{"id":9577,"date":"2016-08-04T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2016-08-03T23:20:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T06:20:24","slug":"cardboard-electric-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/04\/cardboard-electric-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"cardboard electric guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty cool &#8211; a cardboard company and Fender Guitars got together to make a one-off <EM>cardboard<\/em> guitar. And sure, it&#8217;s promotional video, but it&#8217;s an cool looking end product.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Oo2H-W7d6A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love how you can see through so much of it:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-08\/cbg-truss-rod.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t tell you much about engineering for strength, but I have some thoughts, because where you <em>can&#8217;t<\/eM> see through it tells you a lot about how they made it work. You can clearly see the truss rod, common to all metal-strung guitars. But there&#8217;s also a keel added in back:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-08\/cbg-keel.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And the one through-shot of the head shows how &#8211; surprisingly &#8211; the tuning knobs may have a backplate, but they do <eM>not<\/em> seem to be attached to the neck bracing. That&#8217;s just the cardboard.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m more curious about the sudden change in the finish between shots, right after they&#8217;ve sanded the body into the shape they want. They put a lot of <Em>something<\/em> into it, and I really doubt that&#8217;s just lacquer.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-08\/cbg-before-finish.jpg\"><br \/><i>Before<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-08\/cbg-after-finish.jpg\"><br \/><i>After<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hardeners, maybe? I don&#8217;t know. But I don&#8217;t see how it keeps the edges of its form across plays without <Em>some<\/em> sort of chemical additive. And I&#8217;m really curious about the string bending being done by some of the players &#8211; doing that against that texture looks really messy, but they&#8217;ve got it going &#8211; is it just fret pressure and nothing on the board, or is the top layer filled with something transparent?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong; I&#8217;m for it. I think it&#8217;s Neat, with a capital N. Frankly, I think it&#8217;s <Em>gorgeous<\/em>, and I can only imagine how little it weighs. Getting a bass built like that might be amazing, if the cardboard has been made durable enough. I&#8217;m just wanting more details on what it took to make it work.<\/p>\n<p><i>(h\/t to George P. Burdell III on Facebook for the link)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty cool &#8211; a cardboard company and Fender Guitars got together to make a one-off cardboard guitar. And sure, it&#8217;s promotional video, but it&#8217;s an cool looking end product. 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