Umm, maybe it’s a translation thing, but I think it would have been cool to use an axe. I guess it’s easier to mount the hardware on a shovel.
I think in electric guitars with coil, as opposed to piezo, pickups, the guitar body only subtly affects sound.

cool concept, but WOW… what an annoying video

@colin

Mouse-over the picture.

Also, the dude in the video sounds like a Russian Rocky.

Now lets see one made from a real axe

Here’s your Axe.
http://www.montymontyart.com/lumber_jacks_axe_guitar.html

I didn’t think that inanimate object could have emotions.

@Aeros
Umm, that wasn’t german. I think it was russian….

hey I’m from Denmark and here is an electric guitar nicknamed “spade”

Five string guitar?

yeah would have liked to hear the clean tone
lol yeah 5 strings…
looked like he had a 2 string bass too

i think i saw something on jay leno one time where a guy made an instrument using a snow shovel that sounded pretty good but more like a sitar

@Amtal

i see wut u did ther

Careful with that…shovel…Eugene.

The band “Red Mold” was a really big influence in my late childhood. Their songs were full of alcohol references, swearing and other crazy stuff that make it so appealing for a teenager in Soviet Russia…

Video is obviously a joke, but the guitar is real, and will probably end up being played at one of their concerts. But anyway, Красная Плесень на моём hack-a-day??

Regards from Soviet Russia, where comment posts you!

Easily EA-SI-LY at least 28 distinctly classifiable varieties of WIN here.

The video? Well I for one will be talking like that guy for at least a week. I sure can’t play that well.

Incredible.

Ha, ha, this guy is a comedy and musical genius, and the whole thing is part parody of rock-musicians and part advertisement for his(?) concerts :) Learn some Russian, and you will have a great laugh.

There’s a guy here in California North Bay that plays a coal shovel guitar designed by Felix Kulpa Galley, here’s his myspace page, videos too:
http://www.myspace.com/isaacfrankle

Красная Плесень на моем HaD? Нет пути!

BTW: Awesome Shitar.

Lol very funny pll i just hope he is making himself sound retarded on purpose. Hopefully that’s not his normal speaking voice.

[quote]On another note: Alan, you get 10 super special internets! :D[/quote]

Thanks jackson

> Why do so many people think this is german!?

Because he says das ist lopata (lopata == shovel in russian, “das ist” == this is in german). That’s obvious

I guess if your whole band had instruments like this and the cops were called due to noise. you could switch and pretend your doing yard work :)

This is russian Punk Rock group “Krasnaya Plesen”
The 1st voice and “annoying translator” is actually the same guy who makes the guitar.
They dont really translate any other language. This is imitation of cheap translated Hollywood movies during soviet time.
They do parody on everything.

well they making fun of how stupid Georgine people sound there accent is so thick even russian people cant understand them

impressive

Dammmmm Thought i was bored lol