Or how about that Reverse Explorer? Blech.
Take a chunk off the back end of that reverse Explorer and you get the same basic body shape of the Dimebag signature Dean, which is a tone monster and playable as hell as long as you don’t let go of the neck. Those headstocks weigh like 5lbs…
Then there’s also the Holy Flying V…
S^G
As a guitarist, I don’t have an opinion without playing it.
As a designer/artist guy I think it looks pretty nice. It really screams “made of wood” more than any other guitar I can think of… even acoustics.
And I’ve got professional respect for the way the designer was able to put two eye-like holes in the body and then arrange the angles so that the guitar doesn’t look like a strange Pokeman critter.
The human mind really wants to turn those sort of holes into eyeballs and then build a creature around them. It’s can be a tough design struggle to frustrate that instinct. (Of course the designer could have just left out those holes, and side-stepped the problem.)
It does kinda look like a skull, but it looks even more like the cowcatcher on a choo-choo train. Rawk and rollll, dudes!
I think the Holy Explorer looks better than the standard Explorer (there’s less of it to look at). They’re both the ugliest guitars I’ve ever seen from a top shelf guitar company. I’ve never had the opportunity to play one.
I’m no guitar player but I saw this mentioned on New Inventors recently and thought ‘Huh, that sounds like a sensible sort of idea!’. Looks more than a little odd though.
I would want to play it, and then decide how it sounds. Call me an empiricist if you want, but that’s what I would do.
Or if I hit the lotto numbers I’d buy all 350 of them and let them out, 1 at a time, for like, $10,000 each. 
That is one ugly guitar. I looks like a bar pretzel.
As a guitar player, I agree with you.
As woodworker/luthier, that construction, unless laminated, plied, veneered core or some other workaround, has serious short grain problems. An energetic youngster or Geritol Pete will shortly find him/herself with a Bo Diddley.
WordMan, I’m gonna make you an axe covered in Astroturf, or if you’re a true Green, LonGuyland sod. Getting rather crotchety, you are.
Hey, Mr. Scientific Method, don’t get all Aristotelian on me; it doesn’t conform to my Platonic ideal, and therefore it must go. QED
:D:D
Of course you are right, and I would love the opportunity to do the same. Every guitar-playing fiber of my being thinks that thing will bark like a dog, but what the heck do I know without playing it? I am just snarking without a license in the echo-chamber that is the internet. Hey, does that make me a Guitar Pundit™?? :smack:
And **Carson **- yep, although I am in the NYC area now, I am a Californian born and bred. But an Astroturf-covered guitar sounds about right - being crotchety, I can take it away from anyone who wants to try it by saying “now get off my lawn!” 
I think it looks cool.
I only play guitars that have enough firepower to take on a guerilla outpost or terrorist training camp.
Yeah I noticed that, too. I think that’s one of the reasons it “screams” made of wood. Sucker looks like parts of it are ready to snap off.
Now that, my friends, is a wondr’us post.