Agave Guitar

Continuing the theme of musical instruments made of odd things (matchstick violins, lobster violin), here's a guitar made out of agave cactus.

Does it really matter what wood you make an electric guitar out of? This site here says it does, and it sounds like hard woods are generally better than soft woods. So I'm assuming that agave wouldn't be the first choice of most guitar players. Though it would be very light.

This guy here makes agave surfboards.

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Posted By: Alex - Sun May 21, 2017
Category: Music

Comments

My main concern with a light wood would be that the guitar folds up right in the middle of performance. I have a box set of The Who recordings and the book inside relates a story that Roger Daltrey built a few guitars for Pete Townsend, made of plywood, when they were starting out The guitars didn't last very long.

Posted by KDP on 05/22/17 at 04:27 PM

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