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The
Shindig Guitar, a resonator guitar made from old vinyl LP's.
Among my various hobbies
is collecting old records. And while I love to spin the vinyl
sometimes I get the urge to make strange things out of the old
records. Being a guitar maker I figured I should make a guitar
from a record (inspired one day while on board the Royal
Caribbean cruises
when the musicians were playing great Caribbean music).
To my knowledge no one has made a guitar from an LP but it makes perfect sense to me. They are both used to make music, both are combinations of art and technology, and both have a certain cool factor.
The Shindig Guitar is an acoustic instrument. It's a resonator guitar like a Dobro which gets its sound not from a wooden guitar top but from a vibrating metal cone called a resonator.
In this case the record is the resonator cone just like the aluminum cone in a Dobro. The cone acts as an amplifier which takes the vibrations of the strings and amplifies them to make them audible as an acoustic instrument. So the record is still making music just not in the way it was intended to.
The top is made from an
album cover called "Guitar Shindig" by the Living Guitars.
After listening to the album once I decided it would have a better
life as a guitar than as an album.
The B side of the guitar.
For a peghead veneer I choose
a cool label from a not so great record.
The "Living Guitars
Shindig" lives on as a resonator cone producing music in
glorious monophonic.
Hey kids, ever wonder what
a shindig is all about? Here are the liner notes to tell you what
the young people of today think is hip. The record company really
had it's hand on the pulse of the young generation in the early
60's.
They sure are having fun
dancin' to the music of the Shindig Guitar.
Click on the photo to see
how I made this thing.
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