Siren #135: Blazes
Siren #135: Blazes
Our Sawdust Sirens are old style acoustic amplifiers for your new phone's speaker. Simply put your phone in and have a listen.
Blazes is a part of The James Joist Anthology. Blazes had an affair with Molly, Leopold Bloom’s wife. These horn bases were all built from an old joist. To be honest, we’re not sure where the joist came from, it was just in the shop, and probably has no affiliation with anybody named James. But we’re taking some literary license and our friend James did help us fix our lathe. And Bethany performed in a version of Ulysses in Philadelphia. But those are different stories.
This particular car horn is approximately 12” tall with a 3” bell (the whole piece is 14/5” tall x 5” wide x 7.75” deep). The base is finished with Betty’s Board Butter (beeswax & mineral oil). You may wish to re-oil your base occasionally. If your phone has stereo options you may want to play around with mono and stereo settings to see which you prefer.