Weird Looking Basses

[Rayzcane]

Here is a collection of unusual looking basses and guitars. There are even a few triple-neck instruments.

http://www.altguitarbass.com/weird/

Ray Langley

[rjgoos]

Along the same line, NAMM Oddities is one of my favorite sites:

http://www.otheroom.com/namm/

The site is a wonderful collection of the silly to the sublime.


Jay

[Falstaff]

Thanks for the great sites! What a stunning collection of guitars I could make with those sites as guides and a couple of hundred grand burning a hole.

You know you've been a Yes fan too long when you look at a picture of Chris Squire playing a triple-neck and you go, "That's not weird, that's just the bass he uses in 'Awaken.'"

My current main source of guitar-porn is the book "Guitar" by Terry Burrows. It's a photographic history of the development of the guitar from lute to Stick. I'm not one to buy coffee-table books (although for some reason people continually make presents of them to me), but this is one I grabbed the moment I saw it. I leaf through it and go, "Right, I'll have an Ovation Adamas, and a Paul Reed Smith Dragon, and a Parker Fly, and a..."

There's a chapter on bass guitars and a chapter on custom designs, but the only tapper in the book is the Stick. I find that odd, seeing as the book was published in 2003. Everytime I pick up the book I think, "Must write to this guy about Box and Warr and - my, that's beautiful carving on that 1975 Ovation Viper..."

[loneguitarist]

Muahahaha I spy an ashbory bass on that slt.guitar.bass page - I love my ashbory, and even though it is fretless with silcone strings, it is great to tap on!

:cool:

edit: I forgot to mention - is it just me or do the 'goldfish guitars' featured on the http://www.otherroom.com/namm guitars page look like they have an excellent body shape for tapping on?

[Glenn Drakeley]

NAMM oddities 2000 had an instrument I immediately tagged as "to die for / must have" upon first sight, the Sitarla. Further research into the Sitarla revealed that I would either have to marry into the Rockefeller family or sell my first, second, and third born children to fund the acquisition, neither of which was (or still is) a viable option at my advanced stage of antiquity !! Oh well, my Box JCB-34 arrives real soon...................

[Falstaff]

Originally posted by Glenn Drakeley
Oh well, my Box JCB-34 arrives real soon...................
Glenn, that's great news. :cool: