Stuff

by | Jun 26, 2023 | Art, Music | 142 comments

I can burn stuff again

 It was time to work with color, I figured longboards would look kinda  cool so I built a few.

Blue Storm

The Atomic Pickle

Old Skool Maple

Cigar ashtrays also look great, stained and sealed of course.

 

Simple and sexy

 

Cigar and drink holder

How about some mini surf board Keychains? Also a handy business card.

Surfs up!

More colors

Sapphire 

I bought an Explorer body and began  to burn.

Mahogany glue up

A great burn

The results were as expected, excellent, so we proceeded. I found some paint that looked good, Metalcast by Duplicolor mc201. this stuff is made for chrome and shiny metal, so challenge met.

3 coats in

Results

All black hardware, Abalone touches here and there

Ready to fly

Lots of detail

Minimalist headstock

Fractal art is so intense that when you step on the deadman switch your heart skips a beat, and then you are mesmerized. And if you screw up,you die. Until next time, Tall Cans my friends!

About The Author

Yusef drives a Kia

Yusef drives a Kia

Punctually illiterate But never late

142 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Neat 🙂

    How’s the guitar play?

    • UnCivilServant

      I imagine you plug it in and pluck the strings.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s not a harp, but yeah I guess.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Very well, minor intonation, otherwise a nice guitar.

      • Tres Cool

        Dont get caught fingering a minor.
        But if you do, dont fret over it.

      • Don escaped Texas

        that’s the worst pun ever, barre none

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Tres’s pickup lines need a little tuning

      • Don escaped Texas

        don’t pick on the guy

      • Fourscore

        You’re stringing me along now

      • The Gunslinger

        That right there will get you in big time treble.

        Really cool stuff here Yusef. Be careful.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It only hurts once…..

      • Don escaped Texas

        minor intonation

        yet to be set? what does that mean?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It required

    • Don escaped Texas

      I like it on several levels

      the Explorer isn’t my jam, but I completely agree it’s the correct platform for this sort of art
      further, the deep blue also is critical to this excellent motif
      black furniture makes sense as does the ebony fretboard

      other motifs might include
      * ebony f/b, blond body, black furniture, stain the burn to pop/contrast
      * ebony f/b, blue body, stainless furniture (I don’t much like brass/gold anything even though that complements blue well)

      everyone’s got one, but was the Explorer anyone’s workhorse?
      Gibbons is more Les Paul, same for Frehley (these two usually not in the same comment), same for Rossington
      Nielsen plays everything but maybe the Explorer 51% of the time?

      well done, sir

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        T hanks, I did a natural Maple top flying vee before the xp, its pretty awesome

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Good on you to notice, it’s perfect for my art, regardless of who owns it. It could end up wall art for all I care, I just want people to see my work, money is actually secondary.

  2. Brochettaward

    I have some wood for ya, Yusef.

    • Brochettaward

      But you can’t ride my longboard.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        My longboard is Electric, you couldn’t keep up, inlander

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Are you volunteering to have Yusef hook his high voltage setup to your junk?

      And can I contribute to a fund to get this going?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        +1000000

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Volts that is

      • Pat

        It’s not the megavolts you have to worry about, it’s the jiggawatts

      • rhywun

        Jigga, please.

    • MikeS

      How many Firsts would a Brochuck chuck, if a Brochuck would chuck Firsts?

      Trick question. Brochucks can’t first.

  3. Tundra

    Really beautiful work, Yusef!

    Do you sell all these pieces?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Yes, I have few going to an art gallery in San Luis Obispo soon, people with money love my weird art it seems.
      Thanks!

  4. DEG

    These look neat!

  5. R.J.

    Excellent work. Sell them for cash and dodge the taxman.

  6. rhywun

    I like the (first) ashtray. Now I want a cigarette.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      A glib already bought that one,

      • rhywun

        Nice.

        I’m near the end of the patch program but I have a feeling “I want a cigarette” will be a frequent thought for years to come.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Gimme your Addy and I can send a nice one, just the memories,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Can send you a nice one, just for the memories

      • rhywun

        Oof thanks anyway but I need fewer reminders not more 🙂

      • Fourscore

        Not really, you’ll get over that in weeks. When you do want a ciggie it’ll only be a fleeting thought and you’ll be surprised and happy that you no longer need a smoke. You’ll laugh at those folks standing outside and be happy it’s not you. Then you’ll see all the money that you were spending unnecessarily and rejoice.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I smoke one cigar that lasts me all day, bad but far better than last year when it was a pack a day.

