Seasons Greetings 2017

Clean Up at the Works!

Vloggin'. 12_02_2017

Vloggin'. 12_01_2017

Enclosed Slide (prototype)

Wingnut Bike Works November Givaway

Around the World Singlespeed - USA Part 1

Sean Conway- "A Life More Adventurous"

I Forgot To Lock My Bike! Commuting Vlog BikeBlogger

Wingnut Bike Works Spooktacular Giveaway

Little Monster Strummer

I made a monster from trash!

I started to throw out this little furry foot stool the other day when I was hit with inspiration! In this video I will show you how I turned a pile of trash into this terrifying pink monster!

Breakdown on the B-line.

Strummin' on a Punch!

Punch Cigar Box Guitars (original hand made exclusives)!

I smoke trash?!

Making punk patches the old school DIY way!

Hang out at Wingnut Bike Works while I make some sew on patches! It has been a little HEAVY, no it has been REAL HEAVY here in RL and I haven't been able to shoot any new videos. I edited together this video from footage I recorded a few weeks ago while screen printing some fresh new punk patches.



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Punk Patch Giveaway!

Wingnut Bike Works is hosting a big sew-on Punk Patch Giveaway! FREE to enter. Absolutely no purchase necessary! Just a few easy clicks and you could win over a dozen original screen printed sew-on Punk Patches to adorn your threads! The deadline for this giveaway is September 28th of 2017!

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Pedalin' (to the post office)

Come along and pedal a package off to the post office here in good ol' B-town!



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Vloggin' 8-6-2017

LIVE in the Guitar Workshop

A video from one of the legends of the CBGS has been busy in his work shop as well!

Vloggin' 8-5-2017

What Is The Best Cycling City? Commuting Bike Blogger

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Vloggin (7-28-2017)

Unveiling my almost finished three string cigar box guitar. This one here is a gift from me to me. Sounds sick and is super slick!


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Making more merch!

Making some fresh sew on punk patches for the Etsy shop, including the official Wingnut Bike Works patch! 


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How do I make punk patches?

Join me at the Works as I lay out some fresh new sew on punk patches. This video is not a tutorial but you can get an idea of how the process goes. 


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Pedalin' 04

Come along and let's put the fun between our legs for a bike ride in B-town (that's Bloomington, Indiana for those of you who don't know)! Nothing over the top on this ride, just pedaling around with my co-pilot, Fawn, as we regulate the streets and shop in the dumpsters. The wind was a little blustery at first and Fawn was not having that, but once the breeze died down and she got to get some barking out of her system she had a blast!

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Buttock Destroying Off-Road Unicycle Touring

Ouch!

School's Out! City Cycling Alleyways Skinker Debaliviere

Pedalin' (03)

This installment of Pedalin' is actually a sort of part 2 of the last Pedalin' video. After dropping off the post I did a quick run of the dumpsters and jammed out to some most excellent noise!

Music featured:

"Haha Ur Homeless!" by
Saw Mama - https://dbramble.bandcamp.com/album/6...

"Trash" by
Dead Sally - https://deadsally.bandcamp.com/

"Misanthrope Boogie" by
Dandelion Massacre - https://dandelionmassacre.bandcamp.com/

"All Empires End' by
Johnny No-Cash - https://nomansrecords.bandcamp.com/al...

Go check out these amazing artist and kick them a few bucks!


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Pedalin' (02)

Alrighty then! Pedalin' to the post office to mail off a special sponsor package for some great people up in OR, Mima and Raquel, who host the most outrageous internet radio show known to civilization (and the uncivilized, especially the uncivilized) OUTLAW OUTRAGE Radio with MIMA & RAQUEL. Link below! 

Music featured:

"Walking On Fucking Sunshine" by 
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"Running Blues" by
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Pedalin' (01)

Vloggin' - Trash Garden.

