heartofcinder

My love of art and creation started when I was very young. So long ago that I couldnt tell you what got me into art. Though I do remember my parents still being encouraging of my constant teenage mutant ninja turtle drawings. This was all so long ago, but I do remember when I first really started to appreciate music. I was about 17, and I had been listening to various forms of heavy metal for awhile now when I wanted to try and make my own. My Dad lent me his 1972 Fender Precision bass to practice with. It was a fine bass, it almost seemed like a waste on such a novice, but that maybe why Dad wouldnt let me play the fretless. While learning how to play every fledgling musician has to learn the basic things like stringing and tuning their instrument, which I did. And the longer I stuck with the bass, and eventually branched into the electric guitar and other instruments, I persisted in learning more about the function and maintenance of my equipment. At first it was simple stuff like fixing a loose output jack and setting my intonation, and then I learned how to upgrade my pickups and the differences between various brands of tuning machines and different styles of bridges. To this day I am most pleased with the kramer bass I bought from a pawn shop for $100 and upgraded every piece of hardware on it. All I did to the body was strip and repaint it, but I upgraded to emg active pickups, gotoh tuning machines and a hipshot brand bridge. Simple, but that bass plays like nothing else.
But it was through learning about my instruments and figuring out how to improve upon the original creation that I eventually came to modification and design. I always encouraged other musicians to customize their instrument, whether its something as simple as a sticker, upgrading some of the hardware, or completely overhauling it, make it yours. Because the relationship you have with your instrument is a very personal one. So I modify and redesign my instruments, make them unique, so no one can say "Oh, you have an epiphone thunderbird with emg pickups and a cannibal corpse sticker? Me too!"
Now under the name of Heart of Cinder, I have turned my love of messing around musical instruments into an art form. I design electric guitars and basses that are totally unique, in look and feel

Current Residence: Derby, CT
Favourite genre of music: Doom Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Drone, Amtosphere
Personal Quote: apo pantoz kakodaimonoz