Submitted by: kristan mallory – ebay via Submit a Kludge!
Favorite Comment: Fixer Alcysio says, “Pete Townsend would get really frustrated when destroying this baby”
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The best part? You can bust your guitar on stage and with a little work you don’t have to buy another one!
But it’ll take you ages to find all the pieces again. Although, if you’re in a proper rockband you’ll have groupies who’ll gladly do that for you, and you’ll probably have some spare LEGO sets too to replace any that they still can’t find because fans took them (the pieces, not the groupies) home.
SWEET FREE GROUPIES!
That´s what i´m talking about!!!
Tch, bidding ended at $350, and that didn’t even meet the reserve price.
This will be on Epic Win by da end of da week!
Shouldn’t the tension from the strings rip the LEGOs apart? Unless its just some sort of facade?
Maybe they’re superglued together. There has to be something more going on with the neck pocket though.
If you use a powerful microscope, will see that strings, knobs, wires and screws are made entirely with nano sized legos.
If at the back of guitar the bridge is secured to something substantial, such as a piece of wood or metal, it shouldn’t affect the Lego bricks. Either that or it’s purely for show.
If you look carefully, you can see that there is a laminated sheet of clear perspex between the lego bricks and the different parts of the guitar. I’d imagine that since this seems to be bolted to the lego bricks, it’s going to be strong enough to match the tension of the wires.
That’s the pickguard.It really doesn’t do anything structurally.
Yeah, and a p-guard’s primary use is to protect the finish from pick scratches… Like who the H**l actually cares about not scratching LEGO blocks anyway?
I think there’s a truss rod just under the pickguard, that probably does all the counter balancing.
LOL @ pickguard recognition fail. Anticat and/or Schneiderman are right. It’s either LEGOs on top of a rigid surface, or those LEGOs are fastened together somehow. Superglue or otherwise.
its a pickgaurd
Um, no. The strings exert a compression force on the blocks between the neck and the bridge, and at best the neck would want to pivot towards the viewer because the strings lie in front of the structure. This causes a pulling force on the blocks at the back, and can thus easily be compensated for with a strip of gaffer tape running along the back, from the neck to the where the bridge is.
Thank you Mr Wizard. =)
wouldn’t that depend where neck meets the body? Because if they aren’t level it might cause some problems? (or would you just use more tape?)
“and at best the neck would want to pivot towards the viewer because the strings lie in front of the structure.”
“At best”? Try “absolutely”.
Yeah, those big bolts that fasten the neck to the body on my Fender are probably just for show. And the metal plate that I always though kept those same bolts from digging their way through the wood due to the tension? I guess that plate is really just there to identify those too silly to realize its uselessness. I should just lose that extra weight and use some gaffer tape!
Seriously – you might want to disassemble an electric guitar before you go downplaying the strength necessary to bind the neck to the bridge strongly enough to keep it in tune. Unless you were joking, in which case – Good one!
Thank goodness they did not go for a tremolo version of the same guitar. The trem cavity in the back would weaken the body to the point of crumbling apart, superglued or not.
@crackshack: Stupid question. *OF COURSE* you can always use more duct tape.
Title should have been “Helllloooo LEGO! Are you ready to BLOCK!!!”
Pete Townsend would get really frustrated when destroying this baby
So would Kyle Busch.
I came upon this right after watching this:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704254604574613791179449708.html#articleTabs_video%26articleTabs%3Dvideo
Brick coincidence? Probably not.
Give it a Splat!
At least if you like to smash guitars on stage you can put this one back together.
An essential for the guitarist on a budget.
I find myself extremely curious as to how that would sound.
At first it doesn’t sound that good but once you let the music build…
I give it 4 out of 10 for not finishing around the knobs.
Um that’s the control cavity.
Gives a whole new meaning to modern music just being child’s play.
I don’t see why this is a kludge, exactly. This is way too awesome to be a kludge. Now I want to play with Legos…
Am I the only one who even cares that it probably sounds horrible.
I mean Jack White plays a Airline guitar which has a plastic body and it sound so terrible that it’s basically a gimmick.
Also legos are pretty much the worst thing you could use for a guitar body material as I doubt it resonates at all.
