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

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

I guess the Trussart guitars are already a bit Steampunk.

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?).

I think Fran might have a tumour.

The Racist punk band and now this.

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

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.

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

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

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....

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.*

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.

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

Damn. beat me to it.

I like them.

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

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?