Kaizen Guitars: Holes in Top/Body?

[FourT6and2]

Played one recently and it wasn't bad. Started looking at black limba ones for sale and they all have what looks like worm holes (?) in the top/body? WTF is this? Nearly $4,000 guitars with holes. Am I missing something here? They can't find wood without holes? Are people actually buying these things? Limited to 50 worldwide, yet there are at least 20+ for sale on Reverb and dealers. So I guess they aren't moving...

 

[DanTravis62]

I mean, it's hideous even without the holes, but different strokes i spose

 

[sytharnia1560]

I think worm holes are cool as fuck in a rustic old guitar body .. not a 4K guitar but

 

[FourT6and2]

Yeah the shape is weird, but honestly when I played it, it wasn't bad and it did play and sound really good. But $4K guitar with holes in exotic wood is a non-starter for me. I love black limba and most of my guitars have that wood... none of them have holes.

 

[DanTravis62]

Yeah the shape is weird, but honestly when I played it, it wasn't bad and it did play and sound really good. But $4K guitar with holes in exotic wood is a non-starter for me. I love black limba and most of my guitars have that wood... none of them have holes.

I cannot fathom paying that kind of money for a guitar and not having it be literally perfect

 

[Jack Luminous]

I like wormholes !

 

[Jon BCN]

Holy shit, that thing is hideous.

 

[CDawg]

That neck looks like chip out from using a jointer or planer because the damage is in the center at the thickest part. Figured woods are notorious for having chunks torn out when going through a jointer or planer where more normal looking and less figured woods it happens far less. Imagine 5% waste vs 25% waste when woodworking.

The body looks like holes from insects.

 

[thegame]

I hope the beaver damn didn’t collapse when you pulled that random piece of driftwood out from under it

 

[ZEEGLER]

Pre-reliced by our wriggly little friends.

 

[andrewd]

It's for house termites conservation

 

[chris lykins]

Yeah that's pretty bad!

 

[MetalHeadMike]

The worm holes are a new age chambering technique geared towards added low end clarity and punch...Read that on Reddit I think.

Just grab some nail finish putty from the hardware store, if your alright losing some clarity and punch.

 

[Rayneman]

I don't have the limba version, but just a "regular" 6 string. Its an odd shape for sure, but they are pretty wild guitars. Very light, and the fretboard has what they call "infinite radius" which of course sounds like bullshit, but the board is thicker on the bottom side so when you look down at it while playing, its supposed to be easier to see the whole thing. Whatever, my beer belly also provides the same feature so I don't know if that works or not. The guitar does its own thing, I like it for my cover band as its so light and the pickups can almost provide a piezo type tone with the switch in the middle. I bought mine new, but it was nowhere near $4K...they really increased in price over the last year.

The holes seem not right though.

 

[harddriver]

You selected the ULTIMATE in relicing model..................................................

 

[BeZo]

Tone holes rule. Shut up and rock it!

 

[Devin]

You could pack them with cuhcaine for a lil pick me up when needed

 

[FourT6and2]

Music Man is smoking crack with these guitars. Look at this neck joint. $4,000... wow.

 

[Exo-metal]

That is a fine 3rd world Polynesian nightmare.

 

[Jack Luminous]

Chinese baritone ukulele LOL