Ken's musical vision

In the real world I play E.S.P. guitars and Ibanez basses. I also have M-Audio's Trigger Finger (who knows how to program this??? What, no step-by-step manual?), a Behringer condenser microphone, a GNX4 multi-effects foot pedal, and some 32 track digital recording software that I have yet to figure out. I am at the stage where I almost have all the gear I'll need and I'm ready to begin recording music to go with the songs I've written. When that is done I would like to use www.snocap.com to create a music store and sell my own mp3's right off this page and my myspace page. Don't hold your breathe waiting though... turtle speed, turtle speed.

In the virtual world I have created an entire line of guitars based solely upon the ancient Egyptian Tree of Life, also known as the Kabbalah.  I call these guitars The TRUTH Line of Signature Guitars. For a long time I was "photoshopping" the images but I have since created a 3D model in Cararra 3.0 that enables me to fully render anything my imagination comes up with. To go with my virtual guitars I have created the MAAT Amplifier system. MAAT could very well be the world's first pyramidal shaped amp line. If you're an amp company send me a line and let's talk marketing and promotion and profit. MAAT is ready to explode.

Mixing real and virtual, I have created two inventions for the TRUTH Line, The HORUS Customizable Headstock System TM, and The Heavy Vibes Vibrator for Guitars TM. These inventions are FREE by the way. ANY guitar manufacturer can use them as long I get some credit.

When I conceived of The Coffee Cup Project my goal was to write a book, write a screenplay, and record a CD. I have finished the book, I'm writing the screenplay now, and should my medical delays clear up then my CD is waiting for me along some exotic timeline in the future in which I am an Internet superstar playing TRUTH through MAAT and loving it!

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Update:  TRUTH Model Guitar is now underway!  Follow progress below.

9/11/08 --- Down below I have listed all the steps that are needed to see TRUTH come to light.  As I finish each step I'll mark and highlight the list so you can view my progress online.  I'm also taking lots and lots of photos along the way to document the journey of creating this amazing guitar.  Stay tuned!

STEPS TO COMPLETION:

1.  Create a great working sketch of the most awesome guitar on the planet.  DONE!
2.  Take the sketch and create a photoshop collage of TRUTH.  DONE!
3.  Create a 3D digital model in Carrara. DONE!

4.  Create a Solid Edge 2D CAD model of guitar based upon the cardboard prototype above (this will be a cast aluminum frame anodized in yellow that the wood neck and acrylic body will affix to - Special thanks to LaKendrick Washington for his initial idea!  Take note from the photo above that I am keeping to the Flower of Life theme for the frame and the acrylic portion will focus on the Tree of Life - or Death, depending upon what type of model I'm working on).
5.  Buy parts:  The following parts below have already been ordered:

DiMarzio Evo 2 F-space bridge pickup in white
DiMarzio Fred neck pickup in white
DiMarzio Pickup Rings in blue, green, pink, and white
DiMarzio three way selector switch
DiMarzio copper shielding
wiring diagrams from DiMarzio
Proline chrome dome volume knobs, (2)
Proline 500k volume pots for volume and tone (2)
Proline flush mount jack (2)
LED's
Instrument cable
Guitar picks and pick holder
momentary Killswitch for Ace Frehley, Tom Morello on/off effects
Floyd Rose Speedloader tremolo system and nut
Guitar case (postal monkey Day of the Dead - with chromatic tuner)
Laser cut the guitar's input jackplate using www.ponoko.com (detail below)

Horus Eye Design of jack plate copyrighted © 2008 by Ken D. Webber; All Rights Reserved.  The image at left is a computer rendered image.

and... the real finished custom HORUS Eye stainless steel jack plate below.  

Custom TRUTH sticker printed through sticker robot
wire - 22 gauge

Total spent on above = $710.83

I still need:
custom neck with inlays and HORUS customizable headstock system
possibly a wood body prototype for which to create the acrylic model
Solid Edge CAD drawing of the body
cast aluminum frame, anodized
custom acrylic body
on/off toggle switch to specifically control the LED's
Dimarzio Fred, F-spaced, chrome for neck position
coverplates
screws

6.  Scrape up the cash for a custom neck with inlay work and HORUS TM = $$$ drain.
7.  Have the clear acrylic guitar body manufactured
8.  Tweak the prototype and make final changes to design.
9.  Assemble parts, wire, plug in guitar and rock the fucking house!
10.  Put TRUTH on the market and put an ad in Guitar World Magazine.
11.  Do a YouTube video of the guitar in action for the website
12.  Find the next Steve Vai or John 5 who is worthy of signing an endorsement deal and sign them.
13.  Begin the process all over again for my Pyramidal MAAT amplifier line.

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Wu Li's Traveling Show © 2005 by Ken Webber

And the spirit said:

I am a bird with a broken wing
I am a singer, with no voice to sing
I travel round, sunup to sundown
Until somebody sets me free

See me in heaven, see me in hell
See me someplace, beyond the veil
Got no time for complaining I travel on
Until somebody sets me free

sitting ghost, what ya sitting on
tinkle keys from a world that's moved on
We travel round, here and there
No one belong's when they're everywhere

booking time, now I'll play my gig
sold the show so you dance the jig
Roll my bones from the mojo bag
I used to be here I used to be me

Call me Darrell, Call me Ray
Call me Jimi with the little wing
uh sit right back and let me play
Got to keep movin, oh Wu Li King
until somebody, somebody, sets me free

Got the house jumpin' let the people have their dream

I am a bird with a broken wing
I am a singer, with no voice to sing
I travel round, sunup to sundown
Until somebody sets me free

Background Info on the song

I saw Ray in heaven and heard Dimebag by his side.  And the first line came from Ray and I answered in blues based call and response.  Dimebag took the first solo and ripped man.  Keys in the background holding down the beat.  Then it went back around and Jimi Hendrix sang a bit.  A hint of Martin Luther at the end (on dream).  The ending is a southern church choir.

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Cross your eyes to see the above image in full stereoscopic 3D!

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"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." --- Hunter S. Thompson