Perhaps you have built a NES “cigar box”-style ‘Gamer Guitar’ (book p. 193) and learned to play a few tunes, but you have decided that it is just not loud enough. No matter how hard you wail on your guitar, its little acoustic chamber just can’t do that three-chord classic ‘Wild Thing’ any justice. What is a guitarist to do?

If you have diligently read 62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer, you perhaps might already know the answer. As the project aptly titled ‘Acoustic Rock Revolution’ (book p. 184) demonstrates, you must amplify! Yes my friends, it is time to amplify your Gamer Guitar and rock out in your garage like a hurricane (or at least a tropical depression – exotic and angsty).

Using a handful of basic, easy-to-find, parts and tools, I’m going to show you how to perform this operation in a matter of minutes.

For those about to rock, I salute you.

View the interactive instructions or download the PDF!

(Note: In the video, I sent the guitar through a killer fuzz pedal. Normal amplification is cleaner sounding and with less feedback.)