Tag Archives: guitar

Craft Your Own Bass Guitar Pickup

Bass guitar is a wonderful thing. I’ve been playing since I was about 8-years-old and truly love it. Not everyone is as fortunate as I am to own a bass guitar though, so if you’ve got $5.00, a toolkit, a shoebox and a piece of wood, you’re set for a weekend of jamming out. According to this Instructables article, you ...

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Oujia Board Guitar: Sing-Along To The Spirits

Some teens entertain themselves by watching TV and listening to music. Others go out for a midnight run to the graveyard with their Oujia boards, on a quest to contact the dead. You can guess which of those demographics gets the most dates, but how can a musician yield to the spirits while maintaining his cool factor? The Oujia Board ...

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DIY: Make Plastic Guitar Picks Out Of Discarded Credit Cards

Here’s an example of how to reuse your old crap that has absolutely no other use. If you spend time jamming out on the guitar, and are as absent minded about guitar picks as I am, than you more than likely need to go out weekly to pick up a new pack of strumming tools. This simple project will at ...

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Real Lego Guitar Rocks The Bricks

This is no fake jive ass git. This black Lego Guitar is a functioning instrument with the entire case made out of our favorite childhood toy. Jam out with your friends, and if a piece of the guitar falls off, just snap it back together. Including pick-ups, bridge, and all of the functioning parts, all this baby needs is some ...

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Light Guitar Picks Would Have Made Psychedelic Bands Very Happy

If you’re flying high on shrooms, these Santa Cruz Light Wells guitar picks would either cause one really cool trip, or one really terrifying one. Actually, if you’re riding on the power of hallucinations, you might not even need lit guitar picks to see trails. The light of the guitar picks blink to the beat of an internal metronome, which ...

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Self-Tuning Guitar From The Gibson Guitar Gods

As a long time guitar player, I will be the first to attest my annoyance for guitar tuning. Especially when you just put a fresh set of strings on the instrument. Gibson announces a new line of guitars that will use high-tech tuning features to allow the guitar to tune itself. The Powertune system took years to develop and starts ...

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Steampunk Guitar is shred-a-rific, one-of-a-kind, and…FOR SALE!

Up until now, we really hadn’t seen any steampunk made gadgets that rocked our world quite as much as this Steampunk guitar does. Not only can we look at The Villanizer guitar through pictures, but the guitar is being auctioned off on eBay starting this Sunday! There’s more gears and crap hacked together here than anyone can imagine. And one ...

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