Paul Razzell
Obscure, exquisite, utterly pointless but oddly compelling.
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- @ellabwong Hell yes!
- @CBCEarlyEdition Please stop dissing people who aren't broadcasters e.g. buskers & greyhound bus drivers. They don't deserve your scoffing.May 22, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Orange pepper study. #collage #vegetable #food #foodstagram #orange #anthropomorphy #photography… http://t.co/AUshNjR9BN
- @NicliPizzeria Had a nice dinner on Saturday but your crust was, as usual, flaccid & tough. Suggest serving scissors alongside fork.May 20, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @SuzanneAhearne "My cat gives awesome head massages."
- For a few moments I played guitar so well that I shocked myself and promptly messed up. #causeandeffect
- Wife: "Watching ground crew pulling #Marshburn from the #Soyuz capsule is like watching a farm birth." #NASA #Expedition35May 13, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @SuzanneAhearne: Word most often heard during NASA's underwhelming live coverage of the #Soyuz landing: " #unintelligible "May 13, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @GraemeMenzies You wouldn't happen to be the ferry lineup at Langdale, would you?
- My #Fender #Telecaster finds a kindred spirit in a 1957 #Chevy #BelAir. #Chevrolet #car #guitar #music… http://t.co/7SOjeBLPoc
- Hey @traceyyyz Can't wait to use your Christmas-camping gifts this weekend. Wish you were coming camping with us! http://t.co/bnB5Sm5tQA
- Physics formulas, cologne, and the anticipation of a #DairyQueen treat converge on the desk of my… http://t.co/3TPew2EspN
- Despite more than 50 years of scientific warning, CO2 levels in the atmosphere are still on the rise. http://t.co/CyJSFxnuSx
- Her Solar-Powered Majesty says, "Good morning, royal subjects." https://t.co/9O92Dde9hX
- Spending an awesome morning at #Kits Beach in #Vancouver with @SuzanneAhearne and #Creamsicle @… http://t.co/doyKOhedzw
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- Early on a bright Sunday morning, playing my Fender Telecaster on the Kitsilano seawall and drinking coffee. The sun liquid gold, the air freshly washed. Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, 2 paddleborders pulled alongside each other 50 m from shore and hugged and kissed while standing on their boards. Is this an awesome life or what? Happy Sunday everybody!
- The case for making no distinction between "work" and "play" "A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both." -- François-René de Chateaubriand via Brainpickings http://m.brainpickings.org/brainpickings/#!/entry/how-to-find-fulfilling-work,51766ac894f4be71694acd9d
- If ever there was such a thing as the late-night neighbourhood guitar shop, then I decry its demise. It is late and I need to buy a fingerpick.
- Dear recipe-makers: you specify 1/3 cup parmesan? I think we can do much better than that. I say 1 cup for starters.
- That moment when the wine hits the pot of simmering risotto!
- When child of morning, rosy-fingered dawn, appeared, I marvelled & realized I could make a buck developing an app called RosyFinger That.
- Morning broke dull and grey like a fresh coat of automotive primer -- the anti-corrosive kind you can buy in 13-oz cans of aerosol.
- See the direct influence of automobile colours on guitar colours in the 1950s and 1960s. http://tinyurl.com/cb2z2nb
- That troubling moment when you can't recall whether you used olive oil or dish soap.
- It has taken me four naps today to get in the right headspace.
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My #Fender #Telecaster finds a kindred spirit in a 1957 #Chevy #BelAir. #Chevrolet #car #guitar #music
Spending an awesome morning at #Kits Beach in #Vancouver with @SuzanneAhearne and #Creamsicle
Very interesting to see the direct influence of automobile colours on guitar colours in the 1950s and 1960s. The chart is part of the fascinating research into vintage guitar colours by the Vintage Guitar Info Guy.
A random snack leads me to the perfect name for my #Fender American Deluxe Telecaster: “Creamsicle.” #guitar #telecaster #creamsicle
- New day, new failure!
I have a love-hate relationship with my guitar-refinishing project. Right now I’m in the “hate” phase.
Today I applied the 3rd coat of paint and, as you can see in the photo above, the paint has the appearance of lizard skin (not the effect I was aiming for). (High-rez photo here.)
Here’s my dime-store diagnosis:
A) My workshop window was open letting in cool air: it’s 5°C (41°F). Possibly the surface of the guitar or the paint — or both — were too cool for the paint to lay flat and smooth.
