Bubinga Express

[prspastor]

Very nice!

I have yet to build my cabinet for my newly built Express, but I've got curly maple set aside for the job. Should be a lot of fun.
John

[Cantplay]

The markers for the knobs are done.

Yes, those are nickels.

John

[Reeltarded]

Funtastic! Those are VERY cool!

[martin manning]

The markers for the knobs are done.
Yes, those are nickels.

I guess you mean they were nickels, but they look fantastic! How is that done?

[Reeltarded]

Hobo nickles of scary monsters! I am sure to let John explain, but that just made me kick my headcab decoration plans up a few notches.

Too cool!

Why 1936? (btw)

[Cantplay]

The inserts of course match the front valence.

1936 because the earlier nickels(Indian Head) were a high % nickel alloy. Current nickel coins are only about 25%, and so do not engrave well. Current pennies are copper plated zinc BTW.

Let me also add that these are the work of my engraver, not by my hand.

John

[Colossal]

Wow, very cool! Quite creative!

[Bob S]

Ok guys - please stop coming up with these great ideas until I catch up.
Way Cool John.
Me Likes Much.

[Reeltarded]

Now I have to get my vintage barbed wire grilles engraved! I wonder how much a cast iron headbox would weigh?

Stop rasing the bar... I hate having to climb into a stupor.

I am considering making my head out of bacon latice over a tomato ochred background. BLT. Your amp might be more interesting to the eye but I am going for full-on sensory overload. My amp is going to smell great when it warms up. Mmmm.. bacon.

[sepulchre]

That's going to be one of the finest looking amps ever. The wood and those nickels are just off the charts cool.

[bcmatt]

I don't think I've ever been more excited to see an amp once its finished.
You've really gone all out with fantastic ideas and parts.
Was it difficult to track down so many nickels from 1936? Is there something special about that year too, or is it just your bank pin number?

I wish we could do stuff like that here in Canada. We have the queen on all our coins so defacing them would be treason. I'm not a lawyer or anything, but I'm pretty sure that's the only thing we use the death penalty for.

[bcmatt]

whoops!! Pressed "quote" instead of "edit" to fix my grammar.

[Reeltarded]

send your spare change down here and I will deface it for you

[rp]

I wish we could do stuff like that here in Canada. We have the queen on all our coins so defacing them would be treason. I'm not a lawyer or anything, but I'm pretty sure that's the only thing we use the death penalty for.

Couldn't you use the Loonie side?

You could send them to me to deface. If the Mounties come asking I'll them the Pope had me do it.

[bcmatt]

I wish we could do stuff like that here in Canada. We have the queen on all our coins so defacing them would be treason. I'm not a lawyer or anything, but I'm pretty sure that's the only thing we use the death penalty for.

Couldn't you use the Loonie side?

You could send them to me to deface. If the Mounties come asking I'll them the Pope had me do it.

Haha, I don't think the pope has any say, thanks to Henry VIII declaring the monarchy as the head of the Church of England. Basically, he declared himself pope in England so he could divorce and remarry the first of his soon-to-be-headless wives without answering to anyone. There's the real reason for the timing of the English Reformation. (As a side note, it's interesting that voting on the issue of female cardinals a couple weeks ago is such a big issue, considering that their pope is already a woman, haha!, or did they forget?)

Thanks though; Nice to know I could rely on some 200 year-old animosity to get you to do my treasonous acts for me. It turns out that burning down the White House in the war of 1812 wasn't just a senseless act of defiance by us Canadians. "I swear, the Brits made us do it! Let's get them back and deface our coins!"
I think Loonies are a bit big, so I guess defacing the beaver on the back of our nickel would be more appropriate.

But really, that is amazing work. I sort of doubt there are many engravers around that can do that sort of thing.

I have been thinking of making some wood knobs on a lathe though. Does anyone know where to find bushings and set screws?