      • The Hyperbole

        A few weeks sounds right, what I found myself doing long after the cravings stopped was patting my shirt pocket as I left the house to make sure I had my cigarettes.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I still do that, keys, phone smokes, but I don’t smoke, ha!
        Cheers!

      • rhywun

        The worst is after a meal. That “reward” for completing ingestion is so powerful.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        And sex, and coffee, devastating.

      • rhywun

        Yes and yes.

        But meals are more frequent than sex these days.

        And coffee just doesn’t do it for me anymore; today I drank a second cup in one day for the first time in years, because I was falling asleep at work.

      • rhywun

        Juuls got me off the cancer sticks five years ago and now they just banned it.

        The whole universe of tobacco and nicotine is so @#$#!@%!@ corrupt it boggles the mind.

        But yeah, I am looking forward to saving the $250 or so a month.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I vape 99.5% and it’s about 20$ a month, cigars are a buck a day, I hate this addiction.

      • Fourscore

        That’s like a nice pay bump.

      • rhywun

        Yup & I’m moving soon at around $400 less a month rent.

        I might not have a job when all is said and done but yeah.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        8 years later, and I still want one.

  7. Sean

    X-Files with Bruce Campbell or classic Night Court?

    Decisions…

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Campbell, always…

    • Gustave Lytton

      Markie Post with 80’s shoulder pads. Hmmm….

      • slumbrew

        If you’re looking at her shoulders…

      • Chafed

        Brock gets it.

      • Chafed

        Schwing!

    • Pat

      X-Files with Bruce Campbell

      That’s a stellar episode. If you missed it, stream it some time.

      • rhywun

        I actually don’t remember that one; and I was a religious viewer at least the first few years. Life got a little crazy in the late nineties so I missed a bunch then.

      • Pat

        Not only a great episode, but Garbage’s Only Happy When It Rains plays out the very iconic ending. Season 6, episode 7, Terms of Endearment.

      • rhywun

        Garbage’s Only Happy When It Rains plays out the very iconic ending

        Nice

  8. Sean

    Good looking stuff, Kia man.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Thankee Sean, things are blowing up in my art world,
      Tall Cans!

  9. Gustave Lytton

    Shitshow update: jetting didn’t fix it. Back tomorrow to replace baffles after all. It’s only money…

    • Chafed

      Just don’t start any siphoning using your mouth.

  10. Aloysious

    Neat.

    Any band that covers ‘Ride the Lightning’ needs to buy an Explorer from you. That would be cool.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Call James for me

    • MikeS
  11. Pat

    Drugs probably falling out of my ass, but…

    Dr. Anthony Fauci to become professor at Georgetown University

    June 26 (UPI) — Infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, who rose to global prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, will become a Distinguished University Professor this week at Georgetown University’s medical school.

    Fauci, who dedicated 54 years to public service, will become a professor at Georgetown’s School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, starting July 1. He will also serve in the university’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

    Must me nice to finally obtain a sinecure after all that time working at his last sinecure.

    • rhywun

      Distinguished University Professor

      I’ll eat my hat if he sets one foot inside a classroom.

    • Chafed

      Ten years from now some doctor will admit during a deposition they studied under Dr. Fauci. Then the malpractice insurer will have to calculate what that will cost them.

  12. Chafed

    Good looking surfboards Yusef.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I like surfboards

    • rhywun

      “naked men wit deir titties bouncing around”

      🤣😂

      *unpauses*

    • rhywun

      *sheds tear*

      Beautiful.

    • slumbrew

      I like the cut of his jib.

  13. MikeS

    Bob, that cigar ashtray/drink holder is kick ass. Well, it all is, but that thing speaks to me.

    • Sir Digby Classic

      Oddly enough, when the pic first crossed my eye sight, I thought it was a pet feeder/water dish combo. I don’t mean that as if I think it’s made wrong; just that seeing the two “circles” on a wood base, and a feeding platform is only real point of reference for that design.

      Which leads me to, “Hey, Yusef! Uhh, do you think you could make up a pet feeding ‘station’ like that ashtray/drink holder combo?”

      And, yes–all of your creations look muy fantastico! While I’m not the professional surfer I’ve sometimes held myself out to be, I really dig the longboards.

