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First Act Custom Shop Baritone Guitar Prototype
guitarz.blogspot.com: A semi-hollow archtop baritone guitar is what I dream of - I hope to acquire soon a Hagstrom Viking baritone that is the only available model I know of , but this 27' scale First...
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Ian's tribute to Arthur Bianchi's Pioneer Guitars of Australia
guitarz.blogspot.com: Ian writes:Hi GavinLove your blogSometime ago you featured a funky triple neck "Pioneer" guitar made by Arthur Bianchi in the 1950s in Queensland, Australia.I've just finished my...
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Höfner Alpha - one of their less celebrated guitars
guitarz.blogspot.com: The name Höfner conjures up images in the mind's eye of such classic German-made guitars as the Höfner "Beatle" violin bass, the Höfner Verithin, and the Höfner President, amongst...
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Vintage one-off prototype brass-bodied resonator guitar - possibly by Charles...
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's a potential interesting piece of history if only it could be conclusively identified. The seller believes that this prototype brass-bodied resonator may be the work of...
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The Terminator custom stainless steel electric guitar and illuminating case!
guitarz.blogspot.com: It's probably easiest if I just quote liberally from the eBay listing for this particular custom guitar:Nicknamed "The Terminator", this is a RAM-JAM Music one-of-a-kind. You'll...
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Fender Custom Shop Telecaster Bass gets the Deluxe treatment
guitarz.blogspot.com: This Dennis Galuszka masterbuilt Fender Custom Shop re-interpretation of the Fender Telecaster Bass (a model itself derived from the original slab-bodied Precision Bass) is quite...
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Another of Höfner's less celebrated guitars, the S3N
guitarz.blogspot.com: Following on from this post, here's another of Höfner's less celebrated guitars. The seller says this Höfner S3N dates to the 1970s or 1980s - my guess would be the 1980s simply...
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Fender TLAC100 Japanese-made hybrid acoustic/electric Thinline Tele
guitarz.blogspot.com: I've quite fancied getting myself a Fender Acoustisonic Telecaster, a hybrid electric/acoustic Telecaster launched in 2010 and already discontinued (and which is NOT the guitar...
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Jerry Jones Danelectro Longhorn 6-string bass replica circa 1990-93
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's a Jerry Jones 6-string bass, circa 1990-93, based on the original Danelectro Bass VI model as orignally issued in 1956. Jerry Jones guitars are much sought after and are...
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One-off cast aluminium-bodied guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another one-off made aluminium-bodied guitar, although this time instead of the body having been milled out of an aluminium billet, it has actually been cast, liquid metal...
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Musicvox MI-5 12-string bass in sea foam green
guitarz.blogspot.com: This Musicvox MI-5 12-string bass in a glorious all-over sea foam green finish is one seriously cool bass. It's the sort of instrument to make me start salivating Homer...
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80s-tastic Hondo Model 781 Explorer-style guitar with bizarro graphics
guitarz.blogspot.com: Hondo guitars seem to invoke either a love 'em or loathe 'em response from most guitarists, with some proclaiming that they were always worthless pieces of unplayable junk whilst...
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Oh no, not another bloody guitar with skulls on it! Enough already!
guitarz.blogspot.com: Just what is the deal with skulls on guitars? As tired old clichés go, it has to be one of the crappiest. I suppose this particular guitar isn't quite as bad as some as the skulls...
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Bizarro so-called resonator guitar being offered for sale on eBay
guitarz.blogspot.com: The eBay listing for this Highway Key supposed "resonator guitar" starts as follows:You are bidding [No, I'm not, I'm just looking] on a one of a kind, custom made...
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Review: The D&A Guitar Gear Icestand
guitarz.blogspot.com: I'm only an amateur musician but even I find that whenever I'm going out to practice, to guitar clubs, open mic sessions, or whatever, I inevitably have to cart around a whole...
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Blue box acoustic guitar is most likely a wall hanger
guitarz.blogspot.com: This one-off self-built guitar has echoes of cigar box guitar building, although with a much bigger box. The seller readily admits that it is most likely just a "wall hanger" and...
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1966/67 vintage Yamaha SB-2 bass guitar in sunburst finish
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's a rare beastie currently being auctioned on eBay. It's a Yamaha SB-2 bass, and dating from 1966/67 this is a very nice example of the first ever bass guitar that Yamaha...
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Kustom K200D Bass - very cool American-made semi-hollowbody bass circa 1968-69
guitarz.blogspot.com: Last year we took a look at a gorgeous vintage Kustom K200 guitar, and here we see its bass counterpart, the Kustom K200D Bass, this example being currently listed on eBay with a...
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Bauer Guitars "Death Of Decency" hand-carved Telecaster (Aaaarrrggghhh! More...
guitarz.blogspot.com: Regular readers of Guitarz will likely already know that of all the terrible guitar clichés, my absolute pet hate is skulls on guitars. This hand-carved monstrosity from Bauer...
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1960s Orpheum violin-bodied guitar from Italy
guitarz.blogspot.com: At first I mistook this guitar for a Russian-made Orpheus or Orfeus (they seemed to used the different spellings inter-changably), but of course it is a 1960s Italian-made Orpheum...
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