Man Turns His Uncle’s Skeleton Into Electric Guitar

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A metalhead in Greece, called Prince Midnight, has turned his dead uncles remains into an electric guitar.

As reported by MetalSucks, Prince Midnights Uncle Filip was a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, who frown upon cremation. So when Filip died in a car accident, he requested that his skeleton be donated to the local college where it was medically prepared and rendered.

The bones remained at the college, helping to educate students for 20 years, however after that time the school no longer had a use for Filip, so his bones were put in a giant wooden box.

With his family refusing to cremate him, and facing having pay considerable rent fees to keep his uncle’s bones in a box in the cemetery, Prince Midnight took matters into his own hands, filing an excessive amount of paperwork with the Greek government to repatriate Filip’s remains.

Talking with MetalSucks, Prince Midnight said “So, I got the box of bones from Greece and didn’t know what to do at first. Bury them? Cremate them? Put them in the attic? All seemed like poor ways to memorialize someone who got me into heavy metal.”

“So, I decided to turn Uncle Filip into a guitar, which proved to be challenging. I did a lot of research and no one has ever made a guitar out of a skeleton.”

“So, I did it.” Prince Midnight added. “I started out consulting with two guys in Dean Guitars’ wood shop in Tampa but they got cold feet.”

“Anyways, now Uncle Filip can shred for all eternity. That’s how he would want it. I’m super proud of the project and how it serves to honor him, his life and his influence on me.”

And here’s how it sounds (performing Darkthrone’s “Transilvanian Hunger”):

Unfortunately, Prince Midnight hasn’t made an Instructables page for the project… Yet, but here are some photos of the instrument from throughout the building process.