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...CANTAR!
Hey everybody, this was a super fun project to make! It is a 4 string guitar made from an old gas can that I used to use for R/C airplane glow fuel.
This is not my original idea, there have been many other guitars made from an old empty can. In fact, I saw my first canjo on Youtube from this guy Richard Peek. He was playing an oil can banjo that he had made and I thought that it was amazing!
Since seeing his canjo and his playing, I have always wanted to make one for myself but, I don’t know how to play and I really don’t want to take the time to learn. Lazy I guess. So the idea just sat there taking up precious space in one of my two brain cells that are left.
Well, I will tell you that I have a brother-in-law that, around any gift giving occasion, will usually give me a thoughtful gift. Me on the other hand, when it’s my turn to return the thought, pass off the responsibility of getting him a gift to my wife. I don’t know what to get him. I am easy to buy for. Just get me a gift card to Rockler or a tool and I am good. ha ha
Anyway, he has had a birthday recently and we weren’t able to get together to celebrate it yet so I had some time. He plays guitar and I thought that now would be the perfect time to make him one out of my old gas can. If it sounds bad, at least it would be a really unique gift, hopefully something that he has never even seen before.
Well what you see in the pictures is what I came up with and I hope that he likes it. The letters on the head are his initials. The neck is made from a piece of madrone. The frets are finish nails that I blue with gun blue. I bought the geared tuners from a local music store. Of course the “theme” of the guitar is of miscellaneous screws and nails, kind of a hillbilly look. I like the fork that was used to attach the strings to, an idea that I got from rpeek.
Here are some links to my blog here on LJs to a couple of videos that I made for the build of this guitar. I still have one more video to go to complete the series. I hope that you will get something from them.
http://lumberjocks.com/Brett1972/blog/29210 1st part
http://lumberjocks.com/Brett1972/blog/29260 2nd part
Tell me what you think and thanks for looking!
Brett
-- Hand Crafted by Brett Peterson John 3:16 http://www.TheCrookedNail.blogspot.com
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BigTiny
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#1 posted 409 days ago
With the price of gas these days, this is a better use for these things. :)
Paul
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#2 posted 409 days ago
Now I know why I have been saving all those Coleman fuel cans from one of my other habits ( hobbies )
Cool idea man.
Randy
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#3 posted 409 days ago
The faded K-mart price tag is a nice touch.
-- My broker promised me he would treat my money as if it were his own. Trouble is, he did.
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#4 posted 409 days ago
This is awesome, Brett! I really enjoyed the 1st two videos! This project turned out great! Can’t wait to see the last video! Thanks for sharing it with us
-- Hey you dang woodchucks, quit chucking my wood!!!!
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#5 posted 409 days ago
Someday that thing is going to be on Antiques Road Show and sell for a billion dollars as a piece of folk art!
Thanks for posting!
Jim; aka “Stumpy Nubs”
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#6 posted 409 days ago
That reminded me of the upright bass that one of the members of the punk bluegrass band “Split Lip Rayfield” uses. Homemade from a gas tank off of some vehicle. Great live band to see!
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#7 posted 409 days ago
Cool !any idea how it sounds? I LOVE Splitlip! the 20 gallon Chevy Bass Rocks !
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#8 posted 408 days ago
Absolutely fantastic! You hit this one on the head. Can’t wait for the third video!
-- If you can dream it, I can do it!
Brett
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#9 posted 408 days ago
Thank you to everyone for the compliments! I am really excited to give this away to my brother-in-law this weekend. I want to hear what it sounds like when someone that can play it, plays it.
-- Hand Crafted by Brett Peterson John 3:16 http://www.TheCrookedNail.blogspot.com
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