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Weird Guitar of the Day

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Strange stringed instruments, posted (hopefully!) every day. Check the alt text for more info on the pictures!

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Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· 23d

Victoria Surf Rider

The Victoria Surf Rider is a solidbody electric that came out of the Zenon factory in Japan and sold under many other names. It's got an offset shape with a little bit of Rickenbacker thrown in and an extra sharkfin-style point where your arm would go. It's got three single-coil pickups, and they're controlled by a volume knob, a tone knob, a 4-way rotary pickup switch (confusingly labeled off / low / mix / high), and a sliding rhythm / solo switch. It also has a trem with a really long bar.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· 24d

Watkins Rapier bass

Watkins was a British guitar factory that mainly made 6-strings, but they did have a couple bass models. Here's one, a bass version of their Rapier. It's got a Strat-style body that's got some heavy Burns influences, like the pickguard that runs diagonally from the upper horn to the control cavity. (There's also a tiny pickguard that just covers the lower horn.) It's got two pickups and three knobs. I'm assuming they're volume/tone/pickup selector, but I could be wrong about that. The only models I've seen that have explanations for what the knobs do only have two of them (volume and 4-way tone switch).

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· 25d

Supro Irene

It's been a while since I've posted a lap steel, so here's a Supro Irene from 1941. It's got a symmetrical, vaguely paddle-shaped body that's covered in white pearloid. Instead of having dots or block inlays, each fret is marked with its corresponding number in Roman numerals. It's got one of those horseshoe-style pickups where the strings go through the pickup cover, and it's controlled by a volume knob (above the strings) and a tone knob (below them). This guitar was built before they figured out that you could connect the pickup to an output jack and make the cable its own separate thing, so everything is hard-wired together.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· 26d

Maxwell Infinitum

The Maxwell Infinitum is a fanned-fret acoustic guitar with a large body that's been milled on a CNC machine. Instead of having a soundhole in the middle of the body or F-holes around the edge. there are 4 scoops (two on the front and two on the back) that have been cut into the waist of the guitar. Triangular soundholes are in each of the scoops. The way they've been cut into the guitar makes it look like the body has been twisted somehow.

Here's a picture of the side of the Infinitum's body, showing off the triangular sound holes.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· 27d

Baum Wingman

The Baum Wingman is an offset guitar that looks like if Gibson made a Jaguar (or Fender made a Firebird). It's got two mini-humbuckers, and each one has its own volume knob. There's also a master tone knob and a 3-way switch. The 6-in-line headstock looks like it was inspired by the one on GIbson's Victory models.

If I got one of these, it would be exactly like the one in the picture (black with gold hardware).

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· 28d

Carlson Dreadnautilus

The Dreadnautilus is a headless acoustic guitar that was built by luthier Fred Carlson in the late 1990s. Its body is circular like a nautilus shell. The soundhole is in the extra space on the top side of the body, and the neck meets up with the bottom side of the body, providing a perfect cutaway. The tuners are mounted in a V shape behind the bridge.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· 29d

Granstrom/Bigsby bass

Here's a picture of bassist Chuck Skog from around 1954. He's decked out in his finest country outfit and is holding a 5-string electric bass. Yes! A 5-string! In 1954!

This bass was built by brothers Dale and Harry Granstrom with help from guitar legend Paul Bigsby. The brothers made four guitars (two electrics, a pedal steel, and this bass) out of myrtle wood that they found at their day job as woodworkers. The two electrics and this bass have a similar, Telecaster-inspired body shape with a violin-style notch cut out of the top of the guitar and a pointier lower cutaway horn. The bass has a single pickup that's controlled by a volume knob and a tone knob. It also has a large circular hand rest coming out of the bridge. The neck has block inlays and a 5-in-line headstock that is a little pointier than the version Leo Fender "borrowed".

Since this bass looks like it's got a fairly short scale, I'm assuming it's tuned E A D G C like Fender's Bass V.

