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tot_Ou_tard
April 15th, 2008, 12:33 PM
I followed a link from stringdog.net & found this:

http://www.industrialguitar.com/guitars.html

Very interesting. I'd never heard of them before.

peachhead
April 15th, 2008, 02:08 PM
kinda gives a whole new meaning to "lap steel" doesn't it...

Naz Nomad
April 15th, 2008, 06:35 PM
Nice, glue a fretboard to a George Foreman Lean Mean Grillin' Machine, screw on a bridge ... et voila :master: :master:

markb
April 15th, 2008, 09:00 PM
Those miniature resonators on some of the steels look really interesting.

bek
May 5th, 2008, 12:09 PM
I've had two Industrials; a lap steel and a sort of LP. I sold the lap steel because I just couldn't take the time to learn it, as I wanted it for Hawaiian and country steel and never could feel good with those tunings. It was a great instrument, though. I still have the guitar. It's the one in the site gallery called the Classic Paul. I have that actual instrument. It's not much like a real LP, as it has an (of course) aluminum top and back and a phenolic rim and it's fully hollow. It also is wired like a Hamer (volume-volume-tone) and has a Fender-scale neck. I have a set of custom-made ToneForDays humbuckers in it and it just flat smokes. Very versatile tones, and compares favorably with my Hamer. I just put in a set of TonePros studs and that seemed to actually improve things, in terms of clean sounds, but it's subtle. I love the guitar, it's just a little heavy for me with a shoulder problem I've developed over the years. I have an Epi PL that's actually heavier, though.

tot_Ou_tard
May 5th, 2008, 04:41 PM
Thanks for the info bek. Could you describe the difference that the aluminum makes in the tone?

bek
December 26th, 2008, 02:36 PM
Geeze, I'm sorry I forgot about this forum. I don't post from anywhere but work (standby sort of job) and it can be awhile between opportunities. On the supposition you'll search for your posts: to me, I don't hear a metallic sound when I play it. My tech (a true, US-Fender fan) is terribly impressed by these pickups (ToneForDays humbuckers, still in the guitar). They have tremendous touch-sensitivity and responsiveness, not to mention Tone For Days! He tells me they would sound better in a wooden guitar and I have a few different axes I could (and should) try them in to really learn something. I should put them in my Hamer, which is the lightest one of them so I would like that (weight matters more as I get older!). I have to say the Industrial does not give me the thinline/ES feel I would expect from a hollowbody. I've been GASing for that sound ever since I sold my Sheraton. Would love to try these things in a Dot or Lucille, though I'm intrigued by the notion of retaining the long scale....

tot_Ou_tard
December 26th, 2008, 05:21 PM
Thanks bek!

If you want a fully-hollow Fender-scale guitar the Eastwood Tuxedo looks very interesting. It has 2 P90s though.

http://www.thefret.net/showthread.php?t=4436

bek
December 26th, 2008, 07:05 PM
I've seen that before, and liked it. It reminds me of my old Harmony Stratotone Jupiter (the 2-pickup one with the 3-way switch), which was a great guitar. I've thought of a 72 Thinline, or else just forget the long-scale thing and get any one of dozens of decent standard 335-types. Last great concert I went to, with incredible tone, was Matisyahu. His player used an Epi Riviera into a Vox AC30, with some delay and it sounded amazing.

Andy
December 26th, 2008, 09:14 PM
this one has a built in clock....!

http://www.industrialguitar.com/dok_0815.jpg

Rocket
December 26th, 2008, 09:31 PM
Looks like someone turned their scrap-metal into a guitar:

http://www.fluxfactory.org/projects/refuse/images/sanfordguitar.jpg

tot_Ou_tard
December 27th, 2008, 11:07 AM
What time is it? Time to get down!

Youch Rocket, I'd be afraid of trying to tune that'un.

just strum
December 27th, 2008, 11:15 AM
What time is it? Time to get down!

Youch Rocket, I'd be afraid of trying to tune that'un.

No need to fear, it appears it might be an early Gibson Robot prototype.

tot_Ou_tard
December 27th, 2008, 11:44 AM
No need to fear, it appears it might be an early Gibson Robot prototype.
It looks to be a seagoing vessel with an astrolabe

http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~devriepl/phy211/astrolabe/MyAstrolabe.gif

perhaps it is an instrument for communicating with Poseidon.