Horrible things you can do to a guitar
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These pics will haunt me in me dreams... Thanx for continued nightmares
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Ahh ... true mastery ... always a sight for sore eyes ...
I also like this completely butchered but original 1959 Les Paul Sunburst which was "customized" by its former owner, a Hawaiian session guitarist of the 50s and 60s.
These scans come from the highly recommended book "The Strat In The Attic" by Deke Dickerson (ISBN 978-0-7603-4385-2) -
That's just damn right insane!!!
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There are some very creative people in the world
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I owned a Music store in the 70s-80s well known nationally for our a repair and custom shop . I saw many a horrible butchered homemade so called customized guitars. Often heart-breaking
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Ahh ... true mastery ... always a sight for sore eyes ...
I also like this completely butchered but original 1959 Les Paul Sunburst which was "customized" by its former owner, a Hawaiian session guitarist of the 50s and 60s.
These scans come from the highly recommended book "The Strat In The Attic" by Deke Dickerson (ISBN 978-0-7603-4385-2)Thats what you call a LeS G
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Sometimes "butchering" turns out to be something great! (be sure to watch the video)
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Ouch that hurts... I can hear some whisperin' "kill me..."
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I thought halloween is over?
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Sometimes "butchering" turns out to be something great! (be sure to watch the video)
could it be a "stoned guitar´"
But he is one of my heros!
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Ouch. Guitar Gore folks. Be warned.
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What makes this even worse is that it looks as if it is hanging in a store for sale. They could have at least taken it off.
Even if it is a POS guitar it probably wouldn't look so silly.
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Ouch !!!
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Wow. What is the mindset of people that do these kind of things? Is it an I.Q. thing or some kind higher level that I am too deficient to grasp? I genuinely find it unsettling that there are people out there that obviously think these are good things to do.
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Some of these are extreme examples, but, to many people, guitars are just tools. If a guitar doesn't sound right, or look right, they change it. This was especially true back when there were not as many available guitar models.
Before 1980 or so, things were very different. Imagine only having the option of ONE strat and ONE tele from Fender, and THREE Les Pauls (Standard, Deluxe, and Custom) from Gibson.
Old Les Paul's and Strats were just old guitars until the Vintage Guitar market was created by a few guitar stores.
Gibson stopped making the original Les Paul series because people were not buying them. They started making them again around 1970, and then the Floyd Rose /Kahler era happened, and no one wanted them, again.
50s and 60s and 70s strats had wimpy pickups and would not stay in tune, so they got routed for humbucking pickups and locking tremelos.
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but, to many people, guitars are just tools. If a guitar doesn't sound right, or look right, they change it
For me this a spirit of time for natural reasons to me becomes more and more alien.
This was my first guitar, which still lives with me. It was a gift from a colleague sharing the same room at boarding school.
It was in the second half of the 60ies. He was a little bit older than me and played already in a beat band. For him the guitar was too oldfashioned and didn't fit to his music (he said).
And he showed me also the first chords. The rest is my history. Music began to influence a large part of my private life.
I donated later a mini humbucker and a new plug-in socket. (The original was 4,5mm .)
Still I use it in the big band, when we have a programm with swing music. The sound is very special.keep swinging - Harry
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What the fucking hell is this?!?!
I've never seen such violences before.
Butchered is the right term.
The most disgusting execution is the Fender Jaguar to Flying V. Frankenstein meets guitar!
