Tulsa Sound Guitars
(Sept 2014) 
Notes and news about art guitars and patent-pending prototypes;
premium custom wood guitar knobs.
Songs (Feb 2011) Blues and humorous lyrics
First Guitars With Art
Decals (Aug, Nov, Dec 2006) These are the first
guitars with android originals LC art
decals installed. The first is a Fender Squier Stratocaster (tm),
and the second is an Ibanez Cimar (tm) bass.
Currently, the decals are still under development. They will be made to cover the whole face of a guitar, by a rectangular decal of about 14 by 18 inches. They will be thin vinyl sheet with an adhesive backing, printed using a high-end six-color ink jet printer with pigmented ink. Covered with a clear (matte) plastic laminating sheet for mechanical protection, they are paper thin,. The colors will last for about three years in the sun. Indoor life would be about five years. However, the current top laminated film is rated for two years. They can be easily pealed off and repositioned before rolling out the air bubbles and adhering them firmly to a surface. It is possible that they can be removed later, with some effort, so that a guitar could be recustomized with new decals repeatedly. Because the top laminating file is stiffer than the usual van wrapping material, it cannot be rolled over the edges of the guitar easily if at all, and may be subject to peeling if that is tried. The most recent installation (the red, black and blue Ibanez Cimar bass above) limits the decal to the flat top surfaces of the guitar, including the simple curve of the forearm rest. click the link above for more details of the installation.
Guitar Art Image Galleries (Dec 2006, March 2007) These galleries are digital ( using PhotoShop 7 (tm of Adobe Systems Inc)) simulations of android originals artwork applied to guitars. They contain about 50 different images total, with some duplicates on different guitar body styles. Guitars used for templates include the Washburn Billy Taylor (tm) model electric guitar. I'm currently investigating use of decals to apply the images to a guitar.
- GALLERY 1
Images simulated on Billy Taylor and acoustic guitars
- GALLERY 2
Images from nature
- GALLERY 3
Color transformed
images
- GALLERY 4 Two fine print B&W images with poems
- Full
Lenth Guitar Art
Artwork siumlated on both the guitar body and neck
- Boom-Boom for dial-up 1.2 MB Guitar art simulations set to John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom; 2 minutes, 20 seconds
- Boom-Boom for CD 65 MB
- 55 Art Slides 28 MB 55 slides of other artwork, set to Dave Brubeck's Unsquare Dance; 1 minute, 46 seconds
Baritone Ukelele (also spelled ukulele, 5 July 2006) For those of us with physical and/or psychiatric disabilities, it's a good thing to find some peace of mind. Making music can do that, providing a profound sense of relaxation. For these uses, the baritone ukelele is both inexpensive and has distinct advantages.
Tablature for Thumbs (5 July 2006) If one takes up making music with say, a baritone ukelele, when either too old or disabled to wrap one's fingers around the neck without pain, or unable to finger chords and notes on the frets without hitting more than one string per finger, there is tablature for thumbs. That's right, you play with your thumbs. Among the things you can play that way are: Amazing Grace, Streets of Laredo, House of the Rising Sun, Scarborough Fair, Shenandoah, Greensleeves, O God Our Help in Ages Past, The Beatles' Blackbird, and Ashokan Farewell. Some can be played on just one string.
How to Pick a Guitar String (7 May 2006) What size string is best to use for a particular note on a particular guitar? Here are some sample charts, and the method to make charts for your own guitar, favorite strings and style of play.
Show You My UnStrat (7 May 2006) How to dehornicate your Strat (tm Fender) and love it all the more.
