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Weird Guitar of the Day
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Blanton Custom bass
Here are three pictures (two full-length and one that's just a closeup of the body) of a bass that was built by luthier Jerry Blanton. Its body is shaped like a big curve with a little swoosh at the lower cutaway horn. It looks like it's got one pickup, but I'm not sure if there's another one under the bridge cover or not. I'm guessing there is because there's a 3-way switch to go with the volume and tone knobs.
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Deering Boston 6-string banjo
The Deering Boston 6-string banjo is tuned like a regular guitar, so you can get that banjo sound without having to learn a new instrument. It's got an 11 inch head and 22 frets. There's a version with a pickup close to the neck, but the one in the picture is the acoustic version.
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Ritter Violin bass
The Ritter Violin bass looks like an actual violin, more along the lines of an early EB-0 than the Hofner style. There's a slim humbucker pickup in the neck, and it's directly output with no knobs or switches. (The output jack is on the back of the guitar.)
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Rickenbacker 450/12
The Rickenbacker 450/12 is a solidbody electric guitar with a large pickguard. It's got two "toaster" single-coil pickups, and each one has its own volume and tone control. There's also a 3-way switch. The headstock is the normal Ricky 6/6 split design, with half of the tuners pointing sideways and half pointing down.
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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"Hey mister, can we have our Ballback?"
Here's a screenshot from A Hard Day's Night. The four Beatles are making faces through a train door window. Their heads are stacked in a vertical line.
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Ibanez 580B Ballback
The Ibanez 580B Ballback is shaped like a Telecaster with a deeper lower cutaway. It's got two humbuckers, one volume and one tone control, and a 3-way switch. It's also got a Floyd Rose-style locking trem.
November 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Jayemar Alma Archtop
The Jayemar Alma Archtop is a modern take on the old-school jazzbox. It's got a single cutaway and one F-hole that's shaped like a lower case j. There's a single humbucker in the neck, and it's controlled by one volume and one tone knob. The fretboard has fanned frets and is topped by a 3/3 split headstock.
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Marlin PB-26 bass
The Marlin PB-26 bass looks like somebody put a corset on an ES-335. It's a hollowbody with two F-holes, a really narrow waist, and very long and pointy cutaway horns. It's got two single-coil pickups, one volume, and one tone control.
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Here's what Croz thought of the guitar:
Here's David Crosby onstage with the guitar sometime in the 1970s. He's smiling at somebody to his left and giving them a thumbs up.
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Gibson/Alembic 12-string
Here's a 12-string that Alembic customized for David Crosby. It started out as a Gibson Crest 6-string (imagine an ES-335, but totally hollow, short-scale, and made out of rosewood). He took it to Alembic in 1970, and Rick Turner did some magic to it. Rick wired up two humbuckers and hooked them to an onboard preamp so they can output in mono or stereo. It looks like there are two volume and two tone controls, but one of the volume controls has been moved to the lower horn where the switch would normally be. The coolest thing about this guitar is that Rick wired in some red LEDs on the side of the neck for fret position markers. That's most likely the first time anybody had done that. (It was 1970, after all.)
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Let's not even talk about what EVH did to his Destroyer.
Eddie Van Halen's Ibanez Destroyer. He cut a big chunk out of the body behind the bridge, among other things. He said the guitar didn't sound right after he did that. I wonder why...
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Gibson Holy Explorer
The Gibson Holy Explorer is what it sounds like: an Explorer with holes. There are 4 that stretch from the bridge to the end of the body, two between the two humbuckers, and one below the neck pickup. There's a volume knob and a 3-way switch.
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Dalzell Destroyer
The Dalzell Destroyer was built by luthier Mark Dalzell in 2007. It's a Strat-style guitar with a 4-string mandolin neck above the guitar neck and a theremin (!) below it. The mandolin has one P90-style single-coil pickup and the guitar has 5 Strat-style pickups. The body of the guitar is absolutely festooned with buttons, knobs, and switches. There's a bank of them behind the bridge that control onboard distortion, chorus, and flanger.
November 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Yerevan TWO-GRIFF doubleneck
The TWO-GRIFF doubleneck was made in Yerevan, Armenia back when it was still part of the USSR. It's got a weird, lumpy shape and has a 6-string guitar on top and a 4-string bass on bottom. The guitar has three single-coil pickups, and the bass has two. The guitar side also has a tremolo and a blade-style switch. The bass side looks like it's got two knobs and a on/off switch, but I have no idea what does what. Like most Soviet-era guitars, It's got a DIN jack instead of a 1/4 inch plug.
November 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Guyatone LG-880 Marroly
The Guyatone LG-880 Marroly is an evolution of their earlier LG-50 model, and was originally developed for Rory Gallagher. It's got a roughly Les Paul shaped body, but a wider cutaway. There are two single-coil pickups, and each one has their own volume control to go along with a master tone control and a 3-way switch.
