"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
Hey OA, you mentioned a hankering for odd guitars, in psycho-surf-a-billy vein, or some such.
Well take a look at this. Click and scroll down to the 4th item.
http://catalog.muzicstore.com/guitars.htm
Very Link! If you know what I mean.
Kicked myself for not grabbing it when the grabbing was good..
I've played one, and they're pretty damn cool. Yamaha quality too. It only looks like a wobbly old 60's import.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Offshore Angler, I just came into this forum to post something about that exact kind of guitar. Well, the 12 string variant, but still
The story can wait for next week, though. More details then ;)
i bet this really annoy's you if your a grammar freak.
come on, spill it!
"don't worry, i'm a professional!"
Could that guitar be uglier? No, it could not.
s'all goof.
i think it could...just give me a second...
"don't worry, i'm a professional!"
Custom pickguard with a picture of The Beast on it. I win. :spinOriginally Posted by curtisstetka
i bet this really annoy's you if your a grammar freak.
To modify it? ;)Originally Posted by chuckocaster
There are a LOT of uglier guitars...
And those are just from the first ten pages of the MF website. :bwa
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Funny about the Vox copy... I was in a guitar repair shop the other day and a guy was having a replacement pickguard made for a real one of these. The original pickguard was very badly shrunk over time... I don't think they used high quality material.
The new replacement one turned out very nicely. I would have liked to have seen it on the guitar.
I agree with the Kap'n; all those guitars are _way_ uglier than the Vox, which has it's own authentic vibe, I think.
But then again you are a self-confessed puppy-kicking/kitten torturing/republican voting conservative kinda guy, right Curtis? ;)
-Mark
You'll never get me to admit to kitten torturing!
In this case I did not actually mean "ugly" as an insult. That guitar is so freaking hideous it's actually very cool. I'd definitely play that one before any of the guitars that Kap'n posted.
In addition to all my fine puppy-kicking qualities, I am the builder of the Uglocaster - a guitar covered with feathers with a rubber chicken strap and a Darth Vader volume knob. I should think my ugly guitar credentials are fairly solid.
s'all goof.
kap'n, make it stop, please, my heard is hurting and my ears are burning just thinking of the "sweet ass" pentatonic runs and sweep arpeggios those things are built for...
"don't worry, i'm a professional!"
Dig the gull wing:
http://www.hallmarkguitars.com/
and here's some other cool shapes
http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/
Last edited by Offshore Angler; 10-17-2005 at 05:07 PM.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
LOL Kap'n, I actually have a black B.C. Rich just like that one on the bottom. I can't even remember what closet I locked it in. Anybody know any metalheads looking for an 80's era Warlock?
I just purchased this one from DiPinto. It doesn't have a wild shape, but it still looks unique, IMO (I liked the chambered mahogany body with mini hb's and the Bigsby)..It should be here in a couple days..I'll post a complete review!
"If you're cool, you don't know nothin' about it. It just is...or you ain't." - Keith Richards
dipinto sure does have the shabby chic (did i just type that? ) down cold. i really like their style.
"don't worry, i'm a professional!"
Oh, so I suppose this makes a *compassionate* conservative?Originally Posted by curtisstetka
Give it up, Curtis; we've all seen your FBI file. We know what you really get up to.
This just sounds just a bit too kinky. But, we're not surprised. As I said, we've seen your FBI file. The Dept. of Homeland Security is watching you... the Patriot Act has teeth, you know! So watch your step...Originally Posted by curtisstetka
-Mark
Bizarre, I just mentioned Hallmark in another thread. I had no idea they were making them again. Rick Miller from SCOTS has a link to Eastwood on his site. I've not seen or heard of him playing them live though.Originally Posted by Offshore Angler
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
OSA, You need a red Hagstrom!
If, at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.
Two leaps per chasm is fatal!
I'll have to check the settings on my Vast Right Wing Conspiracy decoder ring. Last I noticed, puppy kicking and kitten torturing were de rigeur (pardon the French)
Yeah, I played the Uglocaster for only one gig. It was heavy, difficult to play, and it smelt of rubber chicken! It's hard to play when your guitar smells like that. Plus, the miniature transformer that powered the EL lights (did I forget to mention those?) all over the thing caused a terrible buzzing in the pickups.
s'all goof.
That Eastwood Ichiban w/the Jag vibrato is badazz!!
