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Billy Boy Guitars

Postby pigihangeev » Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:54 am

Hi all!
Has anyone ever heard about this Italian new brand?
I dig that vibrato tailpiece, very eccentric:

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He got a myspace page and there you can see more images of his guitars:

http://www.myspace.com/billyboyguitars

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Re: Billy Boy Guitars

Postby gplayer » Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:45 am

That is so ugly in a great way. I love it. :lol:
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Re: Billy Boy Guitars

Postby zarfnober » Sat Mar 20, 2010 7:40 am

Very cool!

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Re: Billy Boy Guitars

Postby Veenture » Sat Mar 20, 2010 7:46 am

To me it looks a bit 'Rickenbackeresque' with a skull-motif tailpiece to boot; the strings are retained where 6 front teeth used to sit :mrgreen:
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Re: Billy Boy Guitars

Postby CookieMan » Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:26 am

You said it, gplayer. I'm looking at some more of their designs and they are downright repulsive. I dig that! :mrgreen:

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Re: Billy Boy Guitars

Postby jtr654 » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:20 am

It look like a 60's Martin Electric .
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Re: Billy Boy Guitars

Postby Dennisthe Menace » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:46 am

jtr654 wrote:It look like a 60's Martin Electric .

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Postby Sarah93003 » Sat Apr 17, 2010 9:28 am

I like it. I'd take that in a 12 string version. I'll bet that Jack White would love beating the crap out of that one. :mrgreen:
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Re: Billy Boy Guitars

Postby oipunkguy » Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:01 am

...it looks like a rickenbacker that fell down the stairs and was repaired by ray charles, but hey that's just me ;)
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Re: Billy Boy Guitars

Postby Veenture » Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:01 pm

oipunkguy wrote:...it looks like a rickenbacker that fell down the stairs and was repaired by ray charles, but hey that's just me ;)
:lol: Hey Aaron, ...not just you ;)
Back in the sixties our country was proud to have a very popular piano player/composer who also sang as he played. He suffered from the same affliction as Ray and wore dark glasses too.
The joke went around as follows: You would pose the question to somebody at random: "Did you see J. de Korte's new piano yet?" ten times out of ten the answer would be "no" and then you would retort: "nor did he..."

OK, OK, I'm off, before someone attacks me now... :? ... :mrgreen:
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