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Alex Kapranos on the Emerald Deluxe Beetle Wing Guitar
October 19, 2022
Video – Ian Schneller on the TAR Aluminum Guitar
September 9, 2022
Repair Journal Gibson U Harp Guitar Restoration
June 8, 2022
Guitar Making – Archtop Electric Tenor Ukulele Kit
August 9, 2021
Guitar Making – Reimagining the Bass V
June 24, 2021
Specimen Instruments Luddite Family Reuinion
May 20, 2021
Guitar Making – Chumcaster
June 30, 2021
Guitar Making – Special Telecasters
June 24, 2021
Guitar Making – Checkerboard Binding On A Custom Tele
January 15, 2013
Guitar Making – “Reverse Three Way” Esquire Circuit
February 26, 2021
Guitar Making – Emerald Deluxe Beetle-wing Replica
March 1, 2020
Guitar Making – Video: Guitar Body Thicknessing
July 2, 2018
Guitar Making – Gluing A Body Cap
August 4, 2018
Guitar Making – Joining A Guitar Body Cap
August 1, 2018
Classes – Tube Amplifier Making
July 1, 2013
Amp Making – 5E3 Deluxe Line Out and Dummy Load Modification
January 8, 2021
Classes – Guitar Design & Blueprint
October 29, 2012
Specimen Instruments Aluminum Electric Ukulele
June 1, 2018
Repair Journal – Epiphone Masterbilt Olympic
January 10, 2012
Guitar Making – Joining Guitar Top Plates
June 28, 2018
Guitar Making – Emerald Deluxe Custom Guitar for Alex Kapranos
July 30, 2013
Ian Schneller Interview
June 17, 2017
Sonic Arboretum Guggenheim Poster
April 23, 2012
Sonic Arboretum MCA Poster
August 30, 2021
Video – SAIC Alumnus Profile: Ian Schneller MCA Sonic Arboretum
October 13, 2014
Video – Film Documentary Feature The Art of Listening
February 28, 2017
Specimen Instruments Aluminum Maccaferri
November 5, 2019
Television – Specimen Audio on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
May 1, 2012
Guitar Making – Amontillado Luddite Acoustic-Electric Guitar
June 13, 2012
Specimen Audio – New XL Horns Tour 2015 Andrew Bird Gezelligheid
December 11, 2015
Guitar Making – Blank Canvas on an Autumn Morning
October 10, 2018
Repair Journal – SG Headstock Break
January 10, 2018
Specimen – Designs The Aerobund
July 30, 2015
Specimen Audio – Calla Hi-Fi System – ICA Boston Museum Shop
February 3, 2015
Specimen Exhibition 2015 Sonic Arboretum ICA Boston
Specimen Exhibition 2014 Sonic Vignettes University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
February 5, 2014
Specimen Exhibition 2013 Sonic Vignettes Elgin Arts Center, Elgin IL
September 19, 2013
Specimen Audio – Making A Horn Amp Combo
August 26, 2013
Guitar Making – New Design Mando-beest Guitar
May 29, 2019
Specimen Audio – Aerosel 24
August 12, 2021
Specimen Audio – Gimbal Horn Speaker Takes Shape Part 3
August 26, 2013
Specimen Audio – Gimbal Horn Speaker Takes Shape Part 2
August 22, 2013
Specimen Exhibition SOFA ArtExpo Chicago
November 19, 2012
Specimen Exhibition 2014 AeroDynamisms and Music of Glenn Kotche Chicago
February 14, 2014
Specimen Audio – Special Hornlet Exhibition 2012 Columbia College
June 5, 2012
Fan Mail – Specimen Hornlet Tattoo
May 1, 2012
Specimen Exhibition 2011 Sonic Arboretum MCA Chicago
December 11, 2011
Specimen Exhibition 2014 AeroDynamisms Packer Gallery Chicago
March 30, 2014
Specimen Exhibition 2014 New Crop of Horn Speakers Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago
October 23, 2014
Specimen Audio – Making The Spinning Janus Ceiling Horn Speaker
January 28, 2013
Repair Journal – Epiphone Electar Amplifier
May 29, 2009
Fan Mail – Instagram’s Hornling Speakers
November 20, 2012
Specimen Exhibition 2016 CHIRP Record Fair Chicago
March 29, 2016
Guitar Making – Luddite Bass Guitar
April 30, 2013
Specimen Audio – Gimbal Horn Speaker Takes Shape Part 1
April 26, 2013
Guitar Making – Super Luddite Electric Guitar in Progress
August 15, 2010
Amp Making – Single-Ended Stereo Tube Amp
November 26, 2008
Specimen Audio – Penland School of Crafts – A Mountain Oasis
April 16, 2013
Amp Making – 300 B Single-Ended Monoblock Tube Amplifiers
December 15, 2009
Guitar Making – Custom Beetle Wing Pickguard
January 15, 2013
Classes – CSGM Ukulele Building Seminar
November 16, 2012
Specimen Audio – Finished! Janus Horn Ceiling-Mounted Spinning Speaker
September 26, 2012
Specimen Audio – Aerosel Tour 2012 Auditorium Theater Chicago
June 4, 2012
Specimen Instruments Tiple Touring 2012 Fiona Apple/Blake Mills
March 20, 2012
Specimen Audio – Aerosels Tour 2012 Andrew Bird SXSW
Specimen Audio – Aerosel Takes Flight
March 2, 2012
Repair Journal – Harmony Cartoonist
February 1, 2012
Classes – Electric Guitar Making Workshops
November 2, 2011
Guitar Making – Neck Block Machining of an Aluminum Guitar
January 20, 2012
Press – 2012 Time Out Chicago Kids features Specimen
January 16, 2012
Specimen Exhibition 2011 Sonic Arboretum Preparations!
November 28, 2011
Press – 2011 Chicago Magazine Sonic Arboretum
November 16, 2011
Repair Journal – Silvertone Archtop Brace Repair
September 8, 2010
Specimen Audio – Exhibition Photos Guggenheim Sonic Arboretum
August 4, 2010
Specimen Audio – Making The First Sonic Arboretum
July 15, 2010
Repair Journal – Ibanez Roadstar
April 26, 2010
Repair Journal – Bowl Back Mandolin
March 31, 2010
Repair Journal – Dreadnought Acoustic Headstock Break
March 18, 2010
Repair Journal – Gibson Bass Neck Joint
February 10, 2010
Repair Journal Gibson Les Paul Headstock
December 17, 2009