Repurposing Guitar Stuff

InactiveX

Plectrums are often used by hobbyists for all sorts of things; prying things open, disassembling black-box devices, shimming, and many more uses.

When I was 15 and me and my friends would cause terrible nuisance with prank phone calls, we used to record them by holding up a guitar pickup next to the handset, the pickup being plugged into a cassette recorder. This was before phones were fitted with speaker modes.

Has anyone here ever repurposed a guitar or a guitar component/accessory to use for something unusual/different/stupid?

ScreamingDave

Steel guitar strings are great for cutting cheese.  Probably a .008 for something like Brie, but a .011 for proper man’a Cheddar

Kittyfrisk

He said 'Cutting cheese'  Uhuhuhuhuhuh....

thermionic

When I went to university I had the usual new student stuff that everyone had - kettle, toaster, little battery powered alarm clock. I relied on that little clock to get up for lectures, but the alarm beep wasn’t very loud. Just before Christmas in the first term we had exams at 9am and the alarm just wasn’t up to it. I had an old AC30 at home but I’d only brought my 5W practice amp initially. I set the amp up at the end of the bed and plugged a pair of headphones into the input socket, with the headphone cups clamped around the little clock, and left the amp on all night. No way was I accidentally sleeping in with that setup!

Roland

ScreamingDave said:

Steel guitar strings are great for cutting cheese. 

We used to snare rabbits with 10s, and I made jewellery with flat wounds. 

paulnb57

Ive got the front bottom third of a wardrobe panelled in to store camping gear, there is a shelf about 8 inches from the top of panel, it rests on 4 strap buttons, two a side screwed to the wardrobe sides, the easily removable for better access

BillDL

Great minds think alike @paulnb57.   I modified two fixed shelves in the wardrobe carcass behind sliding doors in my spare room to be slide-out open drawers.  I just used removed the shelves and cut them very slightly narrower, glued and screwed on some upstands around the perimeter, and screwed some square U channel extruded aluminium profiles left over from a tiling job to each side of each shelf as runners.  The wheels that are screwed to the sides of the carcass and go inside the runners are strap buttons, and so are the button handles at the front to pull them forward.  Poor man's drawer runners from leftover parts, and I have my commonly used small guitar tinkering tools in both of them for quick access.

nero1701

Ive managed to repurpose my collings as an ornament 

Kittyfrisk

BillDL said:

Great minds think alike @paulnb57.   I modified two fixed shelves in the wardrobe carcass behind sliding doors in my spare room to be slide-out open drawers.  I just used removed the shelves and cut them very slightly narrower, glued and screwed on some upstands around the perimeter, and screwed some square U channel extruded aluminium profiles left over from a tiling job to each side of each shelf as runners.  The wheels that are screwed to the sides of the carcass and go inside the runners are strap buttons, and so are the button handles at the front to pull them forward.  Poor man's drawer runners from leftover parts, and I have my commonly used small guitar tinkering tools in both of them for quick access.

Must admit that of all the handy items that I have needed access to in the bedroom, guitar tinkering tools haven't been among them 

BillDL

I currently have a manual plastic string winder screwed onto the top of my wooden pepper grinder as a temporary crank handle after the button broke off the one fitted to it 2 years ago.

maltingsaudio

Regularly use boom stands to dry bed sheets on, and MrsM uses my AER combo as steps to get things off the top shelf in the kitchen!

BillDL

I'll swap you a proper good sturdy set of fold-in steps for the AER combo

Fez

A girlfriend I had once made ear rings out of some big triangular picks I had. They were quite colourful psychedelic ones so looked quite good.

skullfunkerry

Whenever I change strings, I snip the ball ends out and give them to my wife for her to use like beads in some of her crafting projects.

DrBob

I'm currently using most of my guitar gear as dust collectors ......

Seziertisch

I know a music shop which has a Strat neck/headstock as a door handle. Not sure if it has been repurposed or came from Fender like that.

Rocker

Seziertisch said:

I know a music shop which has a Strat neck/headstock as a door handle. Not sure if it has been repurposed or came from Fender like that.

Would that be MusicMaker in Dublin @Seziertisch?  

Seziertisch

Rocker said:

Seziertisch said:

I know a music shop which has a Strat neck/headstock as a door handle. Not sure if it has been repurposed or came from Fender like that.

Would that be MusicMaker in Dublin @Seziertisch?  

ARocker said:

Seziertisch said:

I know a music shop which has a Strat neck/headstock as a door handle. Not sure if it has been repurposed or came from Fender like that.

Would that be MusicMaker in Dublin @Seziertisch?  

Aye, that’s the one.

drofluf

I’ve used a stem from a bicycle (the bit that connects the handlebars to the steerer) to fix a broken clamp on a drum stool. And I use a mike stand to support my iPad to use on my exercise bike. 

maltingsaudio

My sitting room clock

ElectricXII

maltingsaudio said:

My sitting room clock

Is that so you know when it's time to cease and desist?