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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:00 pm
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Not too unusual and still available I think -

Yamaha RGX A2.

Made of a composite hollow body type construction, with internal metal resonance bars linking bridge to pickups etc. Construction wise its like an old Danolectric crossed with a Burns Rezzomatic.

Quite conventional S type body styling finished in plain white and grey, but with cylinder barrel type tuners. No scratchplate. It has a battery in it that provides power for LED light around the volume control when you have a lead plugged in. Light changes from blue to green depending on which of the 2 alnico humbuckers you've selected. Select both and get blue & green together.

Passive electrics - volume control but no tone. The 2nd (brushed steel) knob is the pickup selector.

Very light guitar - under 5lbs. The internal resonance thingies make it vibrate like crazy and give it a lot of sustain. I love it - very off the wall. Probably very eco friendly too in the absence of big hunks of tone woods. I notice that Yamaha now do an equivalent bass guitar too.


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I don't know about odd, but certainly unique. I once owned a Synsonics portable electric, with a 9V battery powered built-in speaker, as well as a 10W Radio Shack brand combo amp that I'd bought not long after the guitar. With a set of Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinky strings on it, it was actually a pretty decent sounding guitar, and I can say the same about the amp, even if it was $70.00 at Radio Shack.

With the tone and (built-in) distortion controls set just right, on the amp, my neighbor (living in a trailer park, at the time) had thought I was playing an electric bass. Imagine his surprise, when I told him what I was playing. Unfortunately, both the guitar and amp (cordless phone and DVDs) were stolen by some druggie looking for fix money, and although I did buy another 10W Radio Shack brand amp, it pales in comparison to the one that was stolen. It's possible the guitar was a rare gem, like the amp I was playing it through.

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I have two teisco del reys one with 2 pups and another with 4 pick ups


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my oddist woould be a 1989 asi sustanic


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Bellzeboss wrote:
here was my dad's old guitar, it was a legacy, I just put some drawings :D (the guitar was very old & bad that's why I did that ;))

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Hey Bellzeboss -

Seasick Steve wants to know if you're interested in selling..


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I had a BC Rick Mocking Bird a few years ago. Now the weird thing I have is a 1970s Egmond. Maybe 60s. I can't find anything like it on the web. My sister found it in the attic of her house when she first moved in. it's a piece of crap but it was a free guitar and I am not one to turn down a free guitar no matter how crappy it is.


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Not rare or anything, but I have one of these:
Eastwood Delta Six
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It's the oddest one of the bunch, perhaps that's why I was attracted to it.


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Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:08 pm
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I've played those--they're pretty cool.

I like the blend knob.

I considered getting one, before I went with an Ibanez AF95.

But it's still cool, and I wouldn't mind getting one someday.

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I love listenting to guitar the most. :P


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No pics, sadly, but I had some oddballs.

Mid-60's Teisco Del Ray four-pickup solid body.

Mid-70's Ovation Deacon (a great player, but the funkiest active electronics ever).

An early 60's (maybe even end of the 50's) Telecaster that had been refinished with an "antiquing" kit (the kind where you paint on a base color and then smear black all over it) and featuring a hand-painted copy of a Peter Max poster on the pickguard. Not only did it look weird, but through my 50-watt Marshall head it was the original Blue Oyster Cult-style "stun guitar."


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Without a doubt, my weirdest guitar has to be my Ampeg Big Stud Bass.

The bass itself really wasn't too terribly bad; it was kind of strange, but par for the course of what it was...

-Made in Japan, around 1973-75
-Body shape and pickguard shape based on an early ('51) Precision Bass or the Telecaster bass made in the late 60s/early 70s.
-Two pickups, one that looks like a Telecaster (guitar) neck pickup and another in the bridge position that looks (and sounds) like a 4-string P-90 pickup.
-Plywood body, maple-looking cap (Lord only knows what wood that really is!)
-"Dog Urine Yellow" see-through finish (not an official OEM designation, but it describes it pretty well)
-Nice neck (believe it or not); bound maple neck w/maple fingerboard, mother-of-toilet-seat block inlays, frets so flat--at points you think it is fretless.
-Headstock only slightly smaller than a Steinberger headless guitar's body
-It was named Big Stud...by the manufacturer. Either someone has an inflated sense of self-worth or a sick sense of humor (I wonder if the Japanese workers assemblying the thing knew the connotations of the name).

However, the thing doesn't play too bad--the feel is similar to a vintage Gibson bass, fairly flat fretboard and thicker than my sister-in-law's waistline :shock:. Overall, it's not a bad bass, especially for what it is. The tone is pretty good, especially the P90-ish bridge pickup. I use it for writing basslines and just to goof off with (I'm not a bassist).

It's kind of a weird axe, but here's the very weird and sad part of the story:

A friend of mine (who has since deceased) found this thing at a garage sale for $3--with a hard (pasteboard) case no less! Who ever owned it must have thought that they were Bootsy Collins or something. On the case, they painted (in what looks like red nail polish) "Mr. Cosmic".

The guy then hammered thumb tacks all around the edge of the body and headstock. As if that weren't enough, they drilled tiny holes all over the body, in which they glued tiny rhinestones (about 1/4 carat-sized). The piece de resistance was the star-shaped series of holes with the requisite rhinestones installed.

By the time I got the instrument, all but three of the rhinestones had fallen out, just leaving the series of holes, and the thing only had one string. I re-strung it up, and use it as an example of why people shouldn't take drugs.

Originally it was a pretty good-looking instrument (for a cheapie). Whoever owned it ruined a pretty decent bass.

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Wow, great guitars guys...
Well I suppose it's my turn , I 'll just put this one up for now...Lace Rat Fink Edition .
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This fretless wonder started life an orange Ibanez low end series.
I read an article in Guitar Player on fretless guitars and then I saw what they were going for brand new.....$$$$$$. So being the frugal (amateur) luthier I am.....
So I bought a cheapo 50$ chinese import and pulled the frets, threw on some flatwounds, and took to learning. Weird, and kind of goofy looking, she works.
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Probably an SX Pirate Stratocaster clone


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