we want to list every guitar ever made, ever!
Amatuer luthier Stuart Boydell from Caerphilly made his library book cigar box ukulele for the Library Wales Express Yourself competition.
The soundbox is plywood with a book cover glued on. The neck is red cherry with a rosewood fingerboard (inlaid with mother of pearl).
The Hofner Fledermausguitarre (the Bat Guitar) was a hollow body prototype/exhibition instrument. The vaguely bat-shaped body is 2 inches deep and has an integrated 4 Watt amplifier with loudspeaker, brown suburst finished spruce top, maple sides with ventilation holes.
This ice guitar was made by the Ice Sculptor Tim Linhart. The picture was taken at Piteå University in Sweden where the player, Tilman Hoppstock, was a visiting professor. He recounted playing the guitar in an interview with Guitart International in 2006:
This is a step-by-step guide on instructables.com shows you how to make a skatar (a guitar skateboard). Instructables contributor ntagn33 describes how he took a Squier Jagmaster and mounted skateboard trucks on the back.
This 3/4 size bass guitar is made from the KNEX construction toy. It is just about playable, although the neck is so straight that it only works on the upper reaches of the fingerboard. The builder, KNEX-Guy, strung it up with a single string and can get at least 2 tunes out of it, with varying degrees of accuracy.
The Alien Custom is a one-off custom made instrument, kept in the personal collection of its maker since it was built in 2006 and used as a show piece. The guitar is sculpted from carbon fibre and finished in a special chrome paint giving it a metallic look.
This a one off customised instrument, made in Holland. The owner calls it the Chop Shop Fantasy. The hardware and material specifications are typical enough, but the wings of the body have been cut-off and reattached slightly offset using metal fixings. I think it works pretty well, the central body pod reminds me of a Wandre Davoli Bikini, or of RKS guitars.
This guitar built from workshop hardware shows you can make an electric guitar out of just about anything. The neck is a spirit level, with attached saw and hammer. Paint tins behind the body add resonant chambers. The frets look like nails and are tied on sitar-style. But electrified and played through an amplfier with a bit of delay it sounds OK.
You can see this giant amplifier shaped music shop on Commercial road, Southampton. It is based on a Fender Super Champ, and of course the knobs go up to 11. The giant amplifier is inhabited by resident luthier Jamie 'Razor' Goatley and his assistant Wesley. Jamie says that the red jewel light even comes on at night.
Dan Wagoner modified his first guitar (a Fender stratocaster) to include a weird sound generator analogue synth. The synth control knobs protrude from a hand made pick guard made from a motherboard. Three switches have been mounted in the fingerboard. This instrument liberates the synth player, allowing them to assume outrageous poses previously reserved for guitarists.
This giant Flying V style guitar was seen at the New York guitar show. The massive scale length means you can get almost subsonic notes on it. An even bigger guitar was made as a school project at the Academy of Science and Technology, Woodlands, TX. It is over 43 feet long but still playable.
The Buttocks Guitar is a surreal electroacoustic archtop jazz guitar. It has a soundhole at the side, a round back (shaped like a pair of buttocks), the flat ended body shape means the guitar can stand up on its own.
A 9V battery powered practise amplifier housed in a copy of the bible.
The Hoverbucker is a creation of Ronnie Hinton and Daniel Diaz Brauch which started out as a Squier Bullet stratocaster . They took the middle pickup and mounted it over the neck pickup, to give a sound like a humbucker. It is mounted upside down, with the top facing the strings.
