Weird guitar thread - Page 3

Unmade Bed · 05.30.2006, 11:56 AM

Trey Gunn (King Crimson) and his 10 strings touchstyle guitar

Unmade Bed · 05.30.2006, 12:01 PM

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 05.30.2006, 12:39 PM

krappyguitars.com

Swiss Army 2-string with ashtray and beer holder

The flippitar. Guitar on one side, bass on the other!

www.girlbrand.com

fatgirl bass

A girlbrand guitar- Verdigris Girl

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 05.30.2006, 12:43 PM

More Girlbrand:

Electron Girl

Radio Girl

Uranium Girl

Interstellar Bandbattle Artifact Girl

Such sexy guitars.

nomadicfollower · 05.30.2006, 12:44 PM

John Paul Jone's guitar.

alyasa · 05.30.2006, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

Interstellar Bandbattle Artifact Girl

Such sexy guitars.

Can I have one of these for my birthday?

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 05.30.2006, 12:47 PM

Yeah, he plays it in that 10 years gone video.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 05.30.2006, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alyasa

Can I have one of these for my birthday?

If I was Bill Gates, I'd say Interstellar Bandbattle Artifact Girls for all!

alyasa · 05.30.2006, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

If I was Bill Gates, I'd say Interstellar Bandbattle Artifact Girls for all!

Good find, thanks, it's the thought that counts.

You must spread before giving in again. blah blah.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 05.30.2006, 12:52 PM

"
Thank you for your interest in my guitars and your kind words. I know that if I were serious about making real money with Girlbrand Guitars I would focus on one or two models and start churning them out in quantity. I hope to settle down and do that someday, but for now, I just can't help making each one different from the one before. Which isn't to say that they don't fall into a few large catagories.
The necks are a traditional combination of hard Maple with Ebony or Cocabolo fingerboards. I like the Cocabolo because the reds and oranges are so much more attractive and the figure more interesting than the brownish\purplish Indian Rosewood so often used for fingerboards nowdays. Bodies are anodized aluminum, sometimes colored in the anodizing process and sometimes left just aluminum though the anodizing gives the metal a more Nickle look. There is a core of Cedar or Redwood or Bass. The backs are usually Phenolic or Formica over Birch plywood. And the tops are whatever pops into my head. Early models used Formica/Nevamar stuff (The Greg Morton, the Yellow Top), with linen and canvas phenolics later (the model Meredith Brooks is holding on her CD cover) which had a wonderful tendancy to age rapidly to dark pumpkin orange shades. Then came the Metal Tops using rusted steel, galvanized, copper corroded with uncorroded design areas, and your favorite, galvanzed steel with the Zinc selectively eaten away and left to rust under compost. I have even, when bored, made some with fancy wood tops, Birdseye and Burl, but that's the very sort of thing I wanted to get away from. I do however , like the wood top on the Speedboat model, in that it was inspired by those ChrisCraft speedboats of the 30's, a sort of Dunhill, Abercrombie and Fitch look I would like to do more with. I've managed to find some of the original wavy plastic drum material that Rickenbacher used on their Lighshow models way back when and I intend to do a couple of lightshow Girls (Hippie Girl?) when I have time for the rather complicated color organ electronics.
Pickups, which I build from scratch, are designed by Dave Schecter, somewhat of a legend (underground and aboveground) in guitar electronics design, who, though his mind is occupied by more profound matters nowdays, still sends me some of the ideas that fly from his brain as the sparks fly upwards. The current system uses a pair of hand built transformers which (when engaged) add midrange and low end beef to the traditionally bright edgy single coil tone. The idea is to give you Fender and Gibson tone and combinations. The 3-way pickup selector switch (lead- rythym\lead-rythym) plus the three tone taps for each pickup add up to fifteen pre-set tones before you ever touch the tone pot. I keep intending to put in a in-phase/out-phase switch which would add I think another nine tones, but it seems just one switch too many.
Hard to say why exactly I chose Girl for a guitar name. I usually say that it's because guitars, like boats are always female (ref.- Lucille), and one can take that pretty far, but really I think that "girl" is just such a terrificly "loaded" word. A word that's so general and yet so powerfully specific. All models to this date have carried the "Homegirl" decal, as I have been too lazy to get others printed up. But I am looking forward to "Badgirl", "Cowgirl", "Societygirl", "Sailorgirl" and , of course, "Geishagirl". I am happy for any suggestions. Chris Larsen"

Some info on Girlbrand.

alyasa · 05.30.2006, 01:13 PM

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to SpectralJulianIsNotDead again. Kinda like guitar nurse.

Trasher02 · 05.30.2006, 01:17 PM

fucking shit guitars!

Inhuman · 05.30.2006, 01:21 PM

Damn, all the good ones have already been posted

strictlycommercial · 05.30.2006, 01:37 PM

strictlycommercial · 05.30.2006, 01:38 PM

And of course:

Comes with it's own built-in sword!

alyasa · 05.30.2006, 01:52 PM

Oh lord almighty, that looks like something out of a Neal Stephenson novel.

trance feeeedback · 05.30.2006, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by strictlycommercial

And of course:

Comes with it's own built-in sword!

you win, that is the worst guitar I have ever seen!

johnnywinternoshow · 05.30.2006, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by strictlycommercial

And of course:

Comes with it's own built-in sword!

really reminds me of this guy

next step · 05.30.2006, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Savage Clone

http://www.paulmetzger.net
Check out the banjo too!

