I can’t stop thinking about how cool it would be to run a charity or something that makes ocean plastic guitars and give them to kids to want to learn to play.
Ok, this is now next-level stuff. You truly are a good man for trying this. Question: are you taking photos as you go through your processes? You should publish a book detailing all the builds. It's so inspiring...
I had no idea...what IF we massed produced ocean plastic guitars for kids that don't have music programs in their schools??? This was an epic build and the tone of the plastic is very unique. It carries the notes well. this is a win. We are all curious to how much of a beating this guitar could take on stage over time. Really a great experiment and you adapted so well to the crazy crap that happens in a laboratory!
they would be very expensive wouldn't sell very well. Who is gonna foot the bill for all these kids? Of course, that would be a good idea, and ambivalent ideas are often funded, but just a potential roadblock I see.
It would be cheaper to buy normal guitars. As one who often volunteers on similar cleanup crusades I've learned alot. To grind up the plastic, takes a machine thats worth 100k. Not to mention the cleaning, sorting, and what do you do with all the plastic shreds in the cutting and planing process. I'm actually wondering what this guy did with all that micro-plastic, because that is an even worse problem now. Plastic cannot be changed, certain grades get recycled and other grades cost a lot to recycle.. the rest turns to micro plastic and enters the food chain and ends up in your food.. Although what this guy initially did by cleaning up was awesome of itself, he undid all that by grinding, planing into smaller micro plastics which is even worse. No guitar company anywhere would ever take that on knowing full well the environmental destruction it causes
This is genuinely one of the prettiest guitars I've ever seen, if you ever do decide to sell your creations I think a business making recycled ocean plastic guitars would be sick
If there's a good way to melt it, definitely. I'm going to guess cooking it in an oven probably defeats the purpose a bit since that would release fumes, which is a bit antithetical to a guitar that's (presumably) made to promote environmental friendliness.
@@ossiehalvorson7702 you might be able to use chemicals or an enzyme or bacteria of some sort to change the behavior of the plastic. I think recent research has been looking into plastic eating bacteria, I am however not in the loop so I could be wrong.
@@ossiehalvorson7702 well, I think plastics in oceans are way worse than fumes, I mean, big industries do this all the time, and a large scale of those guitars can be a trouble too. You can melt plastic in water, but water can be poisoned by plastic. It's complex lol.
Following the recycling theme, it would be cool to see a guitar made from recycled/discarded vinyl records! Awesome work dude, this is one of the only channels I have notifications turned on for!!!
@@nadiapaiva8170 You should check out thrift stores/antique malls! I go to a bunch in my area, and without fail, there is always a crate of records somewhere that no one has touched for decades and will continue to sit there. Maybe you can breathe new life into an old Christmas album by having it as pick guard 😎
@@nadiapaiva8170 I've made a bunch of pickguard and control plates with records.if you get any stay away from the really old stuff it likes to crack off unexpectedly.ive found the thinner albums work the best
That is actually a stunning guitar. It's sad that the first fret-board failed because I really liked it but the second one looks way better anyway, so I guess it was good the first one failed. This needs to be put into full-scale production. Amazing job.
This is amazing and gut-wrenching in equal measure, and you definitely need to make one of these for Joe Duplantier of Gojira, because if there was ever a guitar that was meant to have “Toxic Garbage Island” played on it, it’s this one.
I love how you still put in the footage where mistakes were made to show that everyone makes mistakes. Most creators would probably have just scrapped that part of the footage, but you decided to put it out. Honestly it makes the finished project even better
I found your channel a little after I began playing guitar near the Beginning of 2019. I was a senior in high school, and I was going to spend my summer before college building a guitar with my grandfather. You inspired me to pursue becoming a luthier as a hobby. Since then my grandfather and I have spent every summer since the end of high school building instruments. Our very first guitar that we made during the summer of 2019 is still my favorite guitar to this day. I'm currently a Junior in Electrical Engineering, and can't wait to tackle our next guitar this summer. We began working on the neck over Christmas, and I enjoy every moment I spend with my grandfather working on our instruments. We've made several mistakes along the way that we kick ourselves over it but I wouldn't trade those moments for anything in the world. I always love when you upload a new video. Your videos are inspiring and always entertaining. I'll always appreciate everything you put into your work. Much thanks, and I can't wait to see what beautiful instrument you make next.
I absolutely LOVE this. I really want to see more manufacturers embracing stuff like this. Sustainable guitar building is super interesting to me. I REALLY want to see a bamboo build at some point. There are a few bamboo guitars out there, and a guy made a guitar as a school project or something and put the build on RU-vid as well, which was cool.
I was wondering what you were doing with the planer and router shavings, etc. I was glad to see you putting it back in another bucket (and then later cover how you were saving that). Helps make your partnership with 4ocean even more meaningful.
Dude this was an awesome build. Everything about it was perfect especially the imperfections, they make each guitar you make truly one of a kind. On another note... You ever think of just making a little album out of the the demos you play? Not gonna lie, what you play is really chill and kind of stuff I'd have playing through out my day.
This might be the coolest guitar you’ve made yet! I think showing where you messed up makes these guitars more real and the hand-crafted aspect all the more amazing when you show the finished product. Definitely one of my favorite channels to watch!
There’s also a hand fret press that looks like a weird set of vice grip pliers… might help in situations where too much pressure might break the epoxy neck.
On April's Fool, I want you to make a video titled "Building A Guitar Out Of AIR!" and it's just you pouring empty buckets and drilling nothing and ended the video playing air guitar.
I dont know if you have a store or online shop, but a cool idea instead of having to make so many ocean guitars could be to make ocean picks. Makes use of the plastic, looks cool, and pretty simple.
So in the future, you can take small plastic shreds and heat them with a heat gun until they are melted and use them to fill holes. Brothersmake has a lot of good videos about working with this plastic, which is where I got this info from.
Just amazing! You are so talented! And recycling plastic into a beautiful guitar for it to be used for a long time to come is so inspiring. Thanks to you and Four Oceans for helping keep this world a better place!
Amazing, solving issues! With our current supply chain issues this is brilliant. I hope the big guitar builders are watching!!! All thing being equal I would buy one.
You never cease to impress me, my friend! In both your playing AND building! You're an inspiration to many, for sure! Myself included! Keep the great builds, playing and content coming! Cheers!
I think this guitar came out amazing. Not everyone can make something perfect, even if it's something they make all the time. Using the ocean plastic was a fabulous idea. Keep on building hun & we'll keep on watching (and listening).
I always associate ‘plastic’ with a sort of dead acoustic quality. But I’ve gotta say - it RINGS a LOT more than I expected it would. In fact it sounds awesome! We all make mistakes in guitar building. I know ‘I’ sure do. All I might suggest is that the string-thru plate you used on the back, maybe could have a chrome plate surrounding it much like the Tele style neck pickup does? It would have more of a matching quality about it. Either way… phenomenal job using a not too easy material in the build. Great job too to everyone at 4Ocean! No one could possible deny that the oceans are full of trash, and the most dangerous potentially being plastics. Great people to direct our support to. Well done, Burl. Well done indeed. 👍🏼🎼🎶🎵🎶
A cause near and dear to my heart, sir. This is good stuff. Always like to see repurposed ocean waste, and seeing it turned into a guitar? Top notch, just absolutely top notch.
Amazing! Personally I don't think a single guitarist would care if there was a truss rod exposed in the neck. So it would be cool if you ever did this guitar again to add one, think it would just add to the epicness that's already on display!
Perhaps a fiberglass/plastic composite neck w/truss and an epoxy/plastic fret board. The double reinforced neck should help stay in tune as well as improve sustain. Just a random thought.
The people who are the best in the world out their field know that failure is the best teacher and the way you engineer working around problems like this is pretty fantastic. I work in a steel working shop where we make custom hardware for architects, and we do experimental work and it’s a lot of fun, but it’s also quite frustrating at times.
Wow. That's so cool!! I love watching your videos and this guitar is one of my favorites, because of the idea behind it. You should sell it and donate the money to "4 ocean". They do a awesome job!!!
Amazing stuff. We can totally help save the ocean this way. I think we just need to stop producing so much plastic but this is a great idea to reuse it. We could make toys with it too. My only concern is are their any emissions from cooking it in the oven or no? If so it's probably super low where it wouldn't cause any damage.
Seeing it’s only 350 degrees, it’s just melting it, not burning it, so I’m guessing not many fumes are escaping. A vapor capture system could be made if someone were to do this at any large scale.
I love it, I think it has a great tone. Maybe you could partner with 4ocean and make strat style bodies from ocean plastic and sell them, I would buy one if the price was right. Just cut the neck pocket to fit a fender Mexican neck.
I’m not sure what my favorite thing about your work is, but I love so much that every guitar is unique non traditional base materials. Maybe I did know my favorite thing. 😅
This is a guitar to feel good about buying no matter the price. Dude your channel is awesome keep up the amazing work and thank you for helping clean our waters!!
I have been planning to make a guitar out of hdpe for years. It makes me so happy to see more people use their ideas to find use for anything. Great work and huge respect for you guys.
Absolutely beautiful! What's great is you always learn from your mistakes, but honestly what are mistakes in Art? That guitar sounds amazing, great work Brother, please continue to create and inspire us all! God bless you in all your endeavors Brother! Peace!
Very cool Burls Art. I'm only a minute in & I'm thoroughly impressed & inspired, & I bet that was part of your motivation. You've succeeded on multiple levels.
Just found your channel, this is like finding gold, love when this happens. I’m very sick at home and your videos are taking me far away from feeling pain! Thank you
Your videos are always amazing! This one is extra special though, such a great way to help the earth. This would be so impactful done on an even larger scale - as a musician, I’d definitely get one (if I could afford it lol) and probs celebrities would get in on it too to clear out ocean plastic 🙌🏾
beautiful guitar.. due to its connection with cleaning the oceans (and cool appearance), you could sell a "boatload" of those if you chose.. I'm sure that would take the fun out of it though..
Awesome build, very very nice^^. your demos always sound so great why not take somthing like you did in this video( 14:07 ) and make like an album from it or a compilation, that would be mega cool.
Thanks for sharing your mistakes. Getting to hear your thought process, especially when things go wrong and you need to work out a solution, is very education and inspiring. This was a cool project, and you made a beautiful guitar out of trash!
You could use the extra shavings to just make progressively smaller plastic guitars and hang them as art P.S. Burl, obviously you could play guitar before you started making them. What kind of guitar did you start out on?