Recycling old skateboards for building electric guitars, that was the idea of two Argentineans smart guys...
The Skate Guitar project has been developed by argentinean luthier Ezequiel Galasso and professional skateboarder and guitar collector Gianfranco de Gennaro. They worked on a way to build guitars from old skateboards and found that two boards were necessary to build a complete instrument.
The Skate Guitars use maple (14 plies) and their creators add that you can treat them bad, after all that’s how the original object was designed for…
Skate Guitar doesn’t have any website but you can contact them through their Facebook page.
Here’s the instrument in action, more videos are available on Facebook:
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