Steampunk'd Guitars

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:47 pm

The Steampunk thing is for the art farty i suppose but it has crept onto guitar enthusiasts. See what you think to these...

terronado · Post by **terronado** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:50 pm

nothing like gawdy, useless shit to weigh your guitar down. it makes a dean sound like a steam powered piece of asshole, i bet.

euan · Post by **euan** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:50 pm

I guess the Trussart guitars are already a bit Steampunk.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:56 pm

euan wrote:I guess the Trussart guitars are already a bit Steampunk.

AXL do a Flying V that looks like drifwood with aged brass hardware and P90s. There is something quite charming about it (shall i get my coat now?).

Post by **Mike** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:58 pm

I think Fran might have a tumour.

The Racist punk band and now this.

euan · Post by **euan** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:59 pm

Haha Fran. You'll always be in the minority with your taste of guitars on this forum.
Your opinions are still totally welcome though.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:01 pm

Sorry, i find it mildly interesting. Especially the work that has gone into them.
They are art pieces obviously, terronado seems to have missed the point but never mind.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:03 pm

I can't get over the amateur solderwork on the 15mm.

euan · Post by **euan** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:03 pm

I do want a Superstrat at one point. My options just are a bit limited.

mickie08 · Post by **mickie08** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:05 pm

I shall regret this, but except for the red dials, I kind of like the look of the tele. The others are too over the top for me but the tele looks cool. I have also seen the driftwood guitar you are talking about and though I would not buy it, it does have an interesting look.....

runs and hides before being kicked down and made to perform in a racist punk band....

terronado · Post by **terronado** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:07 pm

Fran wrote:Sorry, i find it mildly interesting. Especially the work that has gone into them.
They are art pieces obviously, terronado seems to have missed the point but never mind.

man i get it, trust me. i'm about as liberal as it comes to art, but i have to draw the line when you take something heinous (like a dean guitar, retaining that awesome headstock) and make it harder to use it for it's original intended purpose. call it "hinder-art?" i love to get my abstract-hard-to-see-the-face art rocks off when i can, but my aesthetic-needs-to-function-at-least-as-originally-intended rocks need to be assuaged first, and these just ain't doin' it.

painters paint on canvas' because they're neutral to begin with. i had a hard time not looking through the lucas-esque makeover, and still seeing an ugly guitar. i think bebop and rocksteady from TMNT would play these.

EDIT: the tele is just tacky.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:08 pm

Mike wrote:I can't get over the amateur solderwork on the 15mm.

Better than what our plumber can do

euan wrote:Haha Fran. You'll always be in the minority with your taste of guitars on this forum.

Thats a good thing. I like lots of things but some people dont, you gotta be seen to be cool. When actually being uncool is the coolest.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:10 pm

Fran wrote:
Mike wrote:I can't get over the amateur solderwork on the 15mm.
Better than what our plumber can do :lol:

Pfft.

My dad taught me to solder copper.

euan · Post by **euan** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:10 pm

If I got offered a good deal on a lefty Parker Fly now that they exist I would totally do it. Now that is a guitar not liked on this forum.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:14 pm

euan wrote:If I got offered a good deal on a lefty Parker Fly now that they exist I would totally do it. Now that is a guitar not liked on this forum.

Anything post 1980 designwise is shit unless it is a rehash of a 50s or 60s model, have you learnt nothing since joining this forum?

*I'll add a disclaimer to that last statement before anyone has a fanny fit.*

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:16 pm

I like these. Fran needs to keep up these excellent threads about rawk Les paul-a-likes and uber metal flying v's.

I really, really hate the Vintage ones though. They look cheap and badly done and they are. They make Vintages look even more like toy guitars or something.

Post by **Hurb** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:18 pm

Mike wrote:I can't get over the amateur solderwork on the 15mm.

Damn. beat me to it.

aen · Post by **aen** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:46 pm

I like them.

damienblair17 · Post by **damienblair17** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:24 pm

The steampunk enthusiast in me loves that Jackson(?) V, just because of how over the top it is.

MaMo · Post by **MaMo** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:27 pm

I likes it, although I see them more as "art" then a functional instrument. Then again, I've never played one. I might love it.

Either way, nice to see something different, eh?