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Everything is Political

Question is : Does it make it easier to hammer-on ? Øystein Sundes' Kommunistcaster - Source

Where’s That Damn Volume Knob ?

A map and a user's manual are required to use that bass ! The bass is clearly an Alembic bass. Alembic made some basses with a sick number of control knobs and switches. Yet, it is unclear it this bass is a real bass - a Pinterest user says it is a Mark King 5 Omega...

The Most Annoying Christmas Gift ? A Guitar Shaped Like Santa Claus !

A guitar shaped like Santa and a built-in speaker. Let’s hope it doesn’t have a “ho ho ho” button to put that speaker to use !

A Tremolo Bar for an Acoustic Guitar

A strangely-shaped acoustic guitar with a tremolo bar on a fixed bridge ? That's way too weird... This strange guitar is the creation from British guitar builder Brian Eastwood. It's fair to say that he has a lot of imagination and creativity. This unique guitar...

The Wangcaster Has a Sister…

You can see the making of this pink cock-rock guitar at Wheeler's Guitars blog. The client wanted his custom guitar to have a unique shape - what's more unique than a penis-shaped guitar, right ? - and no scratchplate, so the luthier had creative freedom in the...

Sweet Leaf : The Ultimate Stoner Guitar ?

We definitely would like to see a guitar battle between Tommy Chong's Sweet Leaf guitar and Mike Edison's ChroniCaster bong guitar. That would be smooookin !

The Original Guitar Used on Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train ?

Japanese artist Akihiro Morohoshi built miniature train models for years. Then he started installing them on everyday objects including on guitars. Hence this Crazy Train Stratocaster that was obviously not used by Randy Rhoads on Ozzy's Crazy Train. Too bad though,...

Way Too Many Pickups & Switches

You know what they say... If a shiny guitar looks too soviet, it's probably some tribute guitar ! Meet the Ural V8... Ural V8 - Source According to its maker, the inspiration for the guitar design was Nigel Tufnel's "Mr. Horsepower" guitar. You know, the famous yellow...

How Weird it is ?

Too weird for me ! This guitar has some mushy squishy quality that definitely makes it look like it escaped from some David Cronenberg's nightmare. Source

Roach Lapsteel

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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