Guitars with the best/most unusua/eye-catchingl/weirdest tops you have...

[Phantasmagoria]

I'll go first..

My $200 (+ free shipping!) Grote semi-hollow/thinline-type I got off-ebay.

Top is Tiger maple (actual cap, not veneer)...and to be honest I've never come across another guitar with a top even remotely like this. When it catches the sun it's looks unreal..

Screenshot from a video of mine ..cuz I can't find pics right now..

I wanted a semi-hollow that did'nt make me look like a grand-pa (*ahem* .. 335) and this was it :bigthumb:

It sounds amazing after a pup swap. (the original pup's were pretty "different" sounding as well :lmao and plays like butter after I filed down a fret or two...


It's also one of the fastest playing/shreddeist guitars I own...go figure :laugh2:

 

[GuitarDoc]

Reminds me of one of my Cottonwood Burl guitars.

 

[DISTORT6]

My 94 PRS Custom 22

 

[Mincer]

Welcome to the forum! That PRS certainly has a strange top. I like it!

 

[El Dunco]

Bantam’s time to shine again. This is the exacr one I have I mentioned in the cheap shredders thread. It’s a real maple top on alder, unlike the “foto-flame” style of the earlier models. Moisture would cause them to start coming away from the body, same issue the actual Fender Foto-Flame guitars had. I think it’s awesome. It’s the most colourful guitar I have. I have other instruments with figured/quilted etc. tops but they’re a lot more subdued than these flames of hell.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Reminds me of one of my Cottonwood Burl guitars.

Cool looking guitar. The similarity comes from the top/cap going across the whole face of the guitar (not two bookmarked halves)

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Bantam’s time to shine again. This is the exacr one I have I mentioned in the cheap shredders thread. It’s a real maple top on alder, unlike the “foto-flame” style of the earlier models. Moisture would cause them to start coming away from the body, same issue the actual Fender Foto-Flame guitars had. I think it’s awesome. It’s the most colourful guitar I have. I have other instruments with figured/quilted etc. tops but they’re a lot more subdued than these flames of hell.

Sweet looking axe....

 

[El Dunco]

Sweet looking axe....

Looks great on stage too.




It’s the perfect combination of Fender and Gibson. 24.7” scale, but a thin neck, alder body and of course the whammy bar. Even the body shape is kind of like a strat and SG combined.

They don’t make them anymore but it would be the perfect guitar for someone used to Gibsons wanting to get in to superstrats.

 

[ehdwuld]

i luv my ash bodies

 

[El Dunco]

i luv my ash bodies

Those are really nice. What’s that snake bridge?

 

[Securb]

I would say the AAA flame top on my LP Traditional is the prettiest, but the top on my Mockingbird is the most interesting.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Cool looking guitar. The similarity comes from the top/cap going across the whole face of the guitar (not two bookmarked halves)

I bookmatched that burl guitar. I'm making another burl guitar with a solid one piece top.

 

[GuitarDoc]

That's probably the nicest looking Mockingbird I've ever seen.

 

[El Dunco]

I would say the AAA flame top on my LP Traditional is the prettiest, but the top on my Mockingbird is the most interesting.

Oh that’s nice. My Schecter has a quilted top like that

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

I really like this one, also because I did it myself.

Here are a few more that I own, or did own

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

The bumble bee was pretty striking

 

[Securb]

That's probably the nicest looking Mockingbird I've ever seen.

Thank you, it sounds and plays like a beast. The pickups are a prototype from Fralin that Lindey custom-wound for me.

 

[ehdwuld]

Those are really nice. What’s that snake bridge?

That the Gibson S series with ash body and maple neck. I put a JB/JAZZ set in, locking Grovers and that aluminum snake bridge from EBAY. Because Gibson called it Reptile Green.

 

[Seashore]

This is nothing super fancy but I really like the flame maple cap on this bass. My favorite bass to play, too. I have a Schecter guitar with a flame veneer that looks nice in photos, but IRL it's obviously a thin veneer and seems subtly tacky.

Gotta admit I'm more comfortable playing something a bit beat up and worn, really nice high-finish instruments just make me worry I'll mess them up.

 

[Texsunburst59]

My ‘00 Gibson Classic Premium Plus