A brief tour of the Wingnut Bike Works Trash Garden. A project started about 3 years ago. The area behind the property where the Works is located was overgrown with weeds and vines that were cluttered with old broken beer bottles and other trash when I moved into the place. I chopped down vines and pulled up weeds and raked it all by hand until I eventually had cleaned and cleared the entire area. Then I hooked up the cart to my bike and went dumpster diving. The entire garden was created using trash, recycled items and salvaged wood from the dumpsters here in Bloomington, Indiana. It is a lot of work but the fresh veggies and greens are more than worth the effort! Always a work in progress. This video is a few weeks old and the garden is now in full bloom. I will take the camera out with me the next time I go to tend it and upload an updated video of how the harvest is coming along this year. Thanks for watching!

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Vloggin' 6 10 2017 SURPRISE ENDING!

Went grocery shopping in the dumpsters of B-town (Bloomington, Indiana) again! Huge hall of Mac and Cheese! Loads of canned goods, including Spaghettios! And a very special score at the end!

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I eat Trash (Ep 04)

In this episode of I eat Trash we will be making some hearty chicken noodle soup a la "Hobo Stew" style. Come along and let's see what I found in the dumpsters for us to work with!

Food from the dumpsters (Vloggin 5/24/2017)

Vloggin 5 3 2017

Come along and go grocery shopping in the dumpsters of B-town!

I Eat Trash (ep 01)

This is the premiere episode of "I Eat Trash" featuring a bowl of Unif brand instant noodles that was reclaimed from the dumpsters of B-town.





This video was inspired by YouTube user Steve1989 and his excellent MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) review videos and the Crazy Russian Hacker and his MRE review videos.



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Ghost in the Shell live action 2017 = boom!

It is not all about bikes here at the Works, sometimes it is about chillaxing!

21 DIY Bike Camera Mounts

Absolutely doing this!

21 DIY Bike Camera Mounts

HAPPY SPRING! (WBW vloggin' 04 16 2017)

What better day to catch up on a little gardening than today?

All the fun things about Easter are pagan. Bunnies are a leftover from the pagan festival of Eostre, a great northern goddess whose symbol was a rabbit or hare. Exchange of eggs is an ancient custom, celebrated by many cultures.

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The Quiet Season | A Cycling Short Film

WBW Tip #001 Cleaning Chrome.

A simple little trick to remove rust and shine up the chrome on your ride like new without harming the finish!

 

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The Cyclist - Short Film

The Bicycle A Celebration of the Invention

Bob Warner Bike Shop - A Day In The Life

It's Bike Blogger time!

Keep your ride true!

It is Spring and that means that it is time to do a little bicycle maintenance to get ready for Summer riding! That includes truing the wheels on your ride. Due to space and ca$h reasons I, like many of you, do not have a professional truing stand. Check out this helpful video from "RJ The Bike Guy" on Youtube!

Spring Greetings

FOAD: The Good Times Are Killing Me

Tom Cosway FIXED GEAR rc2

FADEDHEADS 2017 Fixed gear

Should You Flip Bikes?

Why I Don't Need a Car

Electric Diddley Bow in tribute to One String Sam.

I recently built an electric Diddley Bow from old bike parts and recycled materials as a tribute to "One String Sam". Here I am playing a cover of "My Baby Oooo", one of the only two songs that he ever recorded.

"Who is 'One String Sam'?" You might be asking.

In 1956, an unknown street musician named "One String" Sam Wilson walked into Joe’s Record Shop on Hastings Street in Detroit, carrying a plank of wood containing a single string. The shop also had a recording studio in the back, and Sam proceeded to record two songs on his diddley bow, “I Need a Hundred Dollars” and “My Baby Ooh.”
One String Sam used an empty baby food jar as a slide and would sometimes hold it up to his mouth when he sang, giving his vocals a strange echo sound. The music was pure Southern deep-country blues with a call-and-response feel between his vocal and that single string.
The two tracks were released as a 10-inch single by the JVB Recording Company (JVB release #40) and made its way into jukeboxes throughout the Detroit area.
Sam continued busking for a few more years, disappeared into obscurity and was then rediscovered in 1973, still living in the slums of Detroit. He also still had that diddley bow. Promoters asked him to perform again, and he took the stage at the 1973 Ann Arbor Blues Festival, where he played the two songs he recorded 17 years earlier.
Sam played a handful of shows, including the 1974 Ann Arbor Blues Festival, dates with B.B. King and the Blues Extravaganza in Toledo, Ohio.
When asked to put his autograph alongside that of J.B. Hutto, Bo Bo Jenkins and A.C. Reed on this poster, One String Sam goofed off with the pen, pretending to sign his name in the air. It was then that Boz realized Sam was most likely illiterate and couldn’t write his own name.
One String Sam’s performance at the ’73 Ann Arbor Blues Fest was recorded and eventually released on the album Motor City Blues (1998, Total Energy Records). His original 1956 recordings are available on Document Records’ Rural Blues No. 1.

