How it's made? Hayburner Oil Can Guitar

One of the biggest questions we get is, "how did you make that?!" There's no secret, just a lot of trial and error, skill, practice, and lots of work. Here's how we do it.

• Vintage/Antique Motor Oil Cans are purchased from art collectors, antique shops, dealers, flea markets, and online
• 3 days spent washing, cleaning, soaking and sanitizing the cans. The cans are 50+ years old so it takes a while to get all the old oil and stuff out of there. "Very dirty part of the job!"
• We make a template and spend hours of time using a rotary blade to carefully, meticulously cut through the metal to prep for installation/assembly for the neck, pickups, pots, jack, etc
• Solder the pickups, pots, jack, etc
• Sharp edges are sanded and filed so they are safe to the touch. A rubber gasket is also carefully applied and  glued to the bottom edge. Rubber feet are installed to the bottom so the Hayburner can stand upright with no stand
• We purchase all new parts, necks, pickups, hardware etc, then we crown and polish the frets and assemble the  Hayburner Guitar
• Definitely a labor of love!

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