Electronics
Roeboy! Electronics
Back in the 1990s I ran a recording studio where wires were a way of life… and I hardly got the hang of it. One tech that used to help me out a lot would tease me about it, and so I started studying circuitry… just enough so that I could keep things running… I have gotten more and more excited about these resistors and capacitors, however, especially when iot comes to guitar tone. Here are a few of my projects… many of them from kits so don’t overestimate my abilities….
Cunningham Zoso Les Paul
In 2008 When I first started teaching at Hostos, The then dean of facilities Steve Delgado introduced me to an outbuilding full of interesting tools and people, none more interesting than my friend Joe Cunningham. Over the years Joe has been the guy I could call up...
Electronics
Back in the 1980s my wife Pamela and I took a big chance and built a recording studio in an old barn in rural upstate New York. I could barely set a nail straight back then, and circuitry was definitely beyond me, yet I started teaching myself (largely by making a...
Hostos Helping Concert for Ecuador 2016
After the 2016 Earthquakes in Ecuador some Hostos colleagues and I organized a concert to raise relief funds for the victims. Here’s a snippet of my set that night, playing with the magnificent John Arrucci and his band. Oh, by the way, that’s a Roeboy!...
Guitar Builds and Repairs
Roeboy! Guitars & Instruments
I also like to work with wood. If I can make something that generates tone all the better…
Roeboy! “&” Guitar
Roeboy Ampersand Guitar One SM So in 2019 I found an old arch top guitar hanging BY A HOOK in an old junk shop. The back and face split in several places, the back coming off and the sides misshapen. That hook through the headstock and deep pits in the ebony fretboard...
Cunningham Zoso Les Paul
In 2008 When I first started teaching at Hostos, The then dean of facilities Steve Delgado introduced me to an outbuilding full of interesting tools and people, none more interesting than my friend Joe Cunningham. Over the years Joe has been the guy I could call up...
Hostos Helping Concert for Ecuador 2016
After the 2016 Earthquakes in Ecuador some Hostos colleagues and I organized a concert to raise relief funds for the victims. Here’s a snippet of my set that night, playing with the magnificent John Arrucci and his band. Oh, by the way, that’s a Roeboy!...
Furniture
Woodworking
Sometimes the wood doesn’t need to make noises…
Nurturing Nature Slide Screens
The Nurturing Nature show in 2008 was an exhibition at the Art Mission in Binghamton, New York where I was provided the opportunity to bring together a number of my interactive installations and develop several new pieces. The newer work involved large wooden...
Renovations
More uses for my toolbox
My wife Pamela and I had a housemate when we first moved into a home of our own (Edie Road, Greenwich, NY 1987). John Kovacik promised to help me fix up the house in return for free rent and a place to make his incredibkle furniture. I got the better end of that deal. John taught me how to learn to be a better carpenter and where to seek out a house’s soul. It took me years to do anything all that well, but now I am able to make things that don’t make me ashamed, how to design what a space can really be, to know when to hire a professional, and how to recognize craftsmanship. Someday, my work will be that good.
West Avenue Renovation 2018
My latest project has involved renovating a late 19th Century Queen Anne in Massachusetts. See the before and after video above… music is a bit of Fester...
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