ZON-build Fenderbird.

[Blazer]

http://www.zonguitars.com/zonguitars/thebeast.html

[Basvarken]

OMG that is ugly

[Lightyear]

OMG that is ugly

I would go as far as to say FUGLY!

[nofi]

it was after all his first and we have all seen worse.

[TBird1958]

Woof! I think I just threw up alittle in my own mouth........
We should all pray that there is only one of these and that it will head off to a lonely extinction soon.
Thank goodness Gibson always got it right!

Maybe this will will help

[Dave W]

Joe Zon builds some very nice sounding basses even if they aren't all that attractive (at least to me). Considering this one was his first effort at age 18, I can forgive him for the misshapen body and the obvious experimenting with the electronics.

[chromium]

Humble beginnings!

Not to everyone's taste, but he's made some slight advances 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY4Ra2KOyas&feature=related

[Blazer]

Humble beginnings!

Not to everyone's taste, but he's made some slight advances 

That was cool, and I'll raise you...

[chromium]

Oh wow!  Those tuners had caught my eye recently when I was searching for something else:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tuners/Banjo_tuners/Schaller_D-Tuners.html

(at least I think those are the same ones)

Very cool application of them!

[PWV]

Looks like an early prototype for this:

[uwe]

That thing is so endearingly ugly, it touches my heart! probably sounds great though.

On a related note: I like Manring's lyrical style and I use harmonics when playing melodic stuff too, but his rushing to the headstock to the hipshot tuners (oviously four of them) is a silly little circus stunt in that first vid. All credit to his playing elsewhere though.