Common Features of Your Guitar Collection?

Agileguy_101

Agileguy_101

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I was just thinking that even though I own five very different guitars, they all have a few things in common. I'm just curious as to what your common denominators are when it comes to the features of your guitar, and how many out of your collection do or don't have that common denominator. For the purpose of this thread, let's not count cosmetic features like color, binding, inlays, etc - just stick to tone and/or performance features. And let's only go with things that more than half of your guitars have in common. For example:

Maple neck: 5/5
Strat-esque shaped body: 5/5
Straplocks: 5/5
1 volume, 1 tone: 5/5
Vibrato bridge: 4/5
Duncan pickups: 4/5
Rosewood fretboard: 4/5
Two humbuckers: 4/5
4+ pickup combinations: 4/5
Non locking bridge/nut: 4/5
Bolt on neck: 3/5

A list of your collection would also be helpful. I've got:

PRS CE24
PRS SE Mike Mushok signature
MIJ Fender 1962 RI Strat
late 70's Mighty Mite neck thru strat
Music Man Morse Y2D
 
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(Wolfgang, PRS Cu24)
10 - 46 strings
solid body + maple top
neck and bridge humbuckers
double cut away/strat-esqu style
right handed
 
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Strat style with horns ( except the Martin)

5 way selector



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All have six strings (all the electrics, anyhow; I do have an acoustic tenor guitar).

My Fenders are largely stock style, or at least resembling it. Out of my 10 Fender-style guitars (I'm including my G&L Rampage in that category), only two of them have humbuckers in them, and they are both recent acquisitions (within the past two years). The HSS Strat will likely be converted to SSS in the future, so that would leave the Rampage as the only Fender-style guitar with a humbucker.

Maple vs. rosewood or ebony fretboards on the Fender-style guitars are split down the middle. I have five of each (one of which is ebony).

Out of all my electrics, bolt vs. set neck is also basically split down the middle: 11 bolt and 9 set.

7-1/4" radius: 5
9-1/2" radius: 3
12" radius: 11
14-3/4" radius: 1

Narrow frets: 8
Medium width frets: 5
Wide frets: 7

Bone nut: 3
Tusq XL nut: 2
Standard plastic nut: 15

None of my guitars have super high output pickups in them. The Rampage has a 13K A5 pickup which is kind of hot, and my ML has Super Distortions, which are also just kind of hot. But there is nothing firebreathing in any of my guitars. I have removed the JB and 500T from my Z and Explorer, respectively, and vintage-style humbuckers will eventually be installed.

Aftermarket tuners: 3 of 20 have them (Grover, Schaller, and Sperzel). About as many more are due for them. Both my builds also have them, but I won't count them.

Out of my 20 electrics, only five have the classic HH pickup setup, and just two more have humbuckers in some other orientation (the two I mentioned above). Two of those HH guitars are sitting there with no pickups in them, and another is on loan to a friend. So I only have two HH guitars available for use at the moment.

I have guitars by only four brands. Of 20 electrics, only 4 are not Fenders or Gibsons. Three of those are G&Ls, and the other two are Deans. Two of the remaining 16 are technically my own builds, but I call them Fenders.

I seem to favor redundancy with my bolt neck guitars, but not with my set neck guitars. The only Fender-style models I have are Strats/Legacys, Esquires/Teles, and a single Rampage. But I have six quite different different Gibson models (and two Deans): 330, SG, Explorer, LP, LP Jr., and LP Melody Maker. (The Deans are a Z and an ML.)

I love Teles, and an Esquire is my main axe. But I don't own a guitar with a standard Tele neck pickup. Two are Esquires, and the other has a P90 in the neck position (Aerodyne).

Of my six Strats/Legacys, five are SSS. The sixth is HSS, but will be converted to SSS in the future.

I have what are effectively doubles when it comes to my Fender guitars, e.g. four SSS Strats with vintage-style pickups. There is far less overlap with my Gibsons.

Of my 9 Gibson-style guitars, 7 have the stock pickups. The other two (Z and Explorer) have them removed, but don't have aftermarket pickups installed yet. However, of my 11 Fender-style guitars, only 4 have the stock pickups. (I'm not counting the two builds, even though you could technically call the pickups "stock," since they are what was originally in there.)

Of the 9 guitars which no longer have the stock pickups, only two are U.S.-made guitars (Z and Explorer).

Two of my guitars were made in the '60's. None were made in the '70's. Two were made in the '80's. One was made in the '90's. Eight were made in the '00's. Seven were made in the '10's (including my two builds). So fifteen of my 20 guitars were made in the past 14 years.

Four of my electrics were inherited. The others, I've bought myself.

Most of my guitar acquisitions have been in the past 11 years. I bought my first electric guitar in 1991 or 1992; it was a used/modified MIJ Strat from the music store right next to my high school. I didn't buy another until 2003.

I haven't bought a new guitar since 2012, but I have made two. I think most of my new guitars are going to be builds from here on out. Bigger bang for the buck, and you get exactly what you want, and get it for the highest quality.

Three reside in gig bags. The rest live in hard cases.

Seven of my electrics are foreign made. Two are Indonesian, three are Japanese, and two are Mexican. The only ones that have never been modified are the two Indonesian ones.

This is all cosmetic, but I'm gonna list it anyhow:

I have only two guitars with metallic paint.

I have three bursts (one of which is black paisley).

I have three guitars with tinted translucent finishes (two red and one green).

The rest are opaque, non-metallic colors (12 out of 20).
 
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6 electric guitars. 6 strings, 25,5" scale (apart from the Les Paul ripoff), rosewood fretboard (ALL of them), Ibanez brand (5 of them, again, except for the Les Paul ripoff).They all have two humbuckers.

All Ibanez have one tone, one volume.

None of the Ibanez necks have a 'common' dot inlay AND a normal headstock. Only my Frankenmaster build project has a dot inlay, but with a reversed headstock (RGR321 neck to be mounted).
Except for the JTK2 all Ibanez guitars have a Wizard neck.
All Ibanez necks are bolt-on. INcluding the basses'.

And they all hang off my music room wall, easy for grabs to play.

Oh... both my basses also are Ibanez with rosewood fretboard, but both with normal dot inlays. :)

Gear:
Ibanez ! In order of purchase:
- 1987 SoundGear SR600WH (stock)
- 1996 JEM555BK (stock, except for paint job)
- 2003 BTB405BQM (stock)
- 2004 JTK2BSB (stock)
- 2012 S570DXQM (Black Winters,QuarterPound !)
- 2009 JTK30 w/ 2007 RG321 neck (build in progress, most likely to receive an Alt8 and Demon)
- 1997 RG270DXMG (SM-1's & lipstick)

'90s Fender Gemini IIe (stock)
1995 Samick Les Paul 3/4 (stock)
Jim Harley LNP60 Les Paul (DiMarzio DP100 bridge & DP213 neck)
 
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Seymour Duncan pickups.

My LP R9 has Antiquities; my Deluxe Strat Plus has SSLs; my Prestige Musician Pro has a JB and a 59; and my ASAT has an old Vintage Stack in the neck.

This is more or less by accident, mind you. But they are fantastic pups, all of them.
 
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All of my guitars have stands and/or wall hangers a towel that covers the headstock and they double as hat racks.Most of them have rosewood fretboards because that is the newer standard (not a fan). 6 have some form of humbucker and
ll but one have 6 strings.They all have dunlop straplocks , cleartone strings and no paint on the neck sanded and tung oiled (not including acoustics).
  1. 81 Gibson Les Paul Custom 88 Fender HM Strat 04 Jackson RR 5 FR 07 Custom Tele 08 Epi Futura Custom Prophecy 10 Custom 335 14 ESP/LTD Hybrid II 14 Vox SDC 22
 
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I have five (5) electrics. 4 are strat style and only one is not a single humbucker beast. I figure it can't hurt to have a traditional Strat setup in my stable. All my guitars but one are fixed bridge or TOM style with stop tailpiece. All but the guitar previously mentioned have humbuckers. My string of choice are Ernie Ball Super Slinky's or as I've termed them "pink" Slinky's 9-42. The only guitar that has a different style of strings is my metal guitar, a Devlin HellStrom which has D'Addario 10-46.
 
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They all are made of wood, have frets, strings and double locking terms.

Some have Duncans but I keep finding other brands occupying more space over the last year.
 
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Rosewood fretboard, 2/2
Maple necks, 2/2
24 frets, 2/2
Locking trem, 2/2
HH, 2/2
Seymour Duncan, 1/2
Dimarzio, 1/2
Locking straps of some kind, 2/2
10-46 strings, 2/2
Medium-high action, 2/2
6 String, 2/2
"Ibanez" on the headstock, 2/2
 
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6strings and rosewood fretboards... Everything else is different....
Except my acoustics. They're all dreadnoughts
 
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I've got seventeen electrics and it's a pretty diverse collection. They all have been built or modified in one way or another by me.
Here's a very short list of common denominators...

Seymour Duncan pickups - 14/17
Maple/maple necks - 8/17
Maple/rosewood necks - 9/17
Tele bodies - 7/17
Strat bodies - 5/17
Fender pickups - 2/17
 
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2011 Gibson Les Paul Traditional – Ice Tea Burst
2002 Gibson SG Special - Black
Fender MIM Strat - Black
2014 Fender MIM Strat (reverse headstock) – Vintage Sunburst
Fender MIM Telecaster - Green
Fender MIM Deluxe Telecaster - Black
1980 Ibanez Iceman MIJ - Black
1981 Ibanez Iceman MIJ – Silver
1999 Parker MidiFly – Trad Sunburst
1985 MIJ Ibanez Roadstar w/ Roland 13 pin – Plum
1973 Ovation 12-string Deacon – Trad Sunburst
2005 B.C. Rich Acoustic Mockingbird – Trans Black
2012 Ibanez Euphoria Acoustic - Black
1980 Wurlitzers Classical
Montoya Acoustic
Washburn AB-10 Acoustic Bass – Black

7/16 are black guitars
1/16 has a maple neck
12/16 are electrics
12/12 (electrics) have a humbucker in the bridge
3/12 (electrics) have at least one single coil
6/12 (electrics) have a tremolo
7/12 (electrics) have locking tuners
3/12 have SD pickups
3/12 have Gibson pickups
2/12 have Dimarzio pickups
3/16 have Fishman piezo pickups

I really don’t see to many trends in my guitars outside of:

I don’t have any S-S-S guitars and have no desire for one
I prefer ebony and rosewood fingerboards
 
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