I stumbled across this interesting guitar today. It’s controlled by frickin’ lasers. Here’s a demo of the basic functionality: Pretty cool. I’d love to hear a real solo on that sucker. From the creator, jeff-o: The Prism is, quite simply, the best laser guitar on the Internet. At least I think so. I hope that [...]

Cary, North Carolina artist Peter Geiger makes interesting guitar sculptures from car license plates. Peter was inspired to create his unique brand of art one day during a jam session when he thought his old license plates hanging on a wall might make for interesting guitar art. He’s now taking custom orders, so if you’ve [...]

I love the look of this Telecaster built by the Fender Custom Shop’s Yuriy Shishkov for Keith Urban. Country Music Television blogger, Alison Bonaguro, managed to get a little info out of Yuriy about how he designed and built it: • Urban’s favorite Fender Telecaster guitar was flown to Shishkov so he could duplicate the [...]

AcousticGuitar.com is giving away a sweet-looking Martin MC-28 Steve Howe Special Edition acoustic: This year, Howe and C.F. Martin & Co. collaborated to create a new model inspired by the early 1980s MC-28, the one Martin that’s been a mainstay in Howe’s guitar rack for decades. The MC-28 is notable for its grand auditorium cutaway [...]

Haven’t had an eye-candy post in a while. Here’s an interesting design from student Yi-Luen Tan, who created the “Reverse Guitar.” Not an entirely new concept, of course, but I sort of like the headstock. (via stylecrave.com)

Looking for something to do this weekend? How about building a Telecaster out of an Ikea butcher block? That’s what Zachary Custom Guitars decided to do: After buying it at Ikea, this butcher block just sat there for 2 years and I wasn’t quite sure when I would use it. I needed an impetus. Then [...]

The New York Times reports that we’ll soon be seeing a new guitar magazine on the shelves of our favorite newsstands. The mag is called “Guitar Aficionado,” and targets older and presumably more moneyed guitarists with a taste not only for expensive guitars but also for “Aston Martin automobiles and the West Hollywood hotel Sunset [...]

Here’s a bit of eye candy for you: the Citron AEG-12 introduced at NAMM 2009. Here’s what Harvey Citron wrote about it:  The Citron AEG-12 is a 2/12″ thick, mostly holllow Acoustic/Electric 12-string guitar, whose body is Mahogany, with a Sitka Spruce top, one-piece Mahogany neck with Ebony fingerboard. The bridge is Macassar Ebony with [...]

We seem to be seeing a lot of this lately: artists finally catching up and realizing that guitars and guitar accessories are beautiful. Here’s another example. From the Electro-Harmonix blog: Robin Rose is a long-established painter specializing in ‘encaustic’ works, but back in 1979 he played guitar and synth for new-wave/punk band Urban Verbs (Warner) [...]

Haven’t had an eye-candy post in a while, so I’d like to tell you about New Jersey luthier Ted Crocker. He makes unique guitars. Some are made from cigar boxes, others broom handles. The guitar to the left is the “Honey Dripper,” created for a film of the same name starring Danny Glover. It’s a representation [...]

Acousticguitar.com is giving away the Breedlove Extrordinary Experience, a $6500 value, but you have to enter before May 31, 2009: The Breedlove Extraordinary Experience is an all-inclusive 4-day getaway to Breedlove’s custom shop in the resort town of Bend, Oregon. This prize package includes FREE lodging, FREE meals, and FREE entertainment, plus a $500 voucher [...]

Adrian Belew (King Crimson, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, The Talking Heads) released his signature Parker Fly today. As some of you regular readers know, I have a kind of creepy Parker Fly fetish, even though I’ve never actually played one. Here are some of the details: Exclusive Dimarzio bridge pickup Revolutionary Sustainiac Stealth PRO neck [...]

I love Maine and lived in Portland not so long ago trying to start up a freelance business, so I will always take time to plug small businesses like Andrew Olson’s AO Guitars in Freeport, just a short jump from Portland.He’s making some unique solid bodies, like this Koa beauty on the left. Fine looking [...]

Guitar builder James Trussart’s medium of choice for building guitars is steel, which he and many others claim gives them a unique and wonderful tone that can’t be achieved in wood. Here’s what former Guitar Player Magazine editor and guitarist Joe Gore had to say about them: I literally believe this guitar makes me play [...]

Found this over at Ed Roman guitars. Wow.