This guitar makes a statement

thomasross20 · January 2023

https://www.thefretcollective.co.uk/guitars/p/prohazska-custom-holy-grail-guitar-show-parlour

fastonebaz · January 2023

Certainly makes fingering around the 9th fret a little awkward.

Kittyfrisk · January 2023

Proof if it were ever needed that having the technical skills to do something, doesn't always mean that you should go ahead & do it.

goldtop · January 2023

Yikes. Trying too hard.

Teyeplayer · January 2023

What a strange thing to do.

I mean if you want it to be risqué, have the guys trousers round his ankles and his naked hairy arse putting the punters off. Although to be fair, this may be the next in the series.

lustycourtier · January 2023

Looks like an 80s casuals t shirt.

Jalapeno · January 2023

Unpleasant

BillDL · January 2023

It's for sale on Reverb also:

https://reverb.com/uk/item/47467650-prohaszka-holy-grail-guitar-show-parlour-2020-not-lowden-avalon

It pisses me off how sellers throw in key words to be included in search results, in this case "not-lowden-avalon".

Back in my youth there were a few times that impromptu passion meant us having to have a quick knee-trembler, but I've been looking at the fretboard inlay closely. Either they chose a worktop, washing machine, pizzeria counter, or whatever that was far too high for her to perch on or else if this is all free-standing gymnastics, he has lifted her up far too high. Unless he has a dick in the centre of his abdomen like a bull, or she her legs are joined to her shoulders, all he has managed to achieve is a damp chest.

The inlay is quite well executed, but the planning for where her left knee would end up is a bit off. I realise how difficult it is to cut and rout for inlays, having tried quite a few myself with varied levels of success, but I'm beginning to wonder whether the woman is a gecko and he is Django Reinhardt:

The Rosette inlay is such an amateurish choice that it spoils what otherwise is a very nice guitar. I wonder what creation he would come up with for The Great British Bakeoff? A chocolate cake fashioned like a giant coiled turd, or a message piped onto an otherwise excellent cake proclaiming "This is a fucking tasty cake".

Maybe I'm just a little conservative and nit-picking for this kind of thing.

Sporky · January 2023

I enjoyed your critique.

Especially the gecko bit.

usedtobe · January 2023

I’m not keen..

Supportact · January 2023

That's weird. Not in a good way.

bertie · January 2023

BillDL said:

I wonder what creation he would come up with for The Great British Bakeoff? A chocolate cake fashioned like a giant coiled turd,

well, funnily enough - some good friends of ours made a cake for mrs berts 40th (yes that long ago !!) and owning the same breed of dogs, decorated it with a "dog statue" with torn socks, toys and pools of wee and little brown turds everywhere.

Soupman · January 2023

Must be the most tasteless piece of bling I've seen on a guitar. As for the rosette, well - if the guitar was that good it wouldn't need the text. I reckon he might have trouble shifting that.

bertie · January 2023

Supportact said:

That's weird. Not in a good way.

understatement of the year award goes to.....................................

ICBM · January 2023

Soupman said:

Must be the most tasteless piece of bling I've seen on a guitar. As for the rosette, well - if the guitar was that good it wouldn't need the text. I reckon he might have trouble shifting that.

If the rich had taste there would be no market for most of the stuff in houses like Trump's.

steveh · January 2023

Bargain.

Hurling_Fruitmig · January 2023

BillDL said:

The Rosette inlay is such an amateurish choice that it spoils what otherwise is a very nice guitar. I wonder what creation he would come up with for The Great British Bakeoff? A chocolate cake fashioned like a giant coiled turd, or a message piped onto an otherwise excellent cake proclaiming "This is a fucking tasty cake".

Apologies for the tread drift but this reminded me of a baking anecdote recorded (I think) by Constance Spry in her eponymous cookery book published in the 1950s. In the dessert section she tells how a local cook in a far flung corner of the former Empire was tasked to prepare an elaborate pudding using an ancient book with illustrations that extolled the virtues of each dish.

The hostess was allegedly mortified when it was delivered to the table at the end of her dinner party with “This is a delicious and economical recipe” piped on the top.

roberty · January 2023

No guitar is that good, sorry

thomasross20 · January 2023

steveh said:

Bargain.

Hahahahahaha

Benm39 · January 2023

Just wrong on so many counts... @BillDL critique is spot on.

guitarjack66 · January 2023

lustycourtier said

Looks like an 80s casuals t shirt.

On the same body 40 years later.

Fishboy7 · January 2023

Cool Inlay. But wasted on that weird shaped guitar.

rossi · January 2023

Damn I have just bought a PRS parlor .My wife wont let me buy another one .Some low taste blingbasher will love this on his wall especially if he cant play a note.

GRBaldwin · January 2023

I think the majority are missing the point here. This guitar is a playful showpiece and anyone who knows Balázs's work will know that he's one of the finest luthiers in existence and can do with wood and inlays what most guys couldn't even dream of. If you haven't heard of him then I urge you to check out some of this other work.

https://www.instagram.com/prohaszkaguitars/

Agreed, this is not to everyone's tastes, but it's a piece that was done for the 2020 Holy Grail guitar show hinting at a bit of Balázs's dark humour, and going off the comments on here it would have done a great job of getting people talking about it at that show had it not been cancelled due to Covid.

Cranky · January 2023

BillDL said:

It's for sale on Reverb also:
https://reverb.com/uk/item/47467650-prohaszka-holy-grail-guitar-show-parlour-2020-not-lowden-avalon
It pisses me off how sellers throw in key words to be included in search results, in this case "not-lowden-avalon".

Back in my youth there were a few times that impromptu passion meant us having to have a quick knee-trembler, but I've been looking at the fretboard inlay closely. Either they chose a worktop, washing machine, pizzeria counter, or whatever that was far too high for her to perch on or else if this is all free-standing gymnastics, he has lifted her up far too high. Unless he has a dick in the centre of his abdomen like a bull, or she her legs are joined to her shoulders, all he has managed to achieve is a damp chest.

The inlay is quite well executed, but the planning for where her left knee would end up is a bit off. I realise how difficult it is to cut and rout for inlays, having tried quite a few myself with varied levels of success, but I'm beginning to wonder whether the woman is a gecko and he is Django Reinhardt:

The Rosette inlay is such an amateurish choice that it spoils what otherwise is a very nice guitar. I wonder what creation he would come up with for The Great British Bakeoff? A chocolate cake fashioned like a giant coiled turd, or a message piped onto an otherwise excellent cake proclaiming "This is a fucking tasty cake".

Maybe I'm just a little conservative and nit-picking for this kind of thing.

Going for that bowling ball grip, looks like. 2 in the pink, 1 in the stink.

DrJazzTap · January 2023

It's odd that Satchel could probably get away with anything on a kramer but this is so jarring to lot of people.
Same as the nude Marilyn Monroe custom shop strat. It's not my taste but it looks like a well made guitar.

boogieman · February 2023

Looking at his Instagram pics he’s obviously capable of very stylish and high quality work. Shame he didn’t do it on that acoustic. It looks crude, in more ways than one.

Soupman · February 2023

He may be capable. He just lacks taste.

woody · February 2023

My friend has one of these and it is a superb sounding instrument.

merlin · February 2023

GRBaldwin · February 2023

woody said:

My friend has one of these and it is a superb sounding instrument.

I’m not surprised. All of Balázs’s guitars are superb sounding. He’s an incredible luthier and hugely underpriced for the quality of craftsmanship and tone. A real under the radar, for the moment may I add, genius in my opinion.

The electric guitars he’s been making of late are fantastic too.

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