12/16/2008

Ten awesome homemade guitars

J chot writes: HEY GUESS WHAT!!! I spent the entire day at work searching the words "made guitar" and "built guitar"!
Here are the most interesting ones I found:
  1. Dude built a guitar from legshield of a vespa scooter
  2. Nicest cigarbox guitar I've ever seen
  3. Hardcore homemade (Africa)
  4. Another African homemade guitar
  5. Croissant-a-caster?
  6. Skate-a-caster?
  7. Dear Jesus, my eyes.
  8. THE MOST UN-SAFE FOR WORK GUITAR KNOWN TO MAN
    9. Of lesser note, but still interesting:
  9. Umm....ok.....what?
  10. DOES Anyone know what that is?
Thanks, J chot!
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23 comments:

  1. JunkBiker9:42 am

    Hey, J-chot. Surprised to see a post by you! Well done! My fav. is the dick-tar.

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  2. Anonymous1:10 pm

    this is very topical mr verchot, i've been getting into cigar box guitars of late...

    this video singlehandedly made we want to make one:

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_GJVpTjnPk4

    And I reckon these may be the hottest cigar box guitars made yet:

    http://www.daddy-mojo.com/

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  3. J-chot6:53 pm

    tyler: that thing scared me.

    6am: who you be? how you know my govmnt name, son?

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  4. synthetic9:11 pm

    This bass is sitting in my office right now:

    http://www.speakerfactory.net/bass.htm

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  5. Anonymous11:08 pm

    the almighty EM...

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  6. Anonymous3:02 am

    Sounds like a great job tom. :P

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  7. Anonymous2:07 pm

    Number 10 looks a bit like an Italia that's been modded. Then again, Italia's look like interesting relics of dubious playability, which it might also be.

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  8. Anonymous9:26 pm

    +1 for the skateboard guitars, sweet!

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  9. Anonymous1:38 am

    I am humble about many things, but not about my guitar:

    http://www.allerian.com/images/GG_standing_sm.jpg

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  10. laugur5:45 am

    I can't be bothered to post a better picture of this but here is my Wellington Electric. Bought off ebay a few years ago, made from a Wellington boot. No whammy bar but bending the foot yields a similar effect. The worst guitar I have ever played.

    Enjoy:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/laugurinn/tags/wellingtonboot/

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  11. cemenTIMental3:14 pm

    Some of mine:

    Little square noise guitar:
    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/3081299210_4b677b453e.jpg

    Friends guitar which was smashed in at least 4 pieces, re-glued and re-noised. Added a contact mic, springs and coins in the cavity where tone controls used to be:
    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3070/3101217864_7b2c6e97a8_o.jpg

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  12. John5:16 pm

    That's a vespa cowl, not a legshield.

    Thanks for the fun pictures.

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  13. Anonymous2:32 pm

    The Homemade Jamz Blues Band plays homemade guitars made from mufflers. These aren't novelty guitars, theyy are used hundreds of times each year in their shows.

    Here is a link to a story Modern Guitars did on their guitars

    http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/004584.html

    Did I mention they are nominated for "Best New Artist" by the Blues Foundation?

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  14. Anonymous2:44 pm

    Outstanding collection. Is the link working for the vespa one? The Wellington Boot is hysterical!

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  15. Anonymous2:29 am

    Dont forget MDX Guitars. UNBELIEVABLE!
    The suede leather guitars are cool, and you got to love that Freekbass thing!!
    mdxguitars.com

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  16. Anonymous2:44 pm

    My guitarist used his own made guitar made from mango wood and maple wood for the neck.

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  17. Anonymous4:49 pm

    How about Brian May's Red Special. :D
    The guitar cost him about £30,- then. Wherefrom £15,- was paid for the pickups.
    Now, after more then fourty years, it's still his first guitar to use.

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  18. Anonymous11:43 am

    Dick-tar! Awesome!

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  19. Learn and Master Guitar8:57 am

    I liked the two guitars made by the Africans. I mean it is amazing how they improvised guitar for the sake of music. Really awesome.

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  20. Skiilz Mitchell9:29 am

    Those are some truly awesome guitars! I wish the one that isn't "work-safe" hadn't been deleted from photobucket.. Now I'm inspired to hit the drawing board and design my dream guitar.

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  21. Ron Worthy6:13 pm

    I love how people can be creative with limited resources!

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  22. Finn..finn10:26 pm

    Wow I love seeing this kind of creativity..i tried making myself a diddely bo once but kept snapping the wire..

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  23. gamilon3:43 pm

    Hi,
    I´m almost certain, Number 10 looks like an Argentinian guitar, "Fratti". There were, as far as I know some Fratti guitars made in Italy. And there are (in fact I owe one) Fratti guitars made in Argentina. They were from around 1960s. If you are looking to see some strange guitars please take a look at these 3 stringed lap steele (or diddley bow if you prefer) made by me out of a Dunlop tennis racquet: http://www.ipernity.com/blog/67092/324287
    You can listen to it here played with a slide:
    http://www.archive.org/details/LosBarcosSolaresDeRapaNui
    The tenis slide guitar is used in song 3 "Fragmentoj" (anyway, you can donwload the whole album for free, if you want).
    Regards from Argentina,

    Carlos

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