Spudnick

Collaboration with Stephen Pfund.

R.I.P. Spudnick

No name japanese jaguar style guitar. Fitted with a speaker running as a microphone and a P90 pickup, an automotive toggle switch to "turn on and off" the electronics, and an unusually tall 100k potentiometer controlling volume. Occasionally the pot was fitted with a fairly large foam skull. The electronics ran to a knife switch that allowed the player to switch between two different outputs. The pick guard was questionably safe, sharp metal and not very solid. The tail piece was four nails, which the strings were simply tied to or wrapped around. This was a four string guitar, one bass string and three guitar strings, the order of the strings was typically random. The strap of the guitar was permanently attached, and was a bungee cord. This made the strap uncomfortable and gave playing the guitar an overall bouncy feeling. As a bonus, the guitar contained other safety hazards; there were several nails, many of which were rusty, sticking out of the guitar's body. Also, there was occasionally a cork screw like object sticking out of the tail end of the guitar, and a hook like object resembling horns sticking out of the headstock. My overall assessment of the guitar is as follows: sharp, potentially dangerous, and unpleasant to play.

Unfortunately Spudnick met its demise last winter during a sonic terrorist attack, ironically, on a group of Japanese Diplomats.