If you had your own sig guitar?

[Closed Eye]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

Company: Yamaha
Body: SG-style, Basswood
Neck: Ebony
Color: Black
Binding: Creme (body + headstock)
Pickup: model #1- Seymour Duncan JB (Bridge), model #2- Seymour Duncan JB (Bridge), Yamaha Alnico (neck), both w/ cream pickup rings
Controls: 1 tone, 1 volume (dome knobs)
Hardware: silver
Extra: "Kill switch", coil-splitting

I dunno, I've just been dreaming about a guitar like this lately...

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

Double-cutaway (BUT NOT A STRAT) probably made by G&L with a mahagoney body, bolt-on maple neck with really dark rosewood fretboard, NO PICKGUARD EVER, with three humbuckers -- the bridge one being slanted -- and a five-way Strat switch. String-thru body, tune-o-matic bridge, one volume and two tones, one tone is bass and one is treble...push-pull volume pot to split the buckers...I dunno, maybe JB/59/Jazz for the pickups...uhhhmmm or maybe all three Customs, why not...

Colors would include white, black, various shades of blue and green...yellow...pink...good colors...with black upside-down Strat headstocks, good tuning machines (I like my Gotohs a lot...) and either black or chrome hardware depending on the finish...

Oh and the inlays would either be frowny faces, Satanic pentagrams, daisies, or the leaves of my favorite plant, depending on how i felt when i ordered it.

So yeah, i'll be waiting for that endorsement check.

-X

 

[Wattage]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

I could go for a few.

Gibson LP Standard Goldtop (aged) with a soft heel, Braz. rosewood board, 4 wire A2P's with a Peter Green mod on a p/p pot, no guard, ABR-1, corian nut, Schaller pegs.

Strat - Lefty body flipped for a righty, drilled for a righty as well. Natural ash body w/amber nitro finish, black guard Tele bass style coverage, Schaller locking pegs, 70's headstock/4 bolt heel maple with braz.wood board, QP tapped bridge, Surfer Ant's neck and mid.

 

[Jocelyn]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

HMMM
(1) Body style: Offset double cutaway ( strat styled or a soloist style as long as the horns are curved not pointed)
(2) Body wood either premium Alder.
(3) Neck style:thicker C neck ( I like thick necks), 25.5 scale lenght.
(4) Neck wood : Maple
(5) Fretboard : Rosewood (compund radius), cream dot inlays.
(6)Frets : Medium.
(7) Bridge: Original Flyod rose
(8) controls: One volume 2 concentric tone controls.
(9)Pickups: Jb Trembucker (black)and Jazz(zebra)
Available in Black or three color sunburst, with chrome hardware.
Oh yes Company wld be Wayne Guitars.

 

[Loserchief]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

I'd just have my Custom B.C Rich Stealth and get my name inlayed into the headstock and it would be a sig guitar

 

[Jeffrec]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

I think I would go with Hamer. Mine would be a Studio/Sunburst Archtop style, with a fat, but tapered neck, killer AAAA flamed top in a deep amber or washed cherry sunburst. It would have Antiquities or a Seth bridge and Jazz neck pup.

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

1. What company? Fender

1a. Why? Because it's "Fender". Yeah, I know, but because it would be a signature model, it would be exactly the way I want it and I wouldn't have to worry about the stuff I do now because I buy off the rack.

2. What would be different about it (not just new pickups/knobs/tuners/color- what would be *significantly* different from what the company offers now?) Mainly the neck would be different. I would have them make a Tele neck with a 7.25" radius with vintage frets and it would be AAA birdseye maple and it would be finished with gunstock oil and wax like my EBMM Albert Lee neck was.

 

[dani]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

actually, i will take any brand that will offer me a signature guitar!

ok, here are the specs.

- tele shaped
- swamp ash top over honduran mahogany
- butterscotch blond on top and black on back, nitro finish
- string-thru-body/nickel tonepros bridge with graphtech saddles
- matte black pickguard
- schaller straplocks

- set-in long tenon 1-pc maple neck with black fret markers
- 25" scale, 12" radius and 22 extra jumbo frets
- bone nut
- nickel gotoh kluson-style tuners
- callaham vintage round string tree
- matte vintage amber in nitro finish

- antiquity humbucker bridge/p-90 neck
- reverse callaham control plate and knobs with crl switch, cts pots and orange drop cap
- callaham stainless steel screws for pickguard, control plate and string tree
- dr pure blues 10-46

that's about it!

 

[TheProphet]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

I've been working on my "Dream Guitar" for 3 years now. So I would go with my shape, pickups are irrelevant as there's always room for different layouts.

1. What company? Why?

Godin. Why? Canadian. I like their bolt-on pattern. I like how theye recess the TOM bridge and their string thru setup. I know I can probably have them priced reasonably. Made in North America. Also they'd be able to easily set up the guitars for peizo and midi.

2. What would be different about it (not just new pickups/knobs/tuners/color- what would be *significantly* different from what the company offers now?)

Basically the design of my guitar currently is nothing like anything Godin currently offers. However I would like to encorporate a few of their design ideas into the guitar. I'd also try and keep a headstock that was different from the Godin headstock

Just my .02

 

[The Owl]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

OK, if you had your own signature guitar....

1. What company? Why?
2. What would be different about it (not just new pickups/knobs/tuners/color- what would be *significantly* different from what the company offers now?)
3. Don't worry about 'sale-ability', I know we have some quirky people here- no one would ever buy the guitar I come up with, I am sure.

Quite honestly, I'd rather have a private luthier do a guitar for me as Gibson does tend to be very conservative and stodgy. Mine would be modeled on the 60's SG Special but with a MAJOR difference, that being it would be a neck-through-body as opposed to the glued-in which can be a bit spongy. I'd also like it to go to a full 24 frets. I'd have 2 made, one with SD '59 HB's, the other with P-90's, both in chery red finish with owl silhouette position markers, and an abalone inlay of an owl's face in the peghead.

