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Splitcoil

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Luthier, writer, musician. Hearing impaired. The whole show at Crowfoot Electric Guitars. Currently writing & recording with Last Valley. Queer. He/him. San Diego, CA. This is my personal account. Opinions expressed here are mine alone. crowfootguitars.com

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Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

Yes, for a routing template

MDF routing template for a slotted headstock guitar neck

November 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

More fun stuff coming

Tracing of a routing template for a vuitar neck with slotted headstock

November 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

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.

October 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

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

October 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

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

October 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

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.

October 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

Fucking homophobes

Screenshot of a scrabble-like wird game. A player attempted to play “zaddies” but the word is not in the game’s dictionary

September 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

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

September 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

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

September 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

Doodly doodly

September 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

Proof of progress

Neck fitted to body of a bass in progress. The neck is flamed maple with an ebony fingerboard, fretless, with mother of pearl dot markers and cream line markers. The body is a chambered, African mahogany number patterned in old Gibson archtops with a scrolled upper horn

September 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

Ebony fingerboard slotted, beside a fret saw, secured to a steel slotting template

Fingerboard in process of slotting, in a steel slotting jig with saw fitted

August 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

Looking pretty if I do say so myself

August 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

Asymmetrical fingerboard extension for a fretless bass

August 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

Sunday morning
Photo by @theremina.bsky.social

Old dude reclines on a couch in a PUNCH NAZIS shirt, petting an adorable little dog

August 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

I’m sorry, fucking what?

In Unusual Move, U.S.
Government to Take Cut of Companies' Chips Sold to
China
The unorthodox agreement for Nvidia and
AMD to pay the U.S. 15 percent would essentially make the federal government a partner in their business in China.

August 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM

Splitcoil

@splitcoil.bsky.social

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.

August 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM

Splitcoil

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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.)