Teuffel Birdfish 1995 - Prototype

I'm selling my Prototype Birdfish electric guitar manufactured by Teuffel Guitars Germany with a certificate of authenticity from 2023. By this time the guiter was at Teuffel Guitars for overhaul.

This guitar is a prototype number nine. Prototypes differ from the serial production birdfish by the aluminum parts which are not with chrome but by beeing polished.

The Birdfish series is limited to 500 guitars

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Well known guitarists, who played this guitar:

Billy Gibbons/ ZZTop

Kirk Hammet/ Metallica

Hans Zimmer

David Torn (Jan Garbarek Quartett/ David Bowie)

Amir Derakh/ Dead by sunrise, Danzig, Orgy

The guitar is well used, nothing is broken, everything works. The construction is stable and strong

The strings are flat so the guitar is very nice to play

There is the possibility to test it in Hamburg Germany on the following amps: Marshall, Vox, Peavey, Diezel,Tube Thomsen for als long and als loud as you like.

I am not a dealer, so it is a private sell. I will give no garantees.

International shipping with UPS with insurance on my costs

And now specs:

Ulrich Teuffel presented the Birdfish for the first time at the MusikMesse in Frankfurt in the spring of 1995.

Due to its modular construction packed with design elements, this guitar blurs the boundaries between art and instrument, making the guitar a true statement. It is not without reason that the guitar is displayed in museums or exhibitions such as Jamie Gale's Boutique Guitar Showcase, the occasion where this fascinating guitar caught our attention.

The construction of the Birdfish consists of two so-called tone bars that are attached to the central elements 'bird' and 'fish'. There is a choice of alder and maple, making it easy to adjust the character of the guitar. The tone bars, together with its birdseye maple neck, give the guitar its acoustic sound, which is still strikingly present despite the absence of a sound box.

The guitar comes with tthe original gigbag, extra ton bars, five pickups, each with a different tonal character, with a choice of two single-coils and three humbuckers. The single coils are wired out of phase and are hum-cancelling when switched on together, while the three humbuckers sound different; open, with discreet midrange and warm. This makes the guitar not only a masterpiece in terms of design, but also a particularly versatile instrument.