Repurposing Guitar Stuff

fretfinder

When we were in Nashville last year the missus bought some jewellery made from repurposed guitar strings, from a charity helping people to get work. A quick google shows there’s loads of guitar string jewellery available online.

InactiveX

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.

It occurs to me reading this that a Bigsby with all the moving parts fixed shut would make an attractive door handle.

Greatape

InactiveX 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.

It occurs to me reading this that a Bigsby with all the moving parts fixed shut would make an attractive door handle.

Finally, a use for the Bigsby 

skullfunkerry

ElectricXII said:

maltingsaudio said:

My sitting room clock

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

You beat me to it, I was going to say something about quarter past cease

WezV

my first car had a couple of guitar parts used  to fix it.

A jack plate was used as a washer to hold the wing mirror on, and the broken rear wiper was held together with cloth pickup tape soaked in super glue.

BillDL

Not a guitar part as such, but I still have my expensive straightedge from around 1989 that is now only about 7/8ths of its original length.  I had a beaten up VW Golf with pools of water on the floor pans and mushrooms growing up from the mats, and the floor was perforated in a number of places.  Where the clutch pedal  came through the firewall from the engine bay the metal had rotted and where it should have been held it was sliding.  The only piece of metal I had that could bridge the gap was my straightedge that was sacrificed for a 6 or 7" length, and I drilled a hole in it for the cable and screwed it into more solid metal either side of the ragged hole.  It held for the remaining few months of my MOT and I had to scrap the car and get another runner.

On the inside of my thin metal up and over garage door I used the base plate of a hard-tail bridge as a reinforcing plate for the machine screws from the outside handle when I fitted a new handle.