Radiate: Tristan Mason's blog http://radiate.aplacetoconnect.com An ongoing discussion about God, worship, music, the arts, and much more Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:27:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Way Up Is Down I’m writing a series of daily Lent meditations for our church (and whoever else is interested).  If you’d like to receive one each morning, you can sign up on our church’s home page at http://www.aplacetoconnect.com (in the left nav bar) or snag a RSS feed from the REP blog at http://rep.aplacetoconnect.com.  The first day’s meditation [...]

]]> http://radiate.aplacetoconnect.com/2010/02/23/the-way-up-is-down/ Roadworthy & Stigtronics This week I spent some time in Bloomington, Indiana (home of IU), and stopped by one of my favorite music stores, Roadworthy Guitar & Amp.  One of the things I love about Roadworthy is that they always have interesting stuff in the store—usually they have some guitar, amp, or effect I’ve never heard of, some [...]

]]> http://radiate.aplacetoconnect.com/2010/01/25/roadworthy-stigtronics/ Photos from Pennsylvania Some photos with the new (to me) camera…

]]> http://radiate.aplacetoconnect.com/2009/12/29/photos-from-pennsylvania/ ‘Tis The Season Video Since I’m way too busy during the holidays to write an actual post, here is a video that pokes fun at how busy and distracted we are during the holidays.  Oh, the irony.

We showed this as part of our Advent Conspiracy sermon series, which challenges what Christmas has become in USAmerican culture.  Thanks to Tanya [...]

]]> http://radiate.aplacetoconnect.com/2009/12/23/tis-the-season-video/ The desert or the oasis This video became intensely personal for me at about two minutes, when Bell talks about inviting people into a life we are not living.  Every worship leader (really, anyone in “church work”, whether volunteer or paid) has felt this way during those weeks when everything is going wrong, every moment has been spoken for, and [...]

]]> http://radiate.aplacetoconnect.com/2009/11/02/the-desert-or-the-oasis/ Speaker cab is finally finished! The cab is finally done!  Since the last post, I poly’d the speaker baffle, attached & wired the jackplate, mounted the speakers, and painted & attached the speaker grills.

I found the Marshall switchable jackplate at Antique Electronic Supply.  It allows the use of both speakers at 4 ohms or 16 ohms, or either speaker at [...]

]]> http://radiate.aplacetoconnect.com/2009/10/09/speaker-cab-construction-4/ Speaker cab construction 3 Since the last post, I finished staining the cab.  I used Minwax Red Mahogany on the box and Varathane Summer Oak on the speaker baffle.  Before staining soft woods like pine, it’s important to use a wood conditioner so that the wood stains evenly.  I used Varathane wood conditioner, but any will do.

After staining, I [...]

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