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Flying V? More Like Flying… What?

Flying V? More Like Flying… What?

by Guitar Fail | Sep 27, 2024 | Custom

Yellow body, red and green switches… Where’s the Reggae party? Meet the Flying V that decided to be a Y… sort of!

Guitar Anatomy 101: The Les Paul Headstock That’s All Wrong!

Guitar Anatomy 101: The Les Paul Headstock That’s All Wrong!

by Guitar Fail | Jul 27, 2024 | Custom

Les Paul guitars, whether they be Gibson or Epiphone, are notorious for their fragile headstocks. What if this Epiphone cracked the code to this age-old problem?

Extreme Makeover: Guitar Edition – The Rounded 1964 Melody Maker

Extreme Makeover: Guitar Edition – The Rounded 1964 Melody Maker

by Guitar Fail | Jul 24, 2024 | Disasters

Modding masterpiece or monstrosity? Unpacking the 1964 rounded Melody Maker mod madness. A wild journey… An ultimate guitar transformation!

Jeff Beck’s Guitar That Almost Was: The Ibanez Strat-a-Paul Misfire

Jeff Beck’s Guitar That Almost Was: The Ibanez Strat-a-Paul Misfire

by Guitar Fail | Jun 30, 2024 | Stories

This is the story of Jeff Beck and Ibanez, and a guitar that almost was: a hybrid dream prototype that combined two guitars and has since faded into oblivion.

Guitar Mods Gone Wild: The Hatch That Shouldn’t Be!

Guitar Mods Gone Wild: The Hatch That Shouldn’t Be!

by Guitar Fail | Jun 24, 2024 | Disasters

What’s behind the backdoor of this ES-335? A tale of desperate guitar surgery? A hatch of horrors? Some hollowbody shenanigans?

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