Recycling Skateboards Into Guitars | How It's Made

Learn how old skateboards are recycled and transformed into guitars!
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[@BlazedOutKing818]

This is actually pretty cool because I skateboard. I’m glad he used all the right terms like the “nose” and “tail”. And I like how he’s said that it traded the half pipe for the stage. Well done.

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

You better watch out, because I'm going to use You skateboard to make new guitar for Me! 😋

[@deborahcountryman8293]

I'd like to see how he made the necks. The guitars are Awesome, Great job!! I really enjoyed watching ty.

[@4130aykut]

Yes,this is also a question from me. How did you do the neck?

[@andrewcruz8636]

at 4:00 in the video it says that it was made using reclaimed skateboards. They probably did the same thing as when they made the body of the guitar and then carved and sanded it to shape.

[@cecilagustin8048]

Next vid: Recycling Guitars into Skateboards

[@unity__3829]

that would be interesting

[@Wolves2314]

Vid after: Recycling guitars into skateboards and then back into guitars again

[@andriyfedorov1435]

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[@AhDollar]

in soviet russia

[@GrayderFox]

Okay, that's a really cool idea. I'm into this aesthetic.

[@kosycat1]

What a great up cycle. As a guitar player and skateboarder. this is one of the coolest things to me

[@FEARLESSME-JoPaddy-]

Amazing and absolutely wonderful! I create a lot of things too, but your guitar is SWEET!!!!

[@gwapoo]

very good recycling idea. he may start a small guitar factory by collecting throw aways skateboards

[@FEARLESSME-JoPaddy-]

Good idea

[@cobolt13]

Too bad skateboarding is dead af

[@Zephieish]

@@cobolt13 no

[@KandiKlover]

Never! No one else gets my decks but me. I'm chucking it straight into the truck.

[@AntwonVinnie]

My good friend used to live in the same house as the creator of prisma guitars! I remember when I would come over to hang out I would hear him machining in the garage...and jamming too!

[@GrowingDownUnder]

Another good way to recycle them is using them as fire wood or shelves for a wall or put a camera tripod on it then you can film while rolling. But here in australia someone could probably make boomerangs out of old skateboards

[@VIDEOHEREBOB]

Awesome. Thanks very much.

[@TheBillStickers]

*Output jack REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@calvin._.]

Thank you

[@IgnitedIce81]

Very impressive, but do they also make BASS?

[@cecilagustin8048]

Ill SLAP you...

[@qrstw]

At 4:36

[@IgnitedIce81]

@@qrstw I don't see BASS

[@mikeischangingplaces]

@@IgnitedIce81 ..................... have you tried looking... at 4:36?

[@IgnitedIce81]

@@mikeischangingplaces Oh, epico then

[@b6y8n]

that looks Awesome I would buy one if someone made it

[@shoresy6927]

Wow...

[@dannyfresh6697]

What an awesome idea

[@EddVCR]

Beautiful kickass guitars.

[@debbralehrman5957]

Nice job, it looks great.

[@drxym]

Using old skate boards is interesting, but you can make an electric guitar body out of any old wood, even shipping crates & pallets. All it has to be is a solid hardwood of some kind that you route into shape. I suppose you would get a similar effect to this if you stacked and glued up a bunch of floor laminate.

[@MasterYoshidino]

It needs to be dense for "tone" so it makes sense to use boards compressed by humans that already meets the profile if not done anyway (maple).

[@bartrussell9842]

Must be very heavy!

[@Kitty-wb1kf]

That is awesome!

[@kimbratton9620]

This is so cool!!😃😀

[@hellodanknessmyoldfriend6101]

Cool

[@dmkpredator]

могли бы и узнать имя чувака, который у них рекламу заказал. Или это азиатпо имени Хи?

[@shimonigmagames]

Now I know

[@SouthernBelleReviews]

Neat!

[@auri1075]

Why does he has the same upload schedule as huggbees?! The first videos i saw of them made me question what was wrong for so long...

[@mikeischangingplaces]

god i can almost feel the weight of that thing. i hope he's chambering those things or doing weight relief because solid laminated rock maple sounds like hell for your back. When I was in high school my friend's dad loaned me his 1970s les paul for about a year. That thing was a dense as they come at like 12+ pounds and I can feel my shoulder just at the thought of it

[@1106Winter]

Dried rock maple laminate is not that heavy. Before it's laminated, the wood is conditioned and dried extensively. I'd say it's lighter because of this reason.

