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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Real human beings making real, beautiful things. A beautiful record, in a beautiful package. Everyone got paid fairly and recognized. A good thing done the right way. Give it a spin theparlourtrick.bandcamp.com/album/a-bles...

A vinyl LP of A Blessed Unrest in marbled deep red

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bandcamp Friday! Spooky season is here. Are you ready? Why not? theparlourtrick.bandcamp.com/album/a-bles...

A vinly LP of The Parlour Trick's A Blessed Unrest, in marbled burgundy rests atop its sleeve printed in black and gold.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's giving dollops of golden jizz falling from heaven

Trump and Xi at the White House, walking past a row of portraits and plaques, above which are some of Trump's stupid gold stick-on accents.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

See that innocent-looking wraparound bridge? It's being a little shit. SUPER loud buzz on 4th & 5th strings. Guess either it's made for a much sharper neck angle and I'm getting sitar buzz in the slots on the top, or it's the intonation adjustment screws. Will have to test more and fiddle with it.

Red bodied electric guitar with curly horns. The bridge is a shiny chrome wraparound deal.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Watched Possession with Mer last night and the main two lessons I took away are 1) the straights are doing FINE, and 2) Heinz Bennent was the hottest fucking man alive in 1981. Any fans out there suggest good followup views? Looking at Last Metro, Tin Drum...?

Head shot of German actor Heinz Bennent looking somehow simultaneously rugged, sophisticated, deep, and very kissable.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Hey Americans, if you need something other than fireworks to keep you up all hours this weekend, may I recommend a vividly colored tattoo in a fairly painful spot?

An old white guy in a dubiously mended shirt shows a week-old healing tattoo of a dragonfly perched on a passion vine, vividly colored in orange, purple, and green

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Swamp Witch in the morning light

Big hollow body bass guitar hanging on a blue wall with morning sunshine illuminating the body

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Mer Yayanos at Meow Wolf Denver, marveling at Fig Sloth.

Shot from below and behind, an unbearably cute Mer looks up at a surreal sculpture of a sloth-like creature in a trippy environment

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Author photo. At Meow Wolf Denver. By Mer ❤️

Me, a nerdy middle aged dude seated on a weird, faux bioluminescent fungus chair in a trippy psychedelically lit environment

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

My bluesky engagement strategy

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

First M5 prototype getting built up. I don't really know why, but I dislike most standard guitar tailpieces. So I made one out of goncalo alves. The steel plate is for the string ground. It's secured from the back so there's no visible mounting hardware on the front.

A series of pics showing a novel wooden tailpiece for an electric guitar. The tailpiece is shaped from a solid block of goncalo alves. String ends will rest against a steel strip connected to a ground wire that protrudes from the bottom of the tailpiece, passing into the guitar body and the control cavity. It is secured by screws that pass through ferrules on the back of the body and go into the underside of the tailpiece so there is no visible mounting hardware on the top. The guitar body is made of a single piece of khaya wood finished in amber tinted lacquer for a golden brown color.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

theparlourtrick.bandcamp.com/album/a-bles... It’s Bandcamp Friday! Looking fir some haunted chamber music? Mer Yayanos has you covered.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Hmmm, no pickup routs? What is he *building* in there?

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A sturdy shelf I built for a windowsill herb garden. Larch with a little live edge action for the top. Cherry for the structure underneath. Water-based polyurethane and wax to protect from the inevitable watering spills. Knots filled and stabilized with malachite dust and CA glue.

A long wooden shelf sits on a woodworking bench in the sun. Pronounced grain and stabilized knots

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Crowfoot #59, the Swamp Witch is complete! Made for my beloved Mer. 30" scale, fretless bass. Chambered African mahogany body, about the size of a 335. Maple neck with ebony board, Lace Alumitone pickup. The pickup paid off big time! Fantastic range of tones through the whole tone knob sweep.

Big bodied, short scale bass with f-holes and a big scroll on the upper horn. Seen from front

Same bass from the back, showing off the flame figuring on the maple neck.

Same bass from the headstock, looking down the fretless fingerboard.

Close up of the upper horn scroll, showing the little mother of pearl inlay at the center of it.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

This weekend I fought whimsy decay by ripping out a few fairy doors. Take that, apocalypse.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Building color on Mer’s bass, codename SWAMP WITCH.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

One of my favorite things lately is seeing recent reviews by people who've just discovered it. (They like it.)

A copy of A Blessed Unrest in a special vinyl that looks like a bloody red aura spread across a black disc.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It’s our two year dootiversary with this little princess-boi. Gimli Flower Yawford, our little rotten soldier.

An adorable little black and gray terrier reclining on a cloud of pink tulle

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

You're not crazy. And even if you're crazy... you're not crazy. (text below from Larry Mitchell's The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions)

In Ramrod the only way to tell the sane from the insane is by
who has the keys. The sane have the keys, the insane do not. The
sane have the keys that lock doors to keep the insane in(sane).
Those with the keys guard their keys carefully.
The faggots, to mock and undermine normal reality, elaborate
on the wearing of keys. One day all the faggots appear with keys.
Keys on long chains and on short chains; keys on the right side and
keys on the left; keys on the cock and keys out the ass; keys on the
tits and keys under the arms; keys to proclaim sanity by those who
the men see as insane.

Foreground: my forearm with a tattoo of a key
Background: big coffee mug with a grumpy frog and the text: My tummy hurts & I'm mad at the government

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Looking pretty if I do say so myself

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Asymmetrical fingerboard extension for a fretless bass

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

All together for the first time. These three guitars' bodies are all cut from the same slab of redwood. From left to right, a baritone tele, snakehead tele, and Model 2C.

Three guitars resting on a red couch. The wood of their bodies is highly figured, wavy grained redwood with clear lacquer finish.

The same three guitars, but showing their backs. The M2C's back has a large area of epoxy resin inlay covering pest-eaten parts of the redwood body.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Logo removed, body all together. (On a tele bridge pup, the logo comes off with careful sanding with 220 grit, and a little lemon oil to restore uniform dark color.)

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Glad I get a chance to revisit that copper shielding band-aid. That was a… design choice. For sure.

Body of the guitar. It has a clear pickguard and a little oval of copper tape covers a wiring rout.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

More shop setup work. Getting there.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

“Oh-a, heya every a body! Look-a-me! I’ma da popa!”

The Pope's First Words Will Set Expectations for His Papacy
2 MIN READ

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This distinguished gentleman

A little black and white dog, looking cute as can be

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

If you see this post yr getaway vehicle

Pic of Cranky Black from Furiosa (a mashup of a dune buggy and a 1930s hot rod with a rear engine small block V8) jumping the crest of a sand dune

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

“So as an ER nurse in DC, what’s the weirdest thing you’ve found in someone’s butt?” “There was this guy recently. He’d been fucked with the entire global rare earths market.”

China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War
Intensifies
Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world's car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.
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