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Chad K.:
On a side note, my two favorite sites for checking out said odd guitars are-

www.diamondstrings.com - Bruce Diamond's shop in Rochester specializing in weird little european and japanese guitars.  He's super easy to deal with and is way knoweldgeable on the little one-offs that no one's heard of (Wandre who?)

www.fatdawg.com - Crazy shop in Berekely, CA that's been around over 30 years.  Fatdawg bought a huge amount of dano, fender, gibson, alembic, and warmoth parts, throughout the 80's and now can offer NOS classic guitars, assembled with 60's and 70's true Fender parts for approx $300-$400.  Can't afford that American strat?  Now you can.  He also has a huge selection of old defunct 50's stuff, and oddball foreign and domestic delights.  Check it out.

SeanBateman:
So basically this thread is about how you are cool because you have unique japanese guitars from the 80s.

Thrillho:
That path is beaten for a reason, mu'fukka.

As for obscure guitars, I dunno. I have a Yamaha guitar that's got no name as far as I know. I just bought it because I didn't want my first electric to be a Strat. It's black, it's got a pointy-ish headstock and it's got a H-S-H config.

I also have an old electric Hofner that's been in my family longer than my dad has. It's awesome but awful. It won't tune properly to standard, but put it through distortion and an alternate tuning and you have a howling blues-rocking BEAST.

Lummer:
My vibiest axe would have to be my Ibanez S7420.

As it is, it's not as ubiquitous, even in it's stock incarnation, as the RG-model seven strings, or even the Universe!
The thing is though, mine has history as well as heavy modifications done with a fist made of ham.

First of all, it was previously owned by Mircea Gabriel Eftemie of the Danish metal band Mnemic. He used this guitar in a few videos, as well as being probably the first Metal band to open the main stage on the Roskilde Festival, one of the biggest and oldest in Europe.
The band isn't really all that good, but it's pretty cool to own an axe that's been out and about like that.

The modifications are as follow:

The paint has been stripped with a heat gun, amateurishly. There are a few burn marks, but I tell people that's because I shred so fast.
The pickup is a bit of a story unto itself.

At the local store where I bought the pickup, I tried to have them wire it into the guitar. They failed. THREE times in a row. I find it fairly disturbing that a so-called "professional" tech is not able to wire in a pickup, even after three attempts.
So after having it collecting dust for a few months (the pickup was only in active in singlecoil mode, rendering it completely useless to me), I decided to just have a crack at it myself.

So that's how it ended up like the simpleton it is today. Due to my complete lack of electronics knowlegde, I went for the simplest setup possible. I just wired the pickup straight on the volume pot, and took out the switch. And what a glorious racket it conjures up! The pickup, a DiMarzio X2N-7 is absolutely brutal, and surprisingly versatile. It actually does sound good clean, oddly enough, but  it is most at home in metal territories.
That said, I love it to death. It does need a fret polish badly though, but that's all.

It looks like this:


No, I didn't remove the electronics while stripping it, and yes, it did bite me in the ass later.









I'll post clips tomorrow.





My other "weird" guitar is my Washburn PS500, a Paul Stanley signature. It's not really THAT weird, but I've never really seen anyone play one of these. A shame really, because it plays and sounds REALLY nice. The neck feels like a gibson, with a narrower string spacing. Nice!
I currently have it tuned to (lo to hi) Bb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb for SLUDGY MCSLUDGEFUZZ-riffs.

I have a clip of it here:

Link: http://download.yousendit.com/097B6D9B23B70AB0
I recorded it quickly yesterday, to have some new riffs on tape. It's a kind of outline of a song structure too, though I'm not sure what should come after the last chugga-chugga riff. Meh, I'll think of something later. All feedback appreciated btw.
It looks like this:

jeph:
I really like the late-90's/early-2000's Japanese made Charvel guitars. You can only find 'em on eBay nowadays but they're a great alternative to shelling out a couple grand for a USA made Jackson, as even the really fancy models only sell for 7-800 bucks.

Someday I will own a Tom Anderson. SOMEDAY.

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