Of course this story involves a Florida man.

A Tampa-area musician who goes by "Prince Midnight" has crafted a guitar out of his deceased uncle's SKELETON as a way to tribute the man who introduced him to heavy metal.

"Midnight" says his uncle was killed in a car accident in Greece in the '90s and his remains were donated to a medical school for study.

When the school no longer needed the remains, they ended up with Midnight's mom. Because cremation is frowned upon in Greek Orthodoxy, his mother had to pay to store the remains until she could afford to pay for a burial site.

That's when Midnight had his brilliant idea.

"It just popped into my head. I'm going to turn Uncle Fil into a guitar. And I was like, that is the best way to honor him. He would love that idea."

Sure. Totally sane idea, broski.

Midnight had to get permission from the funeral home and the State Department to have his uncle's remains shipped to him.

When his mom found out, she apparently wasn't very happy for some reason.

"When this first started happening, she was really upset. She said, 'It's sacrilegious. He needs to lie, you know, and rest.'

"And as she was walking away, I was like, 'You think Uncle Fil would rather be a guitar, or a box of bones?' She threw her arms up. She goes, 'Probably the guitar.'"

And so, Prince Midnight slaved over his forge to create an epically insane instrument, drilling through his uncle's spine and welding metal bars to mount the required pieces.

The result was this – an instrument affectionately dubbed "Skelecaster."

Midnight says he‘s giving his uncle "hugs" every time he plays:

"I feel like Uncle Fil is not just here now figuratively; he's here literally too," he said. "I'm literally giving my Uncle Fil hugs while he's figuratively with me, creating, you know, heavy metal riffs."

He also added that "trying to strum inside a rib cage" affects his strokes and creates "a heavier kind of tone."