Bob Clagett taught us how to build a giant lightsaber. Now heâs back, and he gives us his most metal creation yet: the shovel guitar.
Clagett, the star of the I Like to Make Stuff YouTube series, is a veritable purveyor of DIY masterpieces. His latest invention is the shovel guitar, an ordinary, rusty shovel outfitted with a single string, two knobs and an active EMG pickup.
Guitarist Rob Scallon, an equally innovative mind, has already given us such heavy metal classics as âOne Fret Songâ and âEvery Fret Song,â and he got the privilege of first showcasing the shovel, or guitar, or âdjent stickââas he calls it in the video above.
The video begins with a womanâs voice drifting out of a house, asking Scallon for help: âHey babe, can you get a shovel and help me out in the garden?â The guitarist emerges to scour his collection of shovels. He chooses, of course, the jet-stick, and he proceeds to shred in a â90s grunge-style music video with plenty of shots in the woods and fish-eye video lenses.
After his jam, Scallon asserts that all the sounds heard in the video came from the âshovel-guitar-djent-stick thing,â and he reveals that Clagett will be publishing an explanation video to his YouTube channel on March 3.
Clagettâs philosophy is that of wonky utility. âIn my projects, I show you every step, and thatâs because I want to demystify the process,â he says in the channelâs introduction video. âI want to show you that itâs not that hard, and I want to inspire you to make the stuff that you want to have.â
So, if you want a shovel guitar, tune in and learn how to make your own. And let us know what other awesome projects youâd like to see Clagett undertake in the comments below.
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HT: Laughing Squid
Image: YouTube/Rob Scallon