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Togaman: Bowed Guitar. A 1960's psychedelic rocker gimmick? Not on TogaMan's watch. The TogaMan GuitarViol is one of the most developed hybrid of guitar and violas out there. It seriously expands a guitar player's artistic arsenal by bridging the gap between guitar and bowed strings worlds. (MIDI features are also available on electric models.) Perhaps that is why the TogaMan is rapidly gaining popularity with so many of today's top Artists and Film/TV composers. "300" is one of the many movie scores where you can hear this instrument effectively used. In 2005, Guitar Player Magazine declared the TogaMan GuitarViol to be "….first rate …very compelling…"Website: Togaman

Born to Rock: Born To Rock F4 guitar and bass feature a hollow aluminum framework body that produces attack and overtones impossible to achieve on wooden guitars. Think of the difference between the dynamics of a piano (with a metal frame) and a harpsichord, and you can imagine the improvement this creates. Get the resonance of a fine acoustic, with the crunch and sustain of an electric. They have many unique guitars in their showcase.Website: Born to Rock

Dramm Guitars: Dramm Guitars by Thomas Dramm delevoped the Botar to be the ultimate meeting of guitar and bow. To create an electric guitar that one can successfully play with a bow, it was necessary to redesign the neck and the fingerboard, the body, the bridge, the pickups and the electronics. All other parts of the conventional electric guitar are unchanged. Website: Dramm Guitars

Fuquay Guitars: Fuqyay Inlay & Guitar Company specializies in elaborate custom designs in hand-cut shell and pearl inlay & hand-crafted electric guitars in unique designs. These inlays are beautiful and expressive.Website: Fuquay Guitars

Gander Guitars: Luthier Ray Gander produces some of the most uniquely designed and most beautiful exotic wood custom guitars in the world. Ray’s incorporation of three patented construction features, including a LARGE DIMENSION INTERNAL CARBON FIBER REINFORCEMENT BEAM, places them among the best guitars in the world. The absolute beauty of the wood on these items is hypnotizing. There sleek design is done in a voluptuous form.Website: Gander Guitars

Girl Brand Guitars: Girl Brand Guitars is innovation at its best. They feature some of the most original guitar designs ever! The Shop girl is absolute genius! Using Tip2strip technology the pin up model on this guitar actually loses her swimsuit! All of the artist guitars are true works of art! Website: Girl Brand Guitars

Auerswald Guitars: Auerswald is the inventor of the Sustainbow and has many other unique guitars in its showcase.Website: Auerswald Guitars

Garage Guitars: Gargage Guitars site features wonderfully unique guitars from a collection by guitar maker Michael Spalt .From the Brass Bhudda electric guitar to the Ruby, you are gauranteed to be wowed by the beauty and unusual design approach Michael takes when creating a guitar..Website: Garage Guitars

Gigliotti Guitars: Gigliotti Custom Guitars has developed a unique design, something special, that you will find nowhere else. By combining special chambers with an innovative metal plate insert, laminated into the guitar face they have managed to create guitars that look as good as they sound. My favorite is the powder pink ,but if pinks isn't your color they have many other exquisitely designed guitars.Website: Gigliotti Guitars

Gus Guitars: Gus Guitars can be described using the same words you might use to descibe a sunset or a flower. They are alluring, dazzling , and radiant. The craftmanship of these uniquely designed beautys delivers over and over again. Website: Gus Guitars

Iglesias Guitars: Igelias Guitars has taken its use of wood in making guitars and transformed it into a seemling pliable matter, molding guitars into some of the most captivating wood work ever to be seen on a guitar. The "rattlesnake" guitar is mesmorizing! The fact that ever piece is one of a kind only adds to the special quality of these guitars.Website: Iglesias Guitars

James Trussart Guitars: James Trussart is one of the few builders who has broken the mold of traditional guitar making. Working with steel as the primary material, he produces guitars that are as unique in appearance as they are in tone. Trussart crafts custom steel-bodied guitars, basses and violins in a dazzling array of finishes, reminiscent of shiny chrome resonator instruments and rusty, weathered or fossilized discarded machinery. Many of the Trussart models feature patterns either engraved or literally imprinted into the metal bodies or on the pickguard or headstock. Engraved skulls, roses and tribal art are some of the more common themes, while others feature textures of alligator skin or plant materials. He literally ‘sandwiches’ the metal with the alligator skin and lets it sit in water for several days. Website: James Trussart Guitars

