electric guitars

Cubist Guitar

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Looks like some lost their assembley instructions from Warmoth!

You can buy this if you want for $400.

Between The Notes is an original work by Shannon Couture, an artist and musician from Western Maine.

West Corinth Studio marquetry guitars

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Husband and wife Isaac Willis and Heidi Shaulis are the team behind West Corinth Studio. Living in the hills of Orange County, Vermont, they make and sell wooden craft items and artworks. They also produce some unique guitars, like the "Eat Your Heart Out" a semi-hollow bodied electric guitar made from salvaged wood.

Moog Paul Vo Collector Edition

The Moog Paul Vo Collector Edition Guitar is an electric guitar that incorporates electronics to allow special effects. These include:

Moog

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The Moog brand first appeared when Dr Bob Moog founded the R.A. Moog Co. in 1953, making theremins and modular synthesizer systems. This company became Moog Music in 1972, making some groundbreaking synthesizers. After various changes of ownership, Moog Music was bought by instrument maker Norlin (who also owned the Gibson guitar company at the time).

AMERICAN SHOWSTER

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The American Showster brand appeared in the 1980s with their AS-57 guitar. The body shape was based on a 57 Chevrolet tail fin. They developed a number of exotic shaped guitars, some built in the USA and some elsewhere.

Drapery guitar

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Tear down those curtains and make me a guitar! Browsing Etsy again I found this one-off electric guitar said to have a strat look and telecaster sound. The unique selling point is the drapery finish: covered in curtains its the 21st century Floral Jem. From the picture it doesn't look like the fabric is sealed: I hope its not dry-clean-only!

GRETSCH THINLINE SYNCHROMATIC HOLLOW BODY G3161 (251-0103-512)

Thinline Synchromatic Hollow Body (G3161)

Introduced in the thirties, Gretsch Synchromatic archtop guitars quickly became well respected for their superb tone, matchless playing ease and "Seven Points to Supremacy". Here is what guitar legend Harry Volpe said in 1939 about his original Synchromatic...

Rees Electric Guitars

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Rees Electric Guitars was founded by Clive Rees. Clive produces a range of electric guitars in Cambridgeshire, England. Models are based on a double cut-away, chambered body with bolt on neck, but differ in their electronics, hardware and wood types and finishes. Prices range from around £600 to £1400.

The Alumitar

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The Alumitar was created by Paul Rubenstein. Imagine a guitar neck with no back, the curve of the fretboard going all the way around, now take away the frets and you have the Alumitar. It looks like it is made from an aluminium tube, it has 10 strings evenly spaced around the outside of the tube.

TEUFFEL BIRDFISH

The birdfish is an extrodinary instrument, representing a fresh look a guitar design. It is perhaps one of the most adjustable designs out there, you can tweak almost anything about the design: the components are bolted onto a central metal frame and can easily be swapped. On this guitar you can change the pickups without even having to take the strings off!

BRITISH CUSTOM GUITARS

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Antony Charles Tomlinson, the luthier/artist behind British Custom Guitars has been designing and building custom guitars since the 1980s. His instruments are unique, and some of them are more like pieces of art than instruments.

LIQUID METAL GGG (GOLD GUITAR)

The Liquid Metal Guitars GGG is a metal bodied guitar finished in 18 carat gold. The body was milled from aluminium then gold plated. The first GGG was made for an American collector whose collection includes a gold bodied Veleno from back in the 60/70's.

EPIPHONE LES PAUL SPECIAL II

The Les Paul is a rock and roll icon, and this Epiphone L.P. model makes an excellent beginner's guitar. The Special II has a basswood body, a bolt-on magogany neck (not set like a genuine L.P.), rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays, and two open-coil humbucking pick-ups. Controls are a single volume, single tone and a pickup selector (located between the volume and tone controls).

NAMM 2008 bizarre guitars

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While attending the NAMM show over the last 10 years, Barry Wood noticed that many unusual products from the small independent companies were stashed away in side rooms and never seen by the mainstream visitor. Every year, like some modern day Indiana Jones, Barry hunts down these treasures in the darkened tunnels of the winter NAMM exhibition.

Football Helmet Guitar

NEO products unveiled this football helmet shaped guitar at NAMM 2008. The body of the guitar is basswood, the neck maple and the fingerboard is rosewood. It has a single humbucker with volume and tone controls. The bridge is fixed. It has a built-in amplifier with a 2.5" speaker so you can take it along to the game.