Sometimes, things not working out is the best thing that can happen to you.
Such is the case with the story of this one-of-a-kind JAWS guitar, which started life as a run-of-the-mill Ibanez RG5EX1, and over the course of a year became an homage to the most famous movie shark.
As detailed in the below video, piece by piece it took shape through the art of decoupage, creating a mosaic from thousands of tiny squares of paper glued straight onto the body of the guitar.
But that’s not even the weirdest part – as detailed in this Guitar World article which also featured in the December 2013 print edition – the paper used in the creation of the artwork mostly came from the pages of issues of Guitar World itself!
There’s much more to the story, tales of failure and triumph, and why it’s sometimes better to give up, and why things not working out isn’t always what it looks like – but that’s all in the video.
The guitar is currently up for auction on eBay to fund the release of the author’s band’s album, In Virtue’s Age of Legends, which drops this coming Friday, Nov 21st.
