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Posted September 4th, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
A guitar set on fire by Jimi Hendrix during a performance is to be sold after it was found in a garage where it had been lain for 40 years. The blazing guitar was a stunt, designed to generate publicity for Hendrix (he was then a relative unknown on the swinging sixties scene).
Make a hand powered pickup winder
Posted August 30th, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
This is a clever DIY pickup winder design by Niels Kaagaard. It uses a fishing reel to spin the bobbin. It is hand powered, so carbon emissions are limited to your exhaled breath as you wind it furiously.
Make a paper guitar
Posted August 26th, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
Every guitarist has a wish list of dream guitars they are never going to own. Some guitars are just too expensive, like the Gretsch White Falcon. Some are just not for sale, like Jimi Hendrix's psychedlic Flying V.
Big guitar or small man?
Posted August 14th, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
This giant Flying V style guitar was seen at the New York guitar show. The massive scale length means you can get almost subsonic notes on it. An even bigger guitar was made as a school project at the Academy of Science and Technology, Woodlands, TX. It is over 43 feet long but still playable.
Bible amplifier
Posted August 4th, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
A 9V battery powered practise amplifier housed in a copy of the bible.
Make a Lo-FI Arduino Guitar Pedal
Posted August 4th, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
This is a project for the guitar electronics geek. Traditionally guitar effects pedals used analogue circuits made up of clever combinations resistors, capacitors etc. Digital signal processing chips now allow analogue effects circuit to be simulated in software. This project shows the a prospective pedal maker how to build a guitar pedal with an Arduino for lo-fi digital signal processing..
Automated guitars
Posted July 30th, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
These automated guitars are available from the Ragtime Automated Music company.The Ragtime company continues the tradition of piano-roll player pianos and fairground organs, but using modern technology.MIDI files are used to drive individual solenoids which act as string pluckers and fretters.
Paul Gilbert has 3 hands
Posted July 30th, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
Paul Gilbert's secret third hand inadvertently revealed in a Youtube video
Hoverbucker
Posted July 30th, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
The Hoverbucker is a creation of Ronnie Hinton and Daniel Diaz Brauch which started out as a Squier Bullet stratocaster . They took the middle pickup and mounted it over the neck pickup, to give a sound like a humbucker. It is mounted upside down, with the top facing the strings.
Boy earns $140 an hour for shredding
Posted July 30th, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
13 year old Calvin Prior wanted to get a £1100 Marshall Amp, so he started busking with his electric guitar on Brighton seafront in the UK. He says he is earning around £70 an hour. He has already bought a £2000 PRS with earnings from busking. I would think it is better to busk with the crappiest guitar possible, people will think you need the money.









