New idea for a half-moth. Get a Warmoth neck and make a skater guitar.

[SustainerPlayer]

Guitars made of skatboards.

 

[Updown]

So that's where the Roll comes from in 'Rock and Roll'  :toothy12:

:dontknow: I think mine use to be made out of 5 or 7 ply wood. Plus covered in stickers.
None of mine were ever that wide either.

 

[DangerousR6]

Interesting idea... :dontknow:

 

[Cagey]

Yeah... sorta... in a way...

Gotta be kinda dead, though, with all those laminations.

Reminds me of some monitors I was building years ago.

Me and a buddy had access to a lot of free 3/4" die board, which was made of 9 layer void-free maple. Stuff was heavier than dammit, and super hard/stiff. Company that used the stuff always had mountains of scrap/remnants that they were paying to get rid of. We offered to relieve them of it for nothing. Stuff costs about a million dollars a 4x8 sheet, and there was often a half-sheet or better of useful (to us) material left.

Yeah, they weren't very efficient.

Made great speaker cabinets, though. Being super-hard and laminated cross-grain, it was as dead as Lindsey Lohan's career path. Build a monitor cabinet out of it and put an EVM 12L in it, and you had a unit that sounded great and could not be killed. Local bands loved them. Heavy little rascals, though.

 

[AutoBat]

Standard (modern) skateboards are 7 ply laminate, with the occasional 8 ply.
I'd agree that they wouldn't make great bodies unless you were making a slide guitar.

 

[DangerousR6]

Seems like more of a novelty for skaters rather than for a guitar player... :dontknow:

 

[line6man]

I kind of like it. I wouldn't own one, though.

 

[SustainerPlayer]

I don't think it is the worst sound he is getting out of it in the video.

Go to around 3:58

 

[hannaugh]

They look cool.  But where the hell are they hiding the wiring?  There can't be much, if any space there for a control cavity. 

 

[Cagey]

I don't think it is the worst sound he is getting out of it in the video.

You're confusing good playing skills with good sound. He's making the best of a bad situation there. Lotta double-stops, muting and finger picking mask the essential zombie quality of the thing's sound.

 

[hannaugh]

This guy does a more hard rock sound with it. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSqdreHY514 

 

[-CB-]

One of these days.... another toilet seat guitar will be made by moi