ugly guitar of the day

axisus

Dominic

Violin ?

AlexC

I don’t really get the dark lump on the top...

Funkfingers

Racing bicycle saddle meets shotgun stock with built-in hip flask.

thegummy

When I saw the thread title, I though the one from my "guitar a day" desktop calendar the other day would be a rival but wow... this one makes it look like Audrey Hepburn

Bucket

Ah, that's a Spalt.

Not sure about it aesthetically, but I'm sure it's a very nice instrument.

lasermonkey

Why would anyone go to that much effort to make something so hideous?

WezV

There are bits I don’t like, there are bits I love.  It’s interesting at least

the responses here perfectly highlight the issue with trying to bring originality to the guitar market.  

Bridgehouse

That would be viewed as dull and ordinary in the high end bass world 

Bucket

WezV said:

There are bits I don’t like, there are bits I love.  It’s interesting at least

the responses here perfectly highlight the issue with trying to bring originality to the guitar market.  

This.

I wish more people would try to be interesting. There are fucking loads of Strats out there already.

octatonic

It looks like Grace Jones.

axisus

WezV said:

There are bits I don’t like, there are bits I love.  It’s interesting at least

the responses here perfectly highlight the issue with trying to bring originality to the guitar market.  

I get what you are saying, but aesthetically I just love Strats, Tele's and LPs. It's like preferring blondes to brunettes. To be honest I often bring up weird guitars here and refer to them as ugly, but actually I like the fact that they are out there. I just don't particularly want one myself.

Moominpapa

I think it's cool.

Philly_Q

I like it.  I don't think it's beautiful, but it's certainly not ugly and when you see more pictures it's clear that a lot of thought went in to the design.

https://www.spaltinstruments.com/instruments/custom-work-624-conventional/guitars-b/

(Look down the bottom of that page for a couple of 12-strings with tremolos!)

Snags

Not keen on the headstock but I think the body works quite well in a weirdly organic/biological way.

proggy

I don't like it, I hate guns. It's not really original, it's just a guitar made to look like a gun.

WezV

Philly_Q said:

I like it.  I don't think it's beautiful, but it's certainly not ugly and when you see more pictures it's clear that a lot of thought went in to the design.

https://www.spaltinstruments.com/instruments/custom-work-624-conventional/guitars-b/

I like it a lot more now.  I didn’t realise the seperate body sections were all adjustable.  That’s very clever.  The headstock looks much better from other angles too!

WezV

axisus said:

WezV said:

There are bits I don’t like, there are bits I love.  It’s interesting at least

the responses here perfectly highlight the issue with trying to bring originality to the guitar market.  

I get what you are saying, but aesthetically I just love Strats, Tele's and LPs. It's like preferring blondes to brunettes. To be honest I often bring up weird guitars here and refer to them as ugly, but actually I like the fact that they are out there. I just don't particularly want one myself.

I’m quite like the traditional designs myself, it’s what I mostly make these days.  There are loads of them in the market already.  

There is room for something more original 

ICBM

I quite like most of it, but I really dislike the red fingerboard dots and nut and the metal cap on the upper horn - to me they ruin the whole thing by being out of place with the rest of it.

kin

There are some stunning guitars on the website.
I like bits of the one in the op, especially the headstock!

Garthy

I don't like the headstock from that picture, but the rest of it is ace.