The longer version
The concept
Every instrument is built from material that was thrown out, given up on, or forgotten in a corner. Cookie tins, broken furniture, beach driftwood, plumbing parts, bike scraps. Sometimes a friend hands me something. Sometimes I find it in a skip. Sometimes I trade a build for a box of parts.
Because the material is scattered and unique, I keep a book. Each part that goes into a guitar gets logged: what it was, where it came from, when I picked it up. When a build is finished, that page becomes the instrument's provenance.
The instrument and the logbook page leave together. The buyer gets a thing that plays — and a record of where every piece of it has been. That's the whole pitch.
Materials
Found, scrapped, traded, second-hand. New parts only when nothing salvaged will do the job — strings, frets, sometimes a pickup.
Output
Mostly 3-string guitars. A handful of 2-string diddley bows. A few stomp boxes. Lately, six strings. 22 builds in.
Packaging
Each instrument is presented as artwork — built to look at, not just to play. Hung on the wall is also fine.
Provenance
Logbook page travels with the instrument. Where every part came from. No mystery, no romance, just the record.