Here we have my “ keeper of the skulls “ one stringer .
I used and antique 1950’s plexi glass sunburst tissue box as the body ,
The neck is pure Lucite .
The bridge base is real jade with a brass bridge . the large diamond shape cut piece is actually smelted quartz . the faux “pickups” , are aquamarine stone and quartz stone both wound with copper , and the thing in the middle came from a clock .
The cluster on the top is a real amethyst cluster .
And there is a metal skull by the nut .
And the buttons are off my dragon telephone (the one I made the guitar out of ) .
I had to heat up a hole cutter on the stove to melt through the box without cracking it etc ,, to allow the neck to slide in . other than that , it’s a pretty straight forward build .
She sounds better than this recording ,, sorry I have a crapppy set up that needs tweaked every time to record nicely . .. after an hour messing around with it ,, this is what ya get ;-)
I have a rod piezo in it, “adjustable “ ,, and as you can hear when I switched over to distortion .. the rod slipped out a bit and got a bit rattley . .. sorry bout that messiness at the end . ;-/
Sounds way better live ;-)
Hope you like the keeper of the skulls ..
(and yes those are real crystal skulls ,, a small part of my collection )

enjoy .

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Comment by the anonymous pick on March 8, 2013 at 10:16pm

cool  ..  i  got  a  32  pound   quartz  skull     on  the   floor  in my  living-room     ..  i  call  him  Titan  ;-)

Comment by Marty Newbery on March 8, 2013 at 10:06pm

All kind , got a reconstitutd Bone Skull gear nob in my 54 chev, chrome 1 in the 4b, wooden one's and animal one's etc,been thinking about using a goat skull with wide horn's for a project actually,

Comment by the anonymous pick on March 8, 2013 at 9:58pm

cool  . marty  .  do  you collect  crystal skylls   /  or    ?

Comment by Marty Newbery on March 8, 2013 at 9:41pm

Love it a... a Skull collector myself

Comment by Downtown Vinnie on March 8, 2013 at 8:35pm

 holy crap

Comment by the anonymous pick on June 6, 2012 at 1:34pm

thanx  bud ;-)

Comment by David "Gitz" O'Corley on June 5, 2012 at 6:41pm

Awesome use of material there Pick...

Comment by the anonymous pick on June 4, 2012 at 9:22pm

thanx wormil ;-)

Comment by wormil on June 4, 2012 at 7:12pm

I'm amazed you got such a nice tone from acrylic. Very unique.

Comment by the anonymous pick on December 17, 2011 at 10:17pm

i  did some   changes  and stopped the  jade bridge  base  from  wanting  to slip  forward . lil  bit a glue and shes  all set  ;-)

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