Dude! We've totally got Krappy Guitars!

Give him $75, and Kevin Siebold will build you a Punk Rod guitar with two strings and hand-wound pickups. The two strings are tuned a fifth apart, for ease of playing. "Our instruments are built for frugal people who aren't very concerned with regard to quality, construction, materials, or safety." $75 gets you a basic model (Les Paul, SG, Flying V, Explorer etc). "More complex models such as the Swiss Army Rod have a $25.00 upcharge for additional intricacy. For example, the Swiss Army model has special attachments. These allow the user to activate a swing out beer holder and ashtray." He's also invented the Flipitar - guitar on one side, bass on the other. (via Guitarz Blog)

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

What the Hell??? The frets are "backwards" here... is that reverse-logarithmic... They start out with large spacing at the nut, and get closer together at the body. I'll be they're more art than tool.

Chris
http://www.chrisbreitner.com

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:41 pm

This is the best thing ever. No question.

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:08 pm

That must mean my guitar is also 'reverse-logarithmic.' Along with every other guitar I have ever seen

Tool?

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:02 pm

Yeah... I'm not sure what point Chris is trying to make. The way he describes it sounds perfectly correct to me.

# posted by

Gavin Lloyd Wilson : 5:10 pm

these are superb! Love the idea.

# posted by

cemenTIMental : 6:36 pm

ANd yeah... I can't even play the guitar, but I'm at least aware of what the frets should look like! And I wouldn't dare criticise any guitar design online for fear of looking as foolish as Chris does now! ^_^

Especially strange coming from someone who's selling bass guitars on his site!?!? Unless someone's posting in his name/url to discredit him!? Or he's gone insane.

Either way, I wanna make junk guitars now!!!

# posted by

cemenTIMental : 6:41 pm

Actually, my family hosts a bluegrass festival every summer, I work at a sound stage, and my best friend plays guitar... So I guess you could say I have seen a few in my day, and those frets are fine...

# posted by

-MiKe- : 1:51 am

Actually, The Presidents Of The United States of America (of "Lump" and "Peaches" fame) used to play reduced string guitars. I once heard a radio interview with them where a caller asked how he could learn to play guitar and Chris Ballew responded "you should start off by ripping a bunch of strings off because it's, like, way easier".

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:13 am

consider me a guitar noob, but do you need an amp to play the "punk rods"?

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:03 am

yes

# posted by

cemenTIMental : 3:41 pm

Okay, I've got my head screwed on straight now! for some reason my brain flipped the nut and body ends...must've been a Friday!

Chris

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:33 pm

BAAAHHHH!!!!! HAHAHAHAH!

This guy taught me how to play bass! He teaches in a local music store... good to see him getting some credit. he rocks.

# posted by

chrisrenne : 4:48 pm