Members DeepEnd Posted May 10, 2015 Members Share Posted May 10, 2015 I'm so glad I'm not the only one who sank to the "hoot" level. I feel much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted May 10, 2015 Members Share Posted May 10, 2015 What are the pickups? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted May 11, 2015 Members Share Posted May 11, 2015 As always, beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted May 11, 2015 Author Members Share Posted May 11, 2015 What are the pickups? I went with the StewMac Golden Age tele pups. Since I don't know diddly about pickups I figured this was safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted May 11, 2015 Members Share Posted May 11, 2015 Cool - whatever works is good. Nice job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted May 12, 2015 Members Share Posted May 12, 2015 I bet you and Lindy Fralin would get along well. You should email him and show him your electrics. I know what you've got is good, but he'd blow your socks off with what he would come up with. Again, not a criticism, but I think your guitars deserve the best and on an electric that's a huge part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted May 12, 2015 Author Members Share Posted May 12, 2015 I bet you and Lindy Fralin would get along well. You should email him and show him your electrics. I know what you've got is good, but he'd blow your socks off with what he would come up with. Again, not a criticism, but I think your guitars deserve the best and on an electric that's a huge part. You recommended his pickups the last time I built a guitar and I did take a serious look at them (but I had already ordered the ones that ended up in it). I'm really a pretty poor judge of the sound of different pickups, but the next electric I build I will give his serious consideration. What might be fun it to build another barncaster and only change the pups. Mmmmmm...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wankdeplank Posted May 12, 2015 Members Share Posted May 12, 2015 Great pics and story. I bet that old pine sounds amazing as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted July 1, 2015 Author Members Share Posted July 1, 2015 Footnote A wild fire burned thru our community yesterday. Destroyed 28 homes and 4 large business. Burned at least 3000 acres of grass and sage brush. Burned literally within a few hundred feet of the barn, then the winds shifted and it moved away. The barn was saved The old homestead and the barn is off the picture to the right where the dirt road goes. I hope the owl is OK, I think she probably is. I rode my bike out on an irrigation ditch to view the damage - everything was burned but there was a mother duck and nine little ducklings that couldn't have been much older than the fire. I feel like playing the Barncaster tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Phil O'Keefe Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Whew, that was close! I thought you were going to say the barn burned down and the owl was killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted July 1, 2015 Members Share Posted July 1, 2015 I like the way you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members irishstu Posted July 3, 2015 Members Share Posted July 3, 2015 Just seeing this thread now. Excellent work, Freeman Keller, and as mentioned a great back story. It's threads like this that'll get people to come back to HC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted January 5, 2018 Members Share Posted January 5, 2018 I can't believe it's been over 2 years since this! Time flies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted January 5, 2018 Author Members Share Posted January 5, 2018 So, should I let the cat out of the barn, er, bag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted January 7, 2018 Members Share Posted January 7, 2018 Did you ever figure out a way to give the Barncaster to The Land Trust?Did you build another?Necrothreads always confuse me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted January 7, 2018 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2018 Did you ever figure out a way to give the Barncaster to The Land Trust? Did you build another? Necrothreads always confuse me. I donated the first Barncaster to the Land Trust and they auctioned it at their annual dinner. I joked with my wife that I would be really happy if someone would pay a grand for it - it went for considerably more. Way considerably. A friend walked up to me after the dinner and said that he had been bidding on the Barncaster to give to his son for Christmas, but got beat out. I told him that I had more wood, if he would give his last bid to the Land Trust I would make one for his son. He did, I did, his kid has used it on a couple of albums... My son said "dad, if I had known about the Barncaster I would have bid on it" I said,,,,,,,, he did,,,, I've got number four on the bench right now. For Christmas I gave my wife plane tickets so we can deliver it to its new owner. This one doesn't need a donation to the Land Trust - its something I've wanted to do for much of my life. [img2=JSON]{"data-align":"none","data-size":"full","src":"http:\/\/i51.photobucket.com\/albums\/f387\/Freeman_Keller\/Barncaster%202\/IMG_3565_zpstxibnqle.jpg"}[/img2] [img2=JSON]{"data-align":"none","data-size":"full","src":"http:\/\/i51.photobucket.com\/albums\/f387\/Freeman_Keller\/Barncaster%202\/IMG_3616_zpsuuwsjyaa.jpg"}[/img2] I was told by one of the Land Trust people that the scrap board I used was probably part of the watering trough for the draft horses that they used to plow the fields when this was a working homestead The last part of the barncaster saga is that we got a call last fall the the owl nest was falling apart and she might not return. Owls don't build their own nests, this was originally a ravens nest. One of my other hobbies is climbing things so a couple of us took ropes and harnesses and implements of destruction, er, construction and went up to the barn. We climbed up into the rafters (its probably 40 or so feet tall), hauled up some raven like building materials and reinforced the nest [img2=JSON]{"data-align":"none","data-size":"full","src":"http:\/\/i51.photobucket.com\/albums\/f387\/Freeman_Keller\/Barncaster%202\/IMG_3596_zpsrncxt8wf.jpg"}[/img2] [img2=JSON]{"data-align":"none","data-size":"full","src":"http:\/\/i51.photobucket.com\/albums\/f387\/Freeman_Keller\/Barncaster%202\/IMG_3595_zps7cbu5ls0.jpg"}[/img2] We'll know next spring if momma owl returns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted January 7, 2018 Members Share Posted January 7, 2018 Thanks for the update. The whole saga of the Barncaster has been great and now it got even betterThis could be a TV special Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted January 7, 2018 Members Share Posted January 7, 2018 Sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WC1 Posted January 7, 2018 Members Share Posted January 7, 2018 I was completely unaware of this thread until about 2 days ago. Beautiful guitar, beautiful story, and beautiful update. I hope you know you are one of the good one's out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted January 7, 2018 Members Share Posted January 7, 2018 What a story Freeman! I hope Momma Owl returns, and with Babies!And I so hope the Barn continues to provide material for your wonderful instruments, and sustenance therefore for The Land Trust.People like you should be recipients of the Medal of Freedom.I only wish I could afford one of your wonderful instruments, and feel privileged to even be able to behold your build threads and communicate with you in this small way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Freeman Keller Posted January 7, 2018 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2018 Yeah baby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted January 7, 2018 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2018 Here is a picture from the dinner. I brought a little amp and a pick along, people would come by, read the poster, pick up the guitar, play a riff or two and write down their bid. Amazing how many old fart conservationists play guitar. Each time I go up to the barn I look at it with amazement. It was built somewhere in the early 1900's, pretty much by hand. The wood beams are huge - all the trees that big have been cut down. They didn't have cranes or scaffolds or power tools - just a lot of hard working men (and women) working together to scratch out a living. There is an abandoned orchard on the homestead, somehow it survives without being watered or cared for. Each year a bunch of high school kids go up and collect apricots - they make jam and sell it at the dinner. I always buy a few jars. One of the high school teachers takes her nature studies class up there and they collect the owl pellets (owls apparently cough up the bones and hair and stuff from their prey that they can'd digest). Anyway, the kids dissect the pellets to study their diets and understand the food chain. Its pretty cool how excited they get, And last, but not least, I did find a picture of one of last years chicks (there were two). Kind of hard to make out, its dark in the old barn [ATTACH=JSON]{"alt":"Click image for larger versionName:\t30083846413_63a68df4f8_k-2.jpgViews:\t1Size:\t355.7 KBID:\t32135453","data-align":"none","data-attachmentid":"32135453","data-size":"custom","height":"1024","title":"30083846413_63a68df4f8_k-2.jpg","width":"1024"}[/ATTACH] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted January 7, 2018 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2018 The Saga continues - there will be at least one more episode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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