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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 19h

I'm pretty sure it's mahogany.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/10/2026

If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 01/10/2026

Yep! If you want to know more info on any of the guitars I post, check the alt text.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 01/10/2026

Yep! He played ESP guitars for about 5 minutes in the late 80s.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 30/09/2026

That's what I said in the alt text, but I saw an auction listing that said something different, so I started to doubt myself.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 30/09/2026

I don't think the switch is a coil tap, because the single-neck guitars have the same pickup, but no switches. The pickups are original, though. You can see them if you zoom in on this catalog page:

guitar-catalog.com

The World of Musical Instruments Brochures - AriaPro2 Catalog 2000 Page 22

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 30/09/2026

I might be wrong about what I said the switches do in the alt text, but I can't find any info on this guitar anywhere that isn't from auction listings, so I took a guess. One might be a 3-way pickup switch and one might be a 3-way amp switch. I dunno.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 30/09/2026

They shoud've just had one amp like Fernandes did with their Nomad doubleneck.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 29/09/2026

It's from around 2000. At least, that was when the catalog I found it in was published.

guitar-catalog.com

AriaproII Guitars Catalog 2000

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 28/09/2026

ESP THE ALFEE Signature Angel Classic Junior

I've posted a few guitars that ESP made for The Alfee's guitarist Toshihiko Takamizawa (Takamiy), and here's another one. This one is the most normal of the bunch, which is saying something.

The ESP THE ALFEE Signature Angel Classic Junior has a shape that's inspired by a Les Paul, but has went through some rather creative surgery. It's got an asymmetrical waistline, and the cutaway horn has been moved all the way back to where your leg would rest if you played this sitting down. The body also has The Alfee inlaid on it, as well as one of Takamiy's other angel-inspired guitars, making this the only instance I can think of where a guitar's inlaid onto a totally different one.

This guitar's got two humbuckers, and they're controlled by a volume knob and a 3-way switch. It's also got a Floyd Rose trem. The neck has angel inlays and is topped by a curly 4/2 headstock. (Ignore the black things on either side of the headstock; those are from a guitar stand.)

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 28/09/2026

He sure did! I've posted a few of his basses. Here's my favorite pic of him that I've posted. The bass isn't that weird, but the picture has a great story behind it.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 27/09/2026

It's not the first time I've had to clarify that a luthier wasn't the more famous (or, in this case, infamous) person of the same name:

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 27/09/2026

If you wanna get into lefties mangling a right-handed guitar, check out what somebody did to Michael Bloomfield's Telecaster:

youtube.com

G.E. Smith Jams on the Guitar That Killed Folk!

YouTube video by Vintage Guitar

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 27/09/2026

Vox had a similar model that was made out of a case for a wah pedal.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 27/09/2026

It was already kinda a thing, though.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 27/09/2026

If I had a nickel for every bass legend that's hacked up a Fender, etc. etc.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 25/09/2026

It's definitely got some Gibson DNA.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 24/09/2026

Not if you have your amp turned up loud enough.

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 24/09/2026

Each string has its own piezo pickup, and the electronics treats each one as its own signal and can pitch shift a string up or down based on what tuning you have programmed.

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