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Guitar made from AK-47 - The Escopetarra

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Tom sent in this great guitar mod - "Street musician Cesar Lopez was playing in front of a Bogota country club destroyed by a guerrilla car bomb when he noticed an army guard carrying his rifle the same way López plays his guitar. ''I saw that our body movements were the same,'' Lppez said. ``He had his gun. I had my guitar. And BOF! It hit me.'' The first escopetarra -- a combination of escopeta and guitarra, the Spanish words for rifle and guitar -- was born a few months later." [via] - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Mar 11, 2006 12:31 PM
DIY Projects, Music | Permalink | Comments (5)

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I've wanted one of those ever since I saw the movie EVIL ROY SLADE as a child.

Posted by: JAO on March 13, 2006 at 7:49 AM

Ken Butler has some cool firearm guitars too (as well as lots of crazy other mutant instruments): check em out at http://www.mindspring.com/~kbhybrid/instrument.html

Posted by: djord on March 19, 2006 at 11:16 AM

how do you make them?

Posted by: chris on January 8, 2008 at 5:35 AM

how do you make them?

Posted by: chris on January 8, 2008 at 5:35 AM

"Escopeta" is spanish for shotgun, not rifle. Rifles are called the same in english and spanish. I'm guessing without an acoustics chamber unless they're electric, they sound crappy and weight quite a bit.

Posted by: Luis on February 23, 2008 at 3:38 PM

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