Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

For guitars of the straight waisted variety (or reverse offset).
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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by markblack77 » Mon Sep 18, 2017 2:10 am

frelonvert wrote:John Cipollina's custom Gibson SG:
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That is too cool.

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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by markblack77 » Mon Sep 18, 2017 2:16 am

this is mine.

I think it fits in this gang. Was red till I got my hands on it and replaced pretty much everything. Why? Why not :)

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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by dezb1 » Mon Sep 18, 2017 2:51 am

markblack77 wrote:this is mine.

I think it fits in this gang. Was red till I got my hands on it and replaced pretty much everything. Why? Why not

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I like that a lot... I'd hate it in red... nice job.

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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by Deed_Poll » Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:44 am

venompstinger wrote:Nagare Jaguar with built in strobe light and ignition key... currently on Yahoo Auctions Japan....

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Wicked!

Here's my submission... This is the current iteration of the design of mine that has always provoked the most love / hate response.

I think it's getting to a point where it looks kinda cool, but some people think it looks like a dumpy gumdrop Fender Katana / Gibson V-2. Others think it looks cool, like an alien assault rifle or something!

Also sharing my new 3-blade multiscale bridge design here for the first time... I'm getting this prototyped out of nylon at the moment. The idea was that it would accommodate a range of scale eccentricity by placing the blades in different positions. It could also be used for non-multiscale.

This is one of those designs I've been looking at for far too long and I just need to make it to know whether it's ugly or not!

The rear route cover will double as a gas spring operated kick stand ;)

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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by frelonvert » Mon Sep 18, 2017 11:23 am

Oups, I did it again. I just bought this old Teisco for 25€... ^^
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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by PJazzmaster » Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:25 pm

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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by windmill » Mon Sep 18, 2017 3:22 pm

Glad you didn't pay a lot for it

looks like it could be fun

:)

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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by frelonvert » Mon Nov 27, 2017 4:26 am

:derp: :w00t:
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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by FightingPlankton » Fri Dec 08, 2017 2:52 am

This thing is so hideous I can't help but like it
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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Sat Feb 10, 2018 6:39 am

Someone posted this on a Facebook group & I figured it was worthy of a place in this thread...

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It's rare that I like unconventional guitar shapes, other than a handful of Deedpoll & Harvester designs. To be honest, I'm not crazy about this one but thought it was very well executed. All the features on the body kinda work - great choice of colour, all the plastic plates, knobs & covers fit well in the overall design, the pickups look fantastic & even the headstock (non-matching, which is always a plus) seems to work, kinda. That pointless monkey grip adds a little je ne c'est quoi too. The lack of frets weirds me out but, hey, that's just me.

No one seemed to know what it was. Any ideas?

The case almost looks like a homemade job so maybe the whole thing is some guys private creation?
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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by sears » Sat Feb 10, 2018 8:08 am

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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by PixMix » Sat Feb 10, 2018 8:59 am

PorkyPrimeCut wrote:
Sat Feb 10, 2018 6:39 am
Someone posted this on a Facebook group & I figured it was worthy of a place in this thread...

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It's rare that I like unconventional guitar shapes, other than a handful of Deedpoll & Harvester designs. To be honest, I'm not crazy about this one but thought it was very well executed. All the features on the body kinda work - great choice of colour, all the plastic plates, knobs & covers fit well in the overall design, the pickups look fantastic & even the headstock (non-matching, which is always a plus) seems to work, kinda. That pointless monkey grip adds a little je ne c'est quoi too. The lack of frets weirds me out but, hey, that's just me.

No one seemed to know what it was. Any ideas?

The case almost looks like a homemade job so maybe the whole thing is some guys private creation?
I think that's crazy nice! Pickups, color, body design, fretless small-radius fingerboard. Amazing. I have no idea what it is, but it can be a one off project made by someone with serious talent and access to equipment.

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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by frelonvert » Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:57 am

How cool is that ?
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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by antisymmetric » Tue Nov 27, 2018 10:31 pm

PorkyPrimeCut wrote:
Sat Feb 10, 2018 6:39 am
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I like it!
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Re: Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

Post by Galeb_G4 » Thu Nov 29, 2018 11:49 am

I love how every single guitar in the thread can be described as both beautiful and ugly according to your tastes. There isn't one single simple, standard, boring guitar, they're all full of personality. And everyone knows that if something's very original, the boundary between ugly and beautiful is extremely thin, it's like metal music, dogs or the Mi-24 helicopter.

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