Creepy guitar made from the body of a teenage girl

The Teenar was a 1986 art project by Lou Reimuller (yes, that's him in the middle picture). It's made from a vintage shop window dummy. Previous creepy, slightly NSFW guitars here and here. .. (Thanks to Boing Boing, and whoever sent this to me yesterday - I deleted your post because I saw 'Teenar' in the subject line and thought it was spam...)

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

I think I'll stick with my vintage Wangcaster for now.

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Anonymous : 4:01 pm

Hilarious. He should make it able to scream.

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Anonymous : 4:33 pm

Teenar needs a Kaos pad you know where!

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inteliko : 5:47 pm

Amazing, this was in Richmond? I've been living here for 20+ years and have never seen that guy or guitar...

I'm just wondering... where exactly do you shove in your 1/4" jack? I think that space for the Kaos pad may already be populated.

Anyway, doesn't it seem to be a recurring theme that guys who make these "Gee-Whiz" axes are never actually gigging? I remember deciding I wanted to play guitars, not make them.

Nifty idea.

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Anonymous : 6:46 pm

Ah that's pretty sinister to say the least! Kind of Jake & Dinos Chapman-esque....

# posted by

cemenTIMental : 8:26 pm

it was spam!

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Anonymous : 9:58 pm

The jack is on the back, on the left, above the waist of the pants. Look at the last picture on the page, which shows the guitar from the back.

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Anonymous : 2:26 am

I wonder if this alters one's fingering technique.

# posted by

Doktor Future : 5:22 am

And I guess the 'G' spot is in a different place now.

Very confusing!

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Doktor Future : 5:23 am

One of the sites says Lou the Teenar luthier is aka Sunset Lou.

If I'm not mistaken, I saw him perform as half of a very bent folk duo, Sunset Lou and the Fabulous Datura. This was back pre-Teenar tho', circa 1984, at the Prism Coffeehouse in Charlottesville VA.

It all kinda hazy now, but it's mostly the material and not any odd instrumentation that I remember. One song had the chorus "I guess they're human anyway . . ."

If it's the same Sunset Lou, holy smoke.

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K. R. Seward : 5:57 am

hahah oh man thats the funniest thing ive ever seen

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Anonymous : 11:08 pm