Cookie tin guitar demo

Very cool, pretty great tone too! I've been toying around with the idea of building a lapstick style short scale electric travel guitar myself. Where I go, so shall The Metal.

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#6 posted by shanespeal, August 25, 2009 8:06 PM

free plans for instruments like this:
http://www.cigarboxnation.com
Build one this weekend. Do it with yer kids.

Great find, Mark! So when we gonna jam?

-shane speal

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#7 posted by Rezpect, August 26, 2009 8:08 AM

It looks more like a banjo!

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#8 posted by Anonymous, August 26, 2009 10:15 AM

The neck is ash - and what kind of fingerboard?

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#9 posted by pinch, August 26, 2009 11:39 AM

I bet if you played slide on a banjo it would sound similar. Does that make the Banjo a guitar? If you used a square cookie tin then maybe it would look like Bo Diddley's guitar. Perhaps a few more strings would get us closer to the guitar paradigm.
No, I'm afraid that isn't a guitar at all. Why not call it a "cookie tin" banjo? It would be bad ass if you could make a guitar-jo out of a pack of Oreos. It could be a Oree-jo or a Guitareeo.
Which would be more resonant: Fig Newtons or Pecan Sandys?
You could glue Graham Crackers together into the shape of a guitar and maybe bake on a neck somehow.
No wait; I already have a guitar. fuck it.

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#10 posted by Mark Frauenfelder, August 26, 2009 4:51 PM

Hey Shane,

I'm thinking of organizing a Homemade Music Hootenanny at Maker Faire 2010. What do you think?

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#11 posted by friendpuppy, August 27, 2009 2:24 AM

I like seeing that guitar played. I think it sounds good. There's some interesting stuff this guy plays as well:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8vLpm-iFZc

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#12 posted by nosehat, August 27, 2009 2:39 AM

@ Mark:

I, for one, would appreciate and/or participate in a Homemade Music Hootenanny in San Mateo in 2010.