God-awful guitars

Lixarto · January 2014

ThePrettyDamned said:
They just look naff unless Tony iommi is at the wheel.

They have a wheel?

No wonder they're ugly.

meltedbuzzbox · January 2014

This thing looks like a flattened bulls bollock with a neck and pickups, blergh

dogload · January 2014

meltedbuzzbox said:

This thing looks like a flattened bulls bollock with a neck and pickups, blergh

Your knowledge of bovine anatomy does you credit!

blueskunk · January 2014

bluechargeboy said:

Sunburst strats with maple fretboards - grim.

Thats one of my gods that is :-/

usedtobe · January 2014

I like the thinline in the first post. Hate those neon vomit Ibanez jobs. Hate all the BC Rich stuff..

Used to detest SG's, but now I really want one..

Islandape · January 2014

Sooooo, I thought of the most bonkers combination and Googled it...

>:/

ThePrettyDamned · January 2014

Islandape;145730" said:
Sooooo, I thought of the most bonkers combination and Googled it...

>:/

Wow, that sounds really great! It helps he's obviously very good with a Floyd.

Panama_Jack666 · January 2014

Islandape said:

Sooooo, I thought of the most bonkers combination and Googled it...

>:/

Isn't this similar to what Grestch have just released?

Yes, yes it is...

Bucket · January 2014

meltedbuzzbox said:

This thing looks like a flattened bulls bollock with a neck and pickups, blergh

@octatonic

impmann · January 2014

Arrrrrggggghhhhhh Floyd Rose. Yuk.

octatonic · January 2014

meltedbuzzbox said:

This thing looks like a flattened bulls bollock with a neck and pickups, blergh

It is an ergonomic guitar made by Texan luthier Chris Forshage called an Orion.

I own that specific guitar and it is one of the best playing/sounding guitars I own, with incredible balance and ergonomics.

It is also the instrument that got me into guitar building.

Panama_Jack666 · January 2014

octatonic said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

This thing looks like a flattened bulls bollock with a neck and pickups, blergh

It is an ergonomic guitar made by Texan luthier Chris Forshage called an Orion.
I own that specific guitar and it is one of the best playing/sounding guitars I own, with incredible balance and ergonomics.
It is also the instrument that got me into guitar building.

Islandape · January 2014

Panama_Jack666 said:

Islandape said:

Sooooo, I thought of the most bonkers combination and Googled it...

>:/

Isn't this similar to what Grestch have just released?

Yes, yes it is...

I know but a Floyd? On a gypsy Jazz Guitar? I can sort of see a Bigsby making some sort of sense but a Floyd on a Selmer is like inflatable false boobs on Hercule Poirot.

octatonic · January 2014

Panama_Jack666 said:

octatonic said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

This thing looks like a flattened bulls bollock with a neck and pickups, blergh

It is an ergonomic guitar made by Texan luthier Chris Forshage called an Orion.
I own that specific guitar and it is one of the best playing/sounding guitars I own, with incredible balance and ergonomics.
It is also the instrument that got me into guitar building.

HUH?

Not at all.

I don't see how anyone can possibly consider giving a bit of info about a guitar 'an escalation'.

If meltedbuzzbox doesn't like it that is fine- but there is more to that guitar than how it looks.

Paul_C · January 2014

ICBM said:

http://www.rockin-chair.ch/Pics/aarc/origs/Showcase/Parker_Fly.jpg

I loved the concepts behind this when it came out - lightweight body, resonant 'exo-skeleton', could do acoustic sounds… and I assumed that the god-awful ugly shape must have some sort of ergonomic benefit which justified it and I would eventually see it as quite cool, if never 'beautiful'.

Then I played one.

Pointlessly uncomfortable - that upper horn digs you in the sternum where you really don't want it to (even if you aren't female - I can only imagine it's worse having watched a friend of mine try to play one), the tone was thin and artificial-sounding or nasal and honky depending on how you set it, and it won't even hang on a standard wall hanger without probably breaking the top E string and risking the whole thing falling to the ground. You can't even put in less horrible-sounding humbuckers easily because they used a custom baseplate mounting. And apparently the glued-on frets have a habit of coming off.

Fail, in just about every way possible.

I'm just about to have my third attempt at re-attaching a couple of frets to a Fly (I can't get the exact glue they recommend, and have already tried two of their suggestions with no joy) so I'd agree that it was a daft idea.

Panama_Jack666 · January 2014

octatonic said:

Panama_Jack666 said:

octatonic said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

This thing looks like a flattened bulls bollock with a neck and pickups, blergh

It is an ergonomic guitar made by Texan luthier Chris Forshage called an Orion.
I own that specific guitar and it is one of the best playing/sounding guitars I own, with incredible balance and ergonomics.
It is also the instrument that got me into guitar building.

HUH?
Not at all.
I don't see how anyone can possibly consider giving a bit of info about a guitar 'an escalation'.

I'm not gonna lie, I was looking for an excuse to use that meme!

I'm going to look into what other work Chris Forshage has done. It's an interesting design!

octatonic · January 2014

Panama_Jack666 said:

octatonic said:

Panama_Jack666 said:

octatonic said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

This thing looks like a flattened bulls bollock with a neck and pickups, blergh

It is an ergonomic guitar made by Texan luthier Chris Forshage called an Orion.
I own that specific guitar and it is one of the best playing/sounding guitars I own, with incredible balance and ergonomics.
It is also the instrument that got me into guitar building.

HUH?
Not at all.
I don't see how anyone can possibly consider giving a bit of info about a guitar 'an escalation'.

I'm not gonna lie, I was looking for an excuse to use that meme!

I'm going to look into what other work Chris Forshage has done. It's an interesting design!

Ah ok.

It is a very special guitar.

I get how people think it is a bit ugly, but I love it to bits.

I think from certain angles it is quite pretty:

http://www.jamesrichmond.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/IMG_5628.jpg

FWIW, I bought it after having several rounds of surgery, and for a long time it was the only guitar I could play for more than 10-15 minutes without pain.

ThePrettyDamned · January 2014

@octatonic what are those two routes in the side? Is that weight relief or is it hiding something?

octatonic · January 2014

ThePrettyDamned said:

@octatonic what are those two routes in the side? Is that weight relief or is it hiding something?

They are basically the same as F holes- it is a hollow body guitar, really.

They are on the top because you get less feedback with gain at stage volumes because the holes are 90 degrees to the speaker cone.

ICBM · January 2014

Panama_Jack666 said:
I'm going to look into what other work Chris Forshage has done. It's an interesting design!

It goes back via the Klein guitar to the Ovation Breadwinner originally. They are odd-looking, but definitely comfortable - at least for classical position sitting down.

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