The BONGO-GUITAR ! ! !

[Axilla]

Now did THAT headline get you started or what ?!



After playing Bongo 5-string in a not so far away store lately I really fell in love with the shape and playability of that sweet-thang. And remember - I normally don't play bass...

Is there a chance that one fine day there might be a Bongo guitar leaving SLO to please the public and give relief to my sore eyes ?!?

...it's sunday early morn' here in Bavaria and I guess I'm still dreaming, but then again - who knows...

BFR Bongo guitar - a one-off, just for me ?!

Now for my coffee, I need to wake up...

 

[Dead-Eye]

Unlikely
http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-guitars/16582-prediction-speculation-bongo-guitar.html
http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-guitars/32385-rejected-ideas.html#post511986

 

[Axilla]

Oh c'mon Dead-Eye, no use in makin' a broken man cry in the early sunday morn'

Yeah, I know the Bongo-Guitar's proto was ugly, but nowaday looking at Bongo bass production models really makes me think they could do a freaking awesome new guitar design from it.
I'm just soooooo hoping for it

 

[andynpeters]

Just stick a Warmoth neck on a toilet seat!









I remember Sterling Ball posting that it would never be!

 

[Smellybum]

Unlikely
http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-guitars/16582-prediction-speculation-bongo-guitar.html
http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-guitars/32385-rejected-ideas.html#post511986

+1 Run a search for the previous threads, Poppa pretty much said it wouldn't happen....

 

[robelinda2]

It would be mighty cool, if only just to see a different design come out, but the signs are not good! It would be a huge risk if it failed miserably, if as expected 99.9% of guitarists just laugh at it!

 

[Jimmyb]

Can't see the Bongo guitar ever happening, but I agree about the Bongo 5. I'm really loving mine.

 

[Sigmunds Couch]

Saw the prototype at the SLO open house. I'm sure someone will come along and post a picture... It's .........well.............wrong.....

 

[candid_x]

there's always this

 

[Spudmurphy]

^
Candid.
I saw and played one of these around my mates workshop a couple of weeks ago.
A vox organ guitar. The fretboard (frets) is wierd insofar as there are gaps on the fret because of the organ synth. A collectible bit of memorabilia.

 

[fogman]

The Bongo guitar is ugly and I doubt it would ever happen.
Though I admire the fact that they tried it!

Take a look for yourslef!
or just ask Glenn!

 

[dstockden]

The Bongo guitar is ugly and I doubt it would ever happen.
Though I admire the fact that they tried it!

Take a look for yourslef!
or just ask Glenn!

id love a guitar in that colour though!

 

[Smellybum]

What if there was a 'Forum Designed' variation on the bongo - only available via the forum like the Dargies! - That'd be cool??

 

[candid_x]

^
Candid.
I saw and played one of these around my mates workshop a couple of weeks ago.
A vox organ guitar. The fretboard (frets) is wierd insofar as there are gaps on the fret because of the organ synth. A collectible bit of memorabilia.

Cool you got to mess with one. I can't help but admire the polished die cast aluminum parts on that thing. Or maybe chromed or polished stainless?

 

[candid_x]

The Bongo guitar is ugly and I doubt it would ever happen.
Though I admire the fact that they tried it!

Take a look for yourslef!
or just ask Glenn!

Wow, that is too cool! Is that set up as an elec/acoustic? I don't see pickups or knobs? Maybe his hand covers the controls.

 

[Spudmurphy]

Cool you got to mess with one. I can't help but admire the polished die cast aluminum parts on that thing. Or maybe chromed or polished stainless?

I gotta take my hat off to my mate who fixed it - it had more wires than "mission control".
i love going around the workshop - you get to see everything from a Zemaitis guitar in bits in two cardboard boxes, 57 gibbies,50's/60's strats an SG that had belonged to Townshend - and then watching my mate carve a neck from a blank of wood.

At least I introduced him to Birchwood Casey oil/wax which he uses to refurb any EB guitar that comes his way.

Can't say I've ever seen a Bongo around there though!!

 

[JohnnyBoy]

What's so weird about it? Be just right!

HH pickups 5way switch with vol, tone, series/parallel
Options: piezo, roland ready (digi synth version)

 

[beachjammer]

I think it's kinda cool! It's not for me but cool none the less. It's not so drastic and wierd looking than an AL in my opinion. I think that it'd do rather well....

 

[GWDavis28]

Wow, that is too cool! Is that set up as an elec/acoustic? I don't see pickups or knobs? Maybe his hand covers the controls.

That's pretty much just a mock up, nothing real, there were no pickups or controls.

It was very cool in a futuristic sort of way.

As for a forum designed or built guitar, that's what the Dargie Delights were for the most part.

Glenn |B)

 

[candid_x]

I see. Thanks, Glenn. I still think it's cool, but maybe downsized a bit more. Like a buffed up Luke on steroids.