Guitars

Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 458 Location: Austin, Texas

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2365881121&category=621

Is this nasty, or what??
Dana <~~~

Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 127

Hey, is that Prince's guitar?

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 303

well, thanks a lot, Dana! that's just what i needed to see. i did NOT need to see something that disgusting. now i am going to have to go down to the storage building at 9:35 at night, sign in, unlock the storage unit and spend a couple of of hours carressing several vintage dean guitars just to get the image of that ugly thing out of my head. i hope you are happy now!!!

Joined: 04 Dec 2003 Posts: 20 Location: Dream Land

thats just sick...he must of only been using one hand in the process of making that guitar Cool

Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 458 Location: Austin, Texas

Sorry 'bout that Dave. I just couldn't keep this sickness all to myself.

Man, I'd be so embarrassed if I built anything like that I'd burn it before I ever let anyone see it. And he says it's "beautiful!" Ugh!
Dana <~~~

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 7668 Location: Florida

that was rather horrid - wonder if the woodshop teacher that created that monstrosity has many fingers left? I'd ssay NOT

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 303

guitarforceone wrote:

And he says it's "beautiful!" Ugh

I wonder if that's how Paul Reed Smith got started.

Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 38

I think the cliche response is...

"Don't quit your day job."

But I give him an A for effort! lol

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:43 pm

Hmmm, so people building things as part of physical therapy are now selling them on ebay?

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 1149 Location: Plantation, FL

smoke67 wrote:

Hmmm, so people building things as part of physical therapy are now selling them on ebay?

I believe the politically correct term would be "after their 5th stint in rehab" Fugly doesn't begin to describe that thing. I feel bad for the guy who actually took the time to make it.

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 1:30 am

on the plus side.....ummm...errrr...there is no plus to this is there?

Guest

The Z copy I made was better than that.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 4381 Location: Vaasa, Finland

PresidentDave wrote:

guitarforceone wrote:

And he says it's "beautiful!" Ugh

I wonder if that's how Paul Reed Smith got started.

LMAO!!!

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 7668 Location: Florida

Nick M. wrote:

The Z copy I made was better than that.

much, that was a cool looking guitar

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 2036 Location: VALHALL

haha a blind man could have done that with his stick Laughing

Fugly indeed !! Laughing

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 1077 Location: Norway

WTF!?

My eyes! my eyes!! Aaaaargh!!!

I quote "Prevent blindness America":

Quote:

We want all Americans to be aware of the dangers to their eyes at home, in the workplace and while playing sports.

Thousands of eye accidents happen each day; 90 percent of these are preventable with the use of appropriate safety eyewear.

Because there are good eye safety regulations in the workplace, the home is the source of the fastest-growing number of eye injuries. Eye injuries are almost as great a danger to bystanders as the people using dangerous tools or chemicals in the home. Good eye protection is just as important for those watching you work as for the workers themselves.

I'm off to my eyedoctor for immediate treatment!

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 4406 Location: Hostile Territory

Wow if I wasn't quite awake before I sure am now - ouch!!
There's an old saying: "if you want to make a small fortune as a guitar maker you'd better start with a large one" I guess he's taking a different approach. Actuall what made me laugh is this line here:" I am a luthier and have recently started building guitars"

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 393 Location: Lake Mary, Florida

Looks like something my 7 year old daughter would bring home from school

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 7:23 am

PresidentDave wrote:

.....now i am going to have to go down to the storage building at 9:35 at night, sign in, unlock the storage unit and spend a couple of of hours carressing several vintage dean guitars.....

Storage unit? first it was a wall, then a room, then it was a VAULT now it an entire STORAGE UNIT? Pretty soon your DEAN collection will need it's own zipcode, police station and fire department! Smile

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 1088 Location: Espoo, Finland

Hmm... I've seen worse.

Wait, no I haven't Razz

That's one ugly "thing".

Mikko

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 7:26 am

stop giving away so much information Dave! Where did you say you live again...Texas? OK... so ... how many storage units do you think we have to "hit" before we get to the mother load?!

Secondly, with a name like Cody... what did you expect?

Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 87

That "SCROLL" took 4 months! My 5 year old could do a better job. Thanks for the laugh Dana.

Ken

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 52 Location: Delawhere

I think it's the Salvador Dali model.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 5807

That's rather sad. Did anyone check out the fret job? Crooked as hell.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 14502

I'll give him points for effort, but take away points for a number of different things.

