by Guitar Fail | May 19, 2014 | Designs
The early-1970s Bunker Pro-Bass was a radical instrument for its time, even though it wasn’t unusual for its inventor, Dave Bunker. Bunker was granted a patent on a headless guitar in May 1966 which he filed for in March 1965. source The ProStar series...
by Guitar Fail | Jan 8, 2014 | Designs
Am I counting right ? There are 5 strings ? If someone has information about this guitar, we’re interested to hear it ! Update : This Gibson guitar is not a guitar ! Duh ! This is a 5-strings Mandolin. Most probably one of the two prototypes of the Rock...
by Guitar Fail | Dec 23, 2013 | Designs
This rather ugly headstock belongs to a Gibson 7 string steel semi-acoustic guitar. Only three of these guitars were hand-built in the 90s by luthier Roger Giffin when he worked for the Gibson Custom Shop. This guitar has such heavy-gauged strings on the bass side...
by Guitar Fail | Dec 19, 2012 | Repairs
This may be the worst guitar headstock repair ever in the history of guitar ! Luckily, a luthier did an amazing job to save this Dot Epiphone, check the following link.
by Guitar Fail | Jan 13, 2012 | Custom
This one scares the shit out of me!! All that rust, and that sickle headstock ! Looks like the cab didn’t enjoy their last gig !
