Kurt Cobain's Least Known Guitar (I got it)
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
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Kurt Cobain’s Ferrington Custom
This guitar was custom built by Danny Ferrington, who allegedly met with the band backstage during the SNL gig in January 1992. He kept in touch with Kurt while the band went on tour in Australia, and he was sent drawings from Kurt via fax on how he imagined this guitar to look like.
The Ferrington guitar is modeled after a Fender Mustang for the most part but features a few important differences. It holds three pickups compared to Mustang’s two. The bridge pickup is a humbucker, while the neck and middle pickups are single coils, with the middle one being angled. They are made by a company called Bartolini, and the humbucker had a coil split - giving Kurt more control over the tone. The guitar was also fitted with a Gotoh Tune-O-Matic bridge and tuners.
Although it is very hard to actually see the guitar just from the video recording of the show, it appears that Kurt did play the guitar live at least once in Dublin at Point Depot on June 21, 1992. The cable does seem to come out at an angle when compared to Mustang models, and Kurt’s didn’t really have a similar-looking Mustang around that time as far as one can tell.
Kurt’s Ferrington Today
It seems that the guitar is still around, as it was recently displayed on Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses exhibition - which seems to travel all over the world. (pic Kurt’s Ferrington guitar photographed during an exhibition in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Photo credit: Bruna Val Magalhães)
Danny Ferrington:
“Kurt is left-handed, and he really likes the Fender Mustang he’s been playing for a few years. But his playing style is so rough, and left-handed Mustangs so rare, that it was beginning to look as if his favorite guitar was going to break apart right out from under him. I’d talked with Nick Close, one of Nirvana’s roadies, about trying to find replacement necks for the Mustang, but finally Kurt called me to talk about ordering a new custom guitar.
Nirvana left for Australia a few days later, and Kurt faxed me a great little picture showing where he wanted the pickups to be and what shape to use for the body. It was the first time I’d collaborated by fax, and I thought it was real fun to be designing a guitar by long distance using such a modern communications technology.
I built his guitar to be a lot like that old Mustang, except we used a Gibson-style bridge that’s better at keeping the guitar in tune, and I made the neck a little straighter so that it won’t be so apt to break when Kurt plays it hard. It’s tricky making left- handed guitars, though, because everything on a left-handed guitar is counter-intuitive for me. Right off the bat I made a few mistakes on Kurt’s guitar, so finally I took to labeling all the parts ‘This Side Up’ to remind myself that I needed to do everything backwards. The guitar turned out real well, and a few months later Kurt came by with his wife to pick it up. Just after he started playing it he stopped dead in his tracks and said, 'This is like my dream guitar!’ His wife asked, 'Honey, are you gonna trash this one too?’ but Kurt got this horrified look on his face, and in a solemn voice he said, 'No, this one’s going to be my recording guitar.’ I was tickled to death, and it was incredibly satisfying to hear that I’d hit the nail right on the head”.
i think the gibson sg is a little less known but still absolutely sick
Thanks!
There's also a les paul he used like once. It had rail humbuckers in the bridge position. His second guitar he ever owned was an explorer knock off and that's alot more rare I'd say. He did have that blue SG too.
@@legatomodi3522 he changed the lyrics to love buzz to say how much he hated that Aria les Paul
Everything comes full circle
I’ve always wanted one of these
Ask for one for your birthday and make an unboxing video (just joking)
“It’s happy birthday unboxing!” 😅
Ya got a Guitar on the same Bday month as me? Heheheh noice!
Got a guitar in my bday 4 years ago as well hehehehe
awesome dude
I like yours better than Kurt's. Not a fan of how Bartolini pickups look, especially with their logo plastered over the entire face of the pickups. I also like that they used a push pull pot in place of the mini toggle switch that his had, and a standard three way toggle instead of the blade switch. Good decisions! Sounded good on my end. What were you using for an amp/distortion? Hope you enjoy it for many years to come!
HAHAHAHAHA!!! As a very exhausted American, I very much appreciated the trolling around the 9 minute mark. Too freaking funny, man! That goddamn clown and his cult are such an embarrassment.
I build guitars, and designed a model I call the Jazzstang, that was inspired by the Jag-Stang. The body shape is much closer to Kurt's original polaroid collage of his concept, and it uses a Mustang vibrato and bridge, and has a humbucker in the bridge, and a Jazzmaster neck pickup, custom electronics I designed specific for the model, with a master volume and tone mounted on left handed Mustang control plates (it follows the lines of the body better than a right handed plate would), three way toggle to select the pickups, and Mustang slide switches, one for each pickup, that offer three different tonal varitions (high pass, like on a Jaguar, normal (bypass), and dark, like the Jag/Jazzmaster rhythm circuit tone), and a coil split for the bridge pickup on a two position slide switch. Maple neck with bound ebony 7.25" radius fretboard and block inlays, seafoam green nitro finish, and a pickguard that goes up onto the upper horn like a Jazzmaster, which is where the slide switches live. So, yeah, not at all a copy of the Jag-Stang, but it wouldn't exist without the Jag-Stang as the base from which I built my ideas. I've made two of them for myself now, one was a prototype, and the second is the finalized version. Anyway, thought you might find it interesting, and if not, hopefully you just stopped reading before you got to this point! Haha. Sorry this comment got so damn long! Take care, man!
Thanks for the comment, I really appreciate!
I also prefer the push-pull switch, even if I can't select the central pickup alone. I can only add it to one of the three combinations of the three way switch with or without the split bridge pickup. This gives 10 different tone combinations.
For sound, I only use the H&K amp on the "lead" channel and a 2x12 V30 cabinet, no external distortion.
I'm glad you liked my trolling about Donald Duck :)
I'm interested in seeing the guitars you've built, you can contact me on Instagram.
Take care!
@@MisterWeirdman I don't use Instagram, or any other social media anymore really, outside of this. I got rid of everything about 8 years ago. Just got sick of seeing pictures of everyone's food, and reading about people's drama, and/or their uninformed political views, lol. Do you have your email posted anywhere? I'd be happy to send you some photos of them!
@@flapjack413 I understand! Sorry for the delay, I'm in a recording session. I will eventually create an email address for my channel, thanks
what happened at 9:06? i didnt get it
It's a nod to our southern neighbors 👍
A tribute to America's greatest criminal president..