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Eventually, he contacted Irwin and asked him to create a custom guitar ... the last three guitars, which were all made by Doug Irwin, Lightning Bolt was created by yacht builder Stephen Cripe.

From custom guitars to truly bizarre contraptions ... an electronics engineer, started to hand-build an electric guitar in 1963. May said: “My dad and I decided to make an electric guitar.

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Van Halen was also a mad scientist off stage, custom-building and drastically modifying his guitars and amplifiers in an eternal pursuit of better sound. Ironically, in 1984 Eddie Van Halen ...

This sort of up-mixing isn’t uncommon and it isn’t always bad, but the implementation here is really quite unpleasant, adding a weird echo to Maynard James Keenan’s vocals and making the guitars sound ...