The Villanizer custom guitar

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Thunder Eagle guitars made a fun looking guitar from copper pipes and gears -

The Villanizer started life as a Rhoads Jackson V. It's not every day you take a band saw to a guitar that plays as well as this thing does. However, I had no distinct plan other then doing a mechanical look to it. But I had more of a Sci-Fi / Blade Runner thematic in mind at that moment.

After cutting, a spacer was cut and installed to join the two pieces of the body. Knowing damned well that wouldnt be a strong enough of a join for just about any player, the steampunk look hit me, and I went on to installing the copper pipe, and soldering the joints. You just cant have steam power without a gauge, so I cannibalized an old oil gauge and made a custom face in it with my name and a real complex readout.

Gears. Man I hacked more gears together then I knew what to do with, and inlaid them into a cut plexi frame that was then screwed into the body...


The Villanizer Custom Guitar - [via] Link.


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Posted by: Darin on March 6, 2008 at 8:05 AM

Awesome!!!


Posted by: me on March 16, 2008 at 10:59 AM

That thing is the most amazing thing I have EVER seen.


Posted by: Anonymous on September 26, 2008 at 5:30 PM

WTF THATS COOL AS SHIT!!


Posted by: meeee on October 28, 2008 at 5:06 AM

how did u get the rust effect?
thats coooooooooooooooooool


Posted by: Me on November 25, 2008 at 6:51 AM

Wow!

WOW THATS AMAZING!!


Posted by: James on December 10, 2008 at 9:44 AM

Holy hell that's amazing. Haha.


Posted by: kevin on February 13, 2009 at 9:24 PM

compliment

Dude that guitar looks wicked but i wonder wat it would sound like. lol


Posted by: Anonymous on April 13, 2009 at 1:32 AM

JUST PLAIN BRILLIANT!!


Posted by: Joey on June 21, 2009 at 9:16 PM

Simply amazing!!!


Posted by: Dr D on July 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM

it looks like the brass gears above the bridge are from lego o_O


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