Dream Guitars...what's yours?

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I honestly don't have one. I've liked too many, for too many different reasons, to maintain any notion of a singular, be-all Dream Guitar.
 
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I wish I could narrow down to just one Dream guitar that I knew would be the be all, end all for me. Im not sure I could ever be fully satisfied with one.

I do have a few that would REALLY thrill me though.

A Gibson Les Paul Purple Widow.

A USA Charvel with a black flame top, top mount floyd, truss adjust at the heel, stainless frets, Humbucker and single Duncan Quarter Pound single coil.. (This one would come close.)

And visually a Hamer Standard with black flame or quilt top, white binding. I say visually as sadly, Ive never been able to play one to know if the neck would be right for me..
 
Dream Guitars...what's yours?

My dream guitar is a 1950 demo Esquire. They were thin bodied at an inch and a half thick, finished in jet black cellulose acetate butyrate (an old-school spray-on plastic, basically - similar to the stuff that was later used to make P.A.F. bobbins) with a white polystyrene guard (a hard plastic that doesn't yellow like the later ABS white guards - the demo guards were basically made from the stuff that plastic airplane/car/tank models are made of). They had no truss rods, therefore no skunk stripes or headstock plugs. They're the sharpest looking guitars that Fender ever made in my opinion, and I love the body thickness and pine wood. Only 2 to 3 dozen of these were produced. They were shown at NAMM, or passed around as demo instruments to shops and working musicians. Most that did survive had a factory retrofitted truss rod neck installed. B.B. King actually ended up with one of these demos, according to the man himself. He ended up ditching it because the neck didn't have a truss rod, and it bowed.

My dream guitar that is actually theoretically attainable is a first-generation Les Paul custom – the kind with the dual soap bar pickups: an Alnico neck and P-90 bridge. These are FAR less rare than the 1950 demo Esquires. They also aren't that collectible in the world of old Les Pauls. As such, they're spendy, but still somewhat within the reach of a "regular fella." I've seen these in the Guitar Center vintage room priced as low as $20,000 in imperfect - but perfectly playable - condition. As long as there's not a huge jump in the market, I might actually be able to afford one someday.
 
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something with a wide thin neck
super light
duncan pickups
tusqxl nut
ss frets

ok probably a Parker Fly

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oh and balue
 
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Custom archtop Soloist, lightweight, mahogany/mahogany/ebony with flamed maple top, dark translucent red (no paint), Duncan Custom bridge, Full Shred neck, 5-way superswitch, Floyd.
 
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something like this. or an Yngwie Strat.

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oh wait, here's my pinterest collection...https://www.pinterest.com/progbusters/dream-guitar-pron/
 
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mine would probably be a so heavily custom built flying v that it's aesthetics alone would border stupidness but it would play like butter and be made without unobtainable tonewoods.

on simple words, a futuristic mutant alien ghost lightning flamed flying v with a titanium floyd, ss frets, red special style bolt on and duncan pickups
 
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Several:

Arctic White Jackson KV2T 24 frets, 24.75" scale bound board with a San Dimas neck profile with MOP & abalone sharkeye inlays and SLS head, OFR, PATB-2 in the bridge and JB in the neck, one with an ebony board and one with a maple board (ebony and abalone inlays on maple).

Glenn Tipton's Hamer Star.

Jackson USA WarAngel with maple board and the 2+1 slanted single routes like the 1990 WRs, with a Hot Rails in Bridge 1, JBJr in Bridge 2, and a Lil59 in the neck, OFR, SLS head.

Jackson USA NASL with H-S-S (former JacksonStars model before FMIC dropped it).
 
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That PRS looks damn good!

ItsaBass said:
My dream guitar is a 1950 demo Esquire. They were thin bodied at an inch and a half thick, finished in jet black cellulose acetate butyrate (an old-school spray-on plastic, basically - similar to the stuff that was later used to make P.A.F. bobbins) with a white polystyrene guard (a hard plastic that doesn't yellow like the later ABS white guards - the demo guards were basically made from the stuff that plastic airplane/car/tank models are made of). They had no truss rods, therefore no skunk stripes or headstock plugs. They're the sharpest looking guitars that Fender ever made in my opinion, and I love the body thickness and pine wood. Only 2 to 3 dozen of these were produced. They were shown at NAMM, or passed around as demo instruments to shops and working musicians. Most that did survive had a factory retrofitted truss rod neck installed. B.B. King actually ended up with one of these demos, according to the man himself. He ended up ditching it because the neck didn't have a truss rod, and it bowed.
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Oh yeah, that black dope finish :). Israeli builder Gil Yaron made a version of this 'double' Esquire some years ago, looks pretty cool, great attention to detail: http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot/180456-1950-double-esquire-build.html
 
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