    • MikeS

      The one immediately after that made me chuckle insensibly.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        That’s……….oddly impressive.

        I mean, at least it’s not the whole “beetus” thing–one could be forgiven if one thought that was the only thing he was famous for”.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        Also, how ya doin’ there, sizzle-chest?

      • CPRM

        Yeah, he was great in The Thing.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        He was pretty great AS The Thing.

        /oops, spoilers.

      • CPRM

        My next crazy tinkering is going to be with AI backed NPCs in Unreal Engine 5. Taking A LONG TIME to download all the needed components on my shitty connection. But it should be fun to have The Hat asking them questions about Donald and trans rights and such.

      • Sir Digby Classic

        my shitty connection

        NO!! I won’t HAVE IT! A sufficient internet connection, for whatever your crazy heart desires, is a FUNduhMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT!!!

      • CPRM

        All these infrastructure bills paid for highspeed internet all in my area, they kept all the supplies at the boat landing on my road. But I still have the same copper wire installed in the 50s. I never get any of the graft!

      • UnCivilServant

        AI backed NPCs in Unreal Engine 5.

        So, characters with wonky faces and warped hands?

      • Sean

        *waves*

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean and U!

      • Gender Traitor

        Purring like a maniac on my lap. This is his last full day in captivity (I hope!) He’s due to get his stitches out tomorrow, and he wants OUT!!!

      • UnCivilServant

        Hopefully there will be no more mishaps.

      • Gender Traitor

        🤞
        How are you today?

      • UnCivilServant

        I think I pulled an abdominal muscle. Took a while to rule out alternate causes for the pain. Thankfully, if I take weight off the muscle it doesn’t hurt.

      • Gender Traitor

        Owww! I hope that’s all it is, and I hope it goes away ASAP! 😟

    • slumbrew

      Good tune.

      She’s Rob Schneider’s best work.

  14. hayeksplosives

    Morning, y’all!

    I am looking to adopt 1-2 “second chanc” cats.

    The shelter I’m considering has this article that they recommend potential cat owners read.

    It’s about vaccines. Apparently it’s ok to question vaccine practices in cats.

    https://www.wholecatandkaboodle.com/resource-pages/vaccination-info

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, hayek! Hope you can find just the right kitteh(s)!

      That’s interesting about the vaccines. I know LBC seems a bit lethargic for a while after his, especially (it seems) if he gets a multi-year dose of the rabies vaccine. Big Dumb-But-Sweet Cat not so much – he has enough mass that he seems to take it in stride.

    • Grosspatzer

      Mornin’

      Interesting. The objections to “unnecessary boosters” clearly imply that the author believes that the initial immunizations are useful, and this nuanced take is reinforced elsewhere in the article. In the realm of human immunization, such nuance earns one rhe label of “anti-vax”.

      • hayeksplosives

        In the realm of human immunization, such nuance earns one rhe label of “anti-vax”.

        Exactly. That’s what I found interesting, and my guess is the author knows the same applies to humans but it’s only ok to talk about cats.

        When I had a severe lip bite a couple of years ago, the docs wanted to give me a tetanus shot. I told them truthfully that I am allergic to the tetanus toxoid vax. They ordered blood tests that came back showing my tetanus sentries were fully alert and operational, despite my last shot being in 1999.

        No more “boosters” for me.

  15. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, reprobates!

    • UnCivilServant

      What about the rest of us? So exclusionary!

      • Grosspatzer

        Oh, alright. Mornin’, Grumpy!

      • Grosspatzer

        Stop pulling that muscle. You’ll go blind and grow hair on your palms.

      • UnCivilServant

        Why do I associate with you people?

      • Gender Traitor

        What do you mean, “you people”?? 😉

      • UnCivilServant

        Rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists. You know… Glibs.

      • Gender Traitor

        I was reared Presbyterian. Am I OK?

      • UnCivilServant

        Look, I’m just combining two blazing saddles quotes here…

      • R.J.

        Because we talk to you?

      • robodruid

        because some of you are interesting?

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, ‘patzie! How are you and yours today?

      • Grosspatzer

        Mornin’. Mrs. Patzer is on premises today, so home alone, defending my castle. On the work front, perhaps management will make an achual decision on an implementation schedule so I can make some plans. A man can dream.

  16. Tonio

    Morning links are forthcoming. Banjos is editing them as I write this.