Found in my backyard: obsidian stone tool

Yesterday, while my wife Ellen was cleaning her horse corral, she found this stone. It is obsidian, like a piece of black glass, which is clearly evident when held up to the light. I've examined it under magnification and it is undoubtedly a napped stone.  This stone appears to be the middle section of a small spear point, or perhaps a scraping tool. I'm leaning toward a hunting point because both long edges of the stone have been napped. I will definitely be looking to find the missing sections of this stone. This is a pretty exciting find from our backyard. Below is a view of the other side of the stone.

Guitar case project: finished

I had this guitar case laying around in my shop half finished for almost a year. I made it for my main electric guitar, a custom made strat-style guitar, shown in the photo below. The reason it took so long is because late stages of its construction involve a lot of heavy duty spray glue and pretty much puts my shop out of use until the glue dries, and it takes up an entire work bench. I had to wait until I had no other projects, or restoration work, in the shop. So, here it is finally finished. The box has pine sides with plywood "door-skin" front and back. Inside, a hardwood neck brace and storage box, short black fake fur lining. The outside is covered with exterior upholstery fabric, all hardware is brass. Total, actual, construction time was about a week. The trick is to build a case that is as light as possible but still strong.

For the guitar nuts: I could never afford a custom made guitar. They are crazy-expensive. One day, visiting Mark Johnson's (MJ Guitars) shop behind a music store, I was going through his scrap bin and I found this blue metal-flake painted guitar body. I asked him "What's wrong with this?" He said it was a bass guitar body routed for strat style pickups and he tossed it because nobody wanted it. We got to talking and in the end I got the body and all the hardware for it in exchange for me faux-finish painting about a half dozen guitar bodies for him. In addition he'd clear coat this body after I painted it. You can't see it in this photo but up close this finish has several shades of blue and violet sponge-painted over the blue metal flake, with flecks of gold running through it. I looks like a block of lapis lazuli. The excellent neck, made by local luthier Jim Surles (in exchange for painting a couple of guitars) is unfinished maple (except for the front of the headstock) and has an ebony fretboard. Locking Spurtzel tuners, graphite nut, EMG pickups, active humbucker at the bridge and a Kahler trem (which I'm not crazy about). Jim assembled it and did all the set up for me. A custom guitar made by two different custom guitar makers! All I had to do is paint some guitars, which isn't exactly a piece of cake, but I can come up with a really good custom paint job easier than I can come up with the money for a custom made guitar. This thing rocks like a Mo Fo!