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Jan 12th, 2019: Guitar Body Build
He spent $500 to build a guitar body out of colored pencils, he already had the neck and hardware.
It would be a lot of work but you could make cool patterns, pictures, or words out of specific lead colors.
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People make a lot of cool stuff from colored pencils. And when Burls Art saw them, he decided to take it up an octave. “I saw a lot of people online making bowls out of colored pencils and I thought that was really cool but I wanted to make something that I can actually utilize and enjoy more so than a bowl when it’s finished,” Burls Art told Bored Panda. “Since I play guitar, I thought this would be a cool project that would accomplish that goal. I decided on making a (Fender) Stratocaster styled electric guitar… This was the first guitar I’ve ever built” |
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“That’s 1200 colored pencils. Bought the cheapest ones I could find on Amazon. They ended up being nearly identical to Crayola.” “Cheap harbor freight mini miter saw cutting the pencils into 2″ pieces” “Cutting the pencils was by far the most tedious portion of the build” |
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“In goes the epoxy resin” “Tracing the template onto the slab” “The epoxy resin / pencils combination was far too dense for me to cut with a jig saw alone, even using a diamond blade. Because of this, I had to drill out the pencil cores to make life a little bit easier on the jig saw” “The entire block was sanded with 80 grit on the belt sander. Then the left side was progressively sanded up to 360 grit. So the higher grit I went, the more color smear would occur. Smearing was minimal until I went above about 220 grit. This left me with 2 choices.. either have a smooth surface and a grayish/smeared color tone… or… have good clean wood and led colors but at the cost of only being able to sand to 220. The choice was pretty obvious to me being that the colored pencils were the star of the build… I wanted to showcase their colors as much as possible” |
| Burls Art couldn’t put an accurate number on the time it took him to complete his project. “I worked on it for 4-5 weeks for a few hours a day, like 2-4 hours probably. It took a long time, but for the most part, it was enjoyable. I think I could make one faster now though since I know the processes and things that I would do differently. I’d say I spent in the neighborhood of $500 on it, but some of that includes router bits and other pieces of equipment that I didn’t already have. I already had the guitar neck and hardware though so that saved some money.” |
This is the video of the build.
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BigV Sunday Jan 13 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
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I wonder how heavy that is? You know actually what is epoxied together is the paint on the pencils so I hope it stays on the wood. --snip |
xoxoxoBruce Monday Jan 14 12:09 AM
If he did that you wouldn't see the pencils which was the point. 
Gravdigr Monday Jan 14 09:43 AM
Still could see the front. The back's gonna have buckle rash, and who cares about the sides...
I'd think that much epoxy would be plenty strong.
xoxoxoBruce Monday Jan 14 10:38 AM
Depends on where he wears his buckle and the sides(edges) are the best effect. Without them the face could be a picture glued on.
BigV Monday Jan 14 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
If he did that you wouldn't see the pencils which was the point.
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xoxoxoBruce Tuesday Jan 15 12:47 AM
Clear fiberglass?
fargon Tuesday Jan 15 09:04 AM
Light fiberglass is invisible when wetted down with resin, epoxy or polyester.
xoxoxoBruce Tuesday Jan 15 09:24 AM
Translucent, but I've never seen transparent, but that's a moot point, he's working with a solid block and doesn't need any fiberglas.
Undertoad Tuesday Jan 15 12:46 PM
our dude is thinking of plexiglass
Undertoad Tuesday Jan 15 12:48 PM
In any case, though, you do want to avoid having this thing be like over 9-10 lbs. heavy, or it will be a PITA to play. And here your tonewood is basically epoxy... did we talk tonewoods in the guitar building thread?
lumberjim Thursday Jan 17 11:57 AM
A bit. Not as important as a solid construction with an electric, but the esoteric artisan will naturally prefer expensive sounding materials and espouse the superior quality of sound that they generate. In my opinion, light hard wood assembled precisely is the key.
Acoustics are a different story.
I saw a carbon fiber acoustic.
Gravdigr Thursday Jan 17 03:17 PM
Not as expensive as I was expecting. A little steep, but not too bad.
aradralami Sunday Feb 17 03:33 AM
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Originally Posted by lumberjim
A bit. Not as important as a solid construction with an electric, but the esoteric artisan will naturally prefer expensive sounding materials and espouse the superior quality of sound that they generate. In my opinion, light hard wood assembled precisely is the key.
Acoustics are a different story. I saw a carbon fiber acoustic. |
xoxoxoBruce Sunday Feb 17 03:52 AM
Thanks Aradralami, that was interesting. A bonus is that the carbon fiber look is very popular in a lot of fields, probably because it's associated with light, strong, high-performance, expensive toys.
lumberjim Sunday Feb 17 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by aradralami
I have really been looking for a comfortable acoustic. I like the bolt through the neck making life much easier. Things I hate about my acoustic is worries about drying. I like it.
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Gravdigr Sunday Feb 17 09:27 AM
A stand-up gun safe would be an alternative. You can get them with humidity controls.
Hard to pack to the gig, though.
BigV Sunday Feb 17 07:18 PM
You get a loaner backstage.
Saves having to buy another plane ticket too.
lumberjim Sunday Feb 17 09:51 PM
Not a bad idea of they are big enough for a row of guitars. I don't gig, and they just need to be maintained when you don't have it out by your chair.
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