cool Welson with retrofit DiMarzio pickups
guitarz.blogspot.com: This double cutaway asymmetric florentine semi-hollow-body Welson looks kinda cool - this is not a design you see everyday, even if it is not as radical as their inevitable very...
View ArticleLucite-bodied "Vote for Nixon" bass guitar project
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's a real curiosity of a project bass guitar with a crude home-made see-thru plexiglass body, which probably dates to the late 1960s/early 1970s based on the evidence of both...
View ArticleFramus Missouri 5/60
guitarz.blogspot.comThis Framus Missouri 5/60 has the typically Framus metal pickguard / control plate / pickup ring that can turn an acoustic guitar into an electric one (the 5/60 was sold with or...
View ArticleCan you help identify this 1950s vintage hollowbody electric?
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's an unidentified 1950s electric guitar about which we know little. Ther seller tells us: It's a vintage 1950's electric guitar from an unknown maker. It is clear that the...
View Articlesteel bodied Loic Le Pape Mustang
guitarz.blogspot.comLoïc Le Pape is one of these French guys who makes übercool guitars out of steel - here is his take on the Mustang. Simple and raw, it looks like the ultimate nu-garage rock guitar,...
View ArticleShonky Mako Prototype Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.comIt can happen with these kind of experimental designs, I can't tell if this Shonky prototype is ugly or brilliant… Some part are quite ergonomic, some aren't, some details are even...
View ArticleEko doubleneck guitar / mandolin solidbody
guitarz.blogspot.com: Whilst it's neither as cool nor as radical as this other Eko doubleneck, the above-pictured Eko guitar / mandolin doubleneck does at least seem to be of practical proportions and...
View ArticleBatman "Ker Pow" knock-off Precision Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com: This Bat bass features quite a neatly executed home-made finish, with a decoupage of Batman comic strips on the body itself. It's a bit of a pity about the counterfeit decal...
View ArticleVox Phantom bass - rare left-handed model
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's something you don't see very often, a left-handed Vox Phantom Bass. This particular instrument has been custom built from original 1960s New Old Stock vintage parts. Like...
View ArticleFender Custom Shop Sub-Sonic Baritone Stratocaster
guitarz.blogspot.com: Fender baritone guitars are rather thin on the ground with the company only offering the Telecaster Blacktop Baritone and a Jaguar baritone model (which I believe has now been...
View Article1960s Kay Speed Demon hollowbody electric guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com: This 1960s Kay Speed Demon is certainly quite a looker and is in fantastic condition for a guitar of its vintage. I get the feeling this was produced as a "poor man's Gretsch"; I...
View ArticleBassix bizarre one-off foldable headless upright bass
guitarz.blogspot.com: I think the photos say it all here! I've never seen anything quite like this allegedly unique Bassix foldable headless upright bass before. It's actually quite a clever way of...
View ArticleNew Complexity (part 1): the Harmonic Master
guitarz.blogspot.comI often have the feeling that Australia is where things happen nowadays when it comes to our favorite subject: guitars! Several of my favorite websites / blogs / Facebook pages...
View ArticleNew Complexity (part 2): the Contra
guitarz.blogspot.comYesterday we had a look at New Complexity's Harmonic Master, this is their Contra, a more regular model - with its strat-like 3 single-coils - but no less creative in its minimal...
View ArticleMosrite Mini
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here at Guitarz we love Semie Moseley's creations; there is nothing too conservative about a Mosrite guitar, there's always something quirky about them. This Mosrite Mini although...
View Article1970s Made In Japan Bigsby-equipped Mustang-like three-pickup wonder
guitarz.blogspot.com: I'm afraid I am unable to identify this 1970s Japanese-made electric which seems to be an amalgam of guitar designs from Fender and Gibson with perhaps a little nod to Hagstrom...
View ArticleMahogany Fender Toronado
guitarz.blogspot.comWith its natural finish on mahogany and minimal gear, this mid-2000s Fender Toronado makes me think of these stern but desirable Japanese guitars from the 1980s that arrived after...
View ArticleBernd 's Klira Patricia 196X jazz box renovation project
guitarz.blogspot.com: Bernd writes to tell us about his renovation project as follows:I am Bernd from Straubing in Bavaria, Germany. I found a 196X Klira Patricia Archtop at an auction and decided to...
View ArticleCan you help identify this contemporary-looking Jaguar-like guitar?
guitarz.blogspot.com: Casey writes: What is this guitar? Some fellas and I are having a conversation about it at the tapeop forum, and we cannot figure it out. Some think it is a Fernandez, but the...
View ArticleOne-off vintage hand-made violin bass guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com: Who's to say how old this one-off vintage hand-made violin bass guitar actually is, although I'd wager that it was post-Beatles seeing as it was McCartney that popularised the...
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