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A Fishy Four-Stringed Wonder: Slappin’ the Bass or Flappin’ the Fins?

by | December 1, 2023 | Designs | 0 Comments

Let’s not ignore the elephant in the room. The neck of the bass sticks out of the fish’s butt… No biggie but I had to shed light on that disturbing fact!

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The Alpaca “Go-Anywhere Adventure” Guitar

by | April 11, 2017 | Designs | 0 Comments

Yeah, it can go anywhere as long as it is far away from me ! via update : It appears that Alpaca Guitars experienced some difficulties with supplying their initial kickstarter investors with their promised Alpaca guitars. As a result, they are no longer producing or...
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Roach Lapsteel

by | 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...
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Stratocollapster : Double Body Guitar With a Single Neck

by | December 16, 2011 | Designs | 2 Comments

Two Stratocaster bodies united by one neck ! You don't get the point? Neither do we ! There is a video of this Stereocaster - Stratocollapster, whatever ! - that will probably left you scratching your head trying to figure out what the deal is with this siamese...
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How Tasteful !

by | April 22, 2015 | Designs | 1 Comment

I can't unsee the pickups selector switch placement. Now I'll just try to forget it !
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Is It a Punk Guitar or S&M Guitar ?

by | October 25, 2011 | Designs | 1 Comment

Yeah I know it is supposed to be a punk guitar but come on ! It has spikes, chains, straps and red flashy leather... It's S&M !
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Zerberus Poledancer Guitar

by | September 24, 2013 | Designs | 0 Comments

Wait... WHAT ?? The Poledancer is the work of German builder Zerberus Gitarren. This one is not customers order. According to the builder, It was made over a 9-month period as a project for the sake of trying new designs and pleasure of making.Don't be fooled by its...
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Are You Fan Enough to Get a Tattoo of Your Favorite Guitar Gear Brand ?

by | February 8, 2013 | Designs | 0 Comments

Here is an ink fanatic / guitar nerd ! Of course he was going to get a tattoo of his favorite brand ! Which one would you get ? Source
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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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Worst Headstock Ever ?

by | December 23, 2013 | Designs | 1 Comment

This rather ugly headstock belongs to a Gibson 7 string steel semi-acoustic guitar. Only three of these guitars were hand-built in the 90s by luthier Roger Giffin when he worked for the Gibson Custom Shop. This guitar has such heavy-gauged strings on the bass side...
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THE SACRED GUITAR FAIL VAULT

Museum of Misfits & Permanent Collection of Wrong… a.k.a the Guitar Fail archives!

Fuzz You All !!

Fuzz You All !!

Mar 4, 2014 |

Now this is a bad motherfuzzer !! Obviously, the Tourettes pedal is a fuzz pedal, how could it be otherwise ? In the video below, the Tourettes maker explains...

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Stratocaster Mutilation

Stratocaster Mutilation

Mar 1, 2014 |

It all probably started as "let's make a cool guitar design !"... ... But it didn't end up that well ! We can only guess that the owner of this poor mutilated...

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