Guitar made from an Oil Can

This kid is very creative.
Looks cool...I wonder how thet sound??

Bohemian Guitars

https://www.facebook.com/#!/BohemianGuitars

Seems like a knockoff of

http://www.townshipguitars.com/

http://www.africanguitars.co.uk/

A pretty common practice. Depends a lot on the pickup for how it sounds. There is a guy in my town that gigs a lot with one. He's got one humbucker in it and it sounds great. Not sure how I would describe it, but definitely on the dirty side... Like a humbucker... In an oil can.

I like the Homemade Jamz muffler guitars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEExSjk5U3w&feature=related

I saw some of these, i.e., oil can guitars, at an outdoor market in Capetown during a trip there. They were for sale but the person in charge of the booth was playing one and when I asked if I could play one myself he said "no." Not allowing potential customers to play the guitars that were for sale did not strike me as a very good business plan. I very well might have bought one if I had a chance to try one out.

Looks like a rip off of the delta blues fellow Mac Arnold. Its the second video, just scroll down a little bit: http://www.3-string-guitar.com/

He probs wasnt the first either, but who knows!

Near the end he plugs it in to his little mp

I only see bulk oil in plastic jugs...

My buddy Simon makes these.

http://petrolian.wordpress.com/

Buy his - they're the best.

BTW - Petrolian is a play on Duolian and Triolian and petrol...

I like the Homemade Jamz muffler guitars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEExSjk5U3w&feature=related

Love the little girl on the drums!!

It's a canjo, pretty sure it sounds like a canjo, too. Search youtube for that term to get an idea of they sound. Honestly, they're pretty common, lately, along with cigar box guitars. There's a pretty big underground movement to play fairly primal instruments you made with your own hands. I've got a couple of projects brewing myself.

If you're interested in that sort of thing, PM me, I can send you links to other communities/forums where handmade/trash instruments are the focus.

Oh, and as for the term canjo, it's just something using a can for a body, I've seen them built and strung like a proper 5 string banjo, 3-6 string guitars and even with just one string.

There's is also a guy who sells a kit called a "wailer" that is sort of a cigar box thing, but you fold up the box from pre cut card board..
Good if you don't have the tools, desire etc. to actually make the neck, still a bit of a project.
My wife's school bought a dozen a few years back and I had to put them together, actually after doing one, I organized a work party for the other 11 :roll: