Electra was a brand of electric guitars and basses manufactured in Japan and distributed in the US by two companies owned by brothers: Saint Louis Music (SLM) and Pacific Coast Music in the 1970's and early 1980's.

The Bond guitar company was set up in Scotland in the early 1980s by English luthier Andrew Bond.  The company was established to produce the ground breaking Bond Electraglide model. The Electraglide was not a commercial success and the company stopped trading in 1986. Andrew Bond died in 1999

The Yuri Landman Springtime is a triplet guitar made in 2008 for Laura-Mary Carter of the band Blood Red Shoes. It has 7 strings and three single coil pickups. The pickups are mounted almost parallel to the strings, and there are three output sockets. It appears to have a maple neck and fingerboard. The bridge and tailpiece are unconventional, probably Landman's own design.

You have sketched your ideal guitar shape, it looks good on paper but will it work full size? Berlin guitar blogger GuitarRen has designed some great guitar shapes. GuitarRen tested his designs with cardboard mock ups, painting them and adding aluminium foil. He even added pickups and control knobs. This is a great way to test a design before starting to build.

George Breeds electrical guitar is not an electric guitar in the modern sense. It did not electrically amplify the strings to make them louder. Instead it used electricity to sound the strings of an acoustic instrument. You did not need to strum or pluck this guitar: by pressing the string onto a fret a circuit was made which caused the string to vibrate automatically and continuously.

George Breed was an American navy officer and inventor. In 1890 he designed probably the first steel string electrified guitar. It was not an electric guitar (you did not plug it into an amplifier) but its acoustic steel strings were vibrated by an electromagnet, so you could play it with your left hand only.

Michael Williams bought his wife a new VW beetle, and at the time VW were bundling a First Act Garage Master guitar with each car . Michael found the Garage Master's strings were too close together for his arthritic hands so he set about making his own electric guitar.

The Lindert John Henry was the tenth instrument issued in the Locomotive series, and was named after the famous "steel driving man." The John Henry has a single cutaway semi hollow body with an upper routed F-hole and radial grille pattern. The styling of the grille and f-hole is influenced by old resonator guitars. Pickups are two handwound humbuckers.

Eric Deyoe is a Denver guitar builder and also does guitar repairs.

Gretsch made this version of the White Falcon model number 6136 between 1958-1962.

Cast your beady eyes over this Ibanez electric guitar with custom bead finish. A committed American beadist (known only as Jan) covered in the guitar by laying tiny beads in intricate circular patterns. Archaeological records show people have used beads as an ardornment for over 5000 years, so sooner or later someone was going to stick some all over a guitar.

Togaman GuitarViols is the creation of Jonathan Wilson of San Fernando, California. During the 1990s Wilson experiemented with several designs for a hybrd electric guitar / viola with a fretted neck but played with a bow. Wilson patented the GuitarViol in 2003, the current version has a 21 inch scale length with specially designed Graphtech intonable bridge, piezo saddles and MIDI options.

1983 Dean Bel Aire.

Head banging is a vigourous and often violent rhythmic movement of the head and upper body.