WAUKESHA - Brian Chivers is turning your old windows into the stuff of rock ‘n’ roll dreams.

Now, if Chivers can pull the right guitar strings - maybe those of Slash, or even legend and fellow Waukesha native Les Paul - the model glass guitars he makes can take a world tour of the homes of famous players and bring him some cash and fame on the side.

Chivers, 43, of Waukesha, has refined his method of fusing together plates of glass in the last few years, and has focused his work on more than a dozen replica guitars of varying styles, shapes and sometimes color.

The idea to make model guitars came after watching his player friends baby their "axes," even though, as a drummer, he admits he’s "never played a freaking guitar."

"Every one of these is a one-of-a-kind," Chivers said of his creations, the majority of which are on display at his Waukesha workshop that doubles as his music practice spot.

"You’ll never find another one like it anywhere in the world. Total custom, all the way."

The latest guitar he crafted - a rockabilly-style Rickenbacker with divots in place of the knobs and dark glass for its tuning pegs - took 21 hours to put together, one of the quickest yet. However, that doesn’t count all of the time spent on the four cleanings each guitar gets, which can take up to eight hours.

Each requires dozens of pieces of plate glass - some bought from hardware stores, and other plates, usually of varying color, taken home from what’s left at his fix-it and repair job - that are "fused" together through a secret method that he will only concede "uses glue." They weigh about 30 pounds each and lack any strings or electrical connection to make a sound.

Chivers etches his name on an inside plate of each guitar. He hopes to have Les Paul add his Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame signature to a few of them in exchange for one of the blue-ish glass model shredders he expects to give to Paul when he visits his hometown in a few weeks.

"That pile of glass over there," he said, pointing to a stack of about two-foot long clear strips of glass, "That’s Les Paul’s guitar."

Frank Milligan designs Chivers’ Web site and MySpace page, and brings his bass guitar to the jam space every once in a while. Milligan said Wednesday that along with representatives for Paul, the two have contacted the Hard Rock Cafe restaurant chain about displaying the guitars. Plus, the two are working on a list of guitarists to contact, like Slash, former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde and Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, so they can give out some guitars to spur recognition.

"He’s got so many guitars, but I bet no glass ones," Milligan said of Nielsen.

The cuts on Chivers’ hands have grown along with his hobby, which started 15 years ago when he made glass mountain-scapes and a mock up of The Sphinx in Egypt.

"My wife booted them all out of the house," Chivers said with a laugh.

He later said his wife, Margaret, has become one of his biggest fans and now keeps many of the non-guitar glass replicas he makes at their house.

Not that he’s content with stopping at the guitars on display at the practice space. Since Chivers has refined his methods and launched his Internet sales campaign, he said he is ready to take custom orders. While guitar heroes may get one for free, the buying public can expect to pay between $650 and $7,000 for the homages to rock ‘n’ roll. Chivers said he has sold one, though said he could not reveal its owner, style or price tag.

But if his curiosity keeps up with his glass-shaping ability, he might take on some other model challenges, like maybe a functioning glass guitar. Although Milligan doubts a glass guitar would "sound right," Chivers disagrees for more tangible reasons.

"I’ve been thinking about one to play, but they’re too fragile ..." he said. After mulling a long-term project to make a glass replica of his jam-space drum set, Chivers stated the obvious: "I’m not done."