Any guitar player who strums this incredible custom axe is going to be shredding paper.

Signal Snowboards, a company more associated with wintry sports gear than electric guitars, had been doing some design experiments with cardboard. In a flash of inspiration, they decided to team up with paper company Ernest Packaging and the custom shop at Fender to craft a guitar made of paper. Since it's made of corrugated cardboard, this is not only a paper strat, but one that you can see through.

The big challenge of building a cardboard guitar isn't the Fender Stratocaster's iconic body shape. With an acoustic guitar or a violin, where the instrument's body actually creates the sounds, you're locked into using a particular material and shape to achieve tonal perfection. But with an electric guitar that's not true, and so you can make its body out of basically whatever works, as long as you can affix the proper pickups, knobs, and electronics.

No, the problem is the neck. Because the strings are under so much pressure to stay in tune, a Strat's neck must endure 250 lbs. of torque—a tall order for a bunch of paper. As you can see in the video, though, the designers get it done. They then hand off the unique instrument to a series of players who are blown away by the sound, including the guitarist for Linkin Park.

Just don't play this one out in the rain.

Source: Signal Snowboards via Gizmodo

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