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Broken guitar for gardening
Matthew Adams
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I personally love making music and I love gardening.
Today i looked at one of my old guitars and it looked like some over tuned the strings and it is broken. Im not too fussed about fixing it but I would love to reuse it in the garden.
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas what I can do or any links to create a cool thing to incorporate my love of my two hobbies, while making it strong enough to last a couple of years without getting destroyed
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That's a lovely idea. However it could be difficult to preserve for very long. It may be possible to varnish the outside but what about the hole if water gets inside (hole - technical speak
). If you could build a small bandstand you could keep water out and find old scrap instruments to grow things in and around, using containers for the plants. Sorry I'm getting fanciful now but it looks great in my mind
Spray the inside with something waterproof and grow stuff in it? Something with a musical connection that my brain is too addled to think of?
so fair I have screwed it to the fence, I am going to connect some strings to the trellis where I have Honeysuckle and Nasturtiums to looks like the plants are coming the guitar itself.
Inside the hole I used, as a temporary mesaure, some of the plastic covering from a bamboo fencing packaging to cover inside the hole to prevent any water for now. I will get to waterproof spray tomorrow and some drain pipes and some hollowed out bamboo from the hardware store and glue the drainpipe to the back with added drainage holes just incase. Then cut up the bamboo for bees and bugs to live in.
or something along them lines
Looks really great! How about growing some string beans up it?
I'll get me coat!
Bob
You obviously had a plan in mind which is great. My only thought is that it could be at an angle (as though being played)
Probably
That was my first thought.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Would you be interested in altering it a little? With a bigger hole I can sort of imagine some trailing plants sort of spilling out of the sound hole(?) I'm imagining some white bacopa or lobelia for some reason, with dark foliage, reminiscent of sheet music? I only suggest opening up the sound hole thing just so there's more light and room for them to tumble, but I suppose if you put enough compost in then there's not much call to open it really. Bacopa is very small, but plentiful, I bought one for 89p and it's grown in size a lot already. Maybe a climbing ivy may find itself wrapping its way up the fretboard too... Can you tell I love this idea??