Incredibly shit drawings of guitars

“Drawing shitty pictures of drums cheers me up. Whenever I feel low, I draw some new pictures of shitty drums.”

> rope drumhead tensioning that was becoming obsolete in the 19th century

This is fascinating, because the visual trope is a constant in illustrations of toy soldiers, the little drummer boy, etc. It seems to carry over into images of trap sets, even though there was no overlap.

Exactly. I am sure there are rope-tension aficionados, just as there are animal skin-head aficionados. But Ringo was neither of those.

https://i.imgur.com/X6G8phh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/J8QJJvy.jpg

So many good details! Appropriate number of strings, p90 pickups, a bigsby tailpiece.

Then you got the instrument cable coming out of the lower horn.

(from the Be Cool Scooby Doo episode, 'Screama Donna')

ahahah I was looking at that like 'hey looks pretty good!' then saw the cable lmfao

Cross posted from the incredibly shit drawings of Shaggy thread

Beat me to it!

Shaggy & Scoob look like they've changed stimulants over the years

Daphne changed as well in that show, to be fair

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NQ_vOFX5t5o/hqdefault.jpg

From the 67 Fender catalogue. C'mon, you had *one job*.
https://i.imgur.com/ohh0mMk.jpg

it was 1967, i imagine a fair proportion of guitar players were used to seeing all kinds of psychedelic weirdness when they looked down at their fretboard at that time

Longhorn tele

ah yes, with the optional angled Strat headstock

More than anything, the left hand placement and "activity" is just a disaster. I don't think the rest of the guitar is that bad actually, I mean there's six tuning pegs, it looks like a Jag with a glandular problem more than anything.

picking that high E string with his thumb while shredding some sick hammer-ons

for real that is a Telecaster body he's apparently trying to stab with a Strat neck - one cutaway, control plate with knobs and switch in a line. Art guy you're doing an illustration for the FUCKING FENDER catalogue, how do you get their two iconic models jumbled up?

haha yeah I mean if that was just some drawing in a magazine it's whatever but the fucking catalogue guy can't even get it right lol

is there a thread for particularly egregious examples of actors faking playing guitar? Drives me insane. rewatched I'm Not There fairly recently-- Christian Bale, naturally, could clearly play. Cate Blanchett, meanwhile, does this shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4S5JKBUYHs

I am willing - just barely - to allow that the Fender catalog illustrations were meant to be impressionistic on purpose. Otherwise they could just have used photographs. So including elements of several iconic guitar designs could have either been acceptable, or even desired.

Same artist upthread does feature-correct but wonky renditions of 4 similar models tho

Longhorn tele

― peace, man, Wednesday, June 3, 2020 8:17 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

ah yes, with the optional angled Strat headstock

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, June 3, 2020 8:21 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is basically what Fender is doing with its "Parallel Universe" series

https://www.adorama.com/images/Large/fe176032703.jpg

True, he or she was just a visionary

also Fender were doing Strat headstock on Tele back in 1972
https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--nXKyF_Uf--/f_auto,t_supersize/v1566580144/lagtqvbe5cnnhb7py92j.png

been looking for a 70s tele deluxe for a long time.

man i want a tele deluxe.

heh heh heh
https://i.imgur.com/frkYKE0.jpg

those Vox amps rule so much

best practice amps ever

I'd heard they were good then one came up locally for $50 and I figured OK, let's give it a shot, then I plugged in and O_O

(that's a 1975 Greco special-order, for the curious)

dammit you guys, this thread is for incredibly shit guitars, not incredible guitars.

I don't get the point of a Tele with humbuckers. Isn't the original design's distinctive single-coil sound whole point of having one, at least nowadays? That's why I own a Strat and an SG.

* the whole point

I have a Tele with singles too, but these pickups are like glassy Fender neck pickups more than PAFs.
Plus Teles are nicer to play and indestructible.

I honestly have never worried about destroying any of my guitars

those teles with the neck humbucker but the trad single coil in back are a nice combo

Plus Teles are nicer to play

Nicer to play than what?

those teles with the neck humbucker but the trad single coil in back are a nice combo

Yeah, it's a reasonable compromise. Plus, for whatever reason, they look like less of an abomination than a Fat Strat. (shudders)

When you get into the details of the original Fender WR humbucker pickup design from the 70s, there's something to the original copper/nickel/iron magnets in them that's tonally separate from other humbuckng pickups of the era and completely different from the HBs that Fender uses now.
https://reverb.com/news/dont-fence-me-in-the-fender-wide-range-humbucker-family

Yep - the idea was to use a machineable ferromagnetic alloy so that you could have magnet polepieces (the Fender sound) but they could also be screwed up and down (a humbucker principle, since Seth Lover did both these and the Gibson PAFs). CuNiFe is machineable with a screw thread (AlNiCo would chip and shatter), but wasn't commercially available after the 70s so they stopped using it. Demand from the boutique pickup market brought it back maybe 5 years ago?

That awful poster with Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc

https://64.media.tumblr.com/9c23f95b19b1ae973739a9aa19cc69de/066454a29e0ad044-87/s1280x1920/0083d48b3dc282ce56b784e38063359051b8f970.jpg

WYRD STALLYNS

https://img.discogs.com/CuSPnqsyolE1E7gxKeNm_I0jKlU=/fit-in/600x607/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3554589-1553317810-4363.jpeg.jpg

Listened to Eric Gale yesterday, and while this isn't *that* bad, it's off enough to trigger my OCD.

https://img.discogs.com/HfuSDC72GDjjM0hK5L7eoKOl5KU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(webp):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-621401-1322586810.jpeg.jpg

Kind of gets worse as it gets into the body, also looks like the artist gave up on the picking hand.

How's that record?

I love that you used to be able to send away for a glossy art print of many Kudu/CTI titles.

And while I love Gale's playing, this one gets too smooth in places for me (Bob James arranged and plays keys.)