 

[Brett Valentine]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

Hmmm. . .

7 string, fanned frets (low B at 27" baritone scale, high E somewhere around 25" scale) Strings through body, locking tuners, 22 stainless steel frets, 3 piece glued in mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard, no fret markers, relatively modern neck, compound radius fingerboard.

"AP-3H" neck pickup, overwound PG bridge, Vintage Stack middle; piezo hexaphonic bridge (acoustic and MIDI). Master hum/sing switch, push/ pull blend knob for middle p/u, master Delta Tone pot treble bleed.

Active/passive piezo push/pull volume control w/ FET based boost, full "Roland" based MIDI controls.

Chambered mahogany body w/ 2 "body sensor" transducers, level balanced with the acoustic piezo signal, carved quilted maple top, single or double cutaway (deep cutaway) body depth cross section closer to Brian Moore.

13 pin MIDI out, piezo jack, magnetic p/u jack.

Brett

 

[Grandor]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

1. What company? Why?

- Peavey because they make high-quality guitars that I like (HP, wolf).

2. What would be different about it (not just new pickups/knobs/tuners/color- what would be *significantly* different from what the company offers now?)

- Not alot different to a wolfgang. so i wouldnt bother.

 

[Old Ghost]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

OK, if you had your own signature guitar....

1. What company? Why?
2. What would be different about it (not just new pickups/knobs/tuners/color- what would be *significantly* different from what the company offers now?)
3. Don't worry about 'sale-ability', I know we have some quirky people here- no one would ever buy the guitar I come up with, I am sure.

1. Gibson. I've only played Gibson Les Pauls for close to 24 years now.
2. Nuthin' fancy, not much different from a 1960 Classic but i like Jumbo Frets, AAA Grade Flame Top in Honey Burst, Ebony Fingerboard, no pick guards and of course SD JB in the Bridge and SD Jazz in the Neck with Nickel pickup Covers. I also like heavier Pauls ( at least 10 lbs. ).
Kinda looks like this but in Honey Burst:

 

[nuntius]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

Already happy with my "sig" guitars

It's pretty much a copy of my guitar teachers except for the bridge and body wood... The necks quite slim but nowhere near wizard like. A2JB/Stock.
I picked poplar, because it sounds "similar" to alder but a bit more "hard" which suits me more. I've had a lot of comments on my tone when playing live and when I've played it through other peoples gear as well, so it musn't be that bad


Anyway, I worked through this summer to afford another Gordon Smith. This one is basically an amalgamation of all the bits I've liked from all the guitars I've played in the past four years...

Mahogany body, flamed maple veneer again, BLUE!!! again!! Nice big neck on it (Brow's seen it and knows what I mean :laugh2: ) Rosewood board again, but no fret markers this time. Hipshot hardtail too, very nice bridge.

Only things I think I got wrong were the pups (of all things)
The C-5 -> it's not quite "there" in the mids... One day I'll trade it out for another pup when I decide if I'm going higher or lower output.

And the middle single is too much lower in output than the buckers. I thought I'd like that setup, but I've found out I'd rather have a pup that sounded like a single, but was more close in output to the HB's.

The Jazz neck I have in it sounds fantastic, and it was well worth the boring job I had to work to afford the axe!


If I had to design a sig guitar with another brand, I'd pick anyone who'd make me a nice 22 fret H/S/H hardtail strat :laugh2:

 

[JOLLY]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

I would have thought alot more people would have replied to this thread.

 

[CapoFirstFret]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

My signature edition Strat would look an awful lot like this....


Alder body, two/three tone sunburst, pearloid pickguard, Fralin hot blues pickups, aged covers and knobs, black headstock, ebony fretboard......sweetness

 

[skh515]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

My first choice would be a Fender Strat.

- Hardtail Ash body
- Maple neck and fretboard
- 22 medium jumbo frets on a 9.5" radius and 50's style V shaped neck profile with tinted nitro finish
- Vintage style slotted post with modern sealed, locking 18:1 tuners
- Available in: Black, Olympic White, Natural, Daphne Blue, Seafoam Green, Antique White (faded yellow), Lake Placid Blue, plus custom colors: Tangerine and Gold-top gold. All Nitro finishes
- White 3-ply pickguard
- APS-1 neck and middle, Twangbanger bridge, 5-way switch with master Vol, master Tone and blend pot (between neck and bridge)

Not that I've given this any thought :biglaugh:

I'm still working on my sig Tele :scratchch

 

[skh515]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

Or, a quality Gibson Les Paul Standard in the $1,200 to $1,500 range.

I know, but I can dream!

 

[NecroPolo]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

I have already had a sig guitar, my Warmoth.

Do you mean a mass-production guitar under my name? Most definitely, my choice would be ESP with the very same specs.

Or, with a huge amount of money and fame I'd start my own guitar company, using Warmoth neck/body parts for hi-range and NICE quality Korean CNC production parts for mid & lo-range instruments.

I don't want to reinvent the wheel

 

[Imp]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

it would be.... hmm. a versatile guitar, above all else.

I'd also want the production model to be high-quality, too many artists have put their name to a shoddily made guitar (mick from slipknot, amongst a few others..) I play almost all fenders, so i guess they'd be a nice start for a sig..

i'd have a black jaguar body- maybe ash/alder body, maple fretboard, with texas hot neck/52 middle/JB bridge... mustang trem. i have no desire to sound or look like cobain, i'd just like the combination

i'd have a split switch for the JB, and volume/tone pots.. nothing unnecessary, just a great, versatile platform for a decent spread of genres..