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The AK47 electric guitar!
When you absolutely, positively, got to ROCK every everyone in the room

 

 

Colombian instrument maker Jose Paredes cleans AK47 rifles to be used as parts of electric guitars in his workshop in Bogota, Colombia. A top musical craftsman, Luis Alberto Paredes and his family have branched out from their fine classic string instruments to fashion electric guitars from shotguns and AK47s once used by fighters caught up in the country’s lingering conflict. (Jose Miguel Gomez/Reuters)

 

 

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I swear, all my life I have wondered why Slash didn't have a guitar like this. I mean come on! It was Guns and Roses!

 

Because he went through about 40 Les Paul / pickup combos before he got that sound, if you're asking a super-literal question.  It's something special when you can play an LP through a Marshall and still have an instantly recognizable sound, though his phrasing is a big part of that.  One of my favorite players, even when he sits in on crappy songs.

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[quote name="StPatrick" post="1004211" timestamp="1374538069"]Because he went through about 40 Les Paul / pickup combos before he got that sound, if you're asking a super-literal question.  It's something special when you can play an LP through a Marshall and still have an instantly recognizable sound, though his phrasing is a big part of that.  One of my favorite players, even when he sits in on crappy songs.[/quote


Actually "that sound" was a complete accident. He warped the neck on his BC Rich and the manager if the band at the time showed up with an "old les Paul" that wasn't actually a Les Paul at all but rather a hand built clone know as "the Hunter Burst" while know one knows exactly who built it (or at least wouldn't admit it as of 5 years ago) it is rumored to be a Max or Roman Rist piece.

As for the pickups, plain wire, scatter wound over alnico II magnets and you've pretty much got it. ;)



Now back on topic, this old boy used to play with Alice Cooper and I personally think had one of the cooler gun guitars. 357E3F36-1C48-436B-A6AE-9287C4ABEE02-808

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For just a little bit more on the whole Slash thing, he has since then gone through at least 40 different guitar/pickup/amp combos and even stuck with some for awhile, but when we think early G&R we're thinking about a Gibson that wasn't.
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