John Birch Superyob: John Birch Guitars are truy unique. You can't help but do a double take when you get a chance to see one of these guitars. These were launched to celebrate the limited edition John Birch Superyob 2001 guitar. Located in London, these are true international beauties.Website: John Birch Superyob

Ken's Guitarz: Ken'z original creations, made by Ken McLennan are true works of art. The GUy-tar is my favorite ,the body of this guitar resembles a mans face. This guitar is unique and enjoyable. Ken is working on the hand guitar which I'm sure will be just as wonderful as his past designs.Website: Ken's Guitarz

Lancaster Guitars: Langcaster ™ guitars are made from stunning 35,000 year old swamp Kauri .If this isn't unusual enough,the stunning body design makes this guitar a true contender.Website: Lancaster Guitars

Lieber Guitars: Martin Dixon produces quality handmade guitars and basses, from Marquetry adorned guitars, Hand painted guitars, Patchwork guitars or more conventional models.Website: Lieber Guitars

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McInturff Guitars: McInturff Guitars feature award winning construction and timeless design. The wood is beautiful and the designs are intoxicating. Website: McInturff Guitars

McSwain Guiatrs: McSwain Guitars owner ,artist/luthier and musician Stephen McSwain, decided to create a new breed he likes to call "functional art." Each instrument is hand made, one at a time, and has unique characteristics that make it a highly collectible guitar or piece of art, depending on how you look at it. The website has interesting info on the guitar owners and the concept behind these impressive works of art.Website: McSwain Guiatrs

Metal Carver Guitars: Metal Carver guitars were machined from billet aluminum stock on manually controlled machine tools. The properties of alloy aluminum enhance sustain and bring out harmonics that you cannot hear on wood guitars. If there was a guitar defintion for the term "cool" ,this series of guitars could easily be it!Website: Metal Carver Guitars

PheoGuitars.com: Phil Sylveter creates one of a kind handmade guitars. Each guitar begins as a loose idea in Phils' head which he expresses by using such items as drift wood, hub caps, or anything else interesting.Website: PheoGuitars.com

Rhinehart Guitars: Rhinehart Guitars are each one-of-a-kind, hand-carved and hand-painted electric solidbodies. The bodies are relief-carved pictures in a cool folk art style and feature: fish, birds, dogs, horses, bikers, drunks, Mona, mardi-gras second liners, and rockets piercing the moon.Each headstock is also carved and painted in a unique style that fits the given guitar's theme. Website: Rhinehart Guitars

Shark Attack Guitars: Shark Attack guitars designs guitars made to stand out in the some time mundane world of guitar design. The Shark-fin design is impressive in its simple yet aggresive aethestic appeal. The natural wood finish and shape also lend themselves to a tactile quality. After viewing these guitars you won't be able to shake the infamous theme music from the movie "jaws" out of your head!Website: Shark Attack Guitars

Simon Lee Guitars: Simon Lee Guitar has taken the concept of going green to a new level. The guitar bodies are made from recycled polymers (plastics) reclaimed from a variety of sources both industrial and domestic. So instead of ending up as land fill, this material becomes a Cyclotron Guitar. The necks and cores are made from maple which is harvested from managed temperate forests. The design has come about as a re-evaluation of modern guitar making. The use of new materials leads to exciting new outcomes.Website: Simon Lee Guitars

Specimen Products: Specimen custom series of instruments balance individuality with craftmanship. The aluminum series is absolute visual euphoria.Website: Specimen Products

Starr Labs: Starr Labs has truly taken the reigns of their expressive power by creating some extremely unique and aesthetically pleasing items.Website: Starr Labs

Teuffel Guiatrs: Teuffel Guitars has taken creative licsence in their interpretation of the guitar. The birdfish, which has won many awards, is an example of abstract visual arts blending with the craftmanship of guitar design. Website: Teuffel Guiatrs

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