JDB Rocking One Of Those Weird FretKing Guitars...

RocknRollDave

RocknRollDave

(Song has taken a little "inspiration" from Simple Minds' 'I Travel', if you ask me...)

xHymnal

I absolutely love the manics but this has to be one of the worst pieces of shit they've ever put out...

EricTheWeary

had to get that up on my phone, had a quick flick through but only fleeting glances of the guitar. A FretKing Ventura was it? £1800 for a guitar that looks like a melted lolly. Although I shouldn't be rude as I'm still considering them for my signature model Ericaster...
:-B

RocknRollDave

Yeah, I think that's the one - the one where all the reviews were like "Great guitar but...WTF were they thinking with that shape?!"

drwiddly

No doubt their popularity will rocket now!

koneguitarist

Reminds me a bit of the fender swinger, but even uglier http://proguitarshop.com/media/cms/blog/swinger.jpg

Bucket

I like those guitars.

ICBM

RocknRollDave said:

(Song has taken a little "inspiration" from Simple Minds' 'I Travel', if you ask me...)

And Queen's 'Machines (Or Back To Humans)'.

And the Offspring's 'Hit That' in places…

Fender Swingers are great though. They're not easy to play because of the tiny short-scale neck, but they sound surprisingly good and are definitely one of the more original guitar designs that doesn't look needlessly ugly - even if the shape was arrived at by necessity. I've owned two of them, both sadly butchered by (I think) John Birch.