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...
View ArticleIan'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...
View ArticleHöfner 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...
View ArticleVintage 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleFender 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...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleFender 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...
View ArticleJerry 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...
View ArticleOne-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...
View ArticleMusicvox 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...
View Article80s-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...
View ArticleOh 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...
View ArticleBizarro 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...
View ArticleReview: 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...
View ArticleBlue 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...
View Article1966/67 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...
View ArticleKustom 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...
View ArticleBauer 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...
View Article1960s 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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