Belated NGD: The Hydra

JerkMoans

Another late-night, semi intoxicated fit of bravado. Another shrug and resolve to see it through. A day spent in the saddle to meet another man in a notorious truck-stop dogging spot to conduct dubious transactions. And here we have it: the apogee (or nadir) of GAS...

Ladies and Djentlemen I give you ...the Gibson Custom Shop EDS 1275. Utter beast of a thing. 

Need a course of chiropractic, strong opioids and a freaking forklift to shift it, but just look at it...  

zepp76

Very nice, I've got to say I'm a bit jealous!

Henrytwang

Nice looking guitar! I tried one once, it felt like I had a door hanging round my neck.

King85

Very nice, are you going to play Welcome Home on it?

JerkMoans

zepp76 said:

Very nice, I've got to say I'm a bit jealous!

You're welcome to come play anytime.  Provided you agree to lift/tune the fecker.

JerkMoans

Henrytwang said:

Nice looking guitar! I tried one once, it felt like I had a door hanging round my neck.

That must have been one of the weight relieved models  

JerkMoans

King85 said:

Very nice, are you going to play Welcome Home on it?

All in good time: 5 days in I haven't got it tuned yet

Philly_Q

It's fantastic, but the sheer size and weight of the thing... I could never even consider buying one.

Post some more pictures.

merlin

Dibs. 

What a spectacular, unnecessary luxury. 
"I want one. You are a lucky, lucky", he said with the Sun hovering perilously over the yardarm. 

TheMarlin

Wow, just wow!

markslade07

That looks all kinds of awesome, but I've had to book a visit to the chiropractor just looking at it!

JerkMoans

Philly_Q said:

It's fantastic, but the sheer size and weight of the thing... I could never even consider buying one.

Post some more pictures.

Will do.

If and when my back pain subsides sufficiently to let me move.

JerkMoans

merlin said:

Dibs. 

What a spectacular, unnecessary luxury. 
"I want one. You are a lucky, lucky", he said with the Sun hovering perilously over the yardarm. 

First dibs to @merlin

Spectacular and unnecessary capture the essence of the thing.  As I channel my inner Jimmy Page

Bridgehouse

Needs a few bigsbys.

Oh, and a bass neck with a mudbucker as well

stickyfiddle

Bloody hell! Impulse buy of the year?!!!!

mgaw

lunatic

Wonky

Stunning
Was the first thing you played Stairway To Heaven?

darthed1981

Well that's quite something.

Isn't it missing tone/volume controls, or do the same set do both "guitars"?

JerkMoans

TheMarlin said:

Wow, just wow!

More wow than a Kate Bush number.

JerkMoans

markslade07 said:

That looks all kinds of awesome, but I've had to book a visit to the chiropractor just looking at it!

Makes me wonder how Jimmy Page, whom I do not believe to be a hulking brute, managed one of the things on stage.

JerkMoans

Bridgehouse said:

Needs a few bigsbys.

Oh, and a bass neck with a mudbucker as well

Those are optional add-ons, once I've saved up a little more from selling my surplus labour.