MotorAve Fastback - gorgeous contemporary American guitar design

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We've previously looked at another guitar from MotorAve, namely their BelAire model (as used by Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme). The above pictured guitar, however, looking like nothing else on Earth is a MotorAve Fastback. The guitar was designed and built from solid mahogany by Mark Fuqua in Los Angeles and is one of the earliest that he made with a serial number of 0004.

Currently listed on eBay with a Buy It Now price of £2,000.

G L Wilson

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John Paul Jones's Manson Custom Bass Lapsteel

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Addendum to my previous Melobar post:

the first time I noticed a Melobar style lapsteel guitar was in a video of Them Crooked Vultures showing John Paul Jones playing a custom made (by Manson, hence the trademark embedded Kaoss pad) strap-on bass lapsteel (photo) - I actually wrote a post about them, but at the time I was more interested in Homme's Maton guitar and Jones's Manson bass mandolin!

I'm not a fan of Them Crooked Vultures' music but I must admit that they have a very good taste in instruments. Besides Jones's Manson lapsteel, we can see in this video Homme playing his MotorAve BelAir and Johannes who took over bass duty with a violin bass that looks like an original Höfner (couldn't see the brand but the headstock shape fits)(can't tell about Grohl's drums, this is out of my domain!).

bertram

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BelAire MotorAve

There are not only vintage guitars and famous brands in life, everywhere in the world there are more or less small local guitar companies and luthiers making marvellous instruments, such as this beautiful BelAire MotorAve. Unfortunately this is the kind of guitar I will never play, not only that I can never afford it, but I'd be upset playing with such an expensive instrument... But it would look so good in my hands!

bertram