I've been recruiting my local writing spider to add graphics to my latest amp stand:) I move the spider to a new location on the side of the building, Then i spray the web with spray paint and drape the panels through the webs, followed by a quick poly coat to make it stick better. This first one is looking great so far!

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That cool Josh. Im interested to know why the webs

Hi Tim, great question, had to think about it all night because it's a tough one. I grew up as a bit of a rebellious teen, post modern, goth, obsessed with everything that others shied away from simply because at the time it gave me an identity. My skateboards had skulls and my clothes were always black. I dated girls who dyed their hair black and purposely paled their skin. I was the negative of normal back then, gravitating toward anything provocative or worrisome to others.

Since then (going on 25 years now) I have grown out of that need, the identity search, the desire to be different. I now enjoy blending in and not being so nonconformist. I could care less what brand cloths I wear, they just get covered in wood glue and sawdust anyway.

I also grew up aspiring to be an artist, an engineer, a designer, builder, a musician, anything creative and hands-on. The spider web is something I played around with trying to draw on paper. I have always liked their random yet symmetrical look. Effortless beaughty without worry, function leading form, the opposite of what I worried over for when an adolescent (form was so much more important than function for me back then). I enjoy webs, especially when they are wet from morning dew and easy to see.

I'm not really "trying" to find new ways to cover up the stunningly beautiful wood grain I work so hard to get to shine through, it was just an old idea that i have wanted to try for years. and now seeing as I have a cooperative spider to work with, the time was ripe.

To wrap up, I have also been working some with a custom amp builder from my state (Blackfoot Custom Amps out of Memphis) who makes incredible and stunning hand wired, hand built amps that are simply amazing. The logo they use reminds me of a spider in a way, so I have been consequently thinking more about spiders for the last few months. I love their logo for the same reasons I love the random symmetry in webs, and it sort of inspired me to revisit some of my old ideas.

Here is the logo I am talking about.


and hear is the spider who builds the webs for me:



Thanks for asking Tim, I had to do some serious thinking to figure out why the web.

It's an awesome effect, so much more realistic than anything I could ever do with my hand and a pen or knife. I may use the technique on a guitar body one day.

Hope you are enjoying the bassman on it's new stand!

Josh

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Loving the amp stand. Setting the amp on the stand with the angle has changed my tone for the better. Its amazing how the angle helps me to hear what Im playing. A matching amp with the web stand would be cool.

Great to hear!!! The web stand will be up for grabs after the LA Amp Show the 1st week of Oct. It's gonna have the LED logo in it too:)

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Isn't this thread another sales effort, contrary to the Forum Rules? The fact that this poster has evidently sold stands to Forum members would indicate that it is so. When efforts by Forum members to sell guitars or advertise their guitar listings on eBay are immediately pounced upon, I don't see that this is any different. JMO

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If the original poster was making stands for his own use and posting about them, that would be different. But this statement by the poster indicates the stand will be available for purchase and when.

"The web stand will be up for grabs after the LA Amp Show the 1st week of Oct. It's gonna have the LED logo in it too"

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That's awesome! I just changed out the tubes in my AC30 from the crappy Chinese stuff to some sweet EH EL84s, a quartet, with a Marshall 12AX7 in the V1 position and two Mullards in V2 and V3. The difference in the tone was amazing! and it also helped out my tremelo as well, weird...

I may try my hand at a cab one of these days with some spider webs, Blackfoot may have a few pointers for me in cabinet construction. I do like the spider web graphics, but it's not my style these days, I've sorta grown out of that sorta stuff and into things a bit more simple. yet I do still like to try my hand at being creative in new exciting ways that nobodies done before. It's more of a "can I do it" thing than "do I want it" sorta thing. Thus once I get done with my work i usually let it go. No point in hoarding.

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Finished it...now to toss my AC30 on it and learn the tab for Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah!

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and a closer pic:)

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