Taurus Music & Gifts

07/10/2019

No room for guests in this guest room. Getting ready for the just two Saturdays from now.

07/05/2019

It’s great to have help working and all, but when the help falls asleep one the job productivity suffers. But who’s gonna move her? Not me.

06/23/2019

The LVLcaster lives! A few neck adjustments are in order, but she’s a real guitar finally.

06/15/2019

Come down to Edmunds Oast tonight and say hi! We’ll be here till ten tonight. And thanks to Amanda Vargo for the cool pics!

06/12/2019

The link below is the new page I have created for anyone interested in my instrument work. I have begun to focus more on the instrument side of things more than the “gifts”, and felt a name change was in order. As explained in a previous post, the Facebook AI won’t let me make the change, so I have started a new page if you’d like to follow it. Thank you all for your interest and support!

https://m.facebook.com/Reclaimed-Rhythm-373176789990869/?ref=m_notif¬if_t=page_fan_milestone

Guitar maker in Charleston SC

06/12/2019

Hello all. I have begun to focus on bespoke instruments made from mostly found materials. For this reason I attempted to rename my page, but the Facebook algorithm said “no”. I have an appeal in for manual review but don’t have high hopes. There is a good chance I have to start over (which is not a big deal). So if you wish to continue following my work, I will be inviting you to like a new page. Once I’m happy with the new layout I will post a link to follow. But for now, I want everyone to know why I’m having to abandon this one.

Now go make some beautiful noise!

06/07/2019

In honor of a coming name change for my hobby/side business, I have made a guitar body entirely of left over construction bits! The main body is an off cut from a structural beam that my main business replaced in a local home. The pickguard is just a piece of blue pine offcut that I shaved thin and carved a bit. The neck has no interesting story, it just works. As soon as my shipment of magnets arrives I can make pickups for this and two other beasties.

06/01/2019

Two more ready for pickups and strings. I have pick guards for these two and the root beer finishes one I posted earlier, but I’m really digging the simplicity of a ring around the neck pickup instead.

05/31/2019

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I put experimental pickups in this and, well, it sounds terrible! Thin and buzzy with no life. Fortunately I have new magnets on the way to perhaps solve that problem. So sorry, no sound clips till it sounds good! But it turned out looking kinda cool, so at least I can show it off.

05/30/2019

Soooooo close! The bit to drill out the input jack hole turned up missing. I guess I’ll have to wait till tomorrow to string her up and give her a test drive. This particular guitar has a set of experimental pickups that I’m anxious to try out. Demo on the way!

04/20/2019

I love me some single pickup guitars! This hollow, LP inspired body started as off cuts from a deck I built and scraps of sepele from a local door manufacturer. Then the whole body was aged with an acid treatment to grey out the tannins in the wood. The pickup is a tele. After preliminary testing, the resonance of this beast is insane! Ringing for days, super bright and a better crunch tone than clean (unusual for a single coil). A few neck adjustments and a proper demo to come.

03/03/2019

Come down to Johnking Grill! Street parking is free and we’re right near a parking garage. We’ll be here till 4pm. Come on down, see beautiful downtown Charleston, have some delicious food and check out some unique gift items.