Spinning guitar neck

[BJG145]

Get rid of your static guitar neck and prepare to embrace the future.

https://youtu.be/p2kJMPfFOX8?t=783

[Albatross]

Thats bloody amazing.

[Eddy Deegan]

I saw that when it came out. Crazy but somehow very impressive. Practical, probably not so much. I'm sure there are issues luthiers would pick up on but the engineering is admirable and the aesthetics are top notch!

[yeroc]

Goes great with my treadmill pedalboard !

[S2]

An interesting video. I imagine chords are tricky with a circular neck. I preferred Steve Vai's multi neck guitar but this is a really interesting idea and I hope it continues so we can see what can be done/developed out of it.

[Wonks]

Weird. Bass and guitar scale are the same, so a definite compromise. And if you play a thick round neck like that for long, I can foresee some bad RSI occurring.

You've got to compress the strings at the rear as well as the ones at the front of the neck, and as the thickness of those varies with the neck rotation, you won't get used to it. Some people find it hard changing to a different standard guitar because of a different neck shape.

There's no way you can fit a trem on it, which is a must for some people.

And you aren't going to be able to change the pickups if you don't like the sound of the stock ones.

You'll also need to be able to rotate the neck whilst you pick the strings, whilst trying to palm mute and also hold the neck steady so you can finger with your other hand.

I've seen guitars with a standard fingerboard on both sides of a 180 deg rotatable neck, which makes (a little) more sense to me. As a 'what if', this is interesting, but it strongly poses the question as to what benefits it confers against its many drawbacks.

[Folderol]

One is amazed... Not that it could be done, but that anyone would want to do it

[Arpangel]

Obviously a lot of factors involved, but it sounds horrible to me, probably how he’s demonstrating it.

[tea for two]

Triffic bit o engineering.
Clearly made for your chums to huddle together to play together.

[Shostakovich]

Ghastly & pointless. No tone, out of tune, and it won't matter who plays it, it'll still be awful. Even more so if they ever try to play with other instruments that are actually in tune.

[BJG145]

Oh c'mon, I mean, yes, but you've got to experiment! So, not pointless, no.

I love musical experiments.

The piano was a novel experiment once.

[N i g e l]

Cool !

Ghastly & pointless.

"....if you build it they will come..." Field of Dreams, 1989

There's no way you can fit a trem on it, which is a must for some people.

so basically a headless [nice that it doesnt require double ball end strings] with tuning at the bottom of the, neck that rotates.

Steinberger [or equivilent] do headless with trem, the thing is to connect the trem to the tuned neck which is rotating.

hmmm, that would require a BMX style front brake style mechanisim.

BMX bikes have a brake lever on the handle bars, connected to the brakes on the front wheel which also rotates for steering. Steering is 360 x infinite to permit "bar spin".

In between lever and brake there is a mechanisim which facilitates this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drYxhTJRILI

the first 10s demonstrate the facility
apparently the tech term is "gyro brake system"

this one might be better...jump to 4min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o09WDbA-7A

[Wonks]

"....if you build it they will come..." Field of Dreams, 1989

“If you build it, he will come”

So, you end up with a dead baseball player.

That’s not going to sell many rotating guitars!

[N i g e l]

Your probably right, I dont no nuffin about base ball & apparently have been wearing my hat back to front ever since I got an '808

[Sam Spoons]

"....if you build it they will come..." Field of Dreams, 1989

“If you build it, he will come”

So, you end up with a dead baseball player.

That’s not going to sell many rotating guitars!

Unless you can find a few baseball playing guitarists?

[Wonks]

Dead baseball-playing guitarists.

Though the ‘guitar’ does look rather like a baseball bat.

[Sam Spoons]

[Sam Spoons]

http://www.brianeastwoodguitars.co.uk/dual.html

[tea for two]

That spinning Guitar neck does look a trifle Dastardly.
To be wielded by Sith Lord Vader and Field of Dreams James Earl Jones.