Jack White also sounds like a gimmick! ^_^
Cork sniffer. You should know that tone is in the fingers.
Someone is obviously forgetting the Ampeg Plexiglas guitar, used by Keith Richards and Dave Grohl. It was designed so that the body would not resonate at all, thus only producing the electronic sound of the pickups. It isn’t a gimmick; in fact, it sounds quite nice.
What’s next? A lego tuba?
I want a lego theremin!
Leggo Accordion of course! Made special for “Weird” Al Yankovic so he can write an entirely new parody about Leggos.
Bricking it to the man!
“Zack got tired of just fitting and stacking, so he decided to try out something new. We don’t have any pictures of that though, so here’s a guitar made out of legos.”
NOW THAT IS AWSOME
Build a guitar-lookalike from Lego, fine. It will look good.
But try to make an actual functional guitar like this???
It will have audio quality worse than the 2-cans+string telephone!
It does not. What you don’t see in this picture is the sound-correcting computer (aka DSP, Digital Sound Processor), evolved from Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine and built entirely from Meccano.
Here’s that Analytical Engine:
I knew it was only a matter of time. They finally found a way to make guitars nerdy. Is anything nerd-proof any more? For how much longer? AAAAAAAAHHHH!!! *runs screaming into wall*
Just because someone is into guitars doesnt mean they arent a nerd. Anyone who knows too much about any subject is a nerd of the subject, or geek if you prefer that term. I know some pretty serious guitar guys who would love to have one of these.
It looks cool in an Adrian Belew kind of way but yeah considering it probably has zero resonance I bet it sounds like kr@p.
This is what you get then you give a christmas wishing list to grandma and it states:
“LEGO Rock Band” but the word “game” was accidentally left out.
That’s either an epic win or a real work of art. Not a kludge. A Kludge is where you improvise a solution using things in a way they’re not meant to be used, and end up with something that is functions differently than it should, has a major design flaw, or is just plain ugly. This guitar only meets the “unusual material” criterion, but it looks like it would work fairly well, isn’t ugly, and doesn’t seem to have any design flaws.
In any case, this seems to have been purpose-built just as a piece of art. Leaving aside the question of if the guitar is functional or not, the “made as art” factor seems to take this right out of the “Kludge” category. What do you guys think?
I’d say it’s more of an “Epic Win.”
Come on, anything Lego related is not a kludge, it’s a craft project! Anything Duct tape related is a kludge!
Thats for sure!
Pick me pick me!
That’s cool as hell. So’s this black LEGO guitar (even the neck is custom): http://www.geekasaurus.com/clint/gallery/legoguitar/DSC04154
Now if only it had an amp….
http://www.geekalerts.com/lego-guitar-amp/
That’s going to be a blockbuster
I wonder what the drum set looks like…
It looks like awesome.
The drums are made of Tinkertoys.
How would Keith Moon smash those up then?
those indie rockers really got something going there
If he would have started with a bass instead it would have been far easier to build on.
Punny
That’s the awesomest thing ever in the history of ever!
This is being passed around like gangbusters in the ALU (adult Lego users) circles. As a mom of a Lego fanatic family, this is AWESOME!!!!
so…. i wonder how it sounds…
I feel this should also go on “epic win.”
666 thumbs up^^
…another brick in the wall…
…just enough for my guitar!!!
Not a kludge!!
Is [was] that a Peavey T-60? Those were some outstanding instruments. Had one, wore it out. I like the design, even if it doesn’t sound like the Northern Ash body it had, it’s a great piece of functional artwork.
they say you get too old to play with legos, but not too old to play on legos
I wonder if it will work for Xbox 360 to play “Lego Rock Band”.
Yeah, that’s a T60. I have one at home and love it. Not as pretty as this but it’s a player.
i shat bricks when i saw this.
ba dum tiss
Check out this Lego Guitar and Lego Bass on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P38IXZkhL1A
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m21/oldsoundz/PICT0318-1.jpg
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Leggo my tremolo!
This isn’t a kludge at all. It’s a brilliant LEGO guitar, meant to be that way. Why in the world is it here under kludges?