I never saw one of these before.

octagon · Post by **octagon** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:47 pm

Weird Old Kraftsman electric guitar

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=290140448109

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:55 pm

Wow. That must be from their "Freshman Shop Class" line of Zolotone sweeties...

Haven't seen elegance like that since they blew up the old shipping crate factory down the block...

dr_wahnsinn · Post by **dr_wahnsinn** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:43 pm

Paul said; "Haven't seen elegance like that since they blew up the old shipping crate factory down the block..."

ROTFLMAOPIMP!

By the way Paul, did you receive that photo?

kenposurf · Post by **kenposurf** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:15 pm

Could use a relic job..thats a nice sounding pup though

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:30 pm

I always knew Ohio was a little strange, but it never looked like that!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:51 pm

Looks more like a distorted, simplified Joizy.

charlyg · Post by **charlyg** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:32 pm

It looks like my Formica counter top!

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:34 pm

Just to save the ebay pix...

what is that... a slab of formica? Must weigh a ton. And those strings look like they haven't been changed since day one.

One web site says: "Old Kraftsman was a brand name of the Spiegel catalog. Most of the guitars bearing this name were made by the Kay Musical Instrument Company in Chicago, which went out of business in 1968."

Here's a pix of a more reasonable looking Old Kraftsman from 1961:

http://vintageguitarpro.com/1961oldkraftsmanvl.shtml

and one from 1962:

http://www.vintaxe.com/guitars_american.htm

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:36 pm

Holy Bo Diddly, Batman! What a guitar.

JimK

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:06 am

The one on Ebay looks like they got halfway done cutting the body shape, decided to cut the headstock shape and accidentally cut half of it off. At that point, they decided to leave bad enough alone.

lennon211 · Post by **lennon211** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:08 am

A friend of mine has one. It's a crazy guitar. It really is just like having a guitar made out of a kitchen counter top.