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NAMM Oddities 2008

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I can't tell you how many times I thought to myself, "when is someone going to finally make a guitar in the image of Bast? That would rock!" Oh, I guess I can tell you, that would be zero times.

They've got a pretty good start with the three or four guitars I saw. But they'd better get busy. At last count there are at least 173 different gods in the Egyptian pantheon.

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The Lenore is a limited edition guitar commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of Edgar Allen Poe.

One of the most impressive features is that all of the hardware is handmade. I believe they're only making 50 of them, so when all of these $12,000 guitars have been snapped up, as the raven says, nevermore.

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This isn't just another pretty face. The Paradis has a drop-D extension at the nut, on-board DSP sub-octave processing and can be ordered with a built-in FireWire interface.

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For a guitar that looks like you wouldn't want to meet it in a dark alley, it's got a pretty tame name: R6020. This is a one-of-a-kind custom guitar that looks like they used a chainsaw for the final finish work. I like their use of a piece of rusty metal for the bottom corner. It adds an additional touch of danger.

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Last year Kraken brought us the left-handed tiger guitar. This year they're continuing their mission of making scary-looking instruments, a guitar that's all sharp and pointy and a bass that's just plain creepy.

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This is the Baby Grand model from Marz Guitars. In addition to the artsy cutouts, the back of the guitar is not parallel to the top and it angles slightly towards the neck.

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I don't think they've left any piece of this guitar unadorned. Each guitar is unique because the carving is all done by hand.

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This year they were showing a prototype nylon string guitar that shares many of the same design features of their "Rider" steel string guitar.

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Shhh, Maybe He's Just Sleeping
Or maybe not. I think that skeletons are somewhat less frightening when they're in a fetal position.

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Cute Dead Things
Schecter has made appearances in the Oddities with some outrageous guitar artwork. This year I found their Porl Thompson signature guitar kind of cute and macabre.

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I can't quite figure out if the dragon has stripped the skeleton of everything except his skull and spinal cord or if it's some kind of freakish, dead snake-man.

That guitar stand is pretty extravagant. I wouldn't want to trip over that in the dark.

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A Trio From Charvel/Jackson
I thought these three guitars rose above the usual self-indulgent, garish graphics that abound at NAMM.

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ESPecially Gaudy
On the other hand, these two guitars embody the essence of self-indulgent, garish graphics.

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DSP On The Go
The soon-to-be-released Escape EG-2, from Traveler Guitars, sports on-board signal processing with 16 effects. It's also got a jack so you can plug in your iPod.

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Flying W
On the wall it looks more like a Flying M which, I suppose, is a reasonable interpretation since it's a Dave Mustain model.

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into the Oddities three times with essentially the same guitar. The first time was when they introduced the Inferno Guitar. The second time was when they stuck broken mirror pieces to an Inferno. This year the Inferno goes stealth with a tiger hidden in the flames... or flames hidden around a tiger.

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Luna Sol Paul
Luna has a knack for making instruments that are different enough to end up in the Oddities, yet normal enough for regular folks.

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