Ancient Wooley Mammoth Tusk Bone and Saddles !

octagon · Post by **octagon** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:52 am

http://www.ivorybuyer.com/sales/guitar.htm

Fossilized Walrus Tusk

http://www.guitarsaddles.com/products.asp

teeder · Post by **teeder** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:22 am

I have a couple pounds of Mammoth tusk that was given to me by an native Alaskan friend. He teaches traditional carving at a college up there.
Pretty cool stuff, but I don't know what I'm going to do with it, yet.

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:36 am

Mammoth material needs a mammoth guitar

This is a picture postcard of ex Narrandera Policeman Kevin Barber outside the Tourist Information Centre with the World's Largest Playable Guitar - 5.820 metres x 2.019 metres and it usually resides inside the Narrandera Tourist Centre, Australia.

octagon · Post by **octagon** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:23 pm

Nice guitar but the action is kinda high.

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:59 pm

Literally!

lyle_from_minneapolis · Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:18 am

So was the luthier.

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:37 am

Is that a short-scale or long-scale Brobdingnagian giant guitar?

Betcha Paul Wilczynski would know

bitzerguy · Post by **bitzerguy** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:46 am

It looks like a Jumbo to me.

...Dean

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:52 am

It is definitely too big to fit into my trunk...

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:53 am

...which is not of mammoth proportions at all...

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:06 pm

Umm ... I think "wooley" in the title should be "wooly" ... and wouldn't the Cavern be an appropriate venue?

teeder · Post by **teeder** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:27 am

The only Cavern that guitar would fit in is Carlsbad!

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:41 am

I was driving through Narrandera during Easter '06 and tried to play that guitar, Kent..... c'est almost impossible!!

I managed to get an out-of-tune Em of sorts out of it but......

Ideally you'd have one person per string to do the fretting and something like a tennis racquet to strum it.

Oh..... and a very large pair of fencing pliers to tune it!!!