B) My PreVal jar had a small amount of paint and reducer in it — and I didn’t remove that when I blended new paint and a slightly different reducer. Here’s the reducer I was using initially:
As you can see, this is a “fast” reducer. For some reason, my paint-store guy recommended & sold me the “medium” reducer from the same manufacturer.
Forgetting to say a prayer to the patron saint of chemical compatibility, I blended my new “medium” reducer + paint + (remaining quantity of “fast” reducer + paint). Could this blend of fast and medium reducer cause lizard-skinning?
On a related note, have you ever wanted to take a guitar and thrash it within an inch of its life?
Why is my spray paint stippling?
The 1st coat of paint sprayed on absolutely smooth and flawless. The 2nd coat sprayed on in stipples, as you can see in this photo. Does this indicate that my PreVal sprayer is running out of aerosol? (I used it only once — for the 1st coat.) Or is there another reason I’m not getting a lush, glassy-smooth coat? Help! High-rez photo of stippling here.
First coat of sea-green paint hangs to dry. (An earlier coat of sea-green had to be removed because we forgot to apply primer. You live and learn!) While this looks patchy in places, that shine is very encouraging! Can’t wait to apply the next coat.
- How can I resolve this recurring primer-blemish on my guitar?
My son and I are doing something neither of us has ever done before: refinish an electric guitar. These photos show small blemishes occurring and recurring with successive coats of primer. These are localized blemishes so I don’t think it’s a problem of primer-sanding sealer incompatibility. I don’t want to paint until I have a 100% smooth and receptive surface. What should I do to stop this/remove it/prevent blemishes appearing when I apply coats of paint? I’d love to hear your advice! Reply below or email me at dedododo {at} me {dot} com (View higher-rez photos.)
Blemish after 2nd coat of unsanded primer
Close-up of blemish after 3rd coat of unsanded primer — why won’t this go away?Broad view of blemish on 3rd coat of unsanded primer.
Do I sand it and ignore it? Hope coats of paint will cover this up? Help!
Here’s everything I’ve done to date:
- 11 coats of sanding sealer on bare wood, sanding after every 3rd coat with 240, 320, and 400.
- 1 coat of automotive paint applied with a brush. Blistering in many places. Oops: forgot to apply primer.
- Sanded paint away.
- Applied 1st coat of primer. Wet-sanded with 400 and 600. Oops! Didn’t realize you don’t wet-sand.
- Just minutes later, I applied 2nd coat of primer. Problem: Blistering in 2 places. Could this be because moisture from the wet-sanding remained on the surface?
- A day later, I dry-sanded the 2nd coat of primer with 600 and 1500.
- Applied 3rd coat of primer. Problem: Blistering in same places.
Refinishing this guitar with my 12-year-old son is a fun father-son project but it’s also been gratifying having conversations with experienced luthiers who’ve been generous with their advice. Special thanks to Up All Night Guitars in Chicago, Basone Guitars in Vancouver, and members of the Electric Guitar Builders Resource on Facebook.
First coat of sea-foam green goes on the old Ibanez after much sanding and 11 coats of sanding sealer. Learning everything as we go. Great father-son project.
My Wheel of Worry (2010)
Andrew Kuo (American, born 1977)
Andrew Kuo presents his inner worries, arguments, counterarguments, and obsessions in the form of charts and graphs. In the three-tiered graph my Wheel of Worry, originally published in the May 16. 2010, New York Times Magazine, Kuo illustrates the things in his life that concern him and his specific feelings about each. On the graph’s innermost ring Kuo shows what causes him anxiety in the moments before sleep (loneliness, death, money, bedbugs, and the new York Knicks); in the middle ring he charts his very specific reactions to his credit card statement; on the outermost ring, what he thinks about as he scratches a lottery ticket. In this chart and others, Kuo brings the graphic language of scientific fact to the irrational emotions associated with everyday life. ᔥ Via brainpickings.org
Explore this interactive image: birds singing in a Camellia tree in #Kitsilano, #Vancouver
What’s your favourite Telecaster song?
Weigh in using this interactive photo. Use the “edit image” icon to add your faves. #Fender #Telecaster #GuitarSinging along with Glenn Campbell’s “Witchita Lineman” in front of my parents’ stereo when I was about 2 years old. You can play the video and sing along as well!
- Brilliant stonecutting
An example of the amazing stonecutting work from the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island. That’s what I call a calling card!