It's at least a semi-original idea based on an old design. Those proportions are way off, though. The double-cut design has been butchered, changed and tweaked a lot over the years, but that just doesn't look right.

My junior high shop teacher("Industrial Arts") probably would have given me a "C" on that just to get me out of his class. Then again, he had all of his fingers, so that may have meant he wasn't a very good shop teacher.

Jim

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 2990

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 1077 Location: Norway

Question:
What kind of bridge is it?
Drilled holes in the body with strings inserted from the back??
Wouldn't that result in a kind of woolly sound? (Don't know if that means anything in english, but what the heck...)

Strange solution anyway....

Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 2705 Location: Dallas, TX

Quote:

This beautiful piece of electified wood was handcrafted by me, Cody. I am a luthier and have recently started building guitars

Well gee Cody. You might want to get your next gig at the Lighthouse for the Blind.

At least he didn't call it a guitar, since it barely qualifies as one.

Of course, this behaviour is well known and documented throughout history.

Babies routinely bring thier parents little "presents" with the "lookee what I made" exclamation, but it's excusable for them, since that's all they're capable of making.

Guest

Man, that thing just made me pull a "double-dragon".

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 1149 Location: Plantation, FL

On closer inspection, I've noticed that there's not even a volume knob and that the right cutaway of the "thing" is higher than the left one...makes it MUCH easier to play right? I would have realized all this before, but my eyes couldn't take too much of that thing at once. Twisted Evil

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 79 Location: Dayton, Ohio

A waste of wood.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 5807

I sent an emailing asking a bunch of questions. Let's see what he says.

Joined: 04 Dec 2003 Posts: 106

Remember that episode of the Cosby show when Lisa tried to make Theo a shirt? It looked as bad as that guitar. I mean THAT is one UGLY guitar. If guitars could in-breed thats what you would get. Thats the special ED model.(" I peed in your pool...Yaaaaaaay") It would be cool if the guy was stranded on an island for years and made it from the only tree there was. Otherwise it should be destroyed. Friends don't let friends build guitars drunk.

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 7:11 pm

GUYS......... that is my guitar that i made!!! cody was my secret seller name!!! Sad

hahahaha j/k yah....

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 5807

I asked the seller where the volume and tone knobs were, where the neck came from, and what the pickup was. Here's his answers:

volume and tone are where there supposed to be
in an equalizer
i dont believe in cutting out the output so you can cut ground out of a guitar
the neck is an ibanez 210 and the pickup is a emg select

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 10:17 pm

WTF?

I bet it sounds great with that EMG Select. Laughing

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:38 pm

thats such a pos it makes me wanna cry!!

Man it sucks lol

The REALLEY bad part is someone acutlly bid on it!!!!!

Rich

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 10:57 pm

OMG THAT GUITAR IS HORRID LOOKING!!!!!!!! Evil or Very Mad

I feel sorry for it Crying or Very sad

It's like a poor retarted kid. It's not it's fault it was made VERY POORLY, it jsut happened that way....
Poor guitar.... Crying or Very sad

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:06 am

We shouldn't be making fun of this guy, we should be making fun of the Yutz that actually put a bid on it.

Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 10:18 am

Wow!

It's craptacular...

Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 2:08 pm

looks like most of the Warwick basses in the world...and that aint a compliment

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 344 Location: The Netherlands

Doc Ozz wrote:

GUYS......... that is my guitar that i made!!! cody was my secret seller name!!! Sad

hahahaha j/k yah....

Don't ever scare us like that again!!

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 344 Location: The Netherlands

Anonymous wrote:

We shouldn't be making fun of this guy, we should be making fun of the Yutz that actually put a bid on it.

Yes indeed.

Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 45 Location: North Georgia

Looks like the bidding has ended and the $250.00 didn't meet the reserve................imagine that!! Exclamation

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Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 2132

This guy is a MASTER luthier!!!! &%$#, I've been looking years for something like this!!! Shocked

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 169 Location: Kenai, Ak

...please excuse me while I go lose my dinner.

Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 76 Location: Cleveland, OHio USA

Olee s#%t... ...and he worked on it for a combined 7 months?
..I coulda made a better guitar working a lathe with my ass.

Guest

In the name of all that is evil, the thing SOLD for $150! Someone paid MONEY for that.

I can only hope that whoever bought it did so because a) it's so ugly it needs to be enshrined in an ugly guitar collection, or b) they intend to destroy it so that it cannot hurt anyone anymore.

Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 76 Location: Cleveland, OHio USA

Amen.