Fire extinguisher speaker mod looks great, sounds tinny?

The roof is on fire! Quick, grab the fire exting... oh shit
The roof is on fire! Quick, grab the fire exting... oh shit

Usually, and as the name suggests, fire extinguishers are used to extinguish fire. These modded speakers, however, are more likely to start one: a raging inferno of ownership envy. If only we could buy one…

These are homemade speakers crafted from empty fire extinguisher canisters. An extremely talented DIYer posted a photo step-by-step guide of how he built these bad boys, which is handy because the rest of the instructions are in Russian.

In a nutshell, he goes from this…

Fire extinguisher speaker

Fire extinguisher speaker

To this...

Fire extinguisher mod

Fire extinguisher mod

And to this...

Fire extinguisher speaker

Fire extinguisher speaker

And then to this...

Fire extinguisher speaker

Fire extinguisher speaker

Amazing.

With the thick metal shell, it's hard to tell how they'd sound - tinny perhaps? Actually, who cares? We'd take a set on looks alone...

(TopMods via: BoingBoing)

Tom Porter worked on MusicRadar from its mid-2007 launch date to 2011, covering a range of music and music making topics, across features, gear news, reviews, interviews and more. A regular NAMM-goer back in the day, Tom now resides permanently in Los Angeles, where he's doing rather well at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB).