Members Freeman Keller Posted December 3, 2015 Members Share Posted December 3, 2015 We don't need no stinkin' tone WOOD Significant statement at the end "it sounds like a strat" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 Amazing to watch but nothing I would own. Those who think the wood makes no difference can have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emory Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 This was so fun. Did they hit it with any sort of poly finish? One sweaty night playing and KaPOW! it would seem. Guess they did not want to add flame maple cardboard cap... Heck so humid here in Thailand at times I think all my guitars are made of cardboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 I, for one, thought it was cool and sounded fine. I do wonder, like Emory, if there's anything like a "finish" on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 The pickups and pots must weigh more than everything else put together. Needs a cardboard case too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 If the right kind of glue is used when making the cardboard it can actually be as strong as plywood. If an epoxy is used it can even be stronger then wood and have no issues with moisture. Parker uses composites and fibers to build their instruments. It makes them ultra light and they so sound and play very well. They do use wood necks however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 Cool vid, thanks for posting... Every strat I have played sounded "like a strat" not necessarily a good one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pk1fan Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 I need one of those it would match my cardboard amplifier a Harmony H204 ! Mine is more beat than this one . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Notes_Norton Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 Not surprising. Tone is in the pickups. Period. Steel strings moving through a magnetic field inducing an electrical current. AC theory 1.01. You could make the guitar out of anything that can take the stress of the strings, make the scale the same, and put the same pickups in the same physical location and height, and it will sound the same. Insights and incites by Notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted December 4, 2015 Moderators Share Posted December 4, 2015 Awesome, if Dennis Galuszka is cool with it, I can't argue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted December 4, 2015 Moderators Share Posted December 4, 2015 We don't need no stinkin' tone WOOD Significant statement at the end "it sounds like a strat" The pickups, the scale, the switching, pretty much a Strat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundcreation Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 Cool....but it didn't sound good in any of the clips. For me the very definition of an "average" strat is one in which it sounds like you're just playing the pickups. A great body provides the resonance that influences the strings to provide the beautiful harmonic overtones. This reminds me of the concrete guitar that people always tout as an example of wood not mattering. That one sounds like sh.....too. That was a cool video for the sake of design and execution of a vision. And the novelty of it is pretty amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knotty Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 First couple of players sounded ok as did the linkin guy. You could really hear the cardboard coming through in the tone! Nobody would pick it out in a blind test. They will chirp up with their super ears, saying they could, but it wouldn't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 I'm holding out for the Jello Strat. Fun project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted December 4, 2015 Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 You guys know cardboard is made of wood right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted December 5, 2015 Members Share Posted December 5, 2015 Some of us like to argue about mahogany cardboard versus swampash cardboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted December 5, 2015 Members Share Posted December 5, 2015 Should be good for slide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members humbuckerstrat Posted December 5, 2015 Members Share Posted December 5, 2015 Cool video. I'd rather have a Rondo S-type guitar than that cardboard contraption (even tho it was made by Fender). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wankdeplank Posted December 5, 2015 Members Share Posted December 5, 2015 You guys know cardboard is made of wood right? Yes, my sentiments exactly. I mean what's the difference between that and those high tech injection molded guitars like Flaxwood? http://www.flaxwood.com/home/ (Made out of wood fibers and thermoplastic composites.) Obviously the finished product bears very little resemblance to any cardboard I've ever encountered. And if you're looking for a marketing angle in a world teetering between the deforestation of rain forests and global warming it could be a glimpse of the future of guitar building. We all know that several species are already on the protected list and if you don't know it, just ask Henry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted December 5, 2015 Members Share Posted December 5, 2015 At the end of the day I only care how it sounds, plays, and stays in tune. I've just never heard anything that isn't wood have the same tonal qualities. Yes the pickups are most of it, but not all. This is a fun project, but that's pretty much all it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted December 5, 2015 Members Share Posted December 5, 2015 I'd like to hear a chambered titanium body with a wood skin. Might sound like crap, but who knows. More isn't always better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted December 5, 2015 Author Members Share Posted December 5, 2015 Koiwoi, I was very close to building a titanium bodied tricone resonator a few years ago. I could get 0.030 sheet titanium and cut it on the laser where I worked. A buddy is one of the best titanium welders in the world - he worked for Moots Cycles for a while building their ti bike frames, It would have been a rather spendy project and I ended up doing it out of wood, but the idea was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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