HCEG favorite crazy builder featured in esquire

[Lerxst]

somehow internet nutbag guitar builder Zachary Guitars was featured back on ‘07

I was looking for something else’s online and stumbled on this. Oh the memories of that insane rambling geocities site that he used to have. Ed Roman status infamy.


https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a2873/guitar042307/

He still clearly had/has a grudge with PRS but doesn’t go into his Paul is satan theory

 

[Chad]

I just checked out his site and remember those headstocks, but I don't remember him on HC. I think I've blocked most of the HC stuff from my mind

 

[Lerxst]

I just checked out his site and remember those headstocks, but I don't remember him on HC. I think I've blocked most of the HC stuff from my mind

AFAIK, he was never a member of the forum but his guitars and rants posted to his site were often discussed

He had an entire page accusing PRS of personally being satan, you had to audition with him to prove you were qualified to buy one of his dumpster guitars...and on and on. He was Ed Roman on LSD.

 

[jp_nyc]

Ah yes, the dildo headstock guy.

 

[Knox in Box]

For some reason I didn't register HCEG and assumed MWGL.

Thought John Watt made Esquire magazine.

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

Not gonna lie...I kinda wanna audition.

On my PRS.

 

[Lerxst]

Ah yes, the dildo headstock guy.

he and the FAB amps guy should have collaborated....they shared an aesthetic and fondness for dumpster diving

 

[Wyatt]

Didn't he build the IKEAcasters?

 

[Lerxst]

Didn't he build the IKEAcasters?

He did some guitars out of an ikea coffee table top

 

[Grant Harding]

I'm sickened that he's Canadian and can only assume he wasn't born there.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

He’s fun. Never played one of his guitars. The site and rants are hilarious.

 

[Knox in Box]

He’s fun. Never played one of his guitars. The site and rants are hilarious.

 

[Grant Harding]

If he doesn't take himself seriously then it's funny haha, otherwise it's funny eewww.

 

[newbuilder]

Can’t believe a builder would commit to a god awful headstock like that and not have the strings line up straight through the nut. I would give two shits about the fugly headstock if it had the tuners lined up to pull straight through the nut.


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[bsman]

Weird - I hadn't seen these before, so I clicked on the first guitar on his gallery page:

WTF is all that schmutz on the bass side of fretboard? I sure wouldn't be plunking down megabucks on something that looked like that ON THE MAKER'S WEBSITE!!!!

 

[Knox in Box]

That's mojo.

 

[Lerxst]

I was going to grab a link to an archived version of his old site for you guys that never had a chance to see it but no such luck

Sorry.
This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

 

[Guitar Heel]

thought this might have been the guy that made the Jestons style guitars.

 

[Lerxst]

thought this might have been the guy that made the Jestons style guitars.

Backlund? He's a member of a non-guitar forum I'm on and is perfectly normal.

 

[Guitar Heel]

Backlund? He's a member of a non-guitar forum I'm on and is perfectly normal.

Yep!

Oh, I was thinking the "crazy" referred to the guitars. always liked his stuff.