Your own personal "Number One"

[sgstrat]

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Number 1 is my first guitar: a 1971 Martin D-35 purchased new in February 1972. It was sweet then and the years have only made it better.

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i really dont know, it would probably be my 93' san dimas III charvel w/ dunacn Custom and 2x dimarzio choppers. but it seems now that i fixed my les paul back up w/ new strings and a super distortion it's been the guitar i've been grabbing every night. sounds so good, but so does my 80's charvel model 1. they all sound so beautiful so it's really hard to compare.
the les paul(Lester) just looks and sounds so beautiful with the creme pickup and nice top, and the green charvel(watermelon) is just ::drool:: and the charvel model 1(blaze) is just too cool, it looks like a really cheap guitar. something you'd probably get like a squire or seomthing, but it isn't plywood and now it's pimped up! maple fretboards rule!!

[mrfjones]

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for the time my number one is my blonde tele with antiquities. It feels and sounds great, but in my near future there will be another tele that has a better neck and will have a lighter body. So i think my number one will be replaced soon, but i never want to sell my blonde tele.

[PRG]

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Even though I've had high-quality and handmade US intruments that played and sounded great, for sentimental and comfort reasons, my old Epiphone SG Special is #1. It's been stripped and repainted a dozen times. The neck has been refretted, scallopped, drilled for Grovers, etc. The body has numerous holes drilled into into the control cavity, string-thru holes, body filler, scrapes, etc. Pickups, controls, strings, have varied wildly over the years. Currently it's loaded with an Invader and PAF PRO with no controls and 9's. Best tone from it, though, was a Stag Mag/TB-5 Custom with 11's.
The refret has really hurt the playability and the action has to be high to accomodate them. One day, the neck will get replaced along with the bridge, but the body will stay.

[LesStrat]

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Hard choice. I like them all, but for different reasons.

But if I had to choose, it would be my Parker Nitefly--Priscilla (She's on the right.)

[Oldslowhand]

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I know this is off the thread but how do I post a large Picture all I can get is the size of a postage stamp on manage atachments and it won't allow me anything the size that I see here

[RCM78]

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My Wolfgang is the one I allways pick up first.

[philthis]

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It's really difficult to narrow it down to one, but I'd say my Goldtop w/nickel C-5/59n. w/pullup tones to split. Also has Schaller Kluson copy tuners - direct fit.

I think of my main guitar as 4 main guitars. Right now, it's my honeyflame Std. Prem Plus and Sunset Custom Schecter Tele. I also really dig the G&L Invader and Teal black McCarty. (that guitar now has zebra C-5/59)
I honestly grab a different guitar everytime I play. It opens more doors for some reason.



91 Schecter Sunset Custom Tele. This was a handmade model that
was made when Schecter had a few luthiers working in Los Angeles.
Some guitars just 'have it'. This is one of them. It's truly one of the
best playing guitars I've ever picked up. It rings beautifully.


This guitar now has a zebra C-5/59n and Tonepros Adj. McCarty Bridge.

damn joneser you got some nice stuff

[JB_From_Hell]

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ESP/ LTD M-100. There's something about this guy that just kicks my ass all over the place. The bridge p/u is a JB Trem that I put the 3 ceramic mags from my Invader in, and it absolutely screams. Its the metallic blue finish. I removed the gloss from the body, and ended up sanding a fake binding strip around it. There's just something about this guitar that is magic.

[Tony_H]

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This is an easy question for me.
My Gibson The Hawk, no doubt about it.
You see, Les Paul used to be my dream guitar of all times. Then one day I decided to get a job to buy one. So I got the job, and in less than a year I got a LP Studio. Wine red, chrome hardware, hard case, perfect. And then some 2 1/2 years later, I stumbled upon The Hawk and I was lost. I reserved the guitar and came back with cash the next day.
Why? It sounds almost the same as the LP - well, not so round and corpulent, but really close. Plus - it's much lighter and more comfortable, and I love the neck. The LP had that '59 neck carve - too fat for my little hands. This one's not much skinnier but for some reason it feels much better.

And - there are many Les Pauls around, but tell me: do you know a globally renowned player who plays The Hawk? (Not that I'm globally renowned, of course, but I dig having a guitar that's kinda rare).