Here's the back of the bass. You can really see the grain of the myrtle wood. This also has the first instance I've seen of the way strings are laid out on a fanned-fret bass. The tuners are installed onto the headstock at a downwards angle, so that the E string is close to the end of the headstock and the C string is right next to the nut. This angle is reversed where the strings go into the body, so the E string is right next to the end of the body and the C string is closer to the bridge. This means the lower strings are longer than the higher ones, giving them better string tension. I'm amazed that somebody designed a bass like this back when very few people were playing electric basses at all.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jul 12

Martin EB-18 bass

The Martin EB-18 is a solidbody electric bass, and the counterpart to the EM-18 guitar. It's got a double-cutaway body that's made out of maple, with rosewood stripes running from the neck down to the end of the body. It's also got a humbucker that's controlled by a volume knob, a tone knob, and a two-position tone switch. The 2/2 split headstock is shaped like a Smurf hat.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jul 11

Guild X97V prototype

Here's another prototype guitar, this time from the "we're cool too, I swear!" phase Guild had in the 80s. The X97V looks like an Explorer that's been made really pointy and flipped upside down, so the part that you normally whack your elbow on hangs down and points away from you. It's got two humbuckers, and each one has its own volume knob. There's also a master tone control and a 3-way switch. The guitar also has a Strat-style trem and a V-shaped 3/3 split headstock.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jul 10

Fender prototype

Here are two pictures of the weirdest guitar Fender ever made. (Believe me, that's saying something.)

It's a roughly Strat-shaped electric that's made out of Lucite, like the old Dan Armstrong guitars. The perimeter starts out thick, thins out after that, then goes thick again for the center section. There are even holes in the thin section, on either side of the bridge.

The guitar has two Wide Range humbuckers. There are three knobs, but I don't see a pickup switch, so I'm assuming they're a volume knob for each pickup and a master tone control.

The neck has block inlays and a Starcaster-style 6-in-line headstock, 5 years before the Starcaster was released. (I'm pretty sure that design has been floating around since the old Marauder prototypes.)

On the left is a picture of the guitar, and on the right is a picture of the Beach Boys' Carl Wilson playing it live in 1972.

I think the weirdest thing about his guitar is the fact that Roger Rossmeisl designed it. He's more well-known for his work with Rickenbacker and popularized the German carve that you see on Mosrite guitars.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jul 9

Sandtron

Sandtron guitars were built in factories around the Nagoya area of Japan and sold by an electronics store of the same name in Burlington, Ontario back in the 1960s. It's a double-cutaway electric with what appears to be a reversed body that's got a curve cut out of where your arm would rest. The electronics are mounted to an absolutely massive metal pickguard. There are three gold-foil pickups, and the neck one is tilted with the top pointed towards the bridge. Each pickup has its own volume knob, tone knob, and on/off switch (located above each pickup). The guitar also has two outputs, and I'm assuming the switch in the lower horn switches between mono and stereo output. It also has a trem, rectangular inlays on top of the frets, and a 3/3 split headstock with a little triangular nub sticking out of the end.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jul 8

Spalt TG 1903

The Spalt TG 1903 is a headless electric travel guitar. Its body is full of holes and is roughly teardrop-shaped, curving upwards at the neck end to give you an upper horn. It also has detachable arm and leg rests. The P-90 in the neck is controlled by a volume knob and a tone knob.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jul 7

Godfrey Telecasso

Have you ever wondered what it would look like if Leo Fender was really into cubism? Well, it would probably looks something like the Godfrey Telecasso. There are two of them in this picture: a black one with a white pickguard, and a blonde one with a black pickguard. Each one has a squared-off hourglass shape. There's a large curved metal plate that houses the single-coil pickup, the volume and tone controls, and the 3-saddle bridge. There's an even larger curved pickguard, and the end of the fretboard is curved to match it. The 6-in-line headstock is straight on the bottom (instead of scrolled on regular Fender models) and has a really pointy end.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jul 6

Gretsch Cadillac

Here's a black & white publicity photo of guitarist Norma-Jean Wofford (otherwise known as The Duchess), taken when she played rhythm guitar for Bo Diddley. She's posing and looking off to her left. What stands out them most in the picture (besides her clothes and her beehive hairdo) is the guitar that's strapped to her, a Gretsch Cadillac.

