Any use for a Non resonant guitar?

[treyhaislip]

Re: Any use for a Non resonant guitar?

I was thinking actives–MIDI is a great suggestion as well.

 

[jtougas]

Re: Any use for a Non resonant guitar?

Pickup test bed?

 

[GoldenVulture]

Re: Any use for a Non resonant guitar?

It'd be perfect for Deaf Metal.

 

[crusty philtrum]

Re: Any use for a Non resonant guitar?

Hand-to-hand combat ?

 

[philthis]

Re: Any use for a Non resonant guitar?

as a desperate last resort...........canoe paddle

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Any use for a Non resonant guitar?

How good are you at making miniature mechanical devices? Turn it into a steampunk wall clock: route cavities into the body, insert clock guts, attach spinning wheels and gears to them, and set the trem bar as the Hour hand.

If you can get some of those hand-shaped wall hangers, and could modify one so it frets notes while a mechanical arm plucks the strings.....

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Any use for a Non resonant guitar?

Fire wood

 

[greekdude]

Re: Any use for a Non resonant guitar?

Fire wood

how original !!

 

[Mincer]

Re: Any use for a Non resonant guitar?

You can help a non-resonant guitar with pickups and a lot of gain, for the right kind of music. I wouldn't play jazz with it, but as someone suggested, metal with active pickups would be great. Don't give up yet.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Any use for a Non resonant guitar?

Or you can see about shearing a 1/8" top off of it, weight-relieving the body, then reattaching the top and see if that helps. Or just Dremel a few gaps in the back. Or the front. Was it Mitch Perry who used to have a "Swiss Cheese" Ibanez RG? Then again, high-gain shredding, so....

Then again, too, Joe Perry had that Guild Start/Explorer thing with the holes in it. And Gibson had that hollow V. Maybe it'd work.