canister, (an old Eastman Kodak tin.) Just like all the others, it has a "neck-thru" structure. The tail-piece is a 3-holed hinge. I made the head stock out of some ... http://www.daniyel.com/dlog/canjolin/ Please continue to learn about this project here---> http://www.daniyel.com/dlog/next-bass-project-bumjo/ http://www.daniyel.com/dlog/some-of-this-land/