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Eddie wasnt kidding when said he destroyed alot guitars to find the perfect sound...

Oh no, you bought the headless SG didn't you?

The fender emblem screwed to the headstock is pretty genius. Would rock.

We shouldn't laugh too hard at these. Remember that back in the '70s that a kid named Eddie Van Halen took a Strat body, carved out the bridge pickup rout with a chisel, screwed a Gibson humbucker in there, that he'd rewound himself and dipped in a coffee pot of wax, left the middle rout empty and the neck pickup non functional, because of his limited wiring skills, then cut up his own pickguard, put a knob labeled Tone, for the volume because it was all he had, screwed a coin under the bridge, stuck in his own screw-eye strap hooks, then changed music forever!

No one, absolutely no one: Those crazy fanmade controller mockups designed before a game console is announced: 3:03

The headless SG actually shows a bit of creative for thought. Thumbs up for that masterpiece.

If Homer Simpson was your luthier.

Most of these look like someone's methed out project.

When you ask "which one would you rock" do you mean which one would I throw rocks at? If so, I'd rock them all.

I scalloped my RG on my own with two hand tools. It turned out to be a really awesome job, there was only one spot where I made a mistake but it only cosmetic.

Who does that to a beautiful 'Norlin era' Goldie? Old Goldie's should be protected by law!

the cut jaguar actually looks cool

Jesus Fret-Tapping Christ, what abominations!! 4:10 looks like a highly-detailed PRS cake ... at least, you'd want it to be ... D: Most of the others are just too horrific for words ... ...

i LITERALLY YELPED AT THE SCALLOPED FRETS .why whyyyy.

I really dig the fender logo on the guitar and the 5 single coils. Just make the fender logo a bit smaller to where it fits the headstock and it's perfect. And for the 5 single coils, just place the pickups more evenly and add a humbucker option where two pickups are on and then that is good as well.

What the hell have I just witnessed

The knobs ya wondered about looks like volume and tone for each pickup

That cut up offset was beautiful! Almost and explorer/ jazzmaster feel.

You're doing one or more things right when even non-guitar players, like myself, tune in. Bravo.

They Destroyed these Guitars

I kinda dig the headless sg, especially after learning the backstory behind it.

"The map is in my boot. The microfilm is in my tooth. The combination to the airlock is 1-2-3-4. I will tell you anything but please don't make me watch that video ever again!"

I really want to know what the lightswitches do on that bass.

Those look like D’addario’s on that electric acoustic guitar

I also dig the Les Paul with the P90, strat single, mini humbucker and finally the paf in the neck position. I also like the dual 3way switches. The LP Deluxe paddle comes in 2nd place. What breaks my heart is the guitars chosen to modify. Why not a "Hondo" LP. Not a real LP custom. I would imagine the players that did these mods were incredible virtuoso guitar masters.

I rather like the Squier Strat with the Fender amplifier badge and the Affinity series name on the headstock. I presume the rest of it was stock?

love those kinds of videos - with wacky stuff. I also really love the videos where you show some of your guitars in detail. I really appreciate how in depth you go and your style of videos is very informative. I sometimes watch them before going to bed, they're actually kind of relaxing lol. You deserve way more subs but I'm sure it will come sooner or later. When I discovered you're born in 94 though... what did I do wrong in life to be not even close to having so nice guitars like you do? (I'm a '95 btw.)

The way you laugh is making me laugh😂 a bit like beavis

All of those guitars must have excellent neck dive.

The oddest I've seen was a Strat where the owner wound his own single coil pickup. Instead of winding the bobbin, he wound each pole piece individually, and then gave each pole it's own separate output Jack. He used the normal Strat recessed steel Jack, so there were 6 of them peppered on the top. They actually worked, and as unsightly as it looked, I could actually see finding a use for a guitar like this. Whatever the use will surely be very niche; maybe using it for a film soundtrack, or running various poles to different effects, say; the G to a wah, the D/A/ low-E to some synth effect, etc. After that however I think you'd be left with little more than a conversation starter.

I dont really like strats but the 5 pickup one would be cool to own.

Nightmares most of them !

this was a comedy horror show that i just loved because i got an entry for your next video. I laughed and screamed and was impressed with all of the salvages, if i may hope that was the intended thought there. lol

i guess that the first guitar is some kind of noise\ambient contraption. I am not sure about the chain, but guess that the spring makes a rather eerie sound.

