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Friday, April 25, 2008
IKEA guitar
Posted by Jon in • Crazy Guitar Designs
Let me just clear one thing up, no, IKEA haven’t started selling guitars! However some clever guy realised that IKEA have plentiful supplies of cheap timber available packaged up as cheap tables! He bought one of their unfinished end tables for $15 which apparently can produce three guitar tops. The exact specs of the wood used for the body is multi-piece knotty Pine with a AAAA-private stock IKEA top. I have no idea what knotty Pine sounds like but Zachary Guitars seems to think it makes excellent tone wood, I’ve never heard of anyone else using it, but if I would like to hear from anyone who has had experience with using this wood.
The neck uses a more traditional combination of Mahogany with a Rosewood fingerboard. The pickups used are DiMarzio Virtual P90s. A narrower string spacing at the bridge was used to accommodate these soapbar pickups.
”They are powerful and have a lot of guts. Its some kind of a midrange tone which screams Texas blues and Billy Gibbons.”
For more pictures of this quite exotic looking guitar check out Zacharyguitars.com
What a great idea, the value of the object itself is lower than the value that it brings to this guy! Ha, he makes 3 guitar out of $15 table. I ask myself how much would he pay for the same raw material for the 3 guitars?
I suspect it’s more of a story than a real try at reducing manufacturing costs.
Antonio de Torres once built a papier maché guitar (albeith with a real spruce top) to prove that tone is in the building, not in the basic materials (in his case, paper and glue).
And Bob Taylor truely made a ‘pallet guitar’ out of discarded wood pallets, retrieved from a garbage container:
- http://namm.harmony-central.com/SNAMM00/Content/Taylor_Guitars/PR/Pallet.html.
- http://www.guitarsite.com/hotlicks/about3794.html
Wow, I’ve never seen that Pallet guitar before, what a weird idea, I don’t think I would want a guitar with nails still in the wood, especially as it cost $7500!
About tonewood, it’s just any wood that makes a tone. And electric guitars - according to many - don’t really need tonewoods. Les Paul only called his first electrical experiment ‘the log’ because that’s what it was. Rickenbacker ‘frying pan’ was aluminium and bakelite.
Come to think of it, all the Danelectros and related guitars (Silvertones!) are made of masonite, a kind of chipboard, and covered in formica. Basically tables, really.
And here’s the OSBcaster: http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd297/prairiecustomguitars/osbcasterredux/
That OSBcaster is an interesting looking guitar! Call me old fashioned but I like the fact that my electric is made from a nice solid lump of Mahogany rather than OSB or MDF or whatever (as do most people) and purists will always want their guitars to use solid tonewoods but I’m sure you are right you can probably get a good tone using any wood with a good amp in the right hands!
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