made from LEGO bricks,
but this is a first for myself, a LEGO guitar, admittedly it is held together by epoxy, but it still looks kind of neat,
the instrument was made by Mike Clifford and used a Les Paul design in vector file format in Fusion 360, a
3D design program, to develop the shape. Then, after building a mold, he poured
epoxy over the bricks,
'The most challenging part of this guitar build
was creating a solid guitar blank from the Legos and epoxy. I put the Lego
bricks on a backplate in a pixelated elliptical pattern. I then put the Legos
face down into a partially cured layer of epoxy, then poured more epoxy to
halfway cover the Legos. After this epoxy cured, I could remove the backplate
that was holding the Legos together, pour more epoxy resin over them to fill in
the backs of the Legos. While the epoxy was still fluid, I added a second layer
of Legos, and finally came back to fill in the entire form with resin. After I
had the epoxy Lego guitar blank, I could just use standard woodworking
processes for guitar building, to shape the guitar from the epoxy Lego blank'.
no news as to how it plays or sounds, but I can
see no reason why it should not work.
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