LATEST GUITAR FAILS

The Fork Tremolo Stopper Serving Up Stability!

Step into the DIY world where the kitchen drawer becomes the ultimate guitar toolkit. Behold the fork tremolo stopper, a fork in the road to perfect pitch!

How Not to Make Your Guitar Ad Go Viral for the Wrong Reasons!

Get ready for a “lesson” in Guitar Photography 101: How to spotlight your six-string without featuring… well, yourself.

Patch Cable Necklace : Who Said Gear Can’t Be Glam?

Strap in for a riotous riff on the world’s most literal chain of effects—where fashion meets function in the most electrifying way.

Agent Mulder is on this Case !

by Guitar Fail | May 20, 2014 | Designs | 0 Comments

Looks like someone's guitar has finally made contact. I want to believe that Agent Mulder is on the case because it definitely looks like his nightmare guitar ! This Martin Alien Guitar is the result of a collaboration between Martin Guitars and artist Michael...

Darth Maul ESP

by Guitar Fail | July 4, 2015 | Designs | 0 Comments

The eyes and mouth are so creepy... I can't decide whether I like it or not ! This is a custom ESP guitar featuring Star Wars character Darth Maul. The guitar was originally a George Lynch model that was modified by carving Darth Maul's face into the body using a...

Spooky : Guitar Infested by Maggots!

by Guitar Fail | November 8, 2011 | Designs | 0 Comments

Looks like this guitar has been playing the "Crawling (in my skin)" riff a little too hard. In any case, it is ready to rock the maggot-core scene.

ESPerm Guitar

by Guitar Fail | June 27, 2019 | Designs | 0 Comments

I would be afraid to see baby riffs coming out of this insemination guitar ! Not sure if this guitar is meant to be played or used as a biology lesson. Custom painted ESP ? "Are you ready to rock ?" he shouts to the crowd "Yeaaaah" cheers the crowd "Are your ready to...

Enough Strings is Enough !!

by Guitar Fail | July 7, 2014 | Designs | 0 Comments

24-string bass guitar madness... Meet Godzilla aka Prat Basses Godzilla C3-WTF-24 24-string Bass ! In 2014, Chris Cardone, owner of Kalium strings, asked for help in building the largest bass guitar possible. The luthiers at Prat Basses took on the challenge. Together...

Now We Know What Really Happened to the Terminator !

by Guitar Fail | September 20, 2012 | Designs | 0 Comments

Once Sarah Connor blew his robot head off, they made a guitar out of it !

Worst Heart-Shaped Guitar ?

by Guitar Fail | February 14, 2013 | Designs | 0 Comments

It's Valentine's day, so here is a guitar that combines the romance of a heart-shaped guitar with the deadly accuracy of an arrow. The perfect guitar for Cupid's next gig. Custom-made, heart-shaped guitar crafted by a former student of instrument fabrication at...

A Guitar for the Music Reader, Not the Tab Tinkerer?

by Guitar Fail | February 2, 2024 | Designs | 0 Comments

Let’s face it, that should’ve been a tablature, given how most of us guitarists read music like we read the terms and conditions – we don’t.

Cadillac Billy Bo

by Guitar Fail | April 25, 2014 | Designs | 2 Comments

Considering it's not even a Gretsch Billy Bo (Sometimes Guitar Fail fails at identifying some axes) and it's more likely to be a modified Duesenberg with a Billy-Bo-ish back ! Simple math : Gretsch Billy-Bo = NICE |Cadillac = NICE Cadillac + Billy-Bo = Meh !

Strato-can-ster

by Guitar Fail | January 19, 2012 | Designs | 0 Comments

A 20-Litre Land Rover jerrycan makes a very nice and big cigar box guitar... or should I say gas can guitar ? And if you want it to be amazing, just go for a Strat pickguard loaded with HSS pickups ! Fill the can with gas... Light a match... Hell no ! Don't be crazy,...