My Guitars

[Resonator]

So I have this dream to own a shop in my hometown that sells niche guitars and equipment, meaning the rarest of the rare for the latter and any oddly shaped guitar (i.e. Guitars that are not Telecasters/Stratocasters/Les Pauls/<insert other overused design>) I can get my hands on. For the most part it would pretty much be a wholesale guitar shop (Fuck the retail industry).

But the PERK of this shop would be to sell my own concept guitars. So to continue on to the main topic of discussion, I have one concept guitar that I'm happy with so far (I want a standard headstock of my own design, so it's not COMPLETELY finished), but take this:

http://freewebs.com/consoledev/warhammer.jpg

Since it's old and I lost the original I'll have to redraw it anyway but minus that bottom pickup, move the string ports upwards a bit, and bob's your uncle (Yes he is, goddamn it). But in any case, how would you rate this guitar? Keep in mind those sharp things near the base of the guitar are, in fact, supposed to be blades.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

thats silly

 

[Enemy242]

i've honestly never really been a fan of the fancy guitars so my opinion won't really help since i mostly prefer really good looking normal guitars (the craziest i'd ever go is probably a v) so i don't like it at all, way too busy and takes away from the actual playing of the guitar i'd think.

 

[Altitudes]

A little to unconventional for my liking, but thats alright. I don't really like extreme guitar shapes, aside from Icemans, which fookin' rule

haha

 

[Resonator]

But most feasible for the aspiring guitarist? Doing business the way I should be doing it, I could probably sell a Razorback for under 500. Hell, I'd actually make that an opening day mission.

You will support this.

 

[Will Bozarth]

since theyre "supposed to be blades", it would suck to play it while sitting down, because that shit will slice up your knee.

 

[Resonator]

Well, the bridge I've considered moving, since doing that could easily make use of the one flat part of the hammer to rest on a knee...That or I could just modify the entire right side to come down towards the blades more, protecting flesh from slicing.

But in any case, what happened to no pain no gain?

 

[Will Bozarth]

i'd like to keep my legs

 

[Altitudes]

I didn't think he meant real blades lolz

 

[Will Bozarth]

i don't care! leggy leggy leggy

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

flippy flippy flippy lava lava lava

 

[Resonator]

Ok, so how about this earlier one?

http://www.freewebs.com/consoledev/schindler.png

I like the overall width (In proportion to everything else) but at the same time I think it could be much better when it's thinner, more elongated.

 

[deathstrike from hell]

 

[~Lynn~]

 

[Liverslapper]

But most feasible for the aspiring guitarist? Doing business the way I should be doing it, I could probably sell a Razorback for under 500. Hell, I'd actually make that an opening day mission.

You will support this.

Looks like something you can make on rock band or Guitar Hero: WT


Yeah you couldn't play that on your knee because but it's not like i can get a Jackson V and set it on my knee either.

would be a cool guitar to maybe collect but something i doubt i would play.

 

[Swabs]

You will support this.

Nah.

 

[Brooks]

That thing couldn't even dream of resonating. It will sound like shit, guaranteed.

There's a reason the Les Paul is shaped the way it is. And it's not just because it looks cool.

 

[Swabs]

Yeah there's nowhere near enough wood around the pickup either.

 

[Resonator]

That thing couldn't even dream of resonating. It will sound like shit, guaranteed.

There's a reason the Les Paul is shaped the way it is. And it's not just because it looks cool.

I'm sure I can think of something to counter this. Using a really dense metal I can build deflectors inside the guitar to point the reverberation to where it needs to be, perhaps an echo chamber. Those hammer ends aren't flat, you know, they'd actually come out as rounded all around, and those blades can be hollow too.

I dunno, I'll think of something. I don't hate the Les Paul, but for the purpose of my shop I say FUCK the Les Paul. Gilbert's Guitars can sell em. Not me.

 

[Brooks]

Why don't you just build a guitar that looks and works like an instrument, rather than a prepubescent boy's Oedipus Wet Dream?