The Cadillac is one of three guitars Gretsch built that were based on Bo's designs. (The Jupiter Thunderbird and Cigar Box were the other two.) It's a double-cutaway design with a narrow waist and two long, curved horns sticking out of the end of the body, making the guitar look like a car's tailfin. It's got two Filter'Tron pickups, and each one has its own volume knob. There's also a master volume knob, a 3-way pickup switch, and a 3-way switch that controls a tone circuit.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jul 5

Joseph Laurent Mast harp guitar

Normally, when you think of harp guitars, you think of guitar-shaped instruments with extra bass strings tacked onto the top of the body. Well, French Luthier Joseph Laurent Mast had a different idea. In 1827, he built an instrument that looked like a harp, but had 6 strings over a fretboard like a guitar.

There's a small pedestal with a long wooden rod coming out of it at a right angle. The body of the instrument comes upwards out of the pedestal and is angled away from that rod. A pennant-shaped headstock comes out of the top of the rod, and the fretboard is attached to it. The fretboard goes downwards parallel to the rod and is connected to the body by a curved piece.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jul 4

Gerard Gilet Map Resonator

The Gerard Gilet Map Resonator is an Australian tribute to the old National guitars that were shaped like the map of the US, but made out of wood. It's got a big aluminum resonator cone, and the bridge has a Fishman piezo that's always on. In addition, there's a humbucker in the neck that you can add to the mix with the volume knob that's above it.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jul 3

Alvarez-Yairi 60th Anniversary 5051

The Alvarez-Yairi 60th Anniversary 5051 is an acoustic guitar with a sunburst finish and two ornately carved, oval shaped areas (one on either side of the fretboard) instead of a traditional soundhole. These areas didn't actually go through the top of the body, which created a problem. If you were changing strings and clipped one too close to the bridge, the end of the string would fall into the body, and you'd have no way to get it out. This defect was corrected on later models by adding two small soundholes in the middle of the carved areas.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jul 2

Furlanetto F Bass VI

F Bass Inc. was started by Canadian luthier George Furlanetto in 1978. They started out making guitars and basses, but switched primarily to basses soon after. This model, their take on a Bass VI, has a vaguely Fender-ish body with a deeper lower cutaway and a little point at the end of the body. Each pickup (a wide-range humbucker in the bridge, a single-coil in the middle, and either a humbucker or single-coil in the neck) has its own sliding on/off switch, and there's also a volume and a tone knob. The guitar also has a Jazzmaster-style trem and a 3/3 split headstock.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jul 1

Silvertone Apocalypse bass

The Silvertone Apocalypse is a signature model for Paul Stanley of KISS. It's a Flying V-style guitar. The long ends of the V are curved inwards and barbed, and the guitar also has violin-style waist cutouts and SG-style cutaway horns. The model was made in guitar and bass versions, and this is a bass. It's got a J-pickup in the bridge and a P-pickup in the neck. They're controlled by a volume knob, a tone knob, and a blend knob. This one is black with red highlights around the cutaways, but a mirror finish model was available.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jun 30

Framus Nashville Super De Luxe

The Framus Nashville is a solidbody electric that looks kinda like a Les Paul, but with a cutaway horn on top as well as the bottom. The SUper De Luxe version has gold hardware, binding around the body, and block inlays. It's got two mini-humbucker pickups, and they're controlled by a volume knob, a tone knob, and a 6-way rotary pickup switch in the upper horn. Three of the settings do what you expect (front/back/both), and the other three let you set the pickups out of phase.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jun 29

Atlansia Dualist bass

Remember how I said that the Auerswald I posted a little while ago was the weirdest guitar? Well, this Atlansia Dualist is the weirdest bass. It's a headless, fretless 2-string bass. If it wasn't for the round part where the split pickup is and the balance arm coming out of that circular area, it would just be one long rectangle from nut to bridge. The only control is a volume knob on top of the body.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jun 28

Sinfonia 12-string

The Sinfonia 12-string is an East German guitar that was made in the 1970s, back when there was an East Germany. It's a hollowbody,double-cutaway electric with two large F-holes. It's got three single-coil pickups,and each one has its own sliding on/off switch, volume knob, and tone knob.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jun 27

