This ‘Infinity Mirror Guitar’ Might Be the Coolest Electric Guitar Ever Made

We’ve seen plenty of cool-looking electric guitars in our time, but none of them captivate as much as this one. Designed by YouTuber and custom guitar builder Burls Art, this Infinity Mirror Guitar has you literally staring into its wonderful void of endless LEDs. Oh, and it sounds pretty funky too, with a delicious reverb that creates the same endless echo to match the guitar’s never-ending optical illusion!

Designer: Burls Art

Custom guitars are one of Burls Art’s areas of expertise, having experimented with designing guitars using everything from LEGO bricks to coffee beans. While his previous experiments have involved encasing objects in resin, this infinity mirror version is a different beast altogether, considering it’s hollow on the inside. That may present its own set of challenges, but nothing’s too big for the USA-based YouTuber, who’s built over 30 guitars on his channel alone.

The infinity mirror is a pretty clever optical illusion that uses two parallel reflective surfaces, with one of them being a two-way mirror. Sandwich a strip of LEDs between them and you have a seemingly endless loop of reflections that gives you the impression of a never-ending void. While most infinity mirrors are either square or circular, Burls Art’s guitar-shaped mirror has a distinctly different charm, with its guitar body shape.

The guitar is shaped somewhat like a double-cut Les Paul, and comes equipped with a humbucking pickup and a simple control panel at the bottom. Burls Art does point out that the LEDs, while they look great, create a bit of electrical feedback that causes a slight humming sound. Insulating tape could have potentially fixed the problem, but the guitar was already assembled at the time. There was also a concern of the guitar being potentially too fragile, but the thick acrylic plate on the front was sturdy enough to make the guitar structurally sound.

Solid wood was used for the guitar’s frame, with wood on the back and acrylic on the front.

The entire guitar, including the back of the fretboard and headstock, comes with a metallic paint job, adding to the steampunk appeal.

A two-way reflective vinyl was applied to the acrylic panel on the front.

The end result is stunning to look at, and even more to actually play with. Burls Art does take his guitar for a spin at the 8:10 minute mark in the video above. Although the guitar isn’t for sale, there are a few popular builds available on the Burls Arts website, including some made entirely from color pencils!

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LEGO as a viable design material? YouTuber uses 2000 LEGO bricks to build a functioning bass guitar…





It would be an unfair characterization to call LEGO a child’s toy. Clearly, the product’s an incredibly engaging and interactive DIY system for adults too, and has been used for everything from scale-down models to art projects, to even the rare full-size LEGO supercar… but rarely has LEGO been used as an actual material to build a real, working product.

Trust wacky DIY YouTuber and musician Burls Art to take on a challenge though. The guy’s literally made guitars from the most absurd materials, including a skateboard, a shovel, and even 5000 coffee beans. His latest project? A bass guitar out of LEGO bricks… wait, let me be more specific, a fully functional electric bass guitar made from 2000 LEGO bricks.

Designer: Burls Art

In the video, Burls Art details how LEGO is a pretty great choice to make the guitar in the first place. The interlocking pieces are pretty robust and the fact that you’ve got LEGO bricks in different colors makes it pretty easy to design your own pattern on the guitar. To assemble the piece, Burls plugs the LEGO pieces together in sheets, before layering them one above another and pouring epoxy resin to really seal them in place (the last thing you want is to have a guitar falling apart when you play an exceptionally funky slapping bassline). The guitar also uses a maple-wood board on the inside to reinforce it like a spine, to counter the amount of pulling force the strings will have. The wood + epoxy fretboard’s made from scratch too, as well as the headstock, which again uses LEGO bricks.

Once the guitar’s main body is assembled and the epoxy’s set, Burls drew the profile of the guitar on it and went to down using a sanding machine to cut the shape out. Unfortunately, this meant that the guitar wouldn’t have the LEGO brick’s signature pixelated silhouette, but then again, that guitar wouldn’t really be comfortable to play either. You can, however, see the brick’s hollow underside along the edge of the guitar. Burls decided not to fill in those uneven gaps with epoxy because it would unnecessarily add to the weight of the instrument. The overall piece weighed around 7 pounds, which was ideal for an electric bass guitar.

Once assembled, Burls took his new instrument out for a spin. He started off by playing the iconic Seinfeld bassline (at the 10:18 mark), before finally creating a neat composition using a combination of his LEGO bass, and his color-pencil guitar.

The novelty of the project aside, it’s rather fun to see how the LEGO bricks are used as an actual design/prototyping tool. With a little epoxy resin and a sander machine, it’s pretty easy to create your own prototypes too. It’s arguably faster than a 3D printer if you do your homework beforehand, and you don’t need to worry about multiple-filament 3D prints to get a colored output… just use colored bricks!

This electric guitar is made out of 5,000 coffee beans (And it smells like coffee too)





Bold, strong, intense. You could use those words to describe coffee… you could also use it to describe this electric guitar built by YouTuber and guitar aficionado, Burls Art. Designed as a gift for his friend’s company Copper Coffee, Burls Art’s guitar body is made from a whopping 5,000 roasted coffee beans suspended in epoxy. Modeled in the shape of a Gibson Explorer, the guitar’s body proudly showcases the coffee beans and the unique texture created by grinding their surface smooth. It’s got a beautifully speckled, dark cork-like texture, and even smells like coffee! The fretboard and headstock are built from scratch too, and the entire guitar sports copper accents (for the aesthetics, but also because the company is literally called Copper Coffee), and the Copper Coffee logo is beautifully inlaid into the fretboard. If you check out the end of the video, Burls Art gives the guitar a spin too, and just like a good Macchiato, it gives me goosebumps!

A close-up look at the guitar’s body reveals the coffee-bean texture. If preserved correctly and maintained well, the beans should easily last decades, Burls Art mentioned after doing a bit of research. The guitar’s body doesn’t just encase the coffee beans in an epoxy outer container. You can see how the coffee-bean cross-sections are visible on the entire surface. The casting process resulted in a fair amount of air bubbles which Burls Art filled with copper epoxy before finishing smooth with a sanding machine and buffing with a coat of polish. The result really speaks for itself, doesn’t it?

The guitar’s body is fitted with two double-coil pickups and aged copper knobs and hardware. The fretboard sports the Copper Coffee logo inlaid into the wood, using a mixture of copper-colored epoxy and silica powder. The headstock, on the other hand, has an actual copper sheeting that’s been fused to the wood before being polished and adorned with the Burls Art logo.

The back of the fretboard reveals an incredible striped pattern almost comparable to snakewood. A closer look at the headstock and fretboard reveals the guitar’s finer details.

It’s unclear how much time it took for Burls Art to make the guitar from scratch, but the YouTube video really details the entire process out from scratch. It starts with pouring the 5,000 coffee beans into a cast and topping it off with epoxy. Ince cured, Burls Art cuts out the basic shape using a large jigsaw machine before using different tools to define the guitar’s shape and smoothen its surface. The fretboard and headstock were built entirely from scratch too, along with the electricals being routed through the guitar’s main body. Burls Art mentions that the body has a pretty distinct coffee smell (which would have been masked if he had coated the body entirely with epoxy), and that his studio smelled like coffee all through the construction process! The coffee guitar now proudly hangs at the Copper Coffee head office in Austin Texas.

Designer: Burls Art