This may be the coolest guitar tech I’ve ever seen. First post hope I did it right. Like holy damn, magnets, this looks like future tech.
That is the scariest guitar I’ve ever seen.
Fair
And that’s the closest I’ve seen someone come to serious injury due to incompetence in a while
Well you’ve never seen me in daily life then. Checkmate dude.
It wasn’t incompetence though. He knew the risks.
i think the incompetence comes into play from knowing the risk but proceeding for the memes. and like. look. respect to doing luthery as a form of stunt work. but all amateur stuntwork is ultimately a form of incompetence. it’s cool, and respectworthy. but it’s also not… the competent thing to do to see a magnet break a slat, realize it can break your finger, and then press on to do it.
Ok that’s fucking awesome! I can already see a black version with sound reactive LEDs that would look sick with a fog machine! 🤘
Thanks for sharing!
Yes, yes, this art is nice, but you know what it needs? Lights
Not /s
Rgb everywhere. Bring it on.
Oh shit, not only rgb, but lights that change with the frequency, tied into the magnetics to change colour’s as its played.
Map the physical area to a scale. Map the scale to the rainbow. Make chords a 2D representation of sound space. Make palm mutes drain the color. Make squealies vibrate the array. GIVE ME THE MUSIC VISUALIZER IN MY HANDS (and a blunt)
Incorrect.
It needs lasers.
One step closer to a solar powered laser beam guitar.
Its a video so tough to quickly scan so I didn’t watch it. To keep the block in that plane, I think that needs the forces to be to magnets pulling towards each other at the back and that seems like it would make the tuning hard since tightening / loosening each string moves and rotates the block holding the strings. Did they say much about that?
95% of the video was about how hard tuning was. So yah its hard.
Yeah they did. The first iteration only used the original tuning pegs, which caused problems similar to your comment. In the end he went with a system resembling a more classic floating bridge, and he was able to tune it
Okay but this guy’s piano tech is even cooler 🤣
Does it scale to other instruments? Violin? Piano? Ukulele? LOL.
A piano with this technology might as well be classified as an MRI machine
I was imagining that setup with any stringed instrument that traditionally uses catgut or nylon. “Loaded gun” doesn’t begin to describe that. 😄
You want magnets that powerful next to your face?
Interesting experiment. But same idea as a tremolo bridge, but instead of springs in tension, he uses a magnet. An improvement could be the same - instead od directly pulling, he could try the hinge/lever setup like in a tremolo. Could also use mechanical advantage to make use of smaller magnets. An additional benefit is improved safety. But you would just reinvent the tremolo, only make it more expensive. Already, this sounds more or less like a floating style tremolo, but with additional floating. And increased price. And safety concerns.
Fun and dangerous experiment but of course not feasible in the long run.
I mean, what if you stabilized it even more by adding magnets on the side. The frontier is often the most dangerous. What if this is just the beginning of a new format?
Powerful magnets like that are incredibly dangerous. Even at the end of the video, you saw what happens when the strings break.
The strings breaking is also inevitable even with a regular guitar lol. It just happens. And this guitar is even more prone to it. So definitely not a viable instrument. Fun little dangerous gag tho.
