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Building odd guitars out of different materials...

So 99% of our alternative guitars are made of wood. I recently bought a cheap welder to do some repair work (ok, I really wanted a new toy!) and found it works great. My 14 year old son learned to weld as a Boy Scout.

I was inspired by Shane Speal's video of him playing a 2-String Ee contraption that was made of Rebar:

So my son was bored last weekend. We pulled out some rebar, a cake pan, and stole the case off an old computer. Chris did 95% of the welding...

Here's the result:

Full Size Pics can be found here:
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/albums/44-heavy-metal-guitar

Who else has built something unusual? I am thinking my next one will be copper pipe...

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on July 19, 2015 at 9:25am

ACRYLIC / CRYSTAL

PS..... PETE REGAN , makes rebar and metal guitar / instrument creations .. i think Shane's was built by him too . i have 2 of Petes metal guits ,

here's his link . he has some cool stuff in there https://www.youtube.com/user/77peteregan

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Permalink Reply by Thumper on July 19, 2015 at 10:05am

Kool...bet it works real well when you play "heavy metal" on it LOL.

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Permalink Reply by David L. on July 19, 2015 at 11:10am

I like the metal guitar - it has a kind of Mad Max feel about it. Am I right in thinking it has excellent sustain?

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on July 19, 2015 at 6:41pm

The sustain is pretty good...

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on July 19, 2015 at 2:05pm

first one is perspex,2nd was a vacuum cleaner

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Permalink Reply by Clarky on July 20, 2015 at 1:37am

Looks great, a bit like something Wall-e would make (if he was into guitar making).

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