Rusty Knuckles - Hi Performance - Mens Tshirt in Gray With Two Color Print

Detail on our new two color "Hi Performance" shirt design

Recently, we have had a plethora of requests to create our "Guitar Engine" shirt as a two color version. Who are we to say no? We complied and worked up a version in an off white and bright orange on gray tshirts. Add in one Les Paul signature guitar and a Chevy engine and this equals true harmonic balance.

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Detail on the "Hi Performance" shirt design

Rusty Knuckles - Hi Performance - Mens Tshirt

Les Paul Powering A 350 Chevy Motor

What can we say, we dig motors and music, so why not combine them...

Hi Performance Motors and Music brought to yall by Rusty Knuckles © 2012

Custom Guitars By Esteban Bojorquez

Let's get to the heart of the matter, handmade guitars are just as cool as a custom car or bike in our opinion. These guitars created by Esteban Bojorquez are visually stunning and knowing that they all emanated from a metal hollow body instead of a wooden one surely plays into a whole other level of sound quality.

Anyone can drive over to their local Sam Ash, Guitar Center or pawn shop and pick up a guitar for a decent price and start to pickin'. But seeing instruments such as these, you immediately get the feeling that anyone playing it, most likely knows what the hell they are doing. Its sort of the same as a jockey shift on a chopper, ya just don't jump on one and try to hit the freeway. These machines take time to sink into and become knowledgeable about. 

One of the first guitars that made an impression on me was a custom one built from a branch coming off a tree stump that was then shaped down into a really cool body style. It was completely unique looking and I still can never even think on the bands songs as all I did was stare at the guitar. I believe this is the moment that custom guitars started to make an impression on me. Also, the dude could shred, so he deserved the custom guitar.

After seeing Esteban's custom guitars I immediately had the same appreciation and thought how could would it be to really how they sound or who might be playing them. Style, personality and substance all rolled up into one instrument, dig it.

Esteban Bojorquez website

Statement from the artist:

Color, humor, texture, and my quixotic attempt at understanding the frantic, self important culture I find myself in are the components of my art. Working in a wide variety of media including assemblage, painting, sculpture, film, music and installation, my pieces are explorations of materials, techniques and the inherent ironies of life.

I collect and reconstruct the discarded refuse of our throwaway society, abstracting familiar objects into an often expansive scale. These once "needed" or "desired" objects, now cast away, send me on a journey of memory, nostalgia, or visceral reactions which lead me to a dreamscape that I hope others can connect to. For me each piece speaks to a spontaneous and unique experience.

- Esteban Bojorquez

Lucky 13. 5 gallon gas can acoustic - electric resophonic lap steel

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The Road Warrior. 5 gallon gas can acoustic lap steel

Sunrise. 5 gallon gas can acoustic  - electric resophonic lap steel

Street Light. 6 string resophonic acoustic-electric guitar

The Vase. brass hollow body electric guitar

To The People Who Stole My Les Paul...

Thieves are the lowest form of life and a one finger should be cut off for every theft and then eventually a hand and a arm til' they can no longer steal. Help a Vancouver dude get his guitar back. Read below and find out the details, via craigslist.org in Vancouver, Canada. Thanks to the fellas in She Rides for finding this post.

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To the people who stole most of my stuff out of my studio on June 5, including my main guitar of 43 years, let me tell you about it.

It's a very altered, but very real 1953 Gibson Les Paul Model - Serial # 3 0621 (stamped on the back of the headstock)

This is not a gold-top. In the 1950's, it was refitted with an ABR-1 bridge and stop tailpiece, and then refinished, all by Gibson. The green colour in the picture, (especially on the rear half of the body where the light reflection is less), is accurate. It's one of the lightest Gibson Les Pauls, and the only one of its' colour, that I've ever seen.

I've made many other changes to this guitar in favour of playability:

--changed the P-90's to humbuckers

--had the neck thinned and it, the back and the sides were refinished

--when it was refinished, the serial # was stamped in

--replaced worn out machine heads with gold Gibson ones

--added brass switch ring, jack plate, and rear cavity covers that were made for me by my now-deceased brother-in-law

--added a truss rod cover with "Les Paul" on it

--installed strap-locks (for obvious reasons)

--there will be traces of violin bow resin in and under various parts. It is the best guitar ever for bowing.

This is a one-of-a-kind instrument in so many ways. It is completely recognizable, down to every screw on it.

I've been in the music business all my life, and have a large list of friends and contacts. With the help of countless amazing people, many who I don't even know, http://web.me.com/outgolfing/Equipment (which details what you took) has been sent across Canada and around the world to more people - musicians, music stores, pawn shops, studios, rehearsal rooms, and other musically related businesses - than I ever imagined possible. It's been passed around since you broke in, and is continually going out to more people. In fact, I'd bet people reading this will pass the link on to others if they already haven't. This will continue unendingly until I find my guitars and other equipment. My green Les Paul is already one of the most recognizable instruments in Canada, I can guarantee you that.

Here's your scenario:

--No collector will want this instrument because it's not even close to original.

--No legitimate business will buy it from you.

--Any creep who would knowingly buy a stolen guitar will give you a pittance for it.

--If you keep it for yourself, you'll never be able to play anywhere with it, and it will tie you to the crime and to all of the other stolen equipment for as long as you have it.

--You didn't even take the case.
It's my most personal possession, and I have always planned for my son to have it one day. By the way, the other Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier head you took was his.

It's not of much value to you, but to me, I can't buy another Les Paul like it because another one doesn't exist.. Here's a thought:

Have some decency and redeem some karma. Bring my guitar back. You've fucked my studio up and stolen a life-time collection of my shit. You stole my guitar rig, which was MY sound that I've spent years achieving.

You haven't ripped off a money making business. You've ripped off my life and my spirit immeasurably by taking away the tools of the pursuit of my passion. I've worked extremely hard for my whole life to earn my right to do so, and you took it all away in an hour or two. You've also ripped off my son, now, and in the future. I don't have the money to replace the gear, so it's just gone.

Just give it back - NO QUESTIONS ASKED. PLEASE

use Canada country for number below
Maurice
(604) 943-6160
(604) 816-8987 cel

Les Paul Would Have Been 96 Today

What a killer logo for their ongoing morphing to match current events, Google you have done music fans proud everywhere. This post was over on Mashable.com

"When you’re searching for something on Google today, you’ll notice a fascinating instrument at the top of the page: It’s a recordable electric guitar built in the shape of the Google logo, paying homage to guitar great Les Paul, who would have been 96 years old today (Thursday).

Hover your mouse over the strings, and you can strum this little instrument. You can also play notes on your keyboard. Click the rectangular record button positioned where the bottom part of the second “g” in the word “Google” would be, and every note you play will be saved for posterity. Update: We’re hearing the recording function is only working in the U.S.

There’s more. It creates a URL that you can send to others, so they can listen to your masterpiece. Here’s where it gets even more interesting: Send the URL to someone, and when that person pastes that URL into the address bar, you can play a duet together. Try it — play along with me.

Or, you can play along with your own recording, overdubbing just like Les Paul did for the first time way back in the late ’40s. Someone could actually make some real music with this.

Click the doodle itself, and it takes you to sites featuring Les Paul. Try it here.

How appropriate! Les Paul, one of the first electric guitarists and builder of one of the first solid-body electric guitars, was an innovative recording artist who created new ways to overdub tracks in the recording studio. And here his memory is honored with another innovation, a webpage that shows a playable and animated electric guitar — that can record and overdub — on his birthday.

Les Paul, after whom the storied Gibson Les Paul guitar is named, died in 2009 after living to the ripe old age of 94. Kudos to Google for honoring his creative spirit by building the best Google doodle ever."