Someone Built an "Infinity Mirror" Guitar
YouTuber Burls Art lined this guitar with customizable LED lights that can be animated through an app.
YouTuber Burls Art has previously wowed us with guitars built out of salt, paper, colored pencils and more.
Now, the intrepid luthier is back with another wild build, this time putting together an “infinity mirror guitar,” the build process of which is documented in the above video.
Burls Art started the build by hollowing out the guitar's body until only its frame was left, then built its top and back pieces with clear acrylic. The back piece of acrylic was then sprayed with a gloss silver paint, while the inside of the top and back was covered with two-way mirror film.
The body frame was then lined with customizable LED lights that can be animated through an app.
Elsewhere, the guitar features a single humbucker, a string-through-body bridge and a neck and fretboard finished in gloss silver, like the back of the body. It weighs just over six pounds.
For more of Burls Art's videos, stop by his YouTube channel.
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Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com and GuitarPlayer.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.
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