Hanging around.

Hey folks, I hope that everyone's Halloween celebrations were safe and sweet. I know that things at the Works were spook-tacular!
Over the past week or so two of the one string Diddly Bows (Little Grey Tree and the Sweet Hersey) found new homes and hopefully new players! Little Grey Tree was shipped off to Colorado and the Sweet Hersey is on it's way to Texas. It always strikes me as peculiar when something that I created from scratch, whether it be my "noise makers" or hand made jewelry or my art work, ends up in someones hands or home in distant places. Sometimes those places are familiar ones that I have been to while traveling the highways and byways throughout my life that bring back memories of good times and beautiful people that I met during my adventures. Other times my creations end up in places that I have never been, and when that happens it often stirs up feelings of wanderlust.
Recently a couple of awesome patrons from Indianapolis stopped in the Works to look at a couple of pieces of my art. I was taken aback at how enthusiastic they were about my artwork. The guy was excitedly asking to buy pieces left and right, some of which were, unfortunately, not finished. They ended up taking about a half a dozen paintings with them, and I ended up with a really good feeling that money just cannot buy. Although the money that I received from the artwork did buy my pack and myself some dinner!
Besides, the art pieces look way better hanging on their walls than they did just hanging around here at the Works!

I get stoked every time someone send me pics or a video of my creations in their lives! Thankfulness and gratitude to, not only these folks but, everyone who has taken the time and finances to show your appreciation of my work and for bringing a little piece of me and my world into yours. Thank you all so much.

Cluttering up the Works.

Greetings good peeps, and welcome to the Works. It is in this small two room studio in Bloomington, Indiana that I create all of the unique things that are featured at Wingnut Bike Works. That includes the stinged things, such as diddly bows and cigar box guitars, that I hand craft utilizing recycled materials and old bicycle parts.

The Works also serves as my artist studio where I enjoy painting when I get the down time to do so. I love the location, as it sits right on "restaurant row" in the central downtown area but space is always an issue in such a small place.

Oh, and did I mention that I also repair and build bicycles at the Works? This is another challenge when it comes to actual work space at the Works.

Then there is the always rotating inventory of stock that is continually coming in from my daily dumpster diving excursions. Thankfully I have Larry (the furry blue guy) and Rosco (the roadkill raccoon) to keep an eye on things for me.

Despite their efforts, however, those two are no better at getting rid of clutter here at the Works than I am as my "office area" will attest to.

Drinking dumpstered coffee and admiring my chaos, I decided that it was time to clear out some of the clutter in the Works and in my life.

Just take a look around and you will see what I mean. For instance, I have an ever growing collection of cheap sunglasses that I have found in the dumpsters over the past year or so.

Any one who knows me at all knows that I am hardly ever caught without a pair of these babies on, but I am starting to think that I might have a few too many pairs right now.

Additional to my own art work that is hanging and stacked all over the place, I also like to keep a few pieces from other local "street artist" on my walls. The above piece was done by a homeless guy known as "Artist Will". It was done on half of a broken door. I love it!

Even the T.R.E.A.M. garden I am working on out in back is getting a little cluttered. So I took another swig of mud and began to get to work on getting rid of all the things that are cluttering up the works. By the time it started to get dark out I had made some real progress.

To celebrate, and to help get rid of some inventory that is taking up space, I decided to throw a big sale in the online Wingnut Bike Works Etsy Shop!

Of course I have fresh clutter as of this morning, but isn't that just life all over? So if you are reading this then help me out by going to visit the online shop and taking some of my awesome clutter off of my hands? Sorry, but Larry and Rosco will not be for sale! My jewelry and art and unique stringed things will be however and I slashed the prices on everything to get it out the door.

Thanks for stopping by! Now go put something fun between your legs and RiDe YeR' BiKe!

HUGE SALE HERE!

I turned some trash and old bicycle parts into a guitar!

Like I have said before, it isn't all about bikes. I made this 3 stringed CBG from a re-purposed Macanudo box, scrap wood, recycled guitar strings and tuners from a guitar that was salvaged from the dumpster and old bicycle parts. Then I added a strap made from an old bicycle inner tube and reclaimed hardware, It is definitely a one of a kind conversation piece.

I do not consider myself a musician by any means, but I really enjoy making Diddly Bo's and Cigar Box guitars and I enjoy playing around on them even more! I uploaded a video demonstrating this little beauty on my Youtube channel,

I have it tuned to open G. The strings sit a little high for finger fretting but it really sounds great with a slide (an old socket in my case). It is acoustic, but the sound is awesome. Maybe I will put a pickup on the next one that I build.

If you would like to own this 3 stringer you can purchase it HERE!

Thanks for reading and pedal on!

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Due to my current limitations on space I am getting rid of some of my larger pieces dirt cheap in hopes of clearing out room for new works that I am putting out.

Fresh Paint!

I have been throwing together some fresh images and slicing the Mylar again. The focus of my latest stencil designs is "Sexy Girls" and "Bicycles" (of course!). So far I am pretty pleased with the resulting pieces that I have been able to spray out using them. I will be doing a limited run of each stencil and will sign and number each piece and listing them in the W.B.W. shop.

 

I will post here when the first releases are ready and listed.

You just never know what you will find while riding your bike and dumpster diving!

From the trash to turtle food!

I've been making things!

All these items and many more will soon be available for purchase. Be sure to keep checking this blog for future updates!