Krappy Guitars

[The Owl]

Anyone here own or play any of Kevin Seibold's rather unique creations?

www.krappyguitars.com

You gotta love a luthier who doesn't take himself too seriously, makes some fun novelty instruments but can also turn out some serious ones (see the Touch Guitar section).

As for me, I'm now taking delivery of a Twiggy 4 electric upright bass he built for me.

C'mon folks, you can admit it here-----------

 

[Hellion]

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Well, I'll give you that they're indeed unusual....

 

[Uk Ant]

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They is some weird ass stuff

 

[JeffB]

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I love his endorsers (Artists) page :laugh2:

 

[Uk Ant]

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Just read their manifesto

'Our warranty: There is no warranty, expressed or
implied. We fully acknowledge our product is crap, and
your purchase signifies that you have entered into an
agreement to buy a product that is lacking in quality,
contains poor materials, and is worthy of much abuse
and destruction. We will in no way provide any
customer service, so don't even waste your time!!!'

Love it

 

[ImmortalSix]

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I can't hold it in any longer


That stuff looks awful! The shapes, the craftsmanship, the hardware, it all looks terrible.

I'm not sorry, that stuff is Busch league


That's apparently what he's going for, though.

 

[Frantic_Rock]

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Awesome. Krappy and proud of it!!

The artists page is jokes!!!

 

[KeeperOS]

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I can't talk about the guitars but that's one Krappy site alright :9:

Tell us how it'll go man

 

[Frantic_Rock]

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Gotta love the "Flippitar" and the "GuiToilet"
under the exotic sections.

 

[Frantic_Rock]

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And the 1/2 fretless neck - that's pretty darned creative.

Eat my shorts...

 

[Frantic_Rock]

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Maybe I can get him to make me an aluminum guitar with 29 frets, and 5 more whole tone frets after that, and 8 strings...

 

[guitfiddle]

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It's like the difference between movies...some aspire to be A movies, and end up B. Some movies start out to be B, and succeed wildly. This is kinda like that.

The double-neck mando/cittern is interesting, not cause I would buy this one, but cause the idea's great!!

 

[J Moose]

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Dude!!!

Kevin's one of my favorite peoples!

He lives about 20 minutes away... and lest anyone thinks its all a joke, the guy's a SUPER bad-azz guitarist & actually pretty serious in a ludicrous way. Plays a lot of jazz/funk stuff... 6-sting and Chapman Stick as well.

Check this out, his son who's about 10 or 11 made the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1166rOKd08

Or his old band the Roamin Garbriels; Organ, guitar & drums ~ live chicken fingers!

http://www.roamingabriels.com/media.html


hahahaha

I have to have him build me a stick one of these years...

 

[ex-250]

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dude playing one with a bow- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1St1y9yeu0

sounds evil.

 

[open]

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The product got the name right,the website is cool though.

 

[The Owl]

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I love his endorsers (Artists) page :laugh2:

That is PRICELESS!

 

[The Owl]

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And here it is, with yours truly and my alter-ego:

First impressions, this thing has got a GRRRRRRRRROWWWLLL to it for sure. Great tone, well built, action is a little higher than a bass guitar but that's part of the character of electric uprights, it allows the strings to vibrate and slap against the fingerboard, giving it that unique character.

 

[KeeperOS]

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You know there was an article somewhere about a luthier that made a guitar out of a table he bought from IKEA :9:
He put all of his skill and attention to make it as perfect as possible and according to him the results were great playability (albeit with "unique" looks) and a wicked cool tone.

Obviously his point was that you don't need expensive and exotic wood to make a great guitar.

I kinda think that this guy as well tries to show the same

 

[Guest]

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I'll say it... they are all Krap!



I like some of them.