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MrSandMan 03-12-2010 03:18 PM

Building a guitar out of bamboo wood?
 
http://www.gear-vault.com/wp-content...c-guitar-2.jpg

Bamboo!? What… did he just say bamboo guitar?‘ Yes I did! :p

Check out the story of building a telecaster bamboo guitar.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP2pCCQ5i8o&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube- Bamboocaster First Demo[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqRqROVkQSk&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube- Another Bamboocaster Demo[/ame]

How does it sound? I'll let you decide. What do you think of the idea of a Bamboo guitar. First Act (Bambusa) is the only company that I know of that actually manufactured a bamboo guitar. Should more guitar manufactures produce bamboo guitars?

Ranchero Muerto 04-12-2010 11:05 AM

Sounds great to me!

MrSandMan 04-12-2010 02:58 PM

Yeah I didn't expect bamboo to sound that good. I first read and was like 'no way!'. The video is pretty good.

Uncle Fester 04-15-2010 06:24 AM

Actually, Bamboo is a grass, not a wood. A few years back, Yamaha did some experimenting using Bamboo in a model of acoustic guitars, however, it was not very successful.

This would not be my choice in a "tonewood".

Ranchero Muerto 04-15-2010 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Uncle Fester (Post 6619)
Actually, Bamboo is a grass, not a wood. A few years back, Yamaha did some experimenting using Bamboo in a model of acoustic guitars, however, it was not very successful.

This would not be my choice in a "tonewood".

It seemed to work well in this case. Of course choice of wood is much more important in an acoustic guitar than in an electric.

MrSandMan 04-15-2010 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Uncle Fester (Post 6619)
Actually, Bamboo is a grass, not a wood. A few years back, Yamaha did some experimenting using Bamboo in a model of acoustic guitars, however, it was not very successful.

This would not be my choice in a "tonewood".

That's some good sounding "tonegrass"/ :D

Uncle Fester 04-15-2010 05:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrSandMan (Post 6623)
That's some good sounding "tonegrass"/ :D

LOL. Methinks perhaps some "other" grass is being imbibed in. :cop:

TheSoad25 04-16-2010 06:44 PM

it sounds good :)

scottywompas 04-16-2010 11:49 PM

Tone Grass......I think we have a winner.

You can sell it to the cork sniffers and tell them it makes their tone better. In reality, it just mellows them out so they aren't so uptight about oxygen free gold plated NOS hand wired pre aged whatever.

Scott

erwin.zeez 04-19-2010 03:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrSandMan (Post 6498)
http://www.gear-vault.com/wp-content...c-guitar-2.jpg

Bamboo!? What… did he just say bamboo guitar?‘ Yes I did! :p

Check out the story of building a telecaster bamboo guitar.

YouTube- Bamboocaster First Demo

YouTube- Another Bamboocaster Demo

How does it sound? I'll let you decide. What do you think of the idea of a Bamboo guitar. First Act (Bambusa) is the only company that I know of that actually manufactured a bamboo guitar. Should more guitar manufactures produce bamboo guitars?

itzz clasiccccccccccccccccccc dude
the sound is fantastic
vid great
you know what i have set is as my righ tone ;):w:


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