Unusual Guitars

[tot_Ou_tard]

OK, I'll start:

www.actoneguitars.com

 

[SuperSwede]

 

[duhvoodooman]

Ladies & Gentlemen, I think we have a winner!

That's one weird photo, Swede!

 

[t_ross33]

Maybe not THAT weird DVM...

Check out Muriel Anderson, champion fingerstyle guitarist. You solid body dudes might recognize the dude on the right

Trev

 

[duhvoodooman]

Well, if ain't ol' Lester Polsfuss his very own self!

 

[SuperSwede]

Here is a couple of strange guitars as well.. I love the dude with the Spock haircut.
http://www.harpguitars.net/history/org/org-form_other.htm

 

[tot_Ou_tard]

This one (called the Pikasso) is Pat Metheny's and beats your silly harp gitboxes hands down and up and in the middle as well...

I forget who these belong to.

This bass has a sliding pickup:

This one would rival ZoSo's kitchen sink guitar (were'd he go anyway?)

There is also something called a Wangcaster, but I won't post that here.

 

[Spudman]

Ever had an acid trip? These are about as close as you can come.

http://www.brianeastwoodguitars.co.uk/bender.html

 

[tot_Ou_tard]

Ever had an acid trip? These are about as close as you can come.

http://www.brianeastwoodguitars.co.uk/bender.html

uummm...ahhhh...

but doth suffer a sea change into something rich and strange...


They look like starfishies t'me.

Rip off a horn & it'll grow anudder one...

 

[SuperSwede]

And people are complaining about us guitarist being conservative... sheesh

 

[tot_Ou_tard]

Gibson has a new guitar, the HD.6X-PRO.

It probably should go under a thread entitled innovative guitars, but here are the specs.

It's got an ethernet (yes ethernet!) out as well as a mic in and headphone out.

The ethernet outputs seperate signals for each string. It obtains these signals not from piezios, but from 6 itsy, bitsy humbuckers stuck between the usual bridge humbucker and the bridge. The guitar also has the traditional neck 'bucker. The normal magnetics are output via an analog out jack.

The ethernet output can be sent to their BoB (breakout box) unit which can then route each string to a seperate rig.

Now you can have separate GAS attacks for each string.

Anybody know of a tube amp with great distortion characterics for my A-string? Also what pedals work well with the b-string when I bend it?

Yikes!

 

[tot_Ou_tard]

I have often wondered if one could make itty bitty individual pickups per string that would sound good. Gibson claims to have done it, who knows. The reason I wondered is that one could place a bunch of them between the bridge and the
neck and have a near infinite number choices depending on how much volume each pup was turned on (which could be different on each string). This could be controlled via the ethernet port.

The idea I'm heading for is a continuous p'up design & this is a pixelated version of it.

Of course, it'd likely sound like an near infinite variety of cow dung.