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Roach Lapsteel

Roach Lapsteel

Probably not the easiest bodyshape to play either as a standard guitar or a lapsteel guitar. Good craftmanship though ! The roach lap steel is built around the salvaged neck off a Yamaha acoustic guitar. The body, wings and legs are yellow pine. It has one humbucker...

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Epic Guitar Solo : This Dude is a Guitar God !!

Epic Guitar Solo : This Dude is a Guitar God !!

https://youtu.be/Sua_UaUNacY Looks like someone's been taking some electric guitar lessons on the sly, and forgot to bring the right instrument. Or maybe he just have replaced the strings with power cables. Who knows ? One way or the other, it's truly impressive.

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Homemade Kitchen Sink Guitar

Homemade Kitchen Sink Guitar

YouTuber Pete Towers made this kitchen sink lap steel guitar using found materials, including a metal kitchen sink and a Dobro resonator. Though it sounds rather good, as you can hear in the video of the kitchen sink guitar, it doesn't look like the most comfortable...

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Gelvin Road Kill Guitar

by | April 16, 2014 | Designs | 3 Comments

Now that's a quite disturbing design ! I like the eyeballs volume and tone control knobs but I would be afraid to use them... They look too squishy for my tastes. Well, the whole guitar looks kind of squishy anyway. Perfect axe for a horror metal band. As a matter of...
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This is not Donald “Duck” Dunn’s Signature Bass Guitar

by | August 10, 2011 | Designs | 0 Comments

Quack, quack, quack! You ain't never seen a bass like this before. Someone probably tried to channel the spirit of the legendary Donald "Duck" Dunn himself through this duck shaped bass. Just in case Donald Duck Dunn name doesn't ring a bell, here is a reminder :...
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Too Much Pickguard Material?

by | August 20, 2011 | Designs | 2 Comments

You're customizing your acoustic guitar. Say you want to add a pickguard because it will protect your guitar, and it will look cool. You proceed. You sculpt the coolest shape you can. Obviously, you'll screw the pickguard because glue is overrated. And then you think...
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Guitar for Shrek

by | December 7, 2011 | Designs | 0 Comments

Not shred... Shrek! This guitar was on ebay... Not much information about it though.
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KFC Guitar

by | June 15, 2014 | Designs | 1 Comment

The rumor has it that Buckethead said "Now that's a finger-lickin' good guitar!" when presented with the KFC guitar ! Anyway, that may be not the best body shape ever but chicken picking should work very well on this instrument !
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Not Your Typical Acoustic Guitar

by | March 28, 2014 | Designs | 1 Comment

I love Gretsch guitars but this G5034TFT Rancher dreadnought with a Bigsby vibrato, and a Fideli'Tron™ pickup is a bit too much... Yet, I wish I could give it a try. Obviously !
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No Muff Too Tuff

by | March 2, 2013 | Designs | 2 Comments

That's dirty... Check the comments section for a little background on this No Muff Too Tuff guitar ! I'm not surprised that the friends loved it but the girlfriend didn't. But hey, a G&L Legacy is a good catch too.
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The Best Guitar (Han) Solo Ever !!

by | August 27, 2012 | Designs | 0 Comments

That's pure Star Wars fanatics material !! It's actually pretty awesome !! Music teacher Travis Stevens was commissioned to build a one-of-a-kind Han Solo in Carbonite guitar. The guitar's rectangular shape was inspired by the Bo Diddley signature Gretsch 'Twang...
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Strumming Picasso’s Nightmare: The Avant-Garde Guit-Art!

by | October 27, 2023 | Designs | 0 Comments

Meet the avant-garde guit-artistry of the Abstracto-Masterpiece-O-Matic. It’s like Picasso met a luthier for a jam session… and this is their lovechild.

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Aurora Project Makes Frets and Pickguards Glow !

by | June 6, 2014 | Designs | 0 Comments

"The Aurora Project offers fret light markers as well as pick guard lights." (via D'Addario Strings Facebook Page)There is no feeling like the feeling of playing a guitar glowing like a christmas tree... Except maybe playing a guitar glowing like UFO in the sky !!  ...
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Yet Another Fucker Amp

Yet Another Fucker Amp

Jan 6, 2012 |

We started the week with the Fucking Fucker Amp... Let's end it with just a Fucker amp! Thanks to Philippe who submitted this picture on Guitar Fail's...

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Bubblegum Pop Guitar

Bubblegum Pop Guitar

Jan 4, 2012 |

The gumballs in this gumball guitar wouldn't last more than a week ! Tonal Instruments, run by Rich Roland, is known for crafting unique guitars and violins....

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