In fact, if one of those would have been a couple of times in hands of Gilmour, the resale value would have reached the million... I wish to be alive to see the resale value of the original "Frankenstrat" and its sister, the MiJ "Explorer" copy from Ibanez, the "Destroyer" (which is, in fact, the one EVH used to use a lot to record rhythm parts of their debut album).

7:23 this looks like a mod 18 year old me would’ve done. Best guess is the toggles are dedicated on/offs for the pickups and the knobs are dedicated volume and tone. If the guy was a massive geek, he would’ve taken the used on/off/on toggles for the two bridge pickups to get series/off/parallel wiring for more tones.

Spring used for spring reverb on first guitar? If so that is truly the most epic mod I've ever seen

1st one's a Washburn (as has been said), and the "modded Jaguar" is a Jazzmaster :-)

I like how positive you are. Some of the cheaper guitars, why not? Go nuts. The first one would be great for like a mood ambiance, horror themed, metal, or something,... band. You could probably get all kinds of cool reverb effects out of the springs and chains and harps. But the more expensive one's,... just why?

I love the Fender amp logo on the headstock, Squier. Ridiculous and awesome. Probably adds sustain like a Fatfinger. I've got one of those logos that came off my old bass case...:)

Love the acoustic with the melted Frankenstein bridge

The 1st one was awesome. I think the person who built it was trying to make a Electric Guitar-Sitar hybrid and just overdid it

If you actually bought that headless sg thing then i can’t wait for a video on it. I think it looks really cool

My dad actually tried to epoxy the tremolo system of his squier strat.

8:53 - "It's a little horrifying -- but, hey, you can't blame the guy for trying." THE HELL I CAN'T

8:58 that's good 'ol JB weld!

I'm guessing most of these efforts of desperation were done on guitars that all suffered catastrophic damage.. the gold top LP maybe dropped off a wall hanger busting binding and maybe separating the maple top deeply and was not damaged in the area that remained and the guy made lemonade out of his lemon of a mess.. making the best of what was left of a bad accident..the neck repairs show that these are almost all a result of damage that a proper repair far exceeded the cost of the guitars value just to have a de-valued repaired guitar..some were pretty crafty..some were.. let's just say they might have been better off waiting until AFTER the repair to light up that blunt!😁 Great vid Trog!

2:16 "Merry Christmas Billy. You said you wanted a guitar for Christmas. Here it is. Play us a Christmas carol." "Yeah, I meant an electric guitar." "What's the difference? Besides, I don't want you playing that heathen rock and roll music." "Okay..."

I've already got a six (single) coil Stratocaster thank you. And yes, eets a verrry nice.... More voices than a Welsh male voice choir. . Basically a Standard Corona 'VG' Strat. (The 'Virtual Guitar' Strat, that incorporates a Roland GR1/2 sensing pickup, feeding a processor programed with various emulated guitar/pickup voicings). I retained the original 'VG' circuitry and 'passive' wiring (replaced the pickups with Lace Sensors - Blue/Silver/Red) and tandemed up the wiring with a Deluxe loom with S1 switch and SCN pickups. Two five-way blade switches with all pots replaced with dual concentric versions, giving volume and tone (with TBX/Greasebucket mod) control to each pickup group selected. All fitted to a polished stainless-steel pickup plate. . Bridge was upgraded from the standard six-screw effort to the Deluxe twin-fulcrum system. Tuners also replaced with Fender Deluxe locking tuners. Due to wear and tear, all frets were replaced with stainless frets and a Deluxe 'roller nut'. . Controls are easy and intuitive, staying similar to original for both models (VG and Deluxe), but output is routed to a four channel output, or the option of just single channel. The stainless pickup plate also holds a generic tuner device, powered from the same source as the VG circuit. . I call it - *Das UberStrat.*

4:35 That's a Jazz Master, not a Jaguar, but anyhow, great video! Keep it up!

*The "harp" guitar pictured at the **0:22** mark was originally a Washburn Stage A Series guitar, either from the original run from 80'-85', or the one year they reissued it, 96', or at least a copy of one...*

Not, just....not! LOL! Thanks for sharing the oddities and carved up curiosities!

