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A Guitar for the Music Reader, Not the Tab Tinkerer?

Let’s face it, that should’ve been a tablature, given how most of us guitarists read music like we read the terms and conditions – we don’t.

Stratocaster or Stratocrater? A Deep Dive into the Custom Guitar Cavity!

A Tale of Unorthodox Luthiery! Unveiling the battle scars of the Stratocaster that’s been through the DIY wars!

Hole-y Telecaster! Because Sometimes Two Teles Are Better Than One?

Either it is a Tele-beast with acoustic ambitions or it is a Telecaster that wanted to be a jazzbox but turned out to be a jokebox instead! You decide!

The Telecrapster : Someone Pooped a Telecaster

by Guitar Fail | November 17, 2011 | Designs | 1 Comment

This is supposed to be a rattlesnake... You can see its head right above the neck pickup ! The carved poop rattlesnake is not the only weird thing about this guitar. It looks like the builder tried to mix the hardware and electronics of a Telecaster with the bottom...

This is not Donald “Duck” Dunn’s Signature Bass Guitar

by Guitar Fail | August 10, 2011 | Designs | 0 Comments

Quack, quack, quack! You ain't never seen a bass like this before. Someone probably tried to channel the spirit of the legendary Donald "Duck" Dunn himself through this duck shaped bass. Just in case Donald Duck Dunn name doesn't ring a bell, here is a reminder :...

Where’s That Damn Volume Knob ?

by Guitar Fail | October 13, 2016 | Designs | 0 Comments

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...

Strumming Picasso’s Nightmare: The Avant-Garde Guit-Art!

by Guitar Fail | October 27, 2023 | Designs | 0 Comments

Meet the avant-garde guit-artistry of the Abstracto-Masterpiece-O-Matic. It’s like Picasso met a luthier for a jam session… and this is their lovechild.

This iPod Guitar Should Please Apple Fans

by Guitar Fail | December 6, 2011 | Designs | 0 Comments

Recipe to make a promotional guitar : Take the item you want to promote Upscale the item to the size of a guitar body Build a guitar around the item-shaped body It doesn't work for every items but it works just fine for an iPod. This one was on sale on Ebay... I...

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

Enough Strings is Enough !!

by Guitar Fail | July 7, 2014 | Designs | 0 Comments

24-string bass guitar madness... Meet Godzilla aka Prat Basses Godzilla C3-WTF-24 24-string Bass ! In 2014, Chris Cardone, owner of Kalium strings, asked for help in building the largest bass guitar possible. The luthiers at Prat Basses took on the challenge. Together...

Who Wants a Slice of ESPizza ?

by Guitar Fail | July 18, 2012 | Designs | 0 Comments

Spotted this picture on Guitar World's facebook page... It seems totally made for a Ninja Turtle !! Makes me think that I'm hungry... Pizzaaaaaa ! For over 8 years, Andrew W.K. dreamed of creating a guitar made out of a slice of pizza. The dream finally came true...

Casio EG-5 Cassette Guitar

by Guitar Fail | February 15, 2023 | Designs | 0 Comments

The Casio EG-5 electric guitar from the 80s is a plastic-bodied six-string with a built-in stereo cassette recorder, amp and speaker. It sure looks like the perfect way to show everyone that you're a guitar player in the '80s but stuck in the future. Or the other way...