Mike, you are way, way out there. But you're harming no one, so I guess it's okay. ;-)

> So I'm all about integration - whether strip design (later,later),
> fittings design, end grab design, cart design and now foot pump design.

> So what about music?

> Yesterday as I was setting up my guitar amp to scare the livin hell outa
> the little tricksters, I wandered down to the can w/ my axe still strapped
> on.(playin unplugged) and you know I like to play my instrument every
> chance I get. As I was coming out the door the guitar tuning head happened
> to come in contact with it. Now the door is a cheapass 1/8" doorskin
> ply covered door and something interesting happened. The barely audible
> elec guitar all of a sudden could be heard very easily - the door was
> acting as a sound box.

> Now there is no way in hell that I'll bring along my acoustic on a trip in
> my yak and get screwed up by all that water, etc etc. And let alone be
> able to stuff it thru the hatch. But what about cutting down some cheap
> elec guitar to fit the hatch, drilling a 1"diam hole in the outside
> corner of the cut down body. Web clamp that to your kayak so that your
> whole stripper (or maybe even better your stitch and glue) is the soundbox
> for your guitar. Use a modification of Detail A in the Cart series. This
> sounds possible in both senses of the word.

> So I'm out lookin for a cheap guitar w/ a good neck. And my bandsaw is
> pumped.

> You'd have to experiment w/ kayak position and attachment postition to see
> what would be the best, but you gotta think that setting the kayak on its
> side would get both the deck a hummin and the hull a howlin thru that big
> cockpit sound hole. And would the hatches cry in sympathy? Who knows?? but
> I bet they would.

> -mick