Handmade Music Factory. Mike Orr

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      “What an absolutely brilliant, beautiful piece of work! In the right

      hands (or wrong, depending on your perspective) this book could

      provide all the tools necessary to turn the homemade instruments

      movement into a full-blown revolution!”

      — pat mAcdonald (Purgatory Hill)

      “Mike Orr shows you how to get back to music’s primal roots...

      there’s nothing else that compares to playing a simple guitar

      you built with your own hands.”

      — Shane Speal,

      Cigar Box Nation

      “Travel back in time to where it all began. A cigar box, a broom

      handle, three strings, two pickups and tuning pegs. Plug it in,

      and the primitive meets the industrial age.”

      — Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing (Hymn for Her)

      Click below to download a printable PDF containing

      the patterns shown in this book.

      Mike Orr

      © 2011 by Michael Orr and Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc.

      Handmade Music Factory

      is an original work, first published in 2011 by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc. The

      patterns contained herein are copyrighted by the author. Readers may make copies of these patterns for personal

      use. The patterns themselves, however, are not to be duplicated for resale or distribution under any circumstances.

      Any such copying is a violation of copyright law.

      Published and distributed in North America by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., East Petersburg, PA.

      ISBN 978-1-56523-559-5

      eISBN 978-1-60765-068-3

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Orr, Michael, guitarist

      Handmade music factory / Michael Orr.

      p. cm.

      Includes index.

      ISBN 978-1-56523-559-5 (alk. paper)

      1.

      Musical instruments--Construction. 2.

      Guitar--Construction. 3.

      Washtub bass--Construction.

      I. Title.

      ML460.O77 2011

      787’.19--dc23

      2011014757

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      Acknowledgments

      This book is dedicated to my good friend, Paul Scalia, who encouraged me to follow through with this project and

      many other endeavors along the way that led to the book.

      Brewing Co., Gary Bartlett, John Traynor, Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center, Keith Stouffer, Chris Noble, Matthew Sim,

      William E. Orr, Allen Maltman, Christopher Eldridge, Mike's Music of Harrisburg PA, Shane Bordner, Shane Speal,

      HEXBELT, Mike Couch, Dann Ottemiller, Brendan McGowan, Neil Kreider, Butchy Sochorow, Toubab Krewe, Monkey

      Lion Productions, Nathan Boose, Sandy Hollow Arts and Recreation for the Environment, Daniel Wilt, and Luther

      Dickinson. I could not have done this without all of your help.

      Thanks to Shane Speal of

       www.CigarBoxNation.com

      for contributing awesome sidebars throughout the book

      (see page 20, 23, 30, 37, 38, 43, 48, 78, 89, 94, 102, 110) as well as the gallery of 100% recycled instruments (10–17).

      Thanks to Jen Statler, of Jennifer Statler Photography, for allowing use of the images on pages 5 and 92.

       www.jstatlerphotography.photoreflect.com

      Thanks to RJ Gibson and Todd V. Wolfson for allowing use of their Purgatory Hill images on page 101.

      Thanks to Silver Pop Pop for use of the image of Hymn For Her on page 111.

      Thanks to Tricia Perry for use of the image of Homemade Jamz Blues Band on page 117.

      Thanks to Sarah Ann Staub for use of the images of Toubab Krewe on page 45.

      Thanks to Adam McCullough,

       www.AdamMcCullough.com

      , for use of the image of Luther Dickinson on page 91.

      Thanks to John Byrne Cooke,

       www.cookephoto.com

      , for use of the image of Fritz Richmond on page 28.

      Thanks to Mark Bush for use of the images of Chris Anderson (page 53) and Jack Pearson (page 70).

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      We are always looking for talented authors to write new books

      in our area of woodworking,