Frankentone Guitars

Guitar Reviews, Rebuilds, and Banter..

We hunt down weird, forgotten, fake, rare, broken, and misunderstood guitars to find out if they’re hidden gems or complete disasters.

No sponsors. No borrowed gear. No influencer hype.

Frankentone is a private collection of 275+ guitars built through 400+ rescues, restorations, upgrades, and questionable financial decisions.

From ShopGoodwill rescues and obscure MIJ sleepers to Temu oddities, counterfeits, BC Rich rarities, and vintage metal machines, if it’s unusual, we want to know if it’s worth owning.

Expect honest reactions, complete teardowns, restorations, wiring experiments, play tests, and the occasional project that fights us every step of the way.

Every instrument featured belongs to us.

We aren’t guitar gods.
We don’t shoot 100 takes.
We aren’t sponsored.

We’re just collectors who can’t stop bringing strange guitars home.

Every instrument featured belongs to us.

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Tomorrow, I plan to do something I've been putting off for months.

One of the rarest guitars you have seen only once on the channel, will finally get.. hopefully.. fixed and presented.

The Flash.

It's short video had almost 6000 views so I think it's something you will all enjoy and I can promise you likely have never seen one in person

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Lots of new content coming soon.
Before the wedding. I put bids on multiple guitars and basses, assuming we would win 1 or 2... looks like there are 6 we won.. oops..
Should be a fun few weeks

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Just married!

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I will be offline for the next few days due to getting married tomorrow, but when we get back next week, I think this will be the first instrument on the bench in the new workshop. This fairly rare Epiphone EB-4 has a lot of potential!

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Old photos from when we unboxed the purple Firefly ML last year. I still think this is one of the nicest finishes we have seen on one of their guitars

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I see a "We have to do a full setup" video in the future for the Firefly Tiger Stripe ML we received. GuitarsGarden actually stepped up and returned some of the price, as this is not common for what we usually see from them. But, the neck was so out of whack that we weren't able to actually make a proper sound test video. This is after trussrod adjustment and FR adjustment, still back-bowed.