10 ideas to recycle acoustic guitar and picks

Some to creatively recycle the acoustic guitar or picks

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It may be that among you there are musicians, former guitarists or simply someone who is in possession of a old acoustic guitar for beginners, worthless or now very damaged.

In any case, it would be a sin to throw it in the trash, just in case it can no longer be used as a musical instrument and consequently give it to someone for this purpose. And if you even come across one collection of picks that nobody uses anymore? You may be thinking of starting to engage in creative recycling. So here are some for creatively recycle the acoustic guitar or picks

Index

Dashboard

La front of the guitar can be removed for make a bulletin board or small shelf to hang or lean on the walls and to use to place knick-knacks or collectibles.

The wood obtained from the dismemberment of the guitar can be used for the realization of the shelves.

library

Another similar solution is the possibility of use the guitar, or its hard case, as a space for store some books or a collection of comics, to be placed on the floor horizontally or vertically. With recycled materials you can obtain dividers between the spaces and the background, it can be covered with wrapping paper or, even more on a theme, with musical scores.

Other musical instruments

Let's not forget that the most experienced musicians and luthiers may be able to make gods new musical instruments by assembling different parts of other instruments, how can it happen for example a starting from the neck of an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar or a bass, to be combined with one of the cymbals or drums.

flowerpot

La your old classical guitar could turn into a new planter to be placed in the garden and used to make a small herb garden, perhaps combining it with other recycled containers to be recycled for cultivation, such as fruit crates, baskets and drawers from old furniture.

Decorative items

Acoustic guitars can be transformed into real decorative items to use for beautify your home, placing them on a pedestal, or leaning them against a wall. Their surface, after removing the ropes to facilitate the operation, lends itself very well to being hand painted with colors suitable for wood or to be used as a base for a colorful mosaic.

Pendants

I guitar picks are one of the ideal starting materials for making of pendants for your own necklaces. Observe them carefully: their shape is very reminiscent of da near the petals of a flower. The picks can therefore be assembled to create a corolla, in the center of which place a button of your favorite color. Add a hook and you will have obtained the pendant for a necklace born from creative recycling. You can also use a pendant as a pendant single pick, after having carefully pierced it at one end.

Earrings

Unused guitar picks can also be turned into charms for earrings practically at no cost. It is in fact sufficient to drill a hole in the desired position and secure each pick to one of the hooks that are normally used for home making and creative of new earrings.

Portagioielli

Where to store the jewels obtained using the picks? Maybe by building a jewelry box suitable for hanging your own pendants and earrings recovering the parts of an old guitar, such as one of its shaped sides, one of its strings and the keys for their adjustment. The result is an excellent place to hang your bijoux to be secured to the wall.

place card

Picks can be transformed into placeholders to use on the table to cheer up their guests. In particular, you can use picks to make decorations for glass goblets, making a hole at one end along which to let a wire pass, perhaps obtained from the strings of the guitar, which allows you to position them at the base of the glasses with which you will set the table.

Table

Here is one last idea, which consists of creation of a coffee table starting from the case of a classical guitar or from the guitar itself, as the following pictures show.

As for the guitar, you can decide to remove the neck while keeping the case, under which supports similar to those that would be used to support a stool must be arranged.

A recycling that has a completely different music, don't you think?

Marta Albè

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