Guitar Fail Vault

Museum of Misfits & Permanent Collection of Wrong !

Fraser Newcombe’s Lobster Guitar : When Country Music Meets Crustaceans

Aug 3, 2024

Fraser Newcombe’s lobster guitar is all about creativity, culture, and a little bit of sea-inspired madness. This is one catch of the day you won’t forget.

Guitar Anatomy 101: The Les Paul Headstock That’s All Wrong!

Jul 27, 2024

Les Paul guitars, whether they be Gibson or Epiphone, are notorious for their fragile headstocks. What if this Epiphone cracked the code to this age-old problem?

Extreme Makeover: Guitar Edition – The Rounded 1964 Melody Maker

Jul 24, 2024

Modding masterpiece or monstrosity? Unpacking the 1964 rounded Melody Maker mod madness. A wild journey… An ultimate guitar transformation!

$700 for a Cracked Pickup Cover? Vintage Madness at Its Finest!

Jul 20, 2024

Every once in a while, the vintage guitar market insanity still surprises us. Is there any justification to pay $700 for a cracked pickup cover?

When Guitars Go Sci-Fi: The Quirky Zwildatron Creation

Jul 17, 2024

The Zwildatron is a guitar part Flying V, part alien robot, and all kinds of bizarre. Sci-fi fans and DIY project lovers, it’s sure to make you crack a smile.

Bigfoot’s Secret Weapon: The Legendary Toetastic Guitar

Jul 10, 2024

Welcome to this toe jam session where Bigfoot’s musical side is revealed! Meet the DIY Bigfoot guitar you didn’t know you needed!

A DIY Enigma : The Case of the Confused Guitar Body

Jul 6, 2024

This Frankenguitar is a mystery! Was it a bass? Was it a guitar? No one knows! All we know is that it’s a very confusing guitar maker’s wild experiment!

Guitar Mods Gone Wild: The Hatch That Shouldn’t Be!

Jun 24, 2024

What’s behind the backdoor of this ES-335? A tale of desperate guitar surgery? A hatch of horrors? Some hollowbody shenanigans?

To Boldly Shred Where No Guitarist Has Shredded Before: The Kramer Triax!

Jun 17, 2024

The odd Kramer Triax had only one purpose: bring people to the Kramer’s NAMM booth. The whacked-out shaped guitar was never intended to be mass produced.