Alex Csiky, Cheap Guitar Maker Q&A

Esquire interviews Alex Csiky, the man who made a guitar out of a table from Ikea.

It was a shock to people–they assumed that pine was a junk wood since all the fancy guitars are made of flamed maple, quilted maple, spalted maple, and other exotic hardwoods, most of which do not reproduce the vibration of the string very well because they’re hard and heavy. But I sold that guitar for $1,500. Today, I’d sell it for $2,000.

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