guitar art
Iner Souster
Posted July 1st, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
Iner Souster makes experimental musical instruments. His stringed instruments are often made from salvaged materials, and are art works in themselves.
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Cubist Guitar
Posted June 21st, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
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.
Giant metal guitar
Posted May 12th, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
Mike Shubic worked in marketing for 16 years, then one day he decided to quit the day job to make and sell outdoor sculptures. This giant guitar is one of his creations: it measures 12 feet by 4 feet (although he can make it to any size). It is made from metal, and Mike says it can actually be played. It is still available for sale for $6500.
Hand painted Fender style guitars
Posted April 30th, 2008 by guitar-listInformation
These handpainted stratocaster style guitars are selling now on Etsy.com. They are made by gluing painter's canvas to the guitar body, the canvas is then custom painted using oil paints. The canvas surface is then sealed with a matte varnish. The guitar comes with just neck and body, without any hardware, for $380.
Teenar the Guitar Girl
Posted August 14th, 2007 by guitar-listInformation
Teenar is a guitar made from a girl mannequin. Because she is armless it looks creepily like the player's arms are really her arms. Guitar maker, musician and artist Lou Reimuller from Richmond, Virginia made her in 1986, around the same time as the film Mannequin, a romantic comedy starring Kim Cattrall as the mannequin and Andrew McCarthy as her love interest.
GIRL BRAND
Posted June 20th, 2007 by guitar-listInformation
Girl brand's Chris Larsen makes guitars as they should be made, each one is a work of art and great fun. Money is not the bottom line with this guy!
The guitars are loosely telecaster shaped, but in Chris Larsen's hands the telecaster is clearly a canvas for artistic expression. Necks are maple with ebony or cocabolo. The bodies have an outside rim of anodized aluminium, with a wood core. The backs are phenolic or formica on birch plywood, and the tops can be almost anything: formica, linen, plastic, zinc, rusted steel, street signs!
Each guitar is based around a concept, with matching materials, inlays and graphics. For example HoopsGirl has a top carved from a gymnasium floor. CheeseburgerGirl has a hollow compartment in the body with a cheeseburger and fries. The 2 options on the pickup selector are always a dichotomy that mirrors the guitar's concept: With/Without, Man/Woman, Love/Hate, Heaven/Hell, Birth/Death and so on.
Dave Schecter designed the pickup system, each has a transformer with taps to vary the level and tone. This gives around 15 different tones from just the switches. It is safe to assume that these guitars sound nothing like a telecaster.
12 necked Stratocaster
Posted February 23rd, 2007 by guitar-listInformation
Like radioactive giraffes, guitars have been sprouting extra necks for some time now. Witness Jimmy Page's double neck SG on live versions of “Stairway To Heaven” or the guy out of Cheap Trick with his many-necked guitar. Some guitarists have exploited the extra necks to musical effect, like ambidextrous virtuoso Michael Angelo.