Not much is known about One String Sam, an eccentric street musician who walked into Joe's Record Shop on Hastings Street in Detroit in 1956 and recorded two odd and unforgettable tracks, "I Need a Hundred Dollars" and "My Baby Ooo," on a fretless, one- string instrument that was essentially a diddley bow, consisting of a wood plank with a piano wire stretched between two nails, augmented with an electric guitar pickup. Sam, whose real name was Sam Wilson, fretted the instrument with a baby food jar and, placing the jar near the vocal microphone when he sang, created his own echo chamber. The result was an eerie, spooky, and riveting version of country blues. Sam played on the streets in Detroit for a few years, but eventually vanished. He was relocated in nearby Inkster in 1973 and added to the roster of the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival that year, where he performed "I Need a Hundred Dollars" and "I Got to Go" before vanishing once again into blues history. His entire recorded output consists of the two sides recorded in 1956, plus the two tracks recorded at the 1973 festival in Ann Arbor. The Hastings Street tracks (which were originally released on JVB Records) can be found on Document's Rural Blues, Vol. 1, while the festival tracks are on Motor City Blues, released in 1998 by Total Energy Records.

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Very first play of the latest stringed thing that I built here at the Works.

I had a few people ask me "How do you build those things?" in reference to the Cigar Box Guitars and Diddley Bows that I make. So I figured that I would give a brief answer here today.

First you go out and dig around in the trash for materials such as scraps of hardwood, old cigar boxes or jewelry boxes and the likes. I even find guitars, violins and other instruments in the trash. Some are more busted than others but all can be used for parts! You can find everything you need to build a noise making instrument right in the dumpsters! Seriously, you just have to start looking at things differently. Instead of seeing a busted hinge, I see a an interesting way to secure guitar strings to the body of the build. Instead of seeing an old rusted bolt, I see a bridge that has some character. It is all a matter of perception and perspective. So I start off by going out on my bike and jumping into the cesspool of societies waste!

After gathering up the necessary materials I started by fashioning the neck. I was fortunate enough to get a good scrap piece of nice hard wood for this build. It all starts with the hand saw.

 I made the cuts for the basic shape that I am aiming for. Once that was done I pulled out the old hammer and chisel to clear out the unwanted chunks of material.

After a few minutes of wacking the chisel, and I ended up with a very crudely shaped neck. Next I grab the files and augers and do a little refining on the shape of the neck.

In the meantime I went ahead and soldered up the wiring for the piezo disc pickup and mono input jack.

Then I cut out the notches in the box to fit the neck into. I usually use a miter saw for this step but decided to break out the rotary tool for this one. It came out pretty good.

After a little filing and sanding to smooth out the edges of the cut I moved onto the next step which was doing a final sanding on the neck by hand to get it as smooth as possible. No one wants to get a splinter while picking!

Next I got out the drill and some screws and mounted the neck onto the box.

After that I got out the hot glue gun and mounted the pick-up and jack assembly inside of the box body of the guitar.

Once that was done all I really had left to do was to string it up and plug it in. First I wanted to add a little artistic touch and give the instrument a one of a kind unique finish.

Once it was "purdied" up a bit, it was ready to make some noise!

Thanks for stopping by, now go ride your bike!

So Far So Great Singlespeed Commuter! Bike Blogger

Monsterbike

Chillaxing with Betty.

Bike Crash Road Rash! We have all been here before. Right?

Patching things up!

Fresh punk patches coming from the Wingnut Bike Works etsy shop!

Show off your bike pride and your punk attitude with these original and fresh "Bikes Not Bombs" sew on punk patches!

Skylar Grey - C'mon Let Me Ride ft. Eminem

Sorry, I just could not resist! LOL!