Members stormin1155 Posted June 7, 2013 Members Share Posted June 7, 2013 Do you have any guitars that are a little out-of-the-ordinary? ....a bit different? .....maybe completely strange? Let's see them! I'll start. This is my Lestercaster that I built a few years ago. A marriage of Les Paul and Tele features. Set flame maple neck with ebony board on a thin (1-1/4") single cut body. Neck width at the (bone) nut is 1-3/4", 2-1/8" at the 12th fret. The body is mahogany with a 1/4" flame maple cap. Headstock is an offset 3X3 with ebony plate on the back. Black hardware. Grover tuners, Wilkenson compensated tele bridge/saddles, GFS fatbody pickups. It sounds great, and is the best playing neck I have. It turned out exactly the way I wanted it to. Let's see yours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hubert Stumblin Posted June 7, 2013 Members Share Posted June 7, 2013 That's pretty dang cool, stormin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FrankenSteinberger Posted June 7, 2013 Members Share Posted June 7, 2013 stormin1155 wrote: ...I'll start. This is my Lestercaster that I built a few years ago. A marriage of Les Paul and Tele features... I really like your design. It reminds me of some of the St. Blues company designs.http://www.saintblues.com/thelineupI'm curious about your headstock, "scoop". It looks to my eye as if you started with a thicker (front to back) piece of lumber than might normally be used on a neck with this type of (Fender-ish, non tilt-back) headstock, and then removed more wood than unusal to achieve the flat face of the headstock. I could see how this would allow the strings to have more of a break-angle over the nut, and eliminate the need for string-trees. Or is it just my bad eye-sight and your headstock has conventional dimensions?In any case, it's beautiful. I like they way the chicken-head knobs look, but I've never been comfortable with them when I tried them on my guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members silvershot Posted June 7, 2013 Members Share Posted June 7, 2013 This was built by a guy in Norfolk Va He said it was the 3rd guitar he built, he put it on Craigslist and I brought it home. The action and sound of this thing is great, the looks not so much but its the only one around like it. It's a one off that's fun to play and it stays in steady rotation because nothing else that I have sounds like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Mr.Grumpy Posted June 7, 2013 Members Share Posted June 7, 2013 My homemade pointy shredder guitar, still not finished after more than 20 years... :catembarrassed: The neck was purchased from Charlie's guitar shop in Dallas, they literally had a bucket full of them for sale. The body is made out of mahogany, and unfortunately it's not one piece of wood, it's 5. The top layer is two pieces, the bottom layer is 3 pieces. It's Fender scale (25 1/2 ") and Fender string spacing. Rhythm pickup is a Fender humbucker, lead pickup is some weird DiMarzio, a ToneZone or something. I payed a luthier to slot the nut and do the initial set up. I wanted to at least make sure it was playable before I go to the hassle of finishing it. I was originally going to finish it with lacquer, but that sounds like a drawn-out ordeal, I'll probably use one of those rubbed-oil finishes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kit_strong Posted June 7, 2013 Members Share Posted June 7, 2013 This is one of my more unusual guitars, a Luna Sol Aquarius.I bought it for my wife and picked it up cheap on Amazon (about 40% less than normal street price).It's kind of a cross between an LP and a Tele style. It's a 25.5" set neck with ash body, mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard. The bridge pickup is mounted via pickup ring to the body like an LP but the neck pickup is mounted to the pickguard a-la a Tele. The stock pickups were a bit lackluster and I always thought the satin finished bits looked a bit cheap so it's undergone a few changes and now looks like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Apple Slim Posted June 7, 2013 Members Share Posted June 7, 2013 Love the Tele/Paul in the OP! This is the weirdest thing I've got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lerxst1031 Posted June 7, 2013 Members Share Posted June 7, 2013 Eastwood Sidejack DLX Baritone: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted June 7, 2013 Members Share Posted June 7, 2013 @kit_strong I think I said this when you posted that guitar a long time ago, but that looks really cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stormin1155 Posted June 8, 2013 Author Members Share Posted June 8, 2013 FrankenSteinberger wrote: stormin1155 wrote: ...I'll start. This is my Lestercaster that I built a few years ago. A marriage of Les Paul and Tele features... I'm curious about your headstock, "scoop". It looks to my eye as if you started with a thicker (front to back) piece of lumber than might normally be used on a neck with this type of (Fender-ish, non tilt-back) headstock, and then removed more wood than unusal to achieve the flat face of the headstock. I could see how this would allow the strings to have more of a break-angle over the nut, and eliminate the need for string-trees. Or is it just my bad eye-sight and your headstock has conventional dimensions? Thank you! I started with a 7/8" thick piece and scouped out the headstock the same as Fender does, only a little deeper. The piece of ebony was added to the back to give it the correct thickness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stormin1155 Posted June 8, 2013 Author Members Share Posted June 8, 2013 Kit, what kind of pickups and trem do you have on the Luna? Looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mad Tele Posted June 8, 2013 Members Share Posted June 8, 2013 id say my p90 tele qualifies, as does my 70s Tribute SG: minihumbuckers, maple neck with baked maple board, big Norlin headstock, and volute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stormin1155 Posted June 8, 2013 Author Members Share Posted June 8, 2013 ^^ Dougy, you have an entire African safari going on there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members J Backlund Posted June 8, 2013 Members Share Posted June 8, 2013 I have a couple that might be considered 'unusual'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tidal Rhythm Posted June 9, 2013 Members Share Posted June 9, 2013 " target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://s959.photobucket.com/user/TidalRhythm/media/TidalRhythm.jpg.html][/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted June 11, 2013 Members Share Posted June 11, 2013 @armitage What's that fourth one? Looks cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members solly Posted June 11, 2013 Members Share Posted June 11, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Armitage Posted June 11, 2013 Members Share Posted June 11, 2013 It's a Lado Falcon, a late '70s Canadian guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buttcrust Posted June 13, 2013 Members Share Posted June 13, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted June 13, 2013 Members Share Posted June 13, 2013 Buttcrust wrote: Now THAT is an unusual guitar! Wild looking pickups... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stormin1155 Posted June 14, 2013 Author Members Share Posted June 14, 2013 Gtrjones, I think you win the prize! Those are very cool, and definately unusual! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Danhedonia Posted June 15, 2013 Members Share Posted June 15, 2013 ^^^^ sadly, got away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian Krashpad Posted June 15, 2013 Members Share Posted June 15, 2013 Here's some: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1led Posted July 3, 2013 Members Share Posted July 3, 2013 Can anyone tell me the name of this aria model? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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