Ex-soldier creates working electric guitar out of matchsticks

An ex-solider has created a fully-functioning electric guitar out of MATCHSTICKS. Dean Fraser, 37, spent two and a half years painstakingly fixing and gluing around 40,000 matchsticks together to complete the epic project he began 18-years ago. He originally started work on the instrument while he was serving in the Army in 1998 while he was serving in Northern Ireland, but as his career progressed his work on the the guitar fell by the wayside. Apart from a brief return to his creation while on a tour of Iraq in 2008, it wasn't until a rare heart condition forced Dean to retire from the Army in 2013, that completing the project became a reality. Dean, who joined the Army in 1996, said: "I started it as a young soldier and when you are in the Army in a camp you have to make do with the materials around you.