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I thought this might interest some of the quadriplegic musicians out there.

This is a guitar built for a quadriplegic. Unfortunatly, the quadriplegic that the guitar was built for died soon after.

This is one fine work of art!

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This is Kurt's guitar. Kurt is an amazing guy. He is quadriplegic yet he wanted me to make a guitar that he could play. So, I got it all done finally. As you can see, it has a claw that rides down on rails. This claw has a Teflon block inside of it which has a .76" recess in it. The rod has a ball end on it that is .75" and that lets it rotate. The claw also has a stainless steel bar that is spring loaded inside of it which does the fretting. The rod hooks up to a 1/4" moveable socket which is welded to limit its movement and has O ring grooves cut into it. The mouthstick then attaches to that with snap rings and has tubing over it to pick and strum the strings. The entire guitar is covered in 12K carbon fiber. It has vertical tuners so that he can tune it with his mouthstick. The tribal design on the body is aluminum and the inlays are medieval paua abalone crosses. The claw rides on shaft rods and Teflon/Freliner bearings. It sounds so cool!!! Like a mean slide guitar. I am really excited to see what Kurt can do with this. This was the most tremendous amount of work ever. I had to learn 2 new software programs, how to cut metal, fixture metal, engineer all kinds of stuff, make carbon fiber, etc. I even had to make a case for it. I managed to slice my thumb up doing that. It bled for about 4 hours! Should have gotten stitches. There are a ton of bandwidth hogging pictures here, but this is one really unique guitar so I went ahead and put a bunch up.

http://www.driskillg...rt%20diablo.htm

Simon

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[sjmhb030]

i was wondering if they make guitars like this for sale, or is this a one of a kind, and if it is a one of a kind, is it for sale? I want to play the guitar so bad, but havent found a way yet, and this looks awesome

[Illinois Boy]

My dad bought me a used 1957 Fender Stratocastor in 1963, for my 6th birthday...... Loved that gutair, it was at Fender having the neck fe-fretted and refinished when I broke my neck in June of 1982...... On the neck of my strat was written in pencil (11-57), my birthday is 11-13-1957....
Both me and my old friend turn 50 this month......
I've only seen it once back in 82, when it was all back together.... Keep it locked away at my mom's house..... S/N is 24,100 and can be purchashed for $5,000,000........ It is black and was custom ordered from Fender.......

After I first had my accident, I bought a 6 string lap steel, tuned it to an open F chord....... Rigged up a molded cuff to hold a steel slide in my left hand, and one with a pick for my right hand.....
It was ok I guess, nothin' like pickin' my old friend with the amp maxed out!

I think I miss playing that gutair more than walking, sex or anything else.........

Looks like this gutair is rigged up to play bar chords by moving the slide mounted on two rails on each side of the neck.....
There is software for your computer, where you can compose the notes - chords, then have the computer play it back as anything with multiple sounds (heavy Metal, Acoustic, etc.)

Jim - Running for President!