Nailing those Glassy Toanz

JerkMoans

Spotted in a chi chi glass shop in Venezia. If anyone could embed I’d be grateful: limited iPhone functionality here...

https://imgur.com/a/UYUMmqf

zepp76

https://i.imgur.com/AUroIEO.jpg

Kittyfrisk

A Murano Stratocaster. Pay for with American Express, presumably for authenticity?

ICBM

That’s actually quite an impressive piece of work, to get something so apparently crude to have a bridge and a set of machineheads that line up and make it theoretically playable.

I wonder if it would be possible to engineer a real guitar out of glass? It’s actually a precision engineering material. It would probably weigh a ton though...

Kittyfrisk

ICBM said:

That’s actually quite an impressive piece of work, to get something so apparently crude to have a bridge and a set of machineheads that line up and make it theoretically playable.

I wonder if it would be possible to engineer a real guitar out of glass? It’s actually a precision engineering material. It would probably weigh a ton though...

One of the students where I used to work was intending to make a working glass guitar some years ago. The basic mould for casting was fine, but getting tolerances, cavities & holes right was an issue.
Also given the size of the piece, the annealing process was critical to de-stress the object. Drilling or cutting large glass was  interesting, as hitting a stress point or flaw was catastrophic & total.

 He gave up on the idea in the end, not least as it was going to weigh about 13-14Kg (about 30 odd pounds!) and still more fragile than a vintage Gibson SG headstock 
I wondered if a 2 piece bolt on would be better, but I'll never know 

Sassafras

Fretless, cool.

merciful-evans

There was a playable guitar made from porcelain. It featured on a YT video I saw a few years back.

BTW, I would hate that ornament in my house. 

Voxman

As played at Glass-tonbury and at various gigging venues in Glass-gow!!   However, there's stuff you must NEVER play on it - Nick Lowe's 'I love the sound of breaking glass' , Annie Lennox'  Walking on broken glass, Laura Brannigan's 'Shattered glass' etc - or anything by the Smashing Pumpkins!