and the award for the butt ugliest range of guitars goes to...

stonevibe

WTF?

http://www.minarikguitars.com/products.php

Its like a teenage boy's wet dream on their website.

ESchap

a lot of shellfish and trees died in vain @-)

Tex Mexico

The worst thing is apparently they're incredibly well-built, high-quality instruments.

But yeah, ugh.

DiscoStu

This is called the Effin.

Effin hideous more like!

stonevibe

ESchap said:

a lot of shellfish and trees died in vain @-)

Nice. 

That about sums it up. I just saw their 2013 catalogue and it is definitely in line with my first comment.

JookyChap

Load of molluscs...

DulcetJones

Some of them look pretty dangerous, too many sharp points.

digitalscream

That whole range appears to be built on a single line of thought: "Hey, if we take a popular shape and add a bunch of meaningless, ugly curls and points to it then WE'VE INVENTED A TOTALLY ORIGINAL GUITAR SHAPE!!!!!"

Ugh.

gilby

Seriously, you could do yourself an injury with some of those !

mike_l

I saw Phil Campbell from Motorhead play one a few years ago, sounded good, Like a great LP, and better than the LP he also played the same night.

 

I'm a little undecided on the looks, as they're definetely  better that (most) BC Rich,but not as nice as more main-stream shapes. Certainly different, and probably not what would go down well at a local blues, or jazz jam night

equalsql

I do sorta like 'The Scroll'  ">

Like an old Gibson mandolin on steroids. Some of the other designs could double as a sporran 

:-S

axisus

I came here expecting to defend them, thinking that they couldn't be that bad, but now that I've seen them .......

The brand that I find ugliest is Switch.

Paul_C

stonevibe

Paul_C said:

Perfect response.