Name: How NOT to Make an Electric Guitar (The Hazards of Electricity)
Uploaded: 2025-03-02T11:26:56.000Z
Duration: 3 min 15 s
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Well, I don't know, but from the name of it, it's just a combination of guitar and electricity.

Past simple

Here is the basic electric guitar I made with four strings.

Strings are just wires stretched over a piece of wood, tied to nails on each end.

The wires at this end are tied together in pairs as you can see, and each pair is attached to one of these cables, which we can plug them into the wall power plug.

Please join me for the first time to hear how it sounds.

It definitely made me sound like a rock star, although it feels more like an electric chair than a guitar.

It is extremely dangerous to touch the 110V or 220V power lines.

And believe me, nothing is worth touching a power line.

When touching a power line, a few different things can happen.

If you're wearing your plastic slippers that isolate you from ground and then touch the live wire, you still feel it, although it's not too bad.

Because although you are DC isolated, you are not completely AC isolated, as there is still some capacitance between your body and ground.

In some cases, due to the shock and the pain, your body can react fast.

If you touch the live and neutral wires both, it's very dangerous, because the circuit closes through your body.

Your muscles can contract, disallowing you to let go.

If the current goes through your vital organs, like your heart or pine- um, brain, you will very likely meet your maker.

The funny thing is that they use electricity to save a cardiac arrest victim.

If you are barefoot and touch the live wire, the current can again go through your body to ground and kill you.

It can also contract your leg muscles and make you jump.

It's a pity though. I thought I could share my artistic side with you.

It definitely made me behave like a rockstar though.

It's obvious the problem is the electric guitar.