October 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Fender Wildwood VI
The Fender Wildwood VI is a fairly normal-looking acoustic guitar that's based on their Kingman model. It's got a large body-colored pickguard. The bridge with individual saddles is a nice touch. At first glance, the weirdest part of the guitar is the bolt-on neck. It's got large block inlays and a 6-in-line headstock. You might think the green on the headstock is a neat paint job, but it's not. It's weirder than that. Let's flip the guitar over to get a better look. Here's the back of the guitar. You can really see the grain of the wood. It's green because Fender found a way to inject different color dyes into beech trees. The Wildwood line started with six different colors, hence the VI designation on this guitar. Fender also made Wildwood versions of their Coronado II electric.
October 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Godin A11 Glissentar
The Godin A11 Glissentar is a thinline acoustic guitar with a single-cutaway body similar to a Telecaster. It's also fretless and has 11 nylon strings. (The only one that isn't doubled from a normal 12-string setup is the low E.) It's got sliding controls for volume, bass, mid, and treble.
October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Fender Colonelcaster
This one-off Fender Colonelcaster is perfect for your chicken-pickin' needs. It was made to commemorate the 1998 Association of Kentucky Fried Chicken Franchisees convention in Nashville. It's got a large pickguard with a red, white, and blue picture of Colonel Sanders and the KFC logo . It looks to be set up like an Esquire, with just the one bridge pickup. It's got a volume and tone knob and a 3-way blade switch. It's also got black knobs and a what looks like a Squier neck. There's an engraved plate on the back of the guitar. In all caps, it reads: This commemorative Fender "Colonelcaster" is proudly presented by the staff of Graphic Workshop on the occasion of the 1998 AKFCF convention in "Music City USA" Nashville Tennessee
October 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Gretsch BST-1500 Beast
The Gretsch BST-1500 Beast (or model 8217, if you go by the old Gretsch model numbers) is a solid-body electric with a single cutaway and a large black pickguard. It's got two humbuckers, one volume and one tone control, and a 3-way switch. It also has a Strat-style hardtail bridge. The weirdest thing about this guitar is the headstock logo is printed sideways instead of along the top of the headstock. This model only lasted from 1978 to 1981. One of my coworkers got one for Christmas back in 1980.
October 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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NS Design SCT6 FIN
The NS Design SCT6 FIN is the latest design from Ned Steinberger. It's got the same basic design as one of this older guitars, but has fanned frets and is made out of carbon fiber. It's got three passive humbuckers that are under a large cover. There's a volume knob (push/pull to turn the preamp on), a tone knob (push/pull coil tap), what I think is another knob to control the preamp, and a 5-way blade switch. It's also got a fold-out leg rest if you want to play it sitting down.
October 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Martin Grand J-28E DN
The Martin Grand J-28E DN is a 12/6 doubleneck with a jumbo body. Both necks share the same soundhole. It's also got Fishman electronics, but I don't see any controls on any other pictures of the body. If you're a lefty and want one of these, good news! Martin makes left-handed versions, too.
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Schecter Synyster Gates 'Syn AC-GA SC'
Here's an acoustic guitar that Schecter made for Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Synyster Gates. It's a fairly normal acoustic with a cutaway, but the true weirdness is in the paint job and inlay work. It's black with gray horizontal stripes of varying thickness. It's got winged skulls painted in a circle around the soundhole, and a winged skull and the letters "SYN" inlaid on the neck. The 3/3 split headstock has devil horns kinda like the old Burns guitars used to have. I saw one of these at the music store yesterday, but forgot to post it. If you want to see more weirdness (and my latest purchase!), check out that thread.
October 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I also took something home with me.
This is a Line6 Variax 500. It's a double cutaway guitar with a volume knob, a tone knob, a 5-way blade switch, and a knob that controls all the modeling and stuff.
October 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Here's some weirdness I saw at the music store today.
Here's a 12-string acoustic guitar with 4 extra harp strings. The brand on this is Tennessee, but I haven't been able to find any other info on it. Here's a black Dean Explorer bass. (I can't remember what they're really called, but you get the idea.) It's a John Entwistle signature model. It's got white spiderwebs painted on it, and It's also got bright green strings. Here's a Luna acoustic guitar with a neat landscape on it. The sun is setting behind some mountains, and a bear is walking towards some trees. Everything looks like it's made out of different colors of wood. Here's a guitar that's similar to the Teisco E-110 Tulip I posted a while back, but the cutaway horns are curved inwards. The brand on the headstock is Strad-O-Lin. Behind it is a Wylde Audio Odin Grail Norse Dragon. It's basically a Les Paul with an extra point on the end and a bent cutaway horn.
October 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Backlund Neptune
The Backlund Neptune looks like a melted Flying V with a large metallic pickguard. It's got 3 blade-style single-coils, one volume and one tone control, and a 5-way blade switch.
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM