Insane guitar

[komorok]

[quote=MF_Kitten;612957]dude, don´t tell the guy to only make a thin layer of stone on it, i wanna see see what it´ll be like when it´s all stone! :P don´t discourage him! :P

Well. The project is started. Here is the selected stone. It is a nero assoluto, a very solid african granite:

http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u...T3659SMALL.jpg

And here is the first progress. Not much, but it is a start:

http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u...T3669LITEN.jpg

It is to expensive to run it in our CNC, so I make every cut with a manual saw. Fortunately it doesn't matter, since it will be covered with another stone.

Yesterday I also just by chance met a guy who makes lasercutting for living. I told him about my little project, and all of a sudden I have someone who volonteered to cut my upperhorn-reinforcement and my fanned-fret-compensated bridge. PERFECT! :-D

[Dee]

Originally Posted by C.Thep

that would be the Ibanez Brass artist wieghing 76 pounds

Christ!

Got a pic?

[C.Thep]

I would suggest to just put a thin layer of stone on a wood body, with the pickups mounted directly on the wood. I honestly think that completely stone guitar would sound horrible.

[Demiurge]

Well, I'd say that chambering the stone is appropriately for the purpose of relieving some of the weight, so I would kind of hold off on adding a few pounds of mahogany. Then again, holding a 44lb guitar on a strap, let alone on your lap, is somewhat out of the question here and a stand will probably be necessary anyway, so I guess he could go hog wild if he really wanted to.

If it were me, and I was hell-bent on adding wood, I would add some basswood, since it is light and has dampening properties and my purpose for adding would probably be more for dampening than it would be for the sake of adding wood.

[Demiurge]

Nice. Please keep the pictures coming!

[andy7jem]

At last.....a guitar for Fred Flintstone Yabba Dabba Doo

I can see a future full of one-legged guitarists After attempting to play more than 12 bars of any song while sitting down all circulation will have ceased in the leg and long term use will result in amputations

Standing up guitarists will have to go to hospital to have re-inforced spines fitted

[SonataGuitarist]

Lookin good, Rock on dude!

[Lefty Robb]

perhaps if it was this thin it wouldn't be so bad:

[MF_Kitten]

yeah, that would be an idea... making it thin... may i add that the stone you´re using is pretty? :P

i like the black shiny polished side of it...

also, what i meant with the whole adding wood-thing was to give it some more-mid-tones, with the basswood... but if it would dampen rather than add to it, then to hell with that...

and yeah, that thing does need a stand badly...maybe a breakfast-tray-like contraption? you know, the little tables that they use to serve breakfast on the bed, that has two long ´´feet´´ on either side on your body, and the actual table part is elevated, so you lie under it... so it´s like a bridge over you...

make something like that, but have it suit the guitar somehow, and make it so it works as a bridge over your lap, while the guitar rests on it, so it just doesen´t touch your legs... or maybe just some sort of actual stand, like the tripod you talked about...

[Demiurge]

Not all dampening is a bad thing. Harder materials tend to contribute to greater sustain and brightness, but often at the expense of warmth and midrange complexity, which is somewhat the product of dampening. For instance, maple is very hard and sounds very bright, so in a Les Paul, for instance, mahogany (a less hard and dense wood) is also used in order to effect some dampening and fill out the midrange.

[fettouhi]

Yeah those LAG guitars are insanely thin .

Regards

André

[fettouhi]

Looks good, looking forward to more pics.

Regards

André

[komorok]

The work has progressed today. I welded the reinforcement and gluede it into the neck.

The drawings for the bridge are finished. I will talk to a friend who works with a CNC-lasercutter on monday. He will make it for me. Perfect!

The front stone is on its way to Sweden from Italy. The Diane reale-plan was replaced by a Tropical brown stone-plan. I will post a photo later on.

So, all the boring parts are now finished. The real work will start the next week. Steady progress is the way to success!

[timi_h]

make sure that if its thin on the bottom you put a flange on it of some sort, otherwise it will go straight through your leg meat onto your femur like a blade!
ok i exaggerate but it will be uncomfortable!

[komorok]

Here is a picture of the reinforcement and the trussrod behind it.

http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u...t=DSC00031.jpg

The upper-horn-reinforcement has also arrived and the bridge is being made any day now. I am most fortunate to have met the guy who is helping me with this. He will make the template for the fretboard. More photos will come!

Oh... I WILL make it an usable guitar. Plans for a tripod-stand are in my head, and maybe a leather-pad for the femur-problem.