Afri-can guitars?!

[RCB]

http://www.african-guitars.com/pelect.htm


I wonder how bad they sound....

[Drew]

???

No way in hell should a guitar made from a gas can cost $2250.

[Algiman]

These things have their own special place in guitar history!

I'd love to try one but I can't see it ever being my first choice gigging axe.

[bluealien]

Wow those are some old cans... They have sound bytes on the web site:

http://www.african-guitars.com/guitars.htm

Doest sound bad for a can....

[dangomles]

yeah, those dont sound terribly bad

[pawel]

Those are incredibly cool, I want one!

[fettouhi]

2k+????

Regards

André

[eufobia]

...this is the uglyest thing that i've ever seen in my life...worst than everything in the market...what kind of a twisted mind could create that s@#t...

[mi2tom]

It's somethng different I have to say... but will it sound good??? it certainly look funny

[NeglectedField]

Look at the string spacing. Ewww!

Mind, if I woke up in the middle of Africa and had no access to a better guitar I'd make do with one of them!

[ChopTart]

Originally Posted by NeglectedField

Look at the string spacing. Ewww!

Mind, if I woke up in the middle of Africa and had no access to a better guitar I'd make do with one of them!

By making one yourself? maybe.
For 2 grand? maybe not.

[Apple_Horn]

They doesnt sound so bad, but no way that I would buy one of those !!!

[wallopwallop]

Originally Posted by eufobia

...this is the uglyest thing that i've ever seen in my life...worst than everything in the market...what kind of a twisted mind could create that s@#t...

The mind that doesn't have access to, or indeed the money to buy expensive brand guitars . There's a lot of poor people in South Africa so they built them out of what they could.

Still, I do agree that to market these for $2k plus is a joke. My parents recently came back from a trip to South Africa and saw these for about $150. Don't know if they were the real 'afri-can' deal or not..........