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Burns guitar and bass doubleneck, one-off possibly employee-made
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another bizarre doubleneck instrument, this time it's a Burns guitar/bass combination. Although it has genuine 1960s Burns parts, we do not know for sure its back-story....
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1999 Gibsonesque Fender Toronado
guitarz.blogspot.com I find it strange that the Fender Toronado, introduced in 1998 and discontinued in 2006, didn't become a standard Fender model, in addition to their more classic guitars. It is...
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Trussart SteelTop Antique Silver Dragon Engraved, rare southpaw version
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another one for the lefties... Or maybe I should say the loaded lefties. It's a left-handed 2008 James Trussart SteelTop Antique Silver Dragon Engraved model originally...
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Bert Kwakkel luthier-built 12+12 string acoustic (with sympathetic strings)
guitarz.blogspot.com: This highly unusual one-off luthier-built guitar by Bert Kwakkel is currently being listed for sale on Marktplaats.nl, a trading site based in The Netherlands, and is priced at €...
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Effects Review [with video]: Magnetic Effects ELECTROCHOP pedal
guitarz.blogspot.com:Magnetic Effects are a small company in the UK specialising in handmade boutique effects pedals. Their latest pedal, the Electrochop, has a really cool vintage-sounding vibe. To...
View ArticleThe Scant Regard plays Kraftwerk's "The Model" on the Teisco Spectrum 5
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here at Guitarz quirky old Japanese-made guitars like the near legendary Teisco Spectrum 5 are held in very high esteem, so it's great to see one of these idiosyncratic 1960s...
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Watkins Rapier 33 - a classic 1960s vintage British guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com: We've looked at a similar Watkins Rapier 33 before on Guitarz, not to mention an earlier incarnation of the Rapier. However, this fine example of a Watkins Rapier 33 in rare white...
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More from Pure Salem guitars - just look at these beauties!
guitarz.blogspot.com:Just under a year ago we looked at a couple of prototype designs from Pure Salem, a new guitar company offering retro-styled guitars with modern production standards and...
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Now that's one heck of a big ol' bass!
guitarz.blogspot.com: Pictured next to a Fender Jaguar Bass (which I believe has a 34" scale length), I'm guessing that this extremely long fretless electric bass is intended to be played as an...
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One-off Gordon Smith fretless SG guitar, plus Guthrie Govan on a Vigier...
guitarz.blogspot.com: If you've ever considering dipping a toe or two into the world of fretless guitar, then you could do a lot worse than snap up this Gordon Smith SG-styled fretless guitar,...
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Meinel und Herold jazz guitar
guitarz.blogspot.comMeinel und Herold was a renowned German late 19th century accordion and harmonica company that later turned into a music instruments mail order distributing company - though they...
View ArticleGperc - the missing link between guitar and percussion - crowdfunding...
Gperc is a percussion for electric guitar. It is a removable plate attached to the upper part of the guitar. Various percussion sounds are made by the standard guitar playing, and strumming techniques...
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Have you ever seen a more out-of-place headstock on a guitar?
guitarz.blogspot.com: I take one look at this 1980s B.C. Rich acoustic guitar and can't help but demand "What were they thinking?" A pointy headstock? On a dreadnaught? Madness! I'm not averse to...
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Japanese-made Silvertone with a serious Mosrite vibe going on and sliders!
guitarz.blogspot.com: I couldn't possibly comment on how this vintage Silvertone guitar might sound, but it's certainly a head turner with several Mosrite-inspired design elements (reverse offset body...
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1940 vintage Gibson ES-300 hollowbody guitar with the longest slanted pickup...
guitarz.blogspot.com: Slanted pickups on guitar were around a long time before Leo Fender designed the Telecaster and Stratocaster. Here we see a Gibson ES-300 from 1940 with a long slanted pickup...
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Pagelli Redwood Special Custom Hollowbody
guitarz.blogspot.com You can't miss a Pagelli guitar with its characteristic ergonomic shaped designed for Eastman and the curved headstock - and everybody says that the sound is as good as the...
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Ghastly heart-shaped guitar covered in illuminated skulls: please feel free...
guitarz.blogspot.com: I've said it before and I will say it again: I really seriously HATE skulls on guitars. It's just such a appallingly naff cliché that I can't imagine anyone wanting such a thing...
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Brian Eastwood "Bender Distortocaster" melted Strat with "Gouranga" finish on...
guitarz.blogspot.com: ...from the ridiculous to the... errmmm... ridiculous. (But at least these guitars are made to play well). And what could be wilder than a Bender Distortocaster from Brian...
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Double Florentine cutaway Japanese Kay semi with slider controls
guitarz.blogspot.com: Following on from our recent post about a Japanese-made Silvertone with slider volume and tone controls, here's another (probably) Japanese-made guitar with slider controls, this...
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Ultra-rare one-off 1980s Mosrite Axe Bass which may or may not have been made...
guitarz.blogspot.com: The eBay seller of this one-off 1980s Mosrite Axe Bass claims that it must be the rarest of the rare amongst Mosrites, but when that company is known for its various one-off...
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