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The Three-Point Anchoring System of Classical Guitar Immobility

Oct 15, 2025 | Guitarist Postures & Motions

Lesson 2 of Guitarist Postures & Motions: the Classical stance. Anchoring, tension, and the eternal battle between precision and panic.

$Country Music Explained (Badly) by Guitar Fail Math 101$

Country Music Explained (Badly) by Guitar Fail Math 101

Oct 8, 2025 | Guitar Fail Math 101

Lesson Two of Guitar Fail Math 101: the Country Equation. Trucks, heartbreak, Telecasters, steel guitars… and Ulysses discovering twang.

How to Stand Like a Punk Rock Guitarist (Science Says So)

Oct 1, 2025 | Guitarist Postures & Motions

Master the art of punk rock guitar stances: downstrokes, headbanging, low-slung guitars, and a high risk of chaos (and injury). Class dismissed!

SPIN THE GUITAR FAIL DISASTER WHEEL

Random Guitar Hall of Fail…

Too Much Pickguard Material?

by Guitar Fail | 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...

Roach Lapsteel

by Guitar Fail | July 25, 2014 | Designs | 0 Comments

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...

Only a Patrick Flying Starfish is Good Enough

by Guitar Fail | July 19, 2022 | Designs | 0 Comments

This is so wrong in so many ways that it escapes the realm of the guitar fail. The SpongeBob SquarePants' Patrick Starfish guitar is one of those rare guitars that make us say : It is so wrong that it must be right ! Source

The Ebow 3-String Bass

by Guitar Fail | February 8, 2013 | Designs | 3 Comments

So, is it a real or fake instrument from Jens Ritter Instruments ? Although it looks like a sci fi movie prop there is something intriguing about the 3 ebows ! That must give a hell of a sound !

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

by Guitar Fail | June 17, 2024 | Designs | 0 Comments

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.

Guitar Shapes Gone Wild: How to Turn a Classic Flying V into a Reverse Flying WTF ?

by Guitar Fail | March 29, 2023 | Designs | 0 Comments

The Black Rock Reverse Flying V should be perfect for any guitarist who wants to stand out from the flock.

C-3PO Guitar

by Guitar Fail | April 11, 2014 | Designs | 0 Comments

Ready for Shred Wars ? This is C-3PO action figure carrying case from Star Wars repurposed as a functional electric guitar with a Behringer neck. The case still opens and talks, with C-3PO saying three different phrases. That last feature must be so annoying ! C-3PO's...

Dolby Surround Guitar ?

by Guitar Fail | May 16, 2014 | Designs | 0 Comments

That must be some kind of dolby surround system for the guitar ! Now, imagine how big is the case to carry that giant wheel of a guitar ! Mel Vessel's one-armed guitar presented by Fred Carlson at the 2001 Guild of American Luthiers Convention in Tacoma, WA.

Crazy Pickguard

by Guitar Fail | April 12, 2017 | Designs | 0 Comments

That pickguard is puzzling ! It manages to make ugly an otherwise nice Rickenbacker bass guitar. Particularly the twisted mustache under the control knobs. Shared by Misha on Guitar Fail Facebook page Enregistrer

Fat Lady Guitar

by Guitar Fail | April 17, 2014 | Designs | 1 Comment

It ain't over till the fat lady sings...

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GUITAR GOOF CHRONICLES

Guitar Tales & Stories No One Asked For…

Behind the Smash: The Life of Dave Farrell’s Bass

The life of Dave Farrell’s bass is like exploring the wild world of onstage guitar annihilation ! Let’s debate about the controversial art of smashing guitars !