Fun with virtual guitar builders…

This is why I don’t design guitars.

This is my new Tetris.  (Thankfully I’ve never had a phone cool enough to play Angry Birds.)  Online guitar builders are popping up like mad, and now there’s a contest for making the ugliest one over at Joe Gore’s Tone Fiend blog:

• Mini-Contest: Misadventures in Body Building

Go try your luck at making the worst!  There is some serious competition over there.  Sadly, I like some of the “bad” color schemes.  I guess I do like goofy guitars after all.  (You may remember the mutant beauty pageant.)

I even used one of the guitar builders to help plan out my Turner’s Iced Tea guitar idea.

Poorly Thrown Together Iced Tea Guitars

Matt at Guitar WTF has also posted a great list of virtual guitar builders in the past.  Some are great, some are not so great.  They all seem to have some bugs as well as some great qualities.

I’ll list the ones I know about:

• http://www.usacustomguitars.com/virtualguitar.html
• http://www.fender.com/community/guitarbuilder/
• http://www.baileyguitars.co.uk/builder/
• http://www.frankmontag.com/
• http://www.yajimastringworks.com/tct/yswtct-kisekae-e.asp
• http://www.offsetguitars.com/dressing_room/index.htm
• http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/BeginBodyBuilder.aspx
• http://www.nymphusa.com/kisekae/kisekaeE1.asp

Are there any glaring omissions?

I’m fully expecting one of these to pop upon the Guitarz blog one day.  None are as crazy as the Tom Bingham stuff or Bertram’s, though.

I still haven’t seen a virtual guitar builder that can do this though. I did a Google image search for ‘Tetris Guitar’ and came up short. This was the next best thing. It would be cool if it still worked to play video games.  Really though, $190 is a very reasonable price.  If I had $200 to spare, I’d get one of these.

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