[E:69] Guitar Making With Tim Moran

Create/Invent Podcast

Tim Moran joins us to discuss making beautiful guitars. He even made a Back to the Future-themed model that looks awesome and is signed by three members of the cast. Other listening options: RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:331308809/sounds.rss iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/the-creativity-podcast/id1281330349 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nHfNJNICMHqZWo0HPCMeA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC300jnYJu7u66EQX9S0SUZA Table of Contents: 0:00 - Intro 0:36 - How did Pat and Tim meet? 1:58 - What is a Bulleting Board System (BBS)? 3:20 - How did Tim get into playing guitar? 7:32 - Was Tim ever in a band? 8:50 - The journey from collecting guitars, to refinishing used guitars, to building guitars 11:08 - Visit the tdpri.com Telecaster guitar builder forum 12:18 - Inexpensive guitar-building kits are surprisingly good! 14:19 - Tim's first guitar build features a Korg Kaoss Pad 20:26 - These days Tim builds guitars from scratch 24:50 - You can buy brand new guitars that look aged 28:33 - Building guitars is a good excuse to learn new skills and keep busy 29:03 - No CNC required. Tim uses templates and a router 32:12 - Coffee break! 33:45 - Pat made a coffee that he forgot to drink! 35:32 - Join us on Discord at butterwhat.com/discord 36:02 - Tim's Back to the Future Guitar 40:08 - An authentic appearing flux capacitor is made from automotive parts and halogen bulb glass 41:56 - The readout uses fourteen-segment displays 43:28 - Is Tim saving any money by building guitars? 45:41 - How long did the BttF guitar take to make?! 46:53 - How did Tim get his BttF guitar signed?! 48:41 - Tim can't play the guitar! 52:18 - What's the next guitar project? 54:32 - Books are heavy! 56:36 - Johnny Mnemonic is selling 3 megabytes of RAM! 56:51 - Watch The Peripheral on Amazon 58:07 - Where can we find Tim Moran on the Internet 58:23 - I want to build a guitar! Where do I start?! 1:00:44 - Jeremy's baritone yukelele refinishing 1:04:43 - Join us on Discord at butterwhat.com/discord 1:06:03 - Where can we find Jeremy? 1:07:18 - One of Pat's friends shredding on one of those inexpensive guitar kits Clip at the end: inexpensive kit guitar being tested by another one of Pat's friends at TheLab.ms Makerspace. Discord: butterwhat.com/discord Tim Moran: https://www.instagram.com/tm0ran/ Pat Regan: Twitter: https://twitter.com/patsheadcom/​ Website: https://blog.patshead.com/​ Tindie Store: https://www.tindie.com/stores/patshead/ Jeremy Cook: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jscook55​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeremySCook​ Tindie Store: jcdevices.com