Post your odd ball guitars here!

[wickedtools]

Here is mine no markings don't know who made, the bridge pickup works cool sound.

[dannyvawn]

I had a Kay in the early 80's that looked like this. I got it in a trade for 2 packs of Marlboros and a blacklight poster. I no longer have it though.

[Nigel T.]

All my guitars are oddballs, as I customise the hell outta them. Even the standard Fenders and Gibsons usually only have the original wood, and nothing else left.

[AllroyPA]

Does it get any more odd than a 51-inch giant bass strung up in reverse?

[peskypesky]

my custom-made 5-string Tele

[Papa Joe]

It wasn't unusual at one tome but it sure is now..A Melody Maker that I believe to be from 1962. It was basket case when I got it.Would be worth a young fortune if it was original..Now it's a true stereo guitar..Each pup has it's own controls and output jack..Awesome sound when played through 2 amps well seperated.

[AllroyPA]

Now that's a cool idea ...

[Nigel T.]

Originally Posted by peskypesky

my custom-made 5-string Tele

Any particular reason to omit a string? Most people would add strings...

[YeahDoIt]

Originally Posted by wickedtools

Here is mine no markings don't know who made, the bridge pickup works cool sound.

That guitar resembles a Mosrite but I don't know what model. Could be worth some money.

http://www.vintagesilvertones.com/fo...srite1445.html

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mosrite/the-v..._ventures.html

[Muddslide]

Well, until I scored my $35 Squier Strat last week, my #1 guitar was THIS:




But I was really in need of something with single coils and a trem (been playing a lot of surf, spaghetti westers/spy flick type instrumental music) and the wiring or pots or something on the Red Rectangle (Bo Diddley) guitar went south (can't figure out the problem...)

I've had a lot of oddball, bizarro guitars over the years, and I still have a deep love of those strange old Japanese, German, Italian and Russian guitar freakazoids from the 1960s, but these days I'd rather just have something that holds tune, has decent action and is fully functional. Those cheapies from back in the day often look cooler than heck, but can be tempermental to almost unplayable.

[AllroyPA]

*** is that ? Crazy~!

[slotrod65]

Well, It is not too strange.... but it is a true Tele bass.

A Mansfield japanese made early 70's short scale bass. VERY snappy simgle coils, and some neato switches and stuff:

[tombo]

My Teiscostein:

[Teleblooz]

My biggest oddball is my Kramer XKB-20 aluminum-neck bass. I picked it up used sometime around the turn of the 80s for $150. I replaced the stock pickup with an EMG Select, then found a second EMG pickup and carved a place for it with wood chisels. Having two pickups, I of course then wired in a pickup selector switch, then a phase switch. After reading about Rickenbackers I then wired it for stereo (note the two output jacks). And with that aluminum neck (chunky and surprisingly comfortable to play), it was ridiculously neck-heavy. I made an extension for the upper horn so that it would hang comfortably on a strap.

When I got it, it had a natural finish that I thought was ugly as sin, which I then painted flat white and went all Jackson Pollock over with dripped and spattered blue and yellow paint. It looked pretty cool, but that paint couldn't take much wear and the colored bits started falling off before too long. I finally stripped it back down and painted it flat black, which made it look like some kind of assault weapon. Alas, that paint again proved not up to the abuse I gave it, so I finally took it back to the original finish, which I sanded to a nice satin finish. Oddly enough, this time around it didn't look nearly as hideously yellow as before, so I decided that I'd keep it that way.

Sometime in the 90s I developed a serious Jaco fetish and pulled the frets out, filling the slots with wood filler. Stupid move. I turned a really nice-sounding fretted bass into a very mediocre fretless. It sat in various closets and under various beds for over a decade, then last year while I was home recovering from some surgery, I decided to try my hand at fret installation, ordered up some fretwire from StewMac, and went for it. The job proved to be surprisingly easy, and the result is now eminently playable once again.

[Acidhouse]

I'm not one of those guys that usually regrets the guitars he's sold but this is one of them.
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[Sollophonic]

Two oddball Japanese guitars I picked up a few weeks ago, which are about 10 years apart in age, yet light years apart in quality.

First up, the quality one. A 1984 Westone Concord 1. Made in the Matsumoku factory, it has a great neck, nice strat/tele tones, and is in superb condition for its age. These Westones were the staple guitar of many a skint gigging muso in the mid 80s. Got it off ebay for £70.



Next, the other end of the scale, charity shop score for £30. An Audition Top Twenty guitar. Thick but narrow neck, awful frets, dodgy trem, weedy pickups. Just about playable, but curiosity value only. Bought it so I can post it to remind people how bad guitars that we first started on used to be compared with the ones we have now. Next time someones slagging off Squiers........ Or SXs...... or most of the budget guitars we are blessed with today