Crossing the lake under Lunar Eclipse and Harvest Full Moon

I've been planning a night time lake crossing for a while. Originally timed for the August Full Moon, I had to postpone for some time due an injury. Fortunatelly things fell into place nicely with a unique Full Lunar Eclipse happening hours before the Harvest Full Moon on September 7. Recruited troops and we ferried across the lake to Evian. We did Evian-Ouchy (Vidy, Plage du Pelican) since there would be no way to get back by ferry at 00:30 from Evian. Some of our usual suspects are too good for us mere humans and paddled from Vidy to Evian, and then back with us, that's a total 28km, because you know, the ferry is a hassle. As we set off from Evian, the moon appeared over the mountains, around 75% of it in the penumbra. Quite a pretty sight. Weather was on our side, fairly warm night, both air and water, most of the way with clear skies. A light breeze bothered us for a bit, drifting us East, then coming back in the last 3-4km a bit more head-on. The Eclipsed vanished quickly and the full moon flooded our curious souls and surroundings, the lake was calm and silent, all to ourselves to enjoy. We had a nice snack break half way, and howled at the moon, as one should. Seems it did something to us. We had to split up before the North Shore as we had different landing spots to avoid the missing public transport. Pretty epic, hope to get more paddlers to join next year.

Weee... first guitar build finished !

I started this project in 2018, first laminations in 2019 and then working on and off it. Been distracted with many other projects meanwhile. I was a long learning process and extremely rewarding at the very end, but not free of frustration. I'll add some detailed posts about it but for the moment I'm simply very excited to show it off and to play it (or try to learn and play guitar). Yes, this is a very odd little electric guitar, but there is not much point and making something others have already made, right ?

Been making knobs

Well, long time and no posts, been distracted and also lost access to my website. Been working on this project on and off for so long, basically these knobs are the last piece of the puzzle. Jatoba and Maple wood, hand worked on a lathe and other tools. I'm not too fond of the indicator dot, now that they're finished.

Songbird for Rhino3d released

Luthiers rejoice - Songbird is a parametric Multiscale Fretboard Generator for Rhino. You can use it to generate fanned fretboards for guitars, mandolins, bass guitars, ukuleles or whatever instrument you want to cook up. It also generates standard single scale, non fanned fretboards just as easy, simply input the same scale length for both first and last string. The plugin exposes a single command called "fretboard".

Songbird is free to use for Educational and/or Commercial purposes, don't hesitate to get in touch and please spread the word about Songbird. Get it here. Oh and ... there's a video in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTnV6Y-NSQQ

SeaHorse Hydrostatics 1.5b maintenance release

Tiny update, fixed a bug causing the analysis window and .csv file output not to display/save when the user is working in an unsaved Rhino document. CSV is output on the user's Desktop when working in an unsaved Rhino document, otherwise it will save in the documents working folder. A provision for non standard "Desktop" folder naming is also built in. So far users donated a total of 50.02EUR via the donation button, many thanks. Get the updated SeaHorse on Food4Rhino.