AMAZING.
I dig his stuff!

umjammer atomsk · 05.30.2006, 07:10 PM

Nightmare's guitar is way knarlier though.

05.30.2006, 11:56 AM	#41
Unmade Bed children of satan Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 354	Trey Gunn (King Crimson) and his 10 strings touchstyle guitar __________________
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05.30.2006, 12:39 PM	#43
SpectralJulianIsNotDead invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7,409	krappyguitars.com Swiss Army 2-string with ashtray and beer holder The flippitar. Guitar on one side, bass on the other! www.girlbrand.com fatgirl bass A girlbrand guitar- Verdigris Girl
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05.30.2006, 12:43 PM	#44
SpectralJulianIsNotDead invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7,409	More Girlbrand: Electron Girl Radio Girl Uranium Girl Interstellar Bandbattle Artifact Girl Such sexy guitars.
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05.30.2006, 12:44 PM	#45
nomadicfollower invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: North America Posts: 2,672	John Paul Jone's guitar.
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05.30.2006, 12:47 PM	#47
SpectralJulianIsNotDead invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7,409	Yeah, he plays it in that 10 years gone video.
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05.30.2006, 12:52 PM	#50
SpectralJulianIsNotDead invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7,409	" Thank you for your interest in my guitars and your kind words. I know that if I were serious about making real money with Girlbrand Guitars I would focus on one or two models and start churning them out in quantity. I hope to settle down and do that someday, but for now, I just can't help making each one different from the one before. Which isn't to say that they don't fall into a few large catagories. The necks are a traditional combination of hard Maple with Ebony or Cocabolo fingerboards. I like the Cocabolo because the reds and oranges are so much more attractive and the figure more interesting than the brownish\purplish Indian Rosewood so often used for fingerboards nowdays. Bodies are anodized aluminum, sometimes colored in the anodizing process and sometimes left just aluminum though the anodizing gives the metal a more Nickle look. There is a core of Cedar or Redwood or Bass. The backs are usually Phenolic or Formica over Birch plywood. And the tops are whatever pops into my head. Early models used Formica/Nevamar stuff (The Greg Morton, the Yellow Top), with linen and canvas phenolics later (the model Meredith Brooks is holding on her CD cover) which had a wonderful tendancy to age rapidly to dark pumpkin orange shades. Then came the Metal Tops using rusted steel, galvanized, copper corroded with uncorroded design areas, and your favorite, galvanzed steel with the Zinc selectively eaten away and left to rust under compost. I have even, when bored, made some with fancy wood tops, Birdseye and Burl, but that's the very sort of thing I wanted to get away from. I do however , like the wood top on the Speedboat model, in that it was inspired by those ChrisCraft speedboats of the 30's, a sort of Dunhill, Abercrombie and Fitch look I would like to do more with. I've managed to find some of the original wavy plastic drum material that Rickenbacher used on their Lighshow models way back when and I intend to do a couple of lightshow Girls (Hippie Girl?) when I have time for the rather complicated color organ electronics. Pickups, which I build from scratch, are designed by Dave Schecter, somewhat of a legend (underground and aboveground) in guitar electronics design, who, though his mind is occupied by more profound matters nowdays, still sends me some of the ideas that fly from his brain as the sparks fly upwards. The current system uses a pair of hand built transformers which (when engaged) add midrange and low end beef to the traditionally bright edgy single coil tone. The idea is to give you Fender and Gibson tone and combinations. The 3-way pickup selector switch (lead- rythym\lead-rythym) plus the three tone taps for each pickup add up to fifteen pre-set tones before you ever touch the tone pot. I keep intending to put in a in-phase/out-phase switch which would add I think another nine tones, but it seems just one switch too many. Hard to say why exactly I chose Girl for a guitar name. I usually say that it's because guitars, like boats are always female (ref.- Lucille), and one can take that pretty far, but really I think that "girl" is just such a terrificly "loaded" word. A word that's so general and yet so powerfully specific. All models to this date have carried the "Homegirl" decal, as I have been too lazy to get others printed up. But I am looking forward to "Badgirl", "Cowgirl", "Societygirl", "Sailorgirl" and , of course, "Geishagirl". I am happy for any suggestions. Chris Larsen" Some info on Girlbrand.
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05.30.2006, 01:13 PM	#51
alyasa invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Singapore Posts: 3,791	You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to SpectralJulianIsNotDead again. Kinda like guitar nurse. __________________ Sab Kuch Tick Tock Hai
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05.30.2006, 01:17 PM	#52
Trasher02 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 6,356	fucking shit guitars! __________________ 666
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05.30.2006, 01:21 PM	#53
Inhuman invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Montreal Posts: 5,807	Damn, all the good ones have already been posted __________________ Inhuman no longer dwells on here. http://about.me/robinbastien
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05.30.2006, 01:37 PM	#54
strictlycommercial bad moon rising Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 176
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strictlycommercial bad moon rising Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 176	And of course: Comes with it's own built-in sword!
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05.30.2006, 01:52 PM	#56
alyasa invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Singapore Posts: 3,791	Oh lord almighty, that looks like something out of a Neal Stephenson novel. __________________ Sab Kuch Tick Tock Hai
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05.30.2006, 07:10 PM	#60
umjammer atomsk the end of the ugly Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 889	Nightmare's guitar is way knarlier though. __________________
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