[@mikeischangingplaces]

@@1106Winter All tonewoods are supposed to be dried before using, although that's not always done well. Hard maple (eastern or sugar maple) is a fantastic, resonant, and very common tonewood, but it's almost never used for the body of a solid body guitar because it's so heavy. I've seen some maple-bodied Carvins (I think an old Jason Becker signature?), but it's almost unheard of, and I doubt it's even a standard option from them today (Carvin builds to customer spec on order). The stability and resonance of maple is, however, very frequently put to use in guitar necks. Common woods used for a solid body are mahogany (density used in guitars varies a lot, but is usually the densest body wood used), alder, basswood (typically the lightest), or swamp ash (typically heavier than alder but lighter than harder kinds of ash). Walnut is also pretty heavy as far as guitar woods go, and you sometimes see it used in basses (much more rarely in guitars). In any case, I'm pretty skeptical that putting that maple in a laminate won't take away the bell-like resonance that makes it so appealing as a tone wood

[@1106Winter]

@@mikeischangingplaces well... We're talking about the weight. Tone wood is a myth. 😜

[@NOLAMarathon2010]

Very cool. But I'm guessing they're more expensive than a Fender.

[@figgiesmalls1760]

Tom Nally Mexican/Indonesian Fenders maybe but I dont think they would cost as much as a USA model ($800+)

[@LukaRioli]

Why d'you think that? They may actually be cheaper for all we know! XD

[@THEbraylonbarnes]

Yooooooooooooooooo

[@liammcdonough6832]

Environmentalism at its very best, dude!!!!!!

[@HeyAlexPlace]

Wait! That's not @wobydesign ???

[@invisible468]

AlexXx Place! Nope... looks like this video is from many years ago... I wonder when

[@Guac_Psycho]

Is it possible to make a really small electric guitar that can be played? Like the size of a hand ✋or a book 📚.

[@figgiesmalls1760]

TheGuac _Hot lmfao

[@thadnipper9411]

It's been done with a shovel before...

[@incognitopringle6177]

His voice kinda sounds like the pacer test guy PTSD 😖

[@nicolea2839]

Ikr 😼

[@LukaRioli]

*WHAT THE BLOODY FUCK!!?? I was just looking through my notifications and I found THIS!? I've got a guitar, 'cause I love playing guitar and I'm just practicing, but I want one of these recycled "skateboard guitars" now! I probably can't afford one, as I'm currently only on a P.I.P. benefit of just £150 per month, for fuck's sake, but I can definitely save up for one of these if they're available soon! XD Recycling ROCKS (literally rocks, LOL!) Where the hell would we be without it!? XD*

[@LukaRioli]

_Relating to my last comment, Recycling Rocks is an alright title for a song, I've just realised, LOL! XD_

[@gabrieltorio1681]

I’m the 2nd btw I did it

[@FriendofMineralTown]

The handle would be fruit stripes flavor

[@dadjiang4849]

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[@heregood494]

Kasih ke alip ba tha mantap ini (♥ω♥*)

[@fixedguitar47]

The other thing they do now is use the wood from famous stages.

[@Theexplorographer]

Nothing like that plywood tone.

[@andresilva8444]

It's an output jack, not an input jack.

[@tinomacias9151]

I don't get why he didn't leave the back of the guitar. The skateboard color Why did he paint it candy? Apple? Red or whatever color it is didn't keep it all skateboard. that's not fun that sucks.

[@venomicapple4542]

Look like Harlequin

[@raconteur5195]

Now make skateboards from old guitars

[@mansuraakter9999]

Second comment

[@nicolea2839]

Hobie Brown approves

[@joejamata5583]

I started with Woodglut plans.

[@littlebigcomrade]

Recycling skateboards… discards the tips of them.

[@N-VRIVER]

Yay im early

[@PCX425]

Awesome Idea. Voice over sucked though. Would have rather heard from the guy building the guitars.

[@ahmody7500]

A bit irrelevant to the channel content but impressive nonetheless