Weirdest-Coolest Guitar Features

[jonajon91]

I have just been informed that all Carvin guitars have Tracking chips in them in case they get stolen. All guitars should have these!

 

[TheEmptyCell]

I have just been informed that all Carvin guitars have Tracking chips in them in case they get stolen. All guitars should have these!

Not a tracking chip, it's a passive RFID microchip. They also inject them into pets, so they can be scanned by shelters. Basically you register your chip online and then if it gets scanned (say your Carvin gets stolen, cops see one strikingly similar at a pawn shop, and scan it) you get emailed. It's not like a GPS tracker or something.

 

[dedsouth333]

My '87 Duesenberg (the pink burst in my profile) was born with a headed cig holder - or, as someone said it, cool man, a joint holder
Never used it for any of those, though, hahaha

Riiight...

 

[carcass]

Recently I found Michael Kelly Hybrid Special and I think very cool feature on this guitar is magnetic/acoustic blend control, seems to me like great sonical posibilities:

 

[celticelk]

Recently I found Michael Kelly Hybrid Special and I think very cool feature on this guitar is magnetic/acoustic blend control, seems to me like great sonical posibilities:

That's actually fairly standard on piezo systems - if you select both electric and acoustic pickups simultaneously, you can use their respective volumes as "blend" controls (usually, I would imagine, by maxing one and blending the other to taste). Still pretty cool, though.

 

[Daken1134]

Fretboard extensions behind the nut

stand up bass builders have done that for a LOOOOOOONG time actually, they drop the E down to C

 

[AndrewFTMfan]

This.

 

[patata]

Though it's not a guitar, the Steinberger "Fretted/Fretless" prototype bass may be my favorite. Besides the usual Steinberger weirdness, the knob on the end of the neck lowers the frets into the fretboard and makes it fretless.

This won the thread imo.

 

[carcass]

That's actually fairly standard on piezo systems - if you select both electric and acoustic pickups simultaneously, you can use their respective volumes as "blend" controls (usually, I would imagine, by maxing one and blending the other to taste). Still pretty cool, though.

Yes, I think your right and this is not "weird" in the full meaning, but I consider this to be really cool feature, so I included it in this thread

 

[sonicwarrior]

Teuffel Birdfish:

 

[The Spanish Inquisition]

Teuffel Birdfish:

Ah, the feature of it being a Nerf-gun, always good!

 

[Ghostpowder]

Fretboard extensions behind the nut

That is crazy looking! A battle Axe ready for flight!

 

[Cabinet]

This.

Somehow I knew you were a huge fan of dicks.

 

[MetalBuddah]

You can add/move frets on this guitar to allow for virtually any type of temperament.

[Youtubevid]MYK_PF9WTRE[/Youtubevid]

8 strings...t0tal dj0nt.

 

[Not The Same as Yours]

You can add/move frets on this guitar to allow for virtually any type of temperament.

[Youtubevid]MYK_PF9WTRE[/Youtubevid]

8 strings...t0tal dj0nt.

hahaha, this send the true temperament scales to space...

 

[Pikka Bird]

Ben Weinman's built-in wireless is rawesomely cool!

...and where did I recently re-see that bass with the pickup that could be angled via a pivot point on the treble side?

 

[patata]

Ben Weinman's built-in wireless is rawesomely cool!

Exactly what I had in mind when I made this thread.

 

[KarlMagnusRobin]

This.. The Tremologic..

IA Eklundh was the first dude I saw using it, on that specific guitar too!
It works like an Evertune but with "tremolo-arms" on every saddle so you can bend any string you want without the others going out of tune..

I think IA's got one with that bridge and True Temp Fret's too!

..don't know which bridge came first, the Evertune or the Tremologic..

 

[patata]

So a guitar with sliding pickups,fretted/no fretted switch and tremologic.


I actually think this would make a great insturment on the right hands.Pretty abstract too.

 

[Ironbird]

The Tremologic is a neat idea! Wonder if it does pull ups AND dives?