if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

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who would it be? and what would the specs be?

i'd have Zion make me a guitar. specifically the Bent T model. here are what the specs would be...


mahogany body
AAAAAAquilted maple top
HSS pickup configuration
Custom pickups made
ebony fretboard
wilkinson vs-100 bridge
gold hardware
deep blue or emerald green or a dark purple or natural stain over top
natural mahogany back
sperzel tuners
22 frets
medium/jumbo sized frets
medium action(not low, not high. high enough to get good bends in)
9-46 gauge strings( dont know what company, either EB or DR)
medium thick back neck shape(a little thicker than teh san dimas back shape)
mother of pearl block inlays with abalone crosses inside

now if i could have that guitar, i would stop looking like this:

:32:

and more like this:

:arms: :dance:

here's a picture of what it looks like...

http://zionguitars.com/main.asp?template=products&level1=THE BENT T

 

[danglybanger]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

Well, Schecter did a good enough Job on my Omen 6 so...

006 body style, mahogany neck through, with a flame maple top, with a blue "midnightburst" like on an SG Supreme

Thin, wide mahogany 24 fret neck, 25.5 inch scale, ebony fretboard with jackson sharkfin inlays (abalone) and jumbo frets. compound radius, 7" towards the top, 14" towards the high end.

Stuff 3 pickups in there, a Duncan Distortion at the bridge, a (black) phat cat in the middle, a jazz at the neck. mustang style pickup switches above each pickup let you select on/off, series, parallel, or coil split wiring. (Except for the phat cat, cause it's a single coil)

All black hardware, push/pull pot on master tone switch for phase switch between bridge and neck pickups. Tonepros tunomatic bridge, string through body.

And NO binding anywhere on the guitar! Never liked the look of binding...
Dan

 

[Artie]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

Well, I got a guy who custom builds all my guitars for me: Hartley Peavey

The thing is, he doesn't know it yet, and just charges me the off-the-shelf price. :laugh2:

 

[DiminisheD-7th]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

Brian Moore of course
their contour super strat shape.
1 piece mahogany body, quilted maple top, neck-thru mahogany neck with painted black finish (think soloist style - i want the balls of mahogany but without the neck feeling like a baseball), ebony fingerboard (to give some high end edge to the sound, along with the maple top), H-H configuration with John Suhr custom wound pickups (probably low output ones for this kind of guitar), the bridge would probably be wilkinson, gotoh locking tuners, gold pickup rings, **** load of abalone binding all over the neck and headstock, finish would be something betweeen a sunburst and a rootbear kinda thing
:dance:

 

[fusion101]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

I'd get abe rivera to make this same guitar that he built kevin eubanks

:32:

 

[joelap]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

Aside from the TERRY CORSO guitar I'm in love with... here would be the joelap signature guitar.

Fender Cyclone Body in Ash
Graffiti Yellow finish
2 knobs for Volume/Volume
JB/Jazz Combo
3 way Gibson style switch (comes standard on cyclones)
Pearloid pickgaurd
Bigsby Tremolo Bridge
Maple neck/Ebony Fingerboard
Oversized 70s style headstock.
Grover Tuners
Schaller Straplocks

I think thats about everything

 

[nuntius]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

I'd have to try a load and see who makes the best neck.

Playability is very important to me, I won't play a guitar no matter how good it sounds if i'm not happy with the neck

 

[Hoss]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

Brian Moore of course
their contour super strat shape.
1 piece mahogany body, quilted maple top, neck-thru mahogany neck with painted black finish (think soloist style - i want the balls of mahogany but without the neck feeling like a baseball), ebony fingerboard (to give some high end edge to the sound, along with the maple top), H-H configuration with John Suhr custom wound pickups (probably low output ones for this kind of guitar), the bridge would probably be wilkinson, gotoh locking tuners, gold pickup rings, **** load of abalone binding all over the neck and headstock, finish would be something betweeen a sunburst and a rootbear kinda thing
:dance:

sounds good to me too...!!! i might go with their lp shap though...i tell ya what they need...A TELE SHAPE...that would ROCK!!!

 

[Davey]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

jackson soloist,
soft satin finished neck,
mahagony body,
flame maple top,
mahagony neck,
ebony fretboard,
thin frets, 24 of em,
floyd rose double locking floating trem,
rose inlays made of abalone, with abalone jackson logo on the neck,
BLACK hardware and olimpic white finish,
matching headstock,
SD TB-5b and SD SH-1n
master volume, bridge tone (push/pull for split), neck tone (push/pull for split)
3 way blade switch



give me this and i'm rocking out with the guy upstairs

 

[The Owl]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

For me, I'd have 2 built, both patterned after the late 60's SG Special:

• Mahogany Body
  Mahogany Neck-Thru-Body (as opposed to the normal glued in joint)
  Rosewood fingerboard
  Cherry Red Finish
  PAF Humbuckers on one, P-90's on the other axe
  Grover Pegs (or something as good)
  Standard Gibson-type hardware (stop-tailpiece, Tune-O-Matic bridge)
  LP/SG style pickguard
  Strap-Lock system
  Trapezoidal position markers
  Abalone inlay of an owl's head in the headstock
  Coil-tap switches

This would make for one happpy, rockin' Owl!

