These look cool and I have to have one, or maybe make one?
http://www.africanguitars.com/index.htm
(http://www.africanguitars.com/images/blik.jpg)
hahahhahaha thats great!!!!
I love it! 8)
Thanks for the link!
Take care,
-Peter
Pretty easy to shield, I'd guess.
Looks like they've revamped the idea a bit. I actually thought of buying one. Unfortunately, I recall them being rather expensive initially. Seems the price may have fallen if I did the rand-dollar exchange rate right. Another interesting thing is that the necks seem to be aluminum or something unconventional. I don't recall that before.
Pretty cool all the same.
If it was water-tight, you could half fill it & put a metal plate inside so the resistance changed as you sloshed it around, as a fx control.
I love it.
Just what I need to play slide.
I want one...
Gilles
I wonder if it a neck-through-body design? Will the can be stong enough to hold the string tension?
That look absolutely cool!
Joep
:shock: I see a big box for onboard effects. Wonder if you can apply dark T_shirt transfer on this. Maybe a cheap tele or strat neck could be utilised...
It is neck through (aluminum neck through). It is kind of like a metal semi-acoustic with no soundholes. :)
I did the conversion - and it's about 450 for the top-of-the-line model...
unfortunately, the US site has NOTHING on it but a picture and description, not even contact info..
"-)
I'm sorry, I just don't get the 'cool' aspect here, but then, I don't get the 'coolness' of cardboard guitars with 'Danelectro' written on them, either.
I've tried these Afri-can guitars. They're cheap (in all but price), gimmicky, awkward to hold and play, and sound crappy. If I thought that the enormous profit on these really WAS benefitting some poor guy in the third world, I might buy one as a charitable action - but I'm unconvinced.
Buy a Squier instead, and saw the body into a crude rectangle. You'll get as many laughs and a better sound.