GPOTD 4.2.18

[Help!I'maRock!]

Bear Guitars Gryphon 2018 Natural

A brand new design, sleek and curvy super carved semi hollow and French polished guitar, a spalted maple Top on a stunningly figured meranti base

Tim McNelly Famous Stagger Swaggers, brilliant humbucking pickups with a sound all of their own

Carefully designed and hand made pickup surrounds to match the shape of the guitar, along with hand made knobs and switch tip

Rosewood fingerboard on a maple neck, with a unique Bear headstock design, augmented with an american cherry inlay inlay

Hipshot through body bridge to bell bronze tone bock

rear mounted jack socket to preserve lines

https://reverb.com/item/11160840-bear-guitars-gryphon-2018-natural

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

Grotesque.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Huh. Not boring. Not sure if I like it or I am just intrigued. Would want to check it out anyway.

 

[telecaster911]

I read that as Bear Grylls or whatever his name is.

 

[jelloman]

Pretty impressive craftsmanship...2100.00 for an all handmade one-off is a lot less than I was expecting...

That being said, I don't like it...

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Grotesque.

Maybe Balaguer will sue him for headstock infringement.

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

Maybe Balaguer will sue him for headstock infringement.

*redacted*

 

[Psychotronic]

:belsmash:

 

[wok]

Waste of nice wood

 

[jp_nyc]

Poop.

 

[Tig]

It looks just like my dad's California hippy furniture.
True story.

 

[BlackCat]

It's very ugly but it does have a certain oddball appeal.

 

[reverend1]

Wow, everything on that guitar is terrible. Body, f-hole, pickup rings, switch, and the tuners.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

It looks just like my dad's California hippy furniture.
True story.

I was going to say, oddly I don't dislike that too much. They ruined it for me with the gold hardware, though.

 

[mongooz]

so a reverse 1970's Gibson RD Artist with a Tele headstock.

 

[yabba]

I saw one of those on reverb the other day and shuddered. yarf.

 

[reverend1]

so a reverse 1970's Gibson RD Artist with a Tele headstock.

Equally appalling.

 

[yabba]

so a reverse 1970's Gibson RD Artist with a Tele headstock.

yes, but without the refined sense of proportion and balance that everyone knows and loves about the RD

 

[Dexter Inferno]

Yikes, that's hideous.

So is the Gibby RD btw.

 

[sleewell]

i kinda like it but the f hole looks poorly done.