Knock-Offs, Rip-Offs, and Just Plain UGLY!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:52 pm

Ah, James Dickey meets Erskine Caldwell meets Bill Faulkner...and you read it all right here, folks!

'Scuse me. I gotta go chop some kudzu out back.

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:29 pm

You laugh. I actually went to med school at Ole Miss, whose main location is Oxford MS, where William Faulkner (his name was really originally spelled Falkner in New Albany, y'know) lived and cultivated his bevy of Southern Belles.....

I did a year resident in Oxford, before transferring to the med school in Jackson MS for three hot sweaty humid years.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:55 pm

Yep. Faulkner had the English chair there, I recall. They hold him in high sainthood (deservedly so...Hemingway could not touch the man IMO).

Other famous locals...Capote and Van Dyke Parks...Capote a Nawlins boy who moved to Alabama.

lyle_from_minneapolis · Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:17 pm

Nice. Faulkner sings patiently, Hemingway jumps straight at you with a boxing glove, and Aitch shoots up in the Gunflint Trail!

Threads don't get any better than this, for me.

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:17 pm

I take it this latest (off)shoot of the thread is covered under the "Knock-offs" subject heading?! Baby Face Bishop......

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:23 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250139101802

LOL...ANCHORS AWAY!!!!

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:36 am

This beautiful guitar is brand-new and has never been played.

I wouldn't dare, either.

sharkboy · Post by **sharkboy** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:56 am

Man, one sneeze and it would be organs on a spike! And how many hands would Pete Townshend have left if he did his windmill trick with that?

I'm even a little concerned about Parkers (one inflicted a little bit of damage to me once)- this thing could really do some harm.

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:22 am

This one doesn't deserve to even be politely labeled "junque"....

Also, how could one play a neck that is only 1.0 inches at the nut? That would take some pretty tiny fingers!

sharkboy · Post by **sharkboy** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:47 pm

"This Guitar is All Hand-Craft work and provides Highest Quality Song."

I think that about sums it up.

johneek · Post by **johneek** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:56 pm

Yeah...but its got a Froyd Lose bridge.....

jps · Post by **jps** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:58 pm

I bet Gene Simmons would love it.

lyle_from_minneapolis · Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:24 pm

So would a Tolkien dwarf.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:56 pm

It is nearly the epitome of Hobbit guitars. If it was made out of a skunkwood burl, instead of being painted that hideous crackle scheme, it would be THE toppermost of the Hobbit Hoppermost.

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:35 am

Yeah,

But WHAT a deal! For under two hundred dollars, you get the Swiss Army knife of guitars.....you get a boat anchor, a hatchet, a mountain climbers hook, and a testicle remover all in one guitar!