Electroboom Guitar.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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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
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)
Rgb everywhere. Bring it on.
Incorrect.
It needs lasers.
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.
I knew who it would be before opening the video. His whole thing is about making strange - and very often, unsafe - musical instruments. One of his early videos was replacing piano hammers with actual hammers.
His spinning guitar is actually super cool though!
There's no way those magnets generate enough tension.
They do, actually too much tension that the strings snap. Sounds pretty good before they break
This guy looked at a Floyd rose and said.... Amateur. Hold my beer.
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.
Yup. Tuning seemed to be a right PITA.
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
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?
Unfortunately it needs a safety cage around the bottom end. That'd probably spoiling the visuals - though clear acrylic might work.
The tuning was the the other huge issue, he didn't actually say how long it took to get in tune tune, nor how long it held tune.
cool though
Unfortunately it needs a safety cage around the bottom end
Only if you're a scared little bitch /s
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.