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What is BellyJelly Music™?
BellyJelly is based on the most
common mispronunciation of my name, Bill Jehle. How do you say it?
Well, you don't really. You just spell it out for people. Seriously
though, with an American accent it's pronounced YAY-LEE. With a German
accent it's more of YAY-LAH.
BellyJelly Music™ is
the record label that I started in 2003 to sell my works. The beginning
was quite a challenge, costly, and frustrating, but after my first year
I couldn't believe that I didn't do this before.
Ongoing projects that I don't have time to work on but
do anyway...
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MORE "HOW TO
BUILD A GUITAR" VIDEOS
After all of the comments and feedback on How to Build a
Guitar,
I'm working on a sequel with more projects, better video, and just
more, more, more! Some of the comments that I'm working on so far:
- A how to play a cigar box guitar, how to tune
them, and so on.
- A simple hand-tools only building project.
- A more ambitious electric hybrid 6-string cigar
box guitar project.
- A "build-your-own-box" guitar as the ultimate
made from scratch guitar.
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A HISTORY OF
THE CIGAR BOX GUITAR AND OTHER ODDITIES
It's what I call Detritomusicology. There's
a lot of information that I've collected on topics that overlap from
the history of paper and publishing, to the industrialization and
production of commodity goods, to waste reuse and recycling. There's so
much more to cigar box guitars than I ever imagined. It's
amazing
that a $25 guitar changed the way that I look at the world.
- DIGITAL ELECTRONICS PROJECTS FOR GUITARISTS
Just because I
play cigar
box guitars, doesn't mean that my mad scientist skills are going to
waste. Thinking along the same lines as the "How to Build a Guitar"
series, I thought it would be a great idea to walk guitarists through
the process of building their own digital effects. There is so much to
do here that I don't know when I'll get to it... Perhaps after...
- BUILDING THE JEHLE GUITAR AMP
Okay Pytor,
this one is for
you. Fitting in the middle of the road in terms of the guitars I make
and the electronics that I tinker with, building a tube amp with
discarded and reused radio parts is the next thing in line. I
could just have you make one for me (and I may still), but I'm going to
try to resurrect some old radios from the 1940's first. Plans for world
domination come next...
- MORE CIGAR BOX GUITARS
With a growing
list of
orders from professional guitarists, national disk jockeys, and just
plain folks that want something unique as the music they play, I have
my work set out for me already. They still sell faster than I can make
them. It's a nice problem to have really. Bring it on!
- THE MUSEUM PROJECT
I'm shooting
for the moon
on this one. My idea is to build a guitar completely from discarded
objects - an entire guitar made for free. Then that guitar will be put
on display in a museum, untouchable and unplayable. It's
either
that or I have to buy a PRS Dragon and send it through a wood chipper
and display the remains in a clear box. The effect is the
same, but the first idea is a lot cheaper. :)
Funny thing is, I now own The
Cigar Box Guitar Museum!
This was supposed to be really hard to do!
- DIY CNC PROJECT
I had a great
idea recently and started looking around for how to get it
made for me. The cost for making a prototype was expensive, as much as
buying
a CNC machine. Why not just buy a CNC machine? Well cheap ones cost a
thousand bucks, that's
why not! But hey, I make guitars out of cigar boxes. I know how to make
something from nothing.
Why not make a CNC machine out of stuff I've got laying around?
Stay tuned...
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