Beautiful and Ugly guitars.

[Shadoweclipse13]

^Fenton Weill, correct? I like it.

My Maton Big Ben- had it forever, still not sure- some days it looks cool, others...

I've always liked the look of these (the guitar versions) though didn't realize they were a Maton, but honestly, I think the shape works WAY better as a bass. That thing is seriously cool

[frelonvert]

[Luthier-Atlanta]

The good the bad and the well,,,,

[frelonvert]

The good the bad and the well,,,,

The good the bad and the STARFISH...

[frelonvert]

Wandre Davoli "Scarabeo" !

[mgeek]

The good the bad and the well,,,,

I got one of those at a car boot sale for thirty quid, thinking, 'not my thing, but I can turn it into something I want'

Played really well and sounded great!

Still sold it though cos how they play and sound is barely the point

[PorkyPrimeCut]

Wandre Davoli "Scarabeo" !

I've seen a lot of Wandres, mainly thanks to Harvester, and they really are all that little but more batshit crazy looking than anything else out there.

This one's definitely on the ugly side bit it's still so fucking cool.

[rocket_no9]

in the mid 90's i was touring through florida ... went to some music store, forget where exactly ... there were four or five wandres on the wall, all around $500 a pop if memory serves. those were the last-of-The-Days: we'd go out w/ a basically empty van and coming home we'd b flush w/ gear and records and clothes.

[frelonvert]

in the mid 90's i was touring through florida ... went to some music store, forget where exactly ... there were four or five wandres on the wall, all around $500 a pop if memory serves. those were the last-of-The-Days: we'd go out w/ a basically empty van and coming home we'd b flush w/ gear and records and clothes.

Great story! this was a time when guitars were cheap and vintage guitar even cheaper^^
I also get lucky in Florida... mid 90's, like you, I went to USA on an exchange student trip.... I was 16.
I ask my pal to take me at a guitar shop. It was in Pensacola, a very small shop with pianos and some guitars... in a dark corner were was two old gibsons, an SG and a LP.
I grab the LP for 120$ with its old case. Came back to France. The guitar was almost unplayable with no sound plugged. So I went to the LAG factory, near my home, and asked for something to be done. I wanted them to put dimarzo's pickup (something I have red about Slash on a magazine). I meet a nice guy there, he told me to keep the original pickups, refretted it and changed the rotten pots. He told me also that it was a LP custom black beauty and gave me a "custom" logo for the headstock (that was missing)... I had no idea of what I have bought^^

Aria diamond did nice axes:

[s_mcsleazy]

in the mid 90's i was touring through florida ... went to some music store, forget where exactly ... there were four or five wandres on the wall, all around $500 a pop if memory serves. those were the last-of-The-Days: we'd go out w/ a basically empty van and coming home we'd b flush w/ gear and records and clothes.

Great story! this was a time when guitars were cheap and vintage guitar even cheaper^^
I also get lucky in Florida... mid 90's, like you, I went to USA on an exchange student trip.... I was 16.
I ask my pal to take me at a guitar shop. It was in Pensacola, a very small shop with pianos and some guitars... in a dark corner were was two old gibsons, an SG and a LP.
I grab the LP for 120$ with its old case. Came back to France. The guitar was almost unplayable with no sound plugged. So I went to the LAG factory, near my home, and asked for something to be done. I wanted them to put dimarzo's pickup (something I have red about Slash on a magazine). I meet a nice guy there, he told me to keep the original pickups, refretted it and changed the rotten pots. He told me also that it was a LP custom black beauty and gave me a "custom" logo for the headstock (that was missing)... I had no idea of what I have bought^^

Aria diamond did nice axes:

i need a guitar with one of those trems

[sumlin]

i need a guitar with one of those trems

I'm selling TWO of them in the For Sale forum!

[Mechanical Birds]

[Danley]

Came very close to buying one with a Floyd, neck through and all. Lucky I didn't, something better came along the next day.

I actually am intrigued by the switching options that tend to be on Mockingbirds, in the same way that I find Jaguar switching appealing... Not bothered by the shape much either, then again I have a heart-shaped guitar at the moment as well.

[Danley]

Rely upon a few of these Gibsons to provide that, though:

those are perfect for this thread. I mean they're cool looking because they're vintage gibsons and all that, but fuck are they ever ugly.

The extra pickguard material really doesn't help in the visual dept.

Could be picks were sharper back then... (What? Am I late?)

[repoman]

BC Rich Mockingbirds are cool. I think they are pretty ugly but Joe Perry made them cool. I almost bought one in a store about 10 years ago. It was probably the best playing guitar I've ever used. It felt incredible. It was a Korean one, the build quality was insane as well.