Whats the worst sounding guitar you have ever owned?

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Ever heard of a Bryan?

I picked up a guitar from a pawn shop once because it was cheap and learned to play on it. The brand was called "Bryan". The intonation was awful. I later found out the company that made the guitar was no longer in existence. Ever heard of "Bryan's?
 
Ever heard of a Bryan?

Wasn't "A life of Bryan" a Monty Python movie?
Maybe it all fits?
 
My first electric I assembled from other crappy guitars for about $100. Washburn junior body, beat up squire neck, Carvin gold bridge and tuners and I have no idea wht the pickups were, I think they were from an old Ibanez my friends dad had. Then I painted it myself and drilled holes in it. It sounded like ass, but it looked pretty cool.
 
Mom and Dad bought my first guitar for $20 (full retail!) from Sears,a Silvertone acoustic with 6 finger-slicers for "strings".No really,I thought your fingers were supposed to bleed like that...
Tom
 
Vintage Sears Silvertone Guitar with amp in the guitar case. Those silver lipstick tube pickups..... What a sound.
 
You mean a guitar can sound bad ?

Thought it was just me....

...oh, a Kay acoustic with 3/4 " action at the nut.
 
Mom and Dad bought my first guitar for $20 (full retail!) from Sears,a Silvertone
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My first was also a Sears Silvertone. Mine was a thin hollow body electric with this crazy vibrato bridge. If you breathed on the bridge this thing would go out of tune!

At 9 years old I 'bout had an orgasm when I first saw it! It kinda looked like a Casino in 3 tone sunburst.

Gee, who was playing one of those in '69? :D


BTW- Tom, I'm glad you posted because for years I haven't been able to remember if it was Swingertone or Silversumthin'.
 
SILVERTONES???

Middleman said:
Vintage Sears Silvertone Guitar with amp in the guitar case. Those silver lipstick tube pickups..... What a sound.
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I'm hoping you mean that in a positive way, but this thread is about "the absolute worst guitar," so I think perhaps not. Thing is, I had one of those amp-in-the-case things as well: a 1963/64 Silvertone Model 1457 w/2 "lipstick" pickups. I bought it from a friend for $25.00. I LOVED the way it sounded! Those guitars are actually quite good, considering they're made of masonite and assorted other relatively low-grade materials. They look really cool, too. One bad point about it was the little rosewood saddle. This was just a thin slice of wood with 6 little grooves in it, and after a lot of rather boistrous playing those grooves widened and caused all the strings to buzzzzzzzzzzz like a sitar. Still, it was a cool axe. Unfortunately, I was young and thought it needed a new paint job, so it went from red-black metalflake sunburst to solid earth brown. (Hey, this was the 70's). Another angst-ridden friend and I eventually did a Pete Townshend number to it. Sad!

No, the WORST guitar I ever had was a Teisco I ordered through the mail in '76 or thereabouts. When I got it, it looked like someone at the factory had used a giant metal claw to grab it and hoist it into the box. Huge nicks in the paint! And that neck....! No amount of adjusting could ever have removed all of those twists and turns. Essentially unplayable from the word go.

The second worst was a Kay SG copy. Terrible intonation, lame, .. no, downright GROSS tone. Looked cool, though.

Bruce in Korea
 
Hey Bruce !

Have a look at my thread in the cave - I'm looking for people in Korea. Will be going to Seoul on a posting this summer.
Thanks,
Mike
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atomictoyz said:
I have my Moms Harmony Stella Acoustic..3/4 size..SEARS or JC.Penney, yup, its my vote to.


Peace,
Dennis
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I second that. Even though i owe so so much to that guitar, my grandma gave it to my dad who gave it to my brother who was kind enough to let my play it one day and i got hooked. so without i wouldn't be here. But the sound SUCKS!
 
1975 Epiphone hollow-body electric, fire-engine red, -played through a cheap-ass fender solid state practice amp. Yecch.
 
I have to vote for the Sears Silvertone Acoustic with yes six finger slicers for strings. I was lookin for a steal on the Silvetone Electrics after they stared becoming colectabel and I saw an add in the paper for $10 or $15.

I never knew they (whoever they is) made Silvertone Acoustics. Any way it was in a bad part of Oklahoma City and after finally finding the dump of a rental house I felt to sorry for the guy not to buy it. It still sits at my parents house and aftet having it for 15+ years I have never been able to get it in tune once.

For electrics my worst was the dreaded Peavy T-60.
 
TREBLES are you kidding ?

The only electric guitar I have owned up to now, bought in USA in 1974, is a Gibson Marauder ... and sounds damn great as I may understand from comments of any guitar-enthousiast, -player, ... who's listening to what I'm doing !!!???

I was able to compare with those fancy Fender Stratocaster (last decade models), with the Fender Telecaster, with the Godin (I like their sustain and their wood work - lutherie in french), with other Gibson models, ... I've never been disappointed by the comparison !
 
a randy rhoads copy from marathon (or something...) pro series

The totally mindnumbing part is that i replaced the stock bridge humbucker (which sounded pretty good , concidering the guitar... kinda like rolling the tone knob all the way back on a NORMAL guitar) with a di marzio PAF pro... I'm tellin' ya, you have never heard a more trebly thin ugly gross guitar through a fender frontman 15 watts... ever! it sounded like i was cutting of all bass and mids and pushing treble into 12... REALLY bad...

Did hook it up in the normal way, but got this totally wierd sound...

oh and it was impossible to play when sitting down...

guhlenn:rolleyes:
 
While at Sam Ash......

I tried one of those Martin Backpackers. The first thing that came to mind was, why?

Why would Martin, a company that makes such great sounding guitars, also make such a complete piece of crap.

Not only did it sound horrible, but playing it is damn near impossible, as there's no place to rest your arm.

This gets my vote for the worst sounding acoustic, and it's a Martin, go figure.

GT
 
A "Global" Sears Sapsucker with the Global amp. Got it for Christmas when I was 9. The guitar and I sounded equally bad. I loved that guitar and I still have it. When I was 12 I blew the speaker on the amp out of it when I connected it to my Crate amp. Did bother to read the instructions.
 
1 : Lyle Les Paul copy
2 : Goya RangeMaster
3 : Peavey T 60 & T 40
4 : any Ovation
5 : Viper ( see above )
6 : Hammer Dulcimer with P 90's
 
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