Guitarz
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GUITARZ - The Original and World's Longest-Running Guitar Blog - since 2002. All the others that have since cropped up are mere imitation!
WEIRD guitars, bizarre guitars, wonderful guitars, strange guitars...
Latest Blog Posts
- 1966 Teisco Demian Baritone VN-4 on Nov 22, 2009 in Japanese guitar cool guitars vintage guitars baritone guitar
guitarz.blogspot.comIsn't this Teisco Demian Baritone Guitar a delight for the eyes? Like many guitars of its generation - it was produced around 1966 - its origin is lost in the limbos of electric guitar history... Couldn't find any trace of a Demia...
- Orfeus Hebros Bass from Bulgaria on Nov 21, 2009 in bass east-European guitar cool guitars vintage guitars wacky finishes semi-hollow body
guitarz.blogspot.com:I couldn't say what she'd be like as a player, but visually this Soviet-era Bulgarian-made Orfeus Hebros Bass is a beauty. Can you believe that they referred to this finish as "sunburst"? (Surely not, I think the seller must be m...
- Yamaha SA-15 on Nov 20, 2009 in Japanese guitar cool guitars vintage guitars semi-hollow body
guitarz.blogspot.comThere is not so much information out there about the Yamaha SA-15 - like the SGV it was released in the late 60s but it was never reissued. I don't know it for a long time, but it was not a surprise to discover it, it's the good c...
- Travis Bean TB1000 display guitar on Nov 19, 2009 in aluminium neck cool guitars vintage guitars one-offs
guitarz.blogspot.com:Travis Bean guitars were first produced in 1974 and utilised an aluminium neck design, with the neck set deep into the koa body beneath the pickups and bridge with the strings passing through the aluminium centre section for incr...
- Megadriver's video-game inspired guitars on Nov 18, 2009 in Weird guitars cool guitars
guitarz.blogspot.com:Megadriver are, according to their website, "a Brazilian heavy metal band devoted to videogame music, the creators of GAME METAL". We see them pictured here with a Sonic The Hedgehog guitar and another guitar made from a SEGA Gen...
- 1960s Vox Harlem with factory scalloped fingerboard on Nov 17, 2009 in cool guitars vintage guitars
guitarz.blogspot.com:This Vox Harlem is a model I've not seen before. The seller refers to it as being a "vintage Italian guitar", so that makes it one of the Eko-built Voxes. The seller also claims that the treble-side scalloping of the fingerboard...
- Michael Jackson commerative guitar on Nov 16, 2009 in wacky finishes
guitarz.blogspot.com:The Michael Jackson money-making machine continues to roll on after his death (if anything, it's gone into overdrive) and, no doubt, will continue to do so for many years to come.Even guitar builders are getting in on the act now...
