Building a guitar out of colored pencils

[Little Pigbacon]

 

[AlexR]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

This must be a recent upload.......it was posted on MLP a few days back, then strat-talk shortly after.

 

[Hsb]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

Saw this the other day, pretty cool. Kinda gave me the idea, I have a huge bin of shredded cds and dvds, build a guitar shaped jig, mix the shred with epoxy and press into the jig to form the basic body of a guitar.

Probably wouldnt sound good, epoxied polycarbon probably isnt the best tone wood, but look really cool

 

[AlexR]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

^ Well, it was played at the end of the vid. So if you scroll to the end you can listen, and drop the presumptive assumptions.

Sounded pretty good to me - but we all have individual tonal likes so I can't assume for you....see what I did there.

 

[Old Guy]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

That is a super cool project. Turned out awesome.

 

[GoldenVulture]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

A guitar for Scribbling..

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

Talk about buckle rash
It would mark you up playing it

DON'T WEAR WHITE!!

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

So wood doesn't matter. It's the pickups.

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

So sick... love it.

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

So wood doesn't matter. It's the pickups.

Pickups, Amp, speakers, pedals, bridge, nut, strings,.......

it's probably number 8 or 9 on the list..... extremely insignificant in the grand picture.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

This, along with the carboard guitar, should end the tonewood debate.

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

This, along with the carboard guitar, should end the tonewood debate.

I saw a guy build one from a household appliance and it sounded amazing. ....yeah tonewood....

 

[AlexR]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

So wood doesn't matter. It's the pickups.

Construction always matters.......scale length, neck attachment, body shape, material used for body + neck etc, etc They all play a greater or lesser role in shaping the final outcome.

Its just that some cannot grasp the complexity of the situation and try and dumb it down to either its wholly the pickups or its wholly the wood.

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

That's cool.

I want to make one out of used coffee stir sticks.

 

[Cobra1957]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

The dude is a talented guitar maker and he can dam sure play it too!

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

Wonderful stuff, very cool, but after watching the whole video, there's no way that neck pocket will last. The epoxy doesn't permeate the primary substrate -it encapsulates it -which cannot last forever. Hopefully the string tension isn't enough to unseat it over time.

Thanks for posting.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

There was some guy Tim Shay I think
That made gutairs from wooden pallets and hollow core doors or some such
They sounded like guitars
Some had more sustain
Some resonated better
All sounded like guitars

 

[Lucius Paisley]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

I just came here for the tonewood debate. When's it start?

 

[AlexR]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

^ Grab the popcorn now

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Building a guitar out of colored pencils

I just came here for the tonewood debate. When's it start?

Its colored