The Villanizer
Inventor: Thunder Eagle guitars
URL: www.thundereagleguitars.com
Category: misc
Rating: 5.0/5 (23 votes cast)
Description:
The Villanizer started life as a Rhoads Jackson V. Its not every day you take a band saw to a guitar that plays as well as this thing does. However, I had no distinct plan other than doing a mechanical look to it. But I had more of a Sci-Fi / Blade Runner thematic in mind at that moment.
After cutting, a spacer was cut and installed to join the two pieces of the body. Knowing damned well that wouldnt be a strong enough of a join for just about any player, the steampunk look hit me, and I went on to installing the copper pipe, and soldering the joints. You just cant have steam power without a gauge, so I cannibalized an old oil gauge and made a custom face in it with my name and a real complex readout.
Gears. Man I hacked more gears together then I knew what to do with, and inlaid them into a cut plexi frame that was then screwed into the body. Under the gears is a carbon fiber layer which really sets them off. By the way, one of the gears in the lower end is a Matrix headplug vast from one of the original plugs used in the film. What the hell, it had the look.
After that, time to guild the pickups and do the rust / hammered metal paintjob. A couple of cool Tesla-esque plasma balls top the edge, a new fabricated brass trussplate and custom knobs round it out.
And as always, it plays great, and is light as any other guitar.
2009-10-07
This ax is truly amazing. I saw the you-tube vid and it plays as well as it looks. My brother and I play in the band THE SAINTS OF PAIN and both he and I would love to have some of our guitars steamed. Please contact me @ redobriensix@yahoo.com I play JACKSON's and am willing to send the guitars to be moded. Again great looking pieces.
VIVA LA DARKSIDE!
SYXX
2009-12-04
I would love to have my guitar (B.C. Rich SOB Avenge) Steampunked...what does it take?
2010-06-12
Lol, 3/4 of the gears and the tubes for the spacer are from Lego.
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