I have shitloads of old band t shirts that no longer fit my 40 year old frame and i will be honest i had a hard time trying to figure out what to do with them. I really didn't want to chuck them. I have no kids yet to hand them down to and my wife won't wear them so whats a guy to do/
Luckily i am not the only turd in the punchbowl with this problem. I wasn't alone.
I saw something online where dudes were taking their old shirts and turning them into wall art. They would make a simple frame out of 2x2 and then cut up their shirts and staple them around the frame kind of like a painting canvas on a frame. That seemed easy enough so i gave it a try and mocked one up. I didn't like it. It looked cheap. It was also kind of purposeless. Then i had a brain fart to take it to the next level and start using some more of my reno left overs to make some sound treatment panels! Now we're in business.
So slapped together this thing. I am happy with how it turned out. not really happy with the burlap. I am going to fix that though. I thin k it needs a solid strip to fasten it down a bit better. I'll let the photos speak for themselves. Some photos are missing. Sorry.
One of the many shirts in have in a box to do something with. I grabbed this cause it was bright and i really like the print.
this is some 1x2 i had laying around from making some doors elsewhere in the house.
Sorry for the shit quality. I thought i deleted all the blurry crap photos. made a frame based off some crude measurements of the shirt. this was the first frame that was like a wrap around canvas. But it would later turn out to end up being an inner frame for a bigger idea.
Left over piece of 1x6 pine the garage door installer left laying about. I cut this up into pieces to be an outer box to put the shirt frame in and stuff with other crap.
I smeared a little bit of this stuff on the pine. It looks o.k. It is called 'smoked oak' i picked this up for the back, sides and neck of the tele kit i am picking away at. I haven't tried this stuff on the basswood test peices yet and i think it might look a little lacklustre on the basswood. I do like it on the pine though. quite sharp.
Almost looks like moisture damaged wood a little.
all four sides. it's too bad i didn't get a picture of that box put all together.
I have gobs of this shit laying around in bags and boxes in the garage. I dare say i have enouygh to make six more of these little things and two well sized bass traps. it's not rockwool or whatever the 'standard" stuff is supposed to be but it was free to me and i am sure it has an R-Value that will do some sound magic so who cares.
cut that stuff up to size and finished a delicious raspberry cream ale. Canadian Summers. Tasty.
Stuff it in the hole. #thatswhatshesaid
this was wrapped around the wife's Currant bush last winter. It is going to get stapled onto the back of the box to keep the fiberglass fibers contained.
not in love with this bit of it. I think next time i will cut up some thin strips of wood as wide as the boards, use a bit of wood glue and brad nails and add that as like a nailing strip / finish back type of thing. I forsee this just getting messy and coming apart over time.
fucking rubbish
finished.
I am fairly pleased with how it turned out. except the burlap. i am going back to the drawing board on that one. i am sure that the size of it may do little for the room overall but if i sort of plan to place these things a bit strategically in 2nd reflection points or whatever whats the harm in that? The top of it is also a pretty cool shelf as well.
Multi purpose!
