Guitars you fell out of love with

misterwhizzy

misterwhizzy

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When I was going to buy my first high quality electric, I was convinced everything about an SG was right. It looked great, there had been a million fantastic tones from them, and they were just cool. But then I went to go find one. And every one I played was a bit thin for my tastes. I just never gelled with one, and I found the glory of a nice Les Paul.

I wonder if there are other instances or examples from your experience, whether it's just a guitar you used to think was phenomenal but eventually decided it wasn't for you, and what was it that did it for you?
 
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An alpine white Les Paul Studio. Looked great, but the fret ends were without doubt a Friday afternoon job - hated it after a while, so traded it for the SA2200. In retrospect, what I know now about doing my own set-ups would perhaps have gone a long way towards rectifying its problems - I might have even used it for fret replacement practice, which is what it needed.
 
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My first wife bought me a new 1995 G&L ASAT Classic Tele from Manny's in NYC on our first anniversary. It had a great neck, was beautiful, and was very well built. I found it to be lacking though tone wise; it was just sort bland sounding on an amp. When the marriage ended the way it did, the guitar lost any appeal it had left. Eventually, it had been sitting unused in it's case under our bed for years. I was re-married by this time, and I put an ad on Craigslist. I traded it for my Les Paul Studio, which I love. I modded the Gibson to my liking and now she is part of the family. I don't miss the G&L, but I will build another Tele one day.

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I had this MIM telecaster that I upgraded to hell and everyone loved it but I didn't care for it.
 
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My Schecter C-1 Elite. After putting the Fuglybuckers in my C-1+ I don't care to play the Elite anymore. 1 because of the pickups and 2 because of the longer scale on the Elite.
 
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The Gibson Voodoo SG

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The inlay didn't use to bother me... But now it practically ruins the guitar for me.
 
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Considering I'm down to 2 electrics - I've fallen out of love with darn near every one of them in my 15 years of playing guitars. About the only one I wish I still had was the cherry '76RI Gibson Explorer. I'm realistically going to be condensing down to one electric and that's my tele because I love the way it plays and sounds so much that I can't imagine using anything else. At least from my experience, finding a guitar that you don't fall out of love with is very difficult when you become so particular about every little detail.
 
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The Fender Strat. I can't stand them. I recorded my best live song ever with one, but these days? No thank you.
 
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Agile Les Paul. Still a damn good axe( well, I had modified mine to the n'th degree and did extensive fretwork to it) if you let a great amp do the talking, its a fat thick bright sound with a Tone Zone or Invader bridge...but if you are looking for a voice from the guitar alone to make your tone, look elsewhere.I dumped mine.
 
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It's tough to compete with any vintage axe. I have a Warmoth Strat sitting back home in the states, waiting to be finished, just because the modern Fender Strat has been such a let-down. Too thin, without a fuzz pedal I just lose interest. A great guitar should sound just as good and appealing clean as it does with overdrive or fuzz... imho.

MetalManiac said:
I actually agree. Modern Strats souind hideous for the most part compared to rel 50's or 60's Strats, but Ive made many [arts Strats that sound halfway decent.
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I have pretty much fallen out of love with humbuckers in general.

I've also pretty much fallen out of love with multi-pickup guitars in general.

I still like these guitars, but my favorites by far are single-pickup, single-coil guitars.
 
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I lost my want of P90s after playing my Godin. I wanted a p90s SG and was aiming for trades/CL listings to get one, but I finally went in and played a tribute SG through an Orange. Couldn't get a tone I wanted...I found it too brittle or edged, I guess. It's a shame because I love the look, but I need a little darker sound.
 
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The second electric guitar I ever owned. It was a Schecter C-1 ea used from Guitar Center. I really liked the look of it and it worked for me cause I liked the darkness of the humbuckers. As my band started to change styles and I began to listen to music with a brighter tones, I began to dislike the muddiness of the humbuckers (granted they were duncan designed). Also I did not like playing with the jumbo or extra jumbo frets (cannot remember). Finally the neck just was too narrow in width for me. I ended up selling it and getting a gibson les paul special and I like sounds it makes thanks to the dual p90s.
 
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Les Pauls. I loved them growing up but they just don't play the way I need them to. Perhaps I've not just played the right one yet.
 
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I know G&L makes a few models that I could gel with, but every G&L I've ever bought was something I got burned out on really quickly.

I think it's the combination of neck profiles that are just left or right of center and the high mass bridges that aren't resonant enough for me. It's hard to put my finger on, but I doubt I'll ever get another G&L. I'm always happy with my Fenders.
 
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SnakeAces said:
A great guitar should sound just as good and appealing clean as it does with overdrive or fuzz... imho.
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Exactly... That's how I want my guitars to sound . Very often a guitar sounds great under heavy compression and gain, but play that guitar clean, and it is blah.. I like listening to clarity, and good chord work when I play.
 
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The first Electric I ever bought was a Tele Slimline 1972, bought new..

Cant stand Tele's now..

The other one I lusted after was an L series strat...

That lasted about 3 weeks... what a POS...
 
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Originally it was the strat.....couldn't get them to sound good. Funnily enough the strat I got back into was a G&L....then I got some current ones and that one just sounded flat and lifeless plugged in no matter what I did.
 
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The first would be Wolfgangs. I wanted to love it long time, but couldn't get over the neck shape. Too fat I guess. The second would be SG's
 
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