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
I dig the look of that DiPinto, cooltone.
I was in horse trading mood a while back and chatted with the owner of www.myrareguitars.com about swapping a couple of my 60's Euro-bizzaro guitars for some of his newer, retro-bizzaro Eastwood guitars but we were a couple hundred bucks off from where I wanted to be, so I didn't do the deal. He told me to check back during a busier part of the season (this was in the guitar selling doldrums of late spring-early summer), but I let my trade bait go in other deals.
I'll still probably try something from their line in the future...I just can't say no to weird guitars.
Last edited by BradKM; 10-18-2005 at 11:38 AM.
"Go Team Venture!"
DiPinto makes some seriously cool looking weird guitars. I kinda like some of the Danelectro ones too like the Hodad. That's a neat look. http://www.gakki.com/catalog20/danelectra_hodad.jpg
s'all goof.
OSA,
How can you not want one of these?
http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAM.../JTK2BS-lg.jpg
If, at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.
Two leaps per chasm is fatal!
I think we really need a picture.Originally Posted by curtisstetka
-Mark
These look to be very close to being standard Mosrite knock-offs...Originally Posted by curtisstetka
-Mark
Hallmark is basically, the child of Mosrite. They are to Mosrite what Heriage is to Gibson.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
I met Semie Mosely at the first guitar show I ever attended and talked to him for a few minutes. Being the ignorant young man that I was at the time, I had no idea who he was. I just thought his guitars looked cool, and that he was a really nice guy to take time to talk to some punk kid about them.
I've seen his widow at a couple of other shows since his passing, too. She was also very nice.
After realizing who Mr. Mosely was, and hearing the legend of how he came up with the Mosrite shape (flipped a Strat, then redrew the lines a bit) I did the same with the first guitar (actually a bass) that I attempted to build. I flipped over my Jazz bass, traced it, then futzed with the horns a bit. It doesn't look too much like a Mosrite, but that wasn't what I was going for. It looked more like the mutant offspring of a Fender, Mosrite, and Thunderbird, and was pretty much exactly what I was shooting for. Too bad my luthier skills weren't up to par at the time. Some day I'm going to do that project over, and do it right.
"Go Team Venture!"
Now this one is ugly (and also at ~$4500 the most expensive guitar on the page!) I guess it's rare because... well...
OSA, you can just build your own Phantom. The body routing is the hardest part. Lets see what Warmoth has to offer. hmmmmmmmm.
Here's your body blank.
http://www.warmoth.com/showcase/sc_g...subMenuItem2=0
Here's a paddle head neck:
http://www.warmoth.com/showcase/sc_g...subMenuItem2=0
or a fancy headstock neck:
http://www.warmoth.com/showcase/sc_g...subMenuItem2=0
If you're bored, you're not groovin'.
I saw Sonny Landreth tear it up with a red National once. Very cool guitars. Sounded awesome, but with Sonny playing, what would you expect?
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
Jack at Phantom Guitar Works has a green body ready for assembly. He said he could have it assembled and shipped in 3 to 5 days. Not bad. He says it's not Sea Foam Green, but what they call Refrigerator Green, sounds like it's the old Avacodo used on appliances when I was a kid. I really want Martian Green, so I'm going to ask if he can custom paint one. Consideriing the artists that are using his stuff, up to and including Will Ray, and the reviews I've read, I just may pop for one.
Last edited by Offshore Angler; 10-19-2005 at 01:39 PM.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
I WANT ITOriginally Posted by Plugger
Played one today. Very nice, but it may be the heaviest guitar I've ever held. No way I could hack that all night.Originally Posted by Mikey
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
Those Phantom Guitar Works guitars look super! I'd like a 12-string one!
"I'm gonna find myself a girl
that can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams..."
Oh, Too Bad, it's style just had OSA written all over it!
Maybe a nice Daphine Blue Squire Jaguire sort of thing with a hummer in the neck and quarter pounder in the bridge.
Would you like fries with that sir?
If, at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.
Two leaps per chasm is fatal!
Shouldn't you be writing up? :copOriginally Posted by sabby
Mikey, it's also got a fixed bridge. Can't have that on a surf guitar now, can we?
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
What? You can't do whammy by shakin the piss out of the neck?
LOL
If, at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.
Two leaps per chasm is fatal!
Anybody pisses on my neck I'll kick their ass!
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
Guess what? I was the high bidder!
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim