Therevox T-Shirt Giveaway
July 2nd, 2017 posted by mike under Therevox News.For the months of July and August, we are giving away free Therevox t-shirts to everyone that makes a good youtube video that features one of our instruments. Chosen videos will be featured on our website and facebook page.
What makes a good video?
To be a chosen video, your uploads should have well recorded audio and the Therevox playing must show creativity and confidence. Your video could include studio footage, live footage, with other instruments or solo. Chosen videos will also be edited together by us into a separate highlights video, so make it look good and show us what you got.
Entering the giveaway
Drop us a line through our website or facebook page to let us know about your video.
New Shop
February 5th, 2017 posted by mike under Therevox News, Workshop Updates.After quite a few months of renovating, we finally moved into the new shop. This building was once a welding shop and a pinball repair shop before it sat empty for several years. Here are some before and after photos.
Making of the Reclaimed Wood Therevox
August 7th, 2016 posted by mike under Therevox News, Workshop Updates.I’ll admit that I’m a bit of a pack-rat, especially when it comes to nice pieces of wood. When I’m milling the rough Walnut to make a Therevox ET-4, I’m often left with an assortment of small pieces and I keep every single one of them. After four years of saving these pieces, I thought it was fitting to build a new Therevox ET-4 out of the wood left from construction of all the previous instruments.
Hundreds of small strips were rounded up, measured, graded and then milled to proper dimensions. The order of the strips and grain direction were decided on and then the strips were laminated together.
Each side of the instrument is made with a six-layer lamination. It wasn’t intentional, but I like the coincidence that this instrument is also the first of our sixth production run.
Wiping on the first coat of Tung Oil is always the most anticipated part of building these instruments, and I was especially pleased with how this special instrument turned out. I was honoured when the guys at reverb.com showed off the final product at MoogFest in Durham, North Carolina.
To be honest, this was an instrument I wanted to keep for myself but I already own one of the first ET-4’s (serial number 1 – 12). It was listed on reverb.com for only several hours before it found a good home at The Loft Recording Studio in Chicago.
Wood & Wires – Documentary on Therevox
January 1st, 2015 posted by mike under Therevox News.Over the course of the last year, Detroit’s Spokeshave productions came and visited Therevox Custom Musical Instruments to film the progress of the ET-4 instruments being built. The final video turned out great, and I’m happy to share it here. Intro music by Team Me.
Still Images from Wood & Wires
Mike running Walnut boards through the jointer.
Using a hand plane to square a board.
Hand rubbing the therevox tung oil finish.
Each instrument is given a serial number, signed-off and dated after calibration.
The finger-ring being filed to shape.
Tech Talk: Therevox. June 26th
June 12th, 2014 posted by mike under Therevox News.
If you’re in the Windsor/Detroit area, I will be speaking at HackForge on June 26th at 6PM about Therevox, showing some early prototype stuff and demonstrating the ET-4.3. The event is located at the Central Branch of the Windsor Public Library, and more details can be found here.
