Author Topic: weirdest or just the plain stupidest guitar you've owned (Read 8950 times)

sgmypod · « **on:** February 08, 2007, 04:02:03 PM »

weird .. mine was a headless hohner steinberg copy(the stratish shape on) which had been sanded down to natural and had a monkey grip..like the ibanez..and had a dimazio zebra? pickup

stupid....line6 500 variax(changed neck as was a cricket bat..to a maple fender one with locking tuners) neck when changed was best bit on it....too sterile sounding...and as for the 12string which sounded like a 12 string being put through a shredder..or the weird banjo on it.....(anyways traded that for a Guild bluesbird..not weird or stupid one)

ToneMonkey · « **Reply #1 on:** February 08, 2007, 04:48:59 PM »

Mine would have to be the really chaep strat copy I had. I got drunk and hollowed it out with a router (not a tool I would advise you to use drunk). Then I got some thin plywood and cut a cap for the routing I'd just done, shapped some F holes and pick up cavities with a chisel (even more drunk at this point) and stuck it on the top of the guitar.

Then after I sobered up and the glue dried, I painted it with hammered blue hammerite.

Awesome :lol:

sgmypod · « **Reply #2 on:** February 08, 2007, 06:15:03 PM »

nice...have a friend who cut an extra bit for the horn on his aria pro 2, now has metal plate holding body together at the neck

38thBeatle · « **Reply #3 on:** February 08, 2007, 06:32:41 PM »

I have never owned a wierd or stupid guitar but in line with the modifications you guys have referred to, I knew a guy with a 1960's Precision bass which he sawed off the upper horn because he was told that it would sound better :? he found, to his surprise, that it didn't but by then had thrown the horn away and had to have a new one made and fitted-the luthier did a great job thankfully.

sgmypod · « **Reply #4 on:** February 08, 2007, 07:06:37 PM »

*LMAO* was he drunk..or just daft *L*

38thBeatle · « **Reply #5 on:** February 08, 2007, 07:56:36 PM »

No he was quite sober-at least at the time he told me-I had noticed the "repair" on his guitar and asked about it and the whole sordid tale came out. Hard to believe I know-devalued a vintage guitar.

sgmypod · « **Reply #6 on:** February 08, 2007, 08:32:36 PM »

strange what people will do

Bird · « **Reply #7 on:** February 10, 2007, 05:31:46 AM »

Not really weird or stupid .... just annoying. It was a '67 ish semi-hollow tele and the feedback was just out of control at anything but the lowest volumes.

Dennis · « **Reply #8 on:** February 10, 2007, 02:55:08 PM »

Most stupid guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio.
Squeeling sounds on all amps available, except old mesa's, even after wax potting the pickups and changing the pickups. :D
Very strange situation :?

Weird guitar (but I really really like it): Parker Fly Deluxe....taking into account that the guitar is from 1994, it is pretty futuristic! Lots of current guitar companys are experimenting with piezo and magnetic pickups, and that guitar already had that for more than 10 years ago!
I also like the tremolo system on that guitar :D
Even the pickup mounting is weird, it doesn't have these "ears" on the humbuckers for mounting, but I think the screws under the E and e string are used for mounting the humbucker..

sgmypod · « **Reply #9 on:** February 10, 2007, 07:50:30 PM »

like parkers..have a very modded p38...love the look and now the sound even more with the piezio and 3 bareknuckles

Dennis · « **Reply #10 on:** February 11, 2007, 10:44:52 AM »

Quote from: sgmypod

like parkers..

I like the parker too! The neck is really stable, and the guitar has lots of sustain.
But....if you like a guitar that sounds like its made of wood...then the parker fly deluxe is no good, because you hear it is not an all wooden guitar.
But hell, it's nice :D

indysmith · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2007, 11:38:38 AM »

Quote from: Dennis

Quote from: sgmypod
like parkers..

I like the parker too! The neck is really stable, and the guitar has lots of sustain.
But....if you like a guitar that sounds like its made of wood...then the parker fly deluxe is no good, because you hear it is not an all wooden guitar.
But hell, it's nice :D

I love parkers! one day i'm going to mod a fly to metal monster status :twisted:

Dennis · « **Reply #12 on:** February 11, 2007, 05:31:25 PM »

Quote from: indysmith

I love parkers! one day i'm going to mod a fly to metal monster status :twisted:

Well, actually they do metal pretty well!
Maybe some day I will change the DiMarzio's for something else, but I'm not sure, because the stock pickups are pretty versatile, but can do metal still very good.

Antag · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2007, 06:38:03 PM »

I guess mine would be the obligatory "first guitar": in my case an old Kay classical. It had a rosewood bridge that was held in place by string tension (i.e. you could move it around) & the strings were tied off onto a steel tailpiece that was attached the the strap button & stretched across the top.

Someone had wrongly strung it with steel strings. As there was no trussrod, by the time it was given to me the neck was like the deck of the Ark Royal! :lol: - the strings were quite literally >1" above the 12th fret.

I had it for about half a term of lessons at school before I bought a cheap dreadnought (£55) from the local music shop...

stu__r · « **Reply #14 on:** February 11, 2007, 10:06:25 PM »

A 1988 Ibanez JEM777SK. For those who dont know thats the "shocking pink" model with Bright green and yellow stuff on it....

Yes it was stupid and id do it again for the sheer "i have no idea what the hell im doing with this pink guitar" 80's madness of it.

http://www.jemsite.com/jem/model/jem777sk.htm OH yes now thats a hideous thing....