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About Me

I'm the Owner of a cigar box guitar based company called SmokeBox Instruments.
Check out some samples of my work in
"SmokeBox Guitars Photo Section"
and also my website
( www.SmokeBoxInstruments.com )
All SmokeBox Instruments are handmade using mostly hand tools and are 100% playable instruments. The wooden ones sound like a small Dobro and the Metal ones sound like a small National. Sound samples will be posted both here and to the main website shortly.
I'm also in the beginning stages of creating a non-profit natural building ministry called "Of These Hands."
My hope is to begin by building natural homes within the city of Detroit, and then branch out nationally and then internationally from there - working side by side with the residents of the communities to build homes, schools and clinics in communities that have severe monetary limitations.
I hope to also incorporate the digging of wells to provide fresh drinking water for these same comminities as well as planting vegetable and fruit gardens.
I worked on a kid's cottage/classsroom at Kensington Metropark's Farm Center in Milford, Michigan that provided a wonderful informal space for learning and experimenting with different techniques. I've posted photos of the cottage in the "Kensington Kid's Cottage" section in my photos area.

My Interests

"Why do we kill people
Who kill People
To show people
That killing people
Is wrong?"

Society For Barefoot Living ,

Barefooting Bulletin Board ,

Natural Building Network ,

Cigar Box Guitars ,

Reading (epecially scripture),

Music,

Foreign Films,

Laughing Children,

Community,

Learning Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic & Zulu

"www.Perverted-Justice.com"

I'd like to meet:

I'm interested in meeting people interested in genuine friendships, natural building enthusiasts, people into missions, barefooting, hiking, rootsy acoustic music and people that are getting tired with overconsumerism.

Music:

Gillian Welch, Chris Whitley, Tom Waits, David Wilcox, John Gorka, Neil Young, Lucinda Williams, Buddy & Julie Miller, Robert Randolph, Staple Singers, Carl Perkins, Anything Appalachian, and Frank Allison!

Movies:

Not one less, To kill a mockingbird, Captains Courageous (Spencer Tracy version), Cyrano DeBerserac (Jose Ferrer Version), Beyond the gates of splendor, Passion of the Christ, Delicatessen, Vita E Bella, Cinema Paradiso, The Red Violin, Rocky....

Television:

Not a whole lot, but I do dig: Mythbusters, Mash, & Little House on the Prairie..

Books:

The Bible, The Irresistable Revolution, Nine hils to Nambonkaha, The Heavenly Man, Anything C.S. Lewis...

Heroes:

Mother Theresa & Albert Schweitzer

My Blog

Bill OReilly

Has anyone ever noticed that you never see Maj. Frank Burns (from MASH) and Bill O'Reilly in the same place at the same time? ...
Posted by Old Pierce on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:19:00 PST

The building of a Cob Oven - Costa Rica 2005

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7H-ziKVLWY Take a few moments to watch this video on making a cob (sand, clay, sometimes straw and water) oven. This is absolutely the best natural building ...
Posted by Old Pierce on Sat, 31 May 2008 04:19:00 PST

Singing in church in South Africa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4xu7apxHuQ Here are some youth singing in church on Sunday morning in eSikhawini, South Africa. The church is Grace Evangelical Church across the street from...
Posted by Old Pierce on Fri, 16 May 2008 03:34:00 PST

April 21st South Africa

Up a little earlier for the 2nd eSikhawini clinic (1st one was yesterday). Gave away a whole lot of glasses today. Rev Rob seems to think all the Zulus are trying to pull one over on him a...
Posted by Old Pierce on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:19:00 PST

April 16th South America

Went to the Hluhluwe game park at 6 am and stayed until about 6 pm. We drove alot and slow! It was beutiful in a way I can't even describe. We saw Rhinos, Zebras, Cape buffalo, ...
Posted by Old Pierce on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:14:00 PST

April 15th South Africa

Drove to the mountain top in Ingwavuma to set up a makeshift clinic in a crude and quickly constructed building made with handmade cinderblocks and a tin roof. Set up 6 makeshift exam rooms (sheets hu...
Posted by Old Pierce on Thu, 01 May 2008 08:59:00 PST

April 14th South Africa

Today, we sorted and packed an insane ammount of meds to take to the mountain top clinic in Ingwavuma tomorrow.Rev Rob, Allie and I will be fitting people for glasses. There was a young boy that was s...
Posted by Old Pierce on Thu, 01 May 2008 08:49:00 PST

April 13th South Africa trip

(These entries are just as I wrote them in my journal while in South Africa. I've never kept a journal before, so forgive the open ended and possibly nonsensical writing style.) Drove to Empanbe...
Posted by Old Pierce on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:10:00 PST

Fiddlestix H. McWhiskers is born!

Hello all, It is my privilege to announce the birth of a new character of mine: "Fiddlestix H. McWhiskers" the hobo. He is still in the creation stages, but he will be a mostly silent loveable h...
Posted by Old Pierce on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:26:00 PST

Free Rice

www.freerice.com Here's a site that has a vocabulary game to play. With each word you get correct, Free Rice will donate 20 grains of rice. Seem like a pretty small ammount? Well, t...
Posted by Old Pierce on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:52:00 PST