Guitar modification humor/terror video

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 12 Oct 2007 6:45 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rstnOz1EmQ

I about pooped a biscuit when I saw the drill... hero/villain/madman/genius, you decide.

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 12 Oct 2007 9:06 am

David Mason wrote: hero/villain/madman/genius, you decide.

Litterbug!!

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 12 Oct 2007 3:50 pm

Guitar might have stayed in tune better with a locking nut...

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 15 Oct 2007 7:11 am

Definitely needs the locking nut. While he's at it, he shoulda scalloped the fretboard, cut out a second cutaway, put in multiple humbuckers with phase and series-parallel switches, installed numerous strong soundposts and filled it with blow-in insulating foam to eliminate feedback - to make sure he eliminated any possible remaining tone from the instrument.

Hey, at least this is clearly not an old instrument. I've seen guys do way worse than this to 50s Strats, Teles, and Les Pauls, and 30s Martins.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 15 Oct 2007 7:49 am

"....hero/villain/madman/genius, you decide."

David, you forgot "master craftsman/idiot."

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 15 Oct 2007 8:08 am

There's a new modern invention called a "jig saw" ever heard of it???

Bo Legg · Post by **Bo Legg** » 15 Oct 2007 10:43 am

Judging by the choice of tool it is obvious the guy's a Dentist

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 15 Oct 2007 7:05 pm

Mad as a hatter, but it DID work.

Looked like their were playing in Montpelier France
in the main square.

I suspect that was one of Django's later guitars,
and he did mount a pickup on it to try out.
One of those sliding pickups on a rod like on an L7 Gibson.
Django was playing some big band gigs towards the end, and
was aware of Charlie Christians work with Goodman.
So for Django this was just his guitar,
and not loud enough...

For us it's a priceless cultural relic.
Ah well.

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 15 Oct 2007 7:18 pm

hero/villain/madman/genius, you decide.

All those things. Plus, he doesn't give a hoot what we think. He obviously looks like he's having a really good time..

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 16 Oct 2007 2:55 am

For what it's worth, the guy's a great guitarist too. Here's a smokin', tappy "Little Wing":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwm-vxGgFf4

And here he mounts a DJ toy to a solidbody guitar, with predictably alarming results:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOJTMsKR7ag

Dustin Rigsby · Post by **Dustin Rigsby** » 16 Oct 2007 1:52 pm

The solid body guitar is very innovative and cool. Wish I had one.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 17 Oct 2007 9:29 am

I take back everything I said!

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