Genius Built A Guitar Out Of 1,200 Colored Pencils

Electric guitars and colored pencils? Most of us can only use the latter to draw a picture of the former. But the genius behind YouTube channel Burls Art is crafty. So he built the former out of the latter.

Instead of a typical slab of wood to form the guitar’s body, he used hundreds and hundreds of colored pencils. But will a guitar made of colored pencils actually work? Or will it prove to be some sort of prop on the wall?

Art That Works

In the “about” section of his YouTube channel, the man behind Burls Art keeps it simple. “I try to make art that works,” he writes. It’s an understatement. But how can someone build a working electric guitar out of colored pencils?

1,200 Colored Pencils

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The guy behind Burls Art started out by cutting all of his colored pencils in half using an electric blade in his workshop. He had 1,200 of them, and he intended to use all of them to create something totally musical. Cutting them up must’ve been hella fun. But that was only the first step.

Wax the Box

He taped the bottom of a wooden box, then waxed the inside with carnauba wax. Once that was done, he placed the colored pencils inside the box, holding them together with epoxy resin.

But he was also playing it by ear…

His 1st Guitar

He admitted that he never actually built a guitar before, let alone an electric guitar made of colored pencils. But he was eager to give it a shot. So the next thing he did was to stack the colored pencils standing up, which was a painstakingly slow process.

And that was still only the beginning…