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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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That Bigsby is Confusing !

by | February 24, 2014 | Designs | 0 Comments

Must be the work of a Hendrix / SRV fan working at the assembly line ! We are quite sure that it's not the best setting for a Bigsby ! Based on the Bigsby and the upside down G, this guitar is most probably a knock-off of the Gretsch G6120 Eddie Cochran signature with...
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Who Knew That Picasso was a Luthier ?

by | September 5, 2011 | Designs | 2 Comments

I wouldn't want to be the one to tell it it's out of tune. The guitar looks like it is ready to eat all your fingers and sing you a scary tune at the same time. If Pablo Picasso was a guitar maker, I am pretty sure he would have build guitars like this spooky one......
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You Can’t Tell the Female Form by Looking at the Butt

by | November 14, 2011 | Designs | 2 Comments

Spotted at Etsy... It is supposed to be a female form acoustic guitar. You know... They had to add details, because the curvaceous shape of a guitar is not reminiscent enough of a fantasized woman's hourglass figure, hahaha ! You can watch and hear the guitar on...
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Les Skulls Guitar

by | October 31, 2016 | Designs | 0 Comments

As you may know, we love carved guitars at Guitar Fail. They never cease to amaze ! Our chuckles are always up to the amazing craftmanship involved in their making ! This one is some scary Les Paul guitar ! Even the knobs, the switch and the pickups rings are...
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What If Honda Made Guitars ?

by | May 5, 2014 | Designs | 0 Comments

They would probably look like this ! The builder of this insane guitar had parts lying around in the garage that he put together : Telecaster-style hardware Red pearloid Stratocaster neck pickup Honda GX160 fan shroud, carb, coil and fuel tank Choke lever serves as...
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Meet The Telequartzer Guitar

by | December 2, 2014 | Designs | 0 Comments

There probably were some esoteric considerations behind the making of this Telecaster transformed into a Telequartzer guitar ! Overall
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A Woman, a Skull, and a Foot Carved on a Guitar

by | December 7, 2011 | Designs | 1 Comment

I can see a nipplectomized woman, a skull, a foot shaped headstock... The lower part of the guitar looks like a blade... Again, there is not much information about this guitar but welcome to the magic of ebay anyway !
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Is it a Bass, a Guitar, a Banjo, a Mandolin or a Violin?

by | April 18, 2014 | Designs | 0 Comments

You may have some concerns about the playability ! Funny how the higher you move, the more firearm-ish it looks !
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Snake Guitar

by | February 26, 2013 | Designs | 0 Comments

Impressive skills but carved guitars always make me smile... This custom shop ESP Snake 2 from makes no exception.
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Museum of Misfits & Permanent Collection of Wrong… a.k.a the Guitar Fail archives!

Playmobil AC/DC Fail

Playmobil AC/DC Fail

Sep 23, 2014 |

Someone didn't do their homework ! It probably was too hard of a work to make an SG guitar shaped mold. Kids won't notice anyway ! Source

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EVH Wolfgang Replica ?

EVH Wolfgang Replica ?

Sep 22, 2014 |

This guy makes guitars, that later sells on auction sites. For ex., for this, the marketing explanation :"Selling this Wolfgang style handmade guitar....

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Horrifying Headstock Rework

Horrifying Headstock Rework

Sep 22, 2014 |

I found this photo in a Kijiji ad for an Epiphone Les Paul. It looks like someone used an axe to cut the open book headstock. The decal looks like a piece cut...

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Asus New Logo !

Asus New Logo !

Sep 18, 2014 |

Now you have a reminder that even if you're working on a computer, you should always be ready to jam ! Source

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Phoenix Guitar

Phoenix Guitar

Aug 1, 2014 |

This Charvel Phoenix was designed, built, and painted by Jim O'Connor in 1985 ! We burn it, and it keeps coming back to life by arising from the ashes !...

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