keeper of the crystal skulls

Here we have my “ keeper of the skulls “ one stringer .I used and antique 1950’s plexi glass sunburst tissue box as the body ,The neck is pure Lucite .The bridge base is real jade with a brass bridge . the large diamond shape cut piece is actually smelted quartz . the faux “pickups” , are aquamarine stone and quartz stone both wound with copper , and the thing in the middle came from a clock .The cluster on the top is a real amethyst cluster .And there is a metal skull by the nut .And the buttons are off my dragon telephone (the one I made the guitar out of ) .I had to heat up a hole cutter on the stove to melt through the box without cracking it etc ,, to allow the neck to slide in . other than that , it’s a pretty straight forward build .She sounds better than this recording ,, sorry I have a crapppy set up that needs tweaked every time to record nicely . .. after an hour messing around with it ,, this is what ya get ;-)I have a rod piezo in it, “adjustable “ ,, and as you can hear when I switched over to distortion .. the rod slipped out a bit and got a bit rattley . .. sorry bout that messiness at the end . ;-/Sounds way better live ;-)Hope you like the keeper of the skulls ..(and yes those are real crystal skulls ,, a small part of my collection )enjoy .

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the anonymous pick March 9, 2013 at 4:16am

cool .. i got a 32 pound quartz skull on the floor in my living-room .. i call him Titan ;-)
Marty Newbery March 9, 2013 at 4:06am

All kind , got a reconstitutd Bone Skull gear nob in my 54 chev, chrome 1 in the 4b, wooden one's and animal one's etc,been thinking about using a goat skull with wide horn's for a project actually,
the anonymous pick March 9, 2013 at 3:58am

cool . marty . do you collect crystal skylls / or ?
Marty Newbery March 9, 2013 at 3:41am

Love it a... a Skull collector myself
Downtown Vinnie March 9, 2013 at 2:35am

holy crap
the anonymous pick June 6, 2012 at 8:34pm

thanx bud ;-)
David "Gitz" O'Corley June 6, 2012 at 1:41am

Awesome use of material there Pick...
the anonymous pick June 5, 2012 at 4:22am

thanx wormil ;-)
wormil June 5, 2012 at 2:12am

I'm amazed you got such a nice tone from acrylic. Very unique.
the anonymous pick December 18, 2011 at 4:17am

i did some changes and stopped the jade bridge base from wanting to slip forward . lil bit a glue and shes all set ;-)

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