Bizarre Body Styles

[StogiePatriot]

It's certainly a beautiful piece of work, well-considered and quite well done.

I think if it was mine it would be a wallflower, though. Y'know - a showpiece. I'd have a tough time playing it.

I'd have to play it - especially seeing it come together you know that Pete Townsend would have a rough go at busting this beauty - it's rock steady.

I found another that meets the criteria - very intriguing...
http://axvault.com/2011/08/17/burly-guitars-very-unique-probably-the-most-interesting-innovative-guitars-you-will-find-today/

Dude patented an active tuning fork resonance system into his guitars (some of them for certain) where a floating set of carved  hog forks vibrate in the hollow body.  Sustain city and resonance to make Alex Lifeson wet himself...

 

[Cagey]

Interesting. Doesn't seem as though it would work, or if it did, that it would only work at certain frequencies. But what do I know? I'm no turkey call carver.

 

[-CB-]

 

[Cagey]

I'll never understand the fascination with toilet seat guitars. Don't these people have Internet access and know it's been done to death? It's not funny any more, if it ever was. Maybe it's a fetish?

Whaddaya wanna do today, Brain?
Build a guitar out of a toilet seat, just like every other day!​

 

[-CB-]

Hey, I built that one... and the amps...!

I DO have internet access, and thats why it was done!~  A long time ago!

There used to be a company that offered toilet seats shaped like guitar bodies.  It was "Jammin'Johns", and they had Tele, Strat, LP, and Martin shapes.  I saw that, and thought... if they can do a guitar body as a toilet seat, then I can do a toilet seat as a guitar body!  And the rest is history!

And, it played VERY well too.  Gave it to the ex-hubby of a good friend of mine, who's a musician.  He waited for me in the snow - freezin cold, for six hours while my flight was delayed back in '06.  He deserved more I guess, but he got the geetar and was pretty stoked to get it!  His daughter got an L6s that I rebuilt - for her HS graduation.

 

[Cagey]

Sooo... what kind of wood was the toilet seat made out of? <grin>

 

[-CB-]

Oak!  And some of the hardest @#$@#$ oak I've ever had the displeasure of cutting.  I suspect its something like white oak, since red oak is ... red... and cuts much easier.

The seat was screwed to the lid. There is a reinforcement plate made from 1/8 6061T6 under the neck, since there really isn't enough there to fit things to.    The plate is inletted, and fastened to both the seat and lid.  On the back of the guitar, is a nice thin-ply (seven plys I think) birch plywood cover, all routed to fit the back of the guitar perfectly, and screwed into place.  To, technically... the Toiletcaster is a Toiletcaster-Thinline

The bridge is a vintage Fender hard tail.  Pickup is a no name super distorto mondo death metallic garage band pickup.  Control plate - from a Telecaster bass, again vintage.  The neck is an All-Parts, that was re-fretted.  Its a bit of a rubber neck, but ... that didn't matter too much, since in the end result, it was quite workable.

 

[Cagey]

I've done a lot of work with oak, and you're right - sometimes it wants to fight you tooth, fang and claw. What's also weird about the stuff is sometimes it really stinks when you cut it. I mean deep, meaningful stench like it's been marinating at the bottom of a gym locker filled with old socks for a few years. Not sure why - never been any rhyme or reason to it as far as source or appearance.

I wondered about the back. Sounds like that 7 ply is modelers board. Used to get that for firewalls/engine mounts in R/C planes. Surprisingly strong and lightweight.

 

[swarfrat]

fresh dog poop. That's how I describe the funky smell oak sometimes emits.

 

[-CB-]

I wondered about the back. Sounds like that 7 ply is modelers board. Used to get that for firewalls/engine mounts in R/C planes. Surprisingly strong and lightweight.

I've cut more red oak than most folks... having gotten semi rough timber, did some resaw, width cutting, planing, milling, and sanding oh... maybe a million or more board feet or more of t&g flooring (back in a past life).  White oak was reserved for furniture.  The red oak stench... can be!  Worst for me was cypress... instant migraine from it.  But the oaks have a certain something that would leave me droolin' from the nose for hours.  Teak was nice smelling (dulled my knives and threw sparks too!).  Had some black walnut... hey Warmoth... how about a 40 foot section of black walnut about 28 inches across and 10 inches thick!!!!  Had to run that thru the saw by way of ceiling hoists... .back and forth.  Redwood was ok, ash ok, poplar ok.  Did a lot of mahogany too.  Sadly, the last of my mahogany doors came down about a year ago.  Didn't fit the style.  Grand archway doors ten feet tall and 80 inches wide.... gone.  Those were for Tony Pugliese (who owns Jack Ruby's gun that killed Oswald....and J.Edgar Hoovers gun too).

The thickness of the plywood on the back... was about 3/8 inch actual.  Dunno if thats modelers stuff.  I used it for light speaker mounting once, and it was a leftover.