Murph 12-string

This 12-string electric guitar was made by Murph Guitars, a Californian company that was only around from 1965 to 1967. It's a hollowbody that's shaped like a reversed Flying V, but a lot curvier. It's also got a neat F-hole that follows the curve of the body. It's got two single-coils, and they're controlled by a volume knob, a tone knob, and a 3-way switch. I like the capital A-shaped 6/6 split headstock.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jun 26

Goya Rangemaster

Here's a picture of three Goya Rangemaster electric guitars that was taken out of a catalog from the late 60s. Unlike the hollowbody Rangemasters I've posted before, these are offset solidbody guitars. They have the same two split-coil pickups as the other Rangemasters, and the controls are similar too. There are 6 pushbuttons running diagonally above the strings (confusingly labeled ALL / 1 +2 / 1+4 / 2+3 / 2+4 / OFF) and three more below the bridge pickup (labeled LO / MED / HI) that control a tone circuit, as well as a large volume knob. The guitar also has a Jazzmaster-style trem.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jun 25

Auerswald Model C

All right, everybody. This is it. This is the weirdest guitar.

The Auerswald Model C was made for Prince, and he used it live and in the studio. It's an all-white headless electric guitar (kinda) with gold hardware and a very angular body that looks like somebody went wild with a band saw. There's even a triangular notch cut of the body and the end of the fretboard. The whole guitar is made out of one piece of wood, and there's a "sustain bow" running from the lower cutaway horn to the large triangular headstock, kinda like one of those Roland G-707 synth guitars. There's a humbucker and a single-coil jammed together next to the bridge, and they're controlled by a volume knob, a tone knob, and a 3-way switch.

Just because I've found the weirdest guitar doesn't mean I'm gonna stop looking. There's gotta be something weirder than this out there.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jun 24

ESP LTD TL-7

The ESP LTD TL-7 is a black 7-string acoustic guitar with a lower cutaway and a single cat-eye soundhole like you'd see on a Rickenbacker. It's got a Fishman piezo system, and the controls (volume, bass, mid, and treble knobs, as well as a tuner) are on the top of the body facing the player. The headstock is split 4/3.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jun 23

Kimberly Deluxe

The Kimberly Deluxe is a roughly Strat-shaped electric guitar that came out of Japan in the late 1960s. It's got 4 single-coils jammed in the space bwtween the tremolo bridge and the neck. Each one has its own on/off switch, and they're wired in series. Each one also has its own tone knob to go with a master volume knob. I like the green sunburst finish and the gold flowers on the black pickguard.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jun 22

Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster/Esquire doubleneck

This Fender Stratocaster/Esquire doubleneck was the first guitar built by luthier Michael Stevens for Fender's Custom Shop when it opened in 1986. It has a cream body and gold hardware, echoing the old Mary Kaye Strat. The pickups are laid out the same as the regular guitars (three single-coils for the Strat and one for the Esquire), but they're controlled by a volume knob, a blend knob that's used to switch between the necks, and a 5-way switch for the Strat's pickups. The tremolo is from a left-handed guitar.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jun 21

Duesenberg Rezobro

The Duesenberg Rezobro is a semi-hollow electric guitar with a single cutaway. There's a large circular metal plate covering most of the body that's meant to look like the resonator cone of a dobro. The bridge of the guitar is made out of a rectangular metal plate with two triangular saddles. In addition to the P-90 in the neck position and the humbucker in the bridge, there's also a magnetic pickup underneath the bridge plate and a piezo system. The first three knobs on the large metal circle are volume controls for each of the three pickup systems (regular pickups, bridge plate pickup, piezo). The fourth knob is a master tone knob, and there's also a master volume on the cutaway horn. There's a 3-way switch for the regular pickups, and a sliding switch that lets you hear all of the pickups or just the regular pickups.

Weird Guitar of the Day@weirdguita· Jun 20

Mozzani acoustic

Luigi Mozzani was an Italian luthier that's known today for his harp guitars. (I've posted a few of them before; check them out!) While this guitar he built looks like it could be a harp guitar, It's just a regular 6-string acoustic. It's got a cutaway on the bottom half of the body, but all the magic is on the top half. There's a long box with a soundhole that comes out of where the upper cutaway would be. It goes all the way down to the slotted 3/3 headstock and ends in a circle that wraps around it. Fortunately, the tuners point down instead of out to the side, so you can still tune the guitar when you need to.

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