Spongebob kiddy guitars

Riaan

After someone, I think it was Riaan C, posted an image of a Spongebob guitar some weeks age, I showed it to my five year old daughter and that was it - we now simply have to get one. Looks like GAS runs in families. Any idea if these are available locally?

Another option of course, would be to get any 3/4 size kids guitar and put some Spongebob stickers on it I guess, but she's not fooled easily and has her heart set on the Spongebob Strat copy with the small yellow amp. At least good taste also appears to run in families also... ?

To my amazement, she hummed "Smoke On The Water" while looking at the Spongebob guitar pics! She heard me playing that riff only twice as far as I know.... ?

FatBoy

Awesome!

I'll keep an eye out for you.

One thing though, I've seen some of these branded kiddies guitars, one time at a jam session a kid brought one up to me and asked me to tune it. The action on that thing was so high there is no way I could play more than two songs on it without hurting my fingers (twas a steel string). Don't even want to know what that'll do to a 5 year old girl! So yea, I'm just thinking that even tho she'll be shyte at first, if it is going to hurt her she may not want to try it again later.

Hopefully its a nylon, or you can put nylons on, think steel is a bit tough at first.

Anyway, I wish you luck man, if the GAS is starting now when she is 5, I'd like to see what it will grow into when she is in her late teens!! Best you start saving!!

singemonkey

Is it square? That sounds awesome ? They could do a great series. A star-shaped Patrick guitar. A Squidward guitar based on Prince's guitar with that long curly horn.

Yeah. I like Spongebob. You wanna make something of it? ?

Has anyone noticed the sheer, unmitigated awesomeness of the sound track of that show? Surf and Hawaiian guitar blending with traditional kiddies music. Clearly played by people who love that style too, because they're not just vague copies of classics of the style. The tones are perfect and the tunes are original. Some of the best guitar music I've heard on TV.

soren

I was in a local music shop the other day -- and picked up one of the 3/4 sized
purple-with-gold-stars Hannah Montanah guitars...for R895 w. a bundled
headphone amp.

And...it actually played pretty well. However, they wouldn't let me play
it through a decent amp...I wanted to hear what the p/ups sounded like.

Shopping Mall music stores are...such idiots. When you want to try
a guitar, they always get you a 7W cheapo-plastic practice amp that
is going to make any guitar sound like crap. Even if they're trying to
sell a junk guitar to a kid who is probably going to stick it in the back
of his cupboard, the smart money would be to plug it into a decent amp
so the kid can hear what it *could* sound like.

Tamago

Not all music shops are like this.

When I bought my Squier Hello Kitty guitar, they let me plug it into a Fender tube amp cranked up so loud they heard me in the parking lot.

singemonkey

Tamago wrote: Not all music shops are like this.

When I bought my Squier Hello Kitty guitar, they let me plug it into a Fender tube amp cranked up so loud they heard me in the parking lot.

Those are awesome too. I can imagine if Hendrix were alive today - grey, bald, wearing giant silver space boots, a Hugo Chavez shirt, and with his beard dyed red - he'd appear on some MTV life-time achievement awards alongside Jack White with one of those just to blow everyone's mind.

Keira-WitherKay

singemonkey wrote:
Tamago wrote: Not all music shops are like this.

When I bought my Squier Hello Kitty guitar, they let me plug it into a Fender tube amp cranked up so loud they heard me in the parking lot.
Those are awesome too. I can imagine if Hendrix were alive today - grey, bald, wearing giant silver space boots, a Hugo Chavez shirt, and with his beard dyed red - he'd appear on some MTV life-time achievement awards alongside Jack White with one of those just to blow everyone's mind.

? yeah i can picture that ......... pity they not made outa plastic or jack white would also use one............. still think he's the pioneer of our modern times...... Mr White that is ............

stu

http://more.take2.co.za/moreuk-jhs-sbe78oft-spongebob-7-8-size-elec-guitar-outfit-b001hvpkfg.html

I think it would be better to buy a real guitar and paint it yellow IMO.

singemonkey

Yeah. Buy a cheap, second hand Pacifica, then get a slab of Alder and cut it square, shape a neck pocket, some rear routings, and then paint it up like spongebob. Use all the original hardware and electronics.

Riaan

That's what I've been thinking too, making a Spongebob partscaster that can be modified as she grows up. Eventually ol' Spongebob can be painted over with black for the guitar to end up as a David Gilmour signature strat... ?...either for me or her!