Friday, April 25, 2008

IKEA guitar

Posted by Jon in • Crazy Guitar Designs,

Ikea Guitar
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

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