This Designer Guitar Is Made From a Bent Sheet of Steel

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You've got to see this electric guitar. The Cosmo is a carefully bent sheet of powder-coated steel that draws inspiration from the very first electric guitars sold way back in the 1930s.

designed one of the first solid-body electric guitars. Astonishingly, Gibson, which manufactured the guitar, was fearful this radical new direction in instrument design would flop, and it didn't even show the prototypes to the public for years.

But the Gibson Les Paul was far from being the first electric guitar. In 1931, the very first electrically amplified stringed instrument sold commercially was a simple, all-metal, cast aluminum lap steel guitar nicknamed the "Now, 90 years later, the Kassell, Germany-based industrial designer Robin Stummvoll, founder of, is going back to basics, and is seemingly taking inspiration from the electric guitar's humble beginnings.

 

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looks like Ikea design to me

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