 

[aleclee]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

I actually have it on order from Joe Driskill.

Driskill Diablo
Korina body
Maple top
Unfinished Indian Rosewood 24 fret neck
Bois de Rose fretboard
Paua "O" fretboard markers
Driskill Trem (machined from a single chunk of brass)
Chrome hardware
Pickups TBD (probably EVH)
"Blue Jean" finish
5-way blade switch (similar circuit to PRS 5-way)
Locking tuners (TBD: Schaller or Sperzel)

 

[Zerberus]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

Jackson already made me mine in ´96

Dinky Reverse
22 Frets, 6100 wire (played down to medium jumbo already)
rosewood Board
Maple neck
dot inlays
Soloist profile
Bolt-on
Alder Body, black
2 point vintage trem w/ Graphtech saddles
JB neck, Custom Bridge
Schaller Straplocks
Gotoh Tuners
Graphite nut (about the 4th one already)

The question is , what´s next... Maybe a seven string Baritone Warrior or King Kelly in a Blood Drip graphic :32:

 

[DiminisheD-7th]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

sounds good to me too...!!! i might go with their lp shap though...i tell ya what they need...A TELE SHAPE...that would ROCK!!!

fair enuff
the LP shape is great too, im just more fond of double cutaway ordeals :burnout:

 

[Young Angus]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

Some jackson soloist or a gibson les paul thing...not that i would want to really improve on a les paul that much....actually id get something kinda halfway between the two but more like a shred guitar with two humbuckers and a middle single, with a rounded sortof les paul like body but double cutaway and still cool looking like the blue one in the "i remember you" skid row video...but better and more customised with a thousand options, by jackson or someone like that

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

I'd get a 000-28HD style acoustic with pre-WWII Martin specs and neck with 12 frets clear of the body. But not from Martin...I already have one of those and it's a great guitar. But I'd like to get one from Bill Collings.

And from the National Guitar company I'd love a early 30's style National Tri Cone resonator guitar like Bob Brozman's made out of German Silver...not brass or steel. Can't get German silver anymore.

Lew

 

[Brow]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

Im in the process of designing a custom guitar in rememberance of my recently deceased Grandad. Here's the spec so far:

Les Paul style body (with reduced neck/body heel)
Mahogany neck with 22 fret Rosewood fretboard
Tunomatic bridge or Thru body stringing
2 PAF style humbuckers (maybe C5/PG or a set of A2P's)
Individual Volume and Tone controls
Push/Pull volume controls to split each Pickup
A push/pull tone control to reverse phase of pickups when both used together
Grover tuners
Crown inlays with HW at the 12th fret
'Brow' on the truss rod cover
Finished in a blue, purple or honey sunburst

I think thats it, might have missed out a detail or 2 though

 

[MikeS]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

Mahogany body carved top LP shape
-Tummy cut
-Additional carving on top - sort of bevel and smooth the edges back. think SG bevels only softer. should bring the weight down a bit, too
-contoured heel - if we're setting the neck we can get a much thinner joint than a stock LP
-TOM bridge, but string-thru rather than a tailpiece
-Dunlop recessed straplocks

Mahogany set neck - Clapton profile
-rosewood fretboard w/ 6105 frets
-split block inlays
-Grover tuners

Would probably load it with PGb/59n

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

I'd need two!

ESP RRV Copy
Black with green bevels
24 6100 frets
Ebony Fretboard
Unfinished Maple neck thru
Mohogany body wings
SD Distortion/Jazz combo
One volume for each, tone knob in cavity, killswitch, LP pickup switch
OFR Bridge
Black hardware
Locking nut pieces will be flathead instead of allen
Schaller straplocks
Kluson locking tuners

Jackson Soloist
Blood red quilt top with black outside
Mohogany body wings
Gloss black back and neck
Natural binding on body
Ebony fingerboard
22 6100 frets
SD Custom/59
Volume for each, tone control in cavity, killswitch, LP pickup selector
Tonepros TOM with stringthru body
Black Hardware
Dimarzio Cliplock strap

 

[drew_half_empty]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

hmmm

fender american toronado, white with black hardware/headstock, hot rail in the mid position

individual pickup on/off selector switches with volume knobs on the bottom

single cut ash body, set neck with similar feel to light ash telecaster, DR medium strings, ebony fretboard, i guess that about does it....oh man that'd be hott

 

[Quencho092]

Re: if you could have any custom shop make you a guitar?

The strat i have right now is pretty much everything i will ever want-All alder body with tummy cut, vintage tremolo, surfer pickups for SSS... the only thing that would be really out there custom would be the fretjob-it needs a real good leveling to get it really perfect. V shape neck, light satin finish on neck, maple fretboard.