Chris Franklyn
chrisfranklyn.com
Chris Franklyn
@chrisfranklyn.com
I make guitars, bad jokes and occasional furniture. But mostly I say what ever pops into my head.
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One thing I love to do is make electric guitars. They usually look like this, my SkyBeam model. Available in any imaginable configuration.

Always good to meet other guitar lovers and makers.
Because a person can't have too many hobbies I'm having a go at recreating Treasure Island from the short lived Commodore Plus 4.

#godot
February 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Using alien technology in guitar repairs?
January 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Not often you have to whip out a spirit level doing guitar work. But I'm drop-filling some nasty chips in the finish that make it impossible to play.
January 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Vicki told me that if you knock on the door of the Ghostbusters fire house, and ask nicely, you can pop in.. and now I’ve had my life made..
January 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I would also like to find more British people on here (non-celebs). Whenever I have a quick, guilty flick through Threads the vibe is just so so different and more homely than Bluesky
January 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Without bending the laws of three-dimensional space, is it actually possible to remove the battery from a 2014 Ford Focus?
January 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Preparing to glue the binding back on this gorgeous PRS after a speaker landed on it. Then some finish repair.

Soon it'll be playable without shards of polyester entering the owner's hand!
January 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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I wonder how long you could drive in a roundabout before a cop would be like hey you can't do that anymore.
January 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I've accidently waved at a passing car then died from embarrassment because it was a stranger but I've never accidently whipped out a sig heil.
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Two step verification advocated for stricter online controls, with one step composing an ID check, and ‘two step’ equalling facial recognition.

The last step is “tickly under there”, apparently.
January 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I don't want to alarm anyone, but he appears to have deleted the US Constitution...

#usconstitution
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Remember.
January 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Thinking of starting beige bait, posts designed to elicit a small shrug or snort
January 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I love everything Burls Art does I think. These remind me of those old salt lamps.
January 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I never played Skyrim, but occasionally I feel the urge to tell someone I took an arrow to the knee.
January 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Quick reminder, most nonces in the UK are white British men who know or are related to the victim... As everyone damn well knows.
January 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I never did manage to make this #bernie on Mars concept guitar.

Like a SG but headless, multi scale, offset and through body. I did make it in sparkly yellow though.
January 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The AI apocalypse is here, and it’s brought to you by Google & Meta turbofunk.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
The AI Apocalypse is Here, and It's Brought to You By Google & Meta
You may have read my previous articles about The Fall of Google Search Parts 1, 2, and 3 - here’s your follow up.
turbofunk.substack.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I've had a lot of motivational training courses and days inflicted on me. They all boil down to "make a to-do list".
January 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It may have been 30 years since Rednex did Cotton Eye Joe, but I still can't sing "If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe" in time to the first line of the song.
January 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Switch 2: Electric Switcheroo
2 Switch 2 Serious
2witch
January 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Is there anything of actual tangible use in any of the #Switch2 announcements? It's another Switch, yeah thanks. It'll still have that awful control layout.

However I'm 100% getting one 😂
January 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM