14 DAY TRIAL // So you had an old Nintendo console and it broke down. Cool, there are lots of people like you, so far. After seeing that nothing more can be done for the console to come back to a functional state, you somehow avoided to throw it in the garbage truck, instead it has ended somewhere in the attic or basement - still, there are lots of people like you, nothing special. Seeing it recently and not throwing it away does not make you too much of a different guy either. Now...what to do?
Well, making a guitar body from the old plastic shell of the Nintendo is a completely different story; and sworn to make you stand out from the crowd! And if you think this is not possible, I must say to you it is!
Don't think the "NES Paul" (mockery of a Gibson or Epiphone Les Paul guitar) is some state-of-the-art piece of hardware. In fact, I think this could be very well suited for hanging on the wall of the rehearsal room on in a metal pub... or maybe for shooting a completely ridiculous and hilarious fun-grindcore video...
The NES Paul is a nice piece of guitar engineering, though: the "luthier" does not say whether the NES Paul is actually playable even if it looks like someone could make some coherent sounds using it.
Cutting down an old Epiphone guitar and adjusting the neck in the hollow Nintendo case produced a very crappy overall look; after the tune-o-matic bridge was added and the new guitar received a humbucker pickup and a volume pot thins started to look like some distant and retarded redneck cousin of a Hohner axe.
The final product was equipped with a jack, mounted on the plastic case and now the axe was complete; still it looked like s**t but it had everything a real guitar needed.
I am quite curious to see and actually hear how does that chopped Epi from inside the crappy plastic shell sound... unfortunately, I have no Nintendo cases at home nor will I chop my guitars to fit in such a space. Nevertheless... quite a piece of tech!
Photos via www.xocmusic.com/NESpaul/
