What is this guitar?

[PFDarkside]

On the cover of an old guitar technique book.

 

[jeremy]

its it from jem and the holograms?

 

[Mincer]

It does look like if a kid drew a guitar.

 

[idsnowdog]

Washburn had a few that looked similar in the 80s.

 

[PFDarkside]

It reminds me of a Kramer or Washburn or Carvin take on the Explorer.

 

[Chris Pile]

I've seen it somewhere..... Maybe it will come to me.

 

[solspirit]

Fictional

 

[PFDarkside]

It also looks like inspiration for the Warrior/Xiphos.

 

[beaubrummels]

Only things I can find in the ball park are Hondo, Cort, Aria, Ibanez, Takamine or ESP (all Japanese brands)
But the only ones with that concave lower bout are either kits or custom-made.

 

[PFDarkside]

Well, I just asked Troy. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was all the art/photography department of Hal Leonard and he wasn’t involved, but let’s see.

 

[GuitarStv]

Ugly?



It kinda looks like an upside down Carvin V220:

 

[NegativeEase]

It's probably a custom guitar created to suggest a brand guitar but intended to avoid lawsuits on the cover of a book

 

[PFDarkside]

Ugly?



It kinda looks like an upside down Carvin V220:

Anything and everything looks way better than that Carvin.

 

[Sirion]

I owned that book as a teenager. Ironically, the guitar wouldn't be able to do many of the tricks within it, since most relied heavily on a double-locking tremolo system.

 

[PFDarkside]

It's probably a custom guitar created to suggest a brand guitar but intended to avoid lawsuits on the cover of a book

All of the other books on the covers of that series are Kramers and Hamers. Troy said they picked the most eye catching guitars off the wall in whatever the local guitar shop was in Milwaukee for the photo shoots. Definitely not a big enough budget to commission a guitar, but if it was there it’s easy to see how it would be chosen.

 

[PFDarkside]

I owned that book as a teenager. Ironically, the guitar wouldn't be able to do many of the tricks within it, since most relied heavily on a double-locking tremolo system.

100% true!

 

[GuitarStv]

Anything and everything looks way better than that Carvin.

Getting closer with a Kramer Voyager:

 

[solspirit]

It's probably a custom guitar created to suggest a brand guitar but intended to avoid lawsuits on the cover of a book

. .....ZING

 

[Mincer]

I'd think any company would love to have their guitar featured on a book.

 

[PFDarkside]

I think it’s this! Heritage Terminator, and Brent is/was selling one.

https://forum.seymourduncan.com/forum/the-trading-post/6227420-1986-heritage-terminator#post6227420