I would rock the Strat with the big Fender amp logo, it is just so audacious. Most of these make my vintage lawsuit era Ibanez SG mods seem reasonable. I was studying electronics at a voc-tech school from 1978-1980 and probably got the idea from Guitar Player Magazine. I created a circuit that put the pickups--not the coils, the whole pickups--in series and parallel with a mini toggle. Another toggle reversed the polarity of one of the coils, giving that pickup a very thin, trebly sound from the phase cancellations. To make any combination of pickups work with any toggle setting required an elaborate multi-pole, multi-throw rotary switch with complicated wiring. I custom ordered the switch from Grayhill--imagine getting a single custom component nowadays. I had to make the hole smaller, so I used a section of drum stick to fill and drill. I also drilled the batwing pickguard for a mini pot as a master volume, but never installed it, so it's just got a hole sitting there. I'm not sure how much I devalued it, but in its day it sounded pretty cool.

The first one looks like an attempt at making an electric sitar. Those extra strings might be there to ring sympathetically to create that droning sound.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the "Page/Hendrix" poker chip and the vibrato bar on the Classical Guitar. Best stuff ever!

I think 7:14 is nicely done . Probably an Explorer style guitar originally. I have a feeling that each pickup has its own on/off switch and vol/tone control.

I kinda like the 5 pickup Strat at 8:05; personally I would've angled the fourth pickup so it would look like a natural progression between 3 and 5, and I think I would've done away with the five-way selector and had five individual on/off switches to get some crazy combos out of it. And if I wanted to be a little ambitious, I would figure out how to wire some in/out of phase switches to get some crazy tones out of it. I like unique, over the top guitars, and I feel like that would be an insane monster to try and tame.

I have a early 70’s “foil” pickup that’s so hot and microphonic I stuck it on the top of a cheap classical guitar as a experiment. It actually sounded surprisingly good , it actually reminded me of the ceramic pickups on the Baldwin classical guitars in the early 70’s. I play a LP Deluxe and I would absolutely play that canoe paddle deluxe. I couldn’t bring myself to do it even to a Epiphone but I’d play one that was already done. I have to admit about the end of the second set I’d probably welcome it.

I actually love the shape of that modded Jaguar.

I never thought there would be such a thing as a cursed guutar

Fender Jazzmaster at 04:32. Most tragic to me was the Gibson Les Paul Deluxe. Such great LPs with those mini-humbuckers! The LP of choice for Duane Allman if I recall correctly.

7:24 I'd imagine it started life as some sort of Explorer-like guitar and the switches are probably on/off for each of the pickups. I also think the knobs are probably just independent volume and tone knobs

I have a few things to add. The PRS with a huge wedge cut out. Rather than making the guitar lighter, they were probably trying remake an Ibanez rbm1. And the guitar with the five pickups and five toggle switches. The toggle switches are probably wired off, on, split and the knobs are obviously one volume and one tone. They're even paired off five and five.

At 7:15 I would say a series of individual volumes and tones. One set for each pickup. Same for toggle switches. Switch probably turn on or off individual pickup. Then you pick the sound you want by choosing or combining the PU's. That's my guess anyway.

The worst guitar mod I've ever seen was an ebay auction for a pre-war Martin 000 that had been cut out for a humbucker. The big rectangle hole was cut out right where you'd normally put a bridge pickup, so it eliminated the very center of the X brace. It was like putting a giant hole in your engine block to make your car go faster.

First model is a Washburn A model. Really well made and great sounding guitars!

For hardtailing a whammy. All you need to do is wedge a small block of wood between the back side of tail(whatever thats called), and loosen the claw screws. The 40-50 lbs of string tension will hold the bridge solid. To remove the block, just tighten the claw screws. Find a piece of wood that's the right thickness to keep the bridge level. I do this with my Floyd Rose. Always remove the whammy bar when doing this.

The strat with the giant fender logo on it is indeed a squier. In the circular part of the headstock you can see the "Affinity series" logo stamped on it. That there be a good guitar for the low end market.

9:10 Add one more use for JB Weld...lol

Nice work on the consama vees, trogdor!

7:24 My guess would be that the toggle switches are indeed for coil splitting. There are 5 humbucker pickups and 5 toggle switches. The knobs are probably configured the same as a Les Paul. Each pickup has a volume and a tone knob. There are 2 rows of 5 knobs each. I think that allows you to mix all pickups however you like :)

The first guitar should have been called the mad max guitar, And the guitar with the light switches called the home depot signature series....

