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There is an interesting gallery at ABC News featuring guns that have been made into guitars by Columbian luthier, Luis Alberto Paredes. The guns are AK-47s and shotguns that were used by fighters in Columbia’s continuing conflict.

The gallery contains photographs of the creator as well as some of musicians performing with the guitars. There is even a photo of Bob Geldof holding one of the guitars.

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What do you get when you cross Linux with a guitar? You get a guitar with a built in recording studio. Or at least that is what Canadian luthier Mark Kett and linuxcaffe proprietor David Patrick hope to achieve with their Linux Guitar Project.

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This is interesting. Someone made a guitar out of a Sega Genesis.

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This is an interesting video demonstrating the iGuitar from Brian Moore Guitars. I like this guitar because it connects directly to your PC via USB, so it is especially well suited to controlling software instruments.

If you want more information about the various iGuitar models you can find it at the manufacturer’s site. They have several models which range from $995 to $2000+.

This definately seems like a much cooler item than the Fender’s guitar that holds a tablet pc that I posted about previously. I love Fender. I love my Strat, I love my Hot Rod Deluxe, But I’m not too impressed by something where the major technological innovation is routing a big hole.

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I just saw this article on gizmag saying that Fender and Intel have teamed up to produce an internet enabled guitar. It seems like this is a concept guitar and not an actual product.

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