How-To: Amplify your gamer guitar

Randy Sarafan made a cigar box style guitar from an old NES, and shows us how to add a pickup to amplify the sound in his Instructable. He uses a NES controller cable for the audio, so classy! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Music | ...

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