A bit late, but the crowded Strat you very briefly showed seemed interesting. Granted, I love having a million different knobs and switches on mine, but that seemed a bit more well done than the rest.

That 3rd one with the white switches looks interesting. What if 1 of those switches controlled the bass owner's neighbor's garage door.

I love this type of stuff. A testament to the ghetto warrior who 'WILL DO THIS' no matter what. If it works, good. If it don't, fuck it, try again. The art-ology and idiocracy of it, is pure genius. I've done my share, and let me tell ya, there's plenty of laughs in it, and even amazement. Both good for the soul. Thx for posting this.

I think it’s ppl just mostly making cool and interesting fun artsy conversation pieces.

Nothing beats the 6 string bass with heavy piano strings and a a piece of flat, bar stock steel crazy glued to the back of the neck to hold tension. Didnt work that well.

First guitar's an 80s Washburn A-20; the Fender's a Jazzmaster; that Affinity's a Squier...By Fender (duh!)

4:08 Ha! I have one of those Black And Decker powered screwdrivers at top right! They're really good.

You could have titled this video " WTF were they thinking? ". Hahaha, thanks for sharing!

FYI regarding the six spring butchered Strat mod... NEVER add springs in series. It makes them SOFTER because now TWO springs are stretching the amount they would for the same amount of pressure! Everyone knows a harder tailpiece is what you want for tune stability during string bends as well as sustain. What you want is as many spring in parallel as you can stand to whammy with! I always run five of the stiffest springs I can get my hands on, with Strat style whammies!

Some how I contained my laughter very well up until the point I saw the electrician wall switch-a-roo mod.

John Mayall is known for chopping his guitars about - if you look at the cover of Diary Of A Band (vols 1 or 2 - it's the same front cover) he's holding a guitar which at one time may have been a Burns, but I have to say it looks rather marvellous, and he has another, which you can find if you Google "John Mayall's Guitars" which looks to have been a standard Strat at one time...

Hell yeah!! bloody watched the whole thing sooooo amaze lmao

We had a song in one of my bands that used a banjo as an intro. I took an acoustic guitar pick up and duct taped it to the back of the head and ran it into a DI box then tuner as a kill. Worked great live.

I don't know if I would rock any of them, but I do know the cut up vintage Strat almost made me shed a tear! Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!😲

That strat with the double springs was a thing in the early 2000s. I seem to remember an article in stewmac about building one. Supposed to have nearly infinite sustain.

Not gonna lie I really like the one at 4:34. Kinda reminds me of a BC Rich Bich shape. Talk about quick and easy weight relief

First one is a Washburn A-5 Stage Series Reissue. I got one and I love it, although I modified it myself. But PU's only

If I had to choose (eurgh) I'd rock the ML-looking thing. The control layout looks confusing at first, but once you count the knobs it becomes obvious... each of the single-size pups has a 3-way mini-switch that splits the coil or runs the full pickup (as to which combinations of which pickups will be in phase, I have no idea), then there's a vol and and tone for each of the five pups... 10 in total

None, but the Steve Morse looking Les Paul might be interesting. I might rock the Fender amp logo guitar at a gig just to see my friends laugh at me. Basically drugs are bad, mmmmkay?

That first guitar is someone trying to make an electric sitar. I've seen one on a video Yngwie Malmsteen shows some of his guitar collection in.

Thanks Trill!!!!! Rock on!!!

"Put some beef on it..." HA! I lost it on that one. But seriously though, it looks like they used a chuck roast, when for that application a tougher cut like bottom round would probably have been better.

If I'm not mistaken, the first guitar looks like it might have started life as an Washburn A5 or maybe an A20.

That guitar you thought was a Jaguar was actually a Fender Jazzmaster, likely an Elvis Costello signature model, judging by the colour. It breaks my heart, personally, to see that, since the Jazzmaster is my favourite guitar of all time, but to each their own.

can't sleep after this one

I'd love to hear them all but, the lefty les Paul and the one with multiple instruments on it.

I like the classical style upgrade idea. I own a 71-73 gold top deluxe, can't imagine cutting it up like that even if it did reduce the weight.