If you had your own sig guitar?

[Mincer]

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.

 

[Xeromus]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

if any company, Ernie Ball music man. By far the best guitars I've seen and played lately.

Actually mine is quite short. It would be very similar to the Ibanez Joe Satriani JS-1000 or the Ernie Ball Music Man Petrucci model. Even down to the woods of those guitars. Only thing I would change is have them hard tail.

 

[Hot _Grits]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

ok, I can think of three:

A Tom Anderson Classic strat, with a lightweight alder body, a chunky 'C' quartersawn maple neck, jumbo frets, and antiquities (overwound at bridge). I'd use their standard Gotoh bridge with piezo transducer so it could be synth-compatible. Finishes would include trans white, shoreline gold and pink paisley.

Or:

A PRS McCarty Soapbar with a relaively unfigured flametop and slightly thicker korina back in teal black or a slightly darker mccartyburst, with a custom Seymour soapbar that sounds like a Seth Lover in the bridge. Again with piezo bridge for synth compatibility.

Or:

A fender hardtail alder strat, with a chunky tele neck, and a twangbanger in the bridge.

Nothing too out of the ordinary there, I'm afraid.

 

[FretFire]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

I'm actually thinking about building what could very well by my "signature" guitar. Here's what I have down on paper so far:

JS body shape (I love that design, so sexy)
Black Limba body and neck back
Clear finish on body, oil/wax on the back of the neck
Ebony fretboard, abalone dot inlays
String through hardtail
H-H configuration, not sure what pickups yet
25.5" scale, 22 frets
Probably a 12" radius, Wolfgang asymmetrical back shape
graphite nut, locking tuners
all black hardware


Should be very sick when/if I get it done...

 

[FretFire]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

An example of black limba (korina)...

 

[Sequanselar]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

I have a few Ideas, too.

I'd want a Gibson Les Paul Double cut, with a more scooped out lower horn, 50's neck. Maple neck, Ebony Fret board. Gold hard ware. Mahogany body, Quilted Maple top with green finish . A Stetsbar on it, or A Floyd rose (no locking nut, locking tuners). bone nut. The pickups would be under gold pickup covers, but the bridge pickup would be zebra underneath. The toggle swicth on the upper horn like if it were a Les Paul. 2 volume/2 tone...

A Fox running down the fret board...


OR.... it'd be a Phiga Hybrid model, made with the typical weird wood the guy uses, Crop circle inlays (of course). Other wise the same as above only a WIlkinson with piezo, no pickup covers, 3 pickups...blah blah blah...






...and I like the looks of that black limba...I'll have to remember that wood later...

 

[JOLLY]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

Gibson Les Paul
AAAA flamed maple top
slim 60's neck
unfinished neck w/tung oil
No pickguard
colors: amber, purple, green, red, natural, blue (color of Scott's PRS)
Seymour Duncan zebra Jazz/Jazz pickup configuration with Jimmy Page wiring
Grover tuners
Tone pros t-o-m bridge
bone nut
only the darkest of rosewood for the fingerboards
abalone trapezoid inlays
gold speed knobs
white pickup surrounds
white binding
NO toggle switch rhythm/treble washer
white toggle switch tip
all hardware in gold

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

Mine would be made by G&L or Fender.

Basically, the same guitar as my G&L Legacy Deluxe or a Fender CS Showmaster, only I'd choose light alder with a flame maple veneer in pale translucent teal black.

Instead of the G&L Trem, I'd have a Wilkinson trem that has a system where you can lock the trem, or unlock it....back near the block and springs. You could access the lock through a hole in the backplate.

Like my current guitar, it'd have a birdseye chunky C w/rosewood fretboard. A few of my models would have an all rosewood neck.

The pickups would be a nickel covered tremspaced Duncan C-5, but overwound 5%
The 2 Singles would be slightly overwound Surfer neck and middle.

Tuners would be vintage Kluson strat type, with a screw down the top of the shaft that acts as a locking tuner.

The nut would be bone, cut wide enough that the strings never bind.

The electronics would be laid out just like any strat with a 5 way, only the 3rd tone would be rotary dial, so I could get all the options that an Anderson w/mini switches could do.

 

[strat_master]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

mine would be

a gibson les paul
60's slim taper neck
all nickel hardware, grover tuners
a 59/59 combo in them covered
in black or wine red
binding on neck and body
gold speed tone knobs
and those mother of pealr inlays

for an acoustic just give me a martin D28 with my name on the headstock haha

 

[Im_in_Disguise]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

Fender 70's thinline telecaster, with a bigsby tele bridge. pickups would be telehotrails bridge and a P90 neck. The neck would be a soft V strat neck with a large 70's headstock, maple board, and medium jumbo frets. Color would be daphne blue with white racing stripes, and the pickguard would be a white pearloid. my perfect guitar.

... I dream too much. but I'd like to have this guitar some day.

 

[FretFire]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

...and I like the looks of that black limba...I'll have to remember that wood later...

It is very cool looking wood, and very similar tonally to mahogany from what I understand.

 

[Mincer]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

some great ideas!
...lots of choosing different options for a company's guitar line, and making a composite model out of it. Fender does this regularly, and Gibson is doing it too. It is interesting to me to see some really creative ideas and more conservative ones too.

 

[ledzepp29]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

I'd probably make it a semi copy of marc bolan's les paul in my avatar, a les paul standard body with a semi dark orange translucent finish with a small amount of figure, 2 zebra antiquities, and a les paul custom neck with grovers. And a Jimmy Page wiring for the hell of it! o ya and a super chunky early 50's sized neck... I've teased the idea of getting that guitar custom made by a luthier some day when I'm much much older...for the true marc bolan fan in me. haha

 

[mrfjones]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

a gauge guitars tele with an extremely light swamp ash body nitro finish, maple neck (big 50's U shape) and voodoo pickups.

or

a single cut with dual buckers or p90's all mahagony.

 

[duke]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

I have no idea what type of wood i would like my signature guitar be made of, i just know that it's gotta be Gibson Les Paul with a 60's neck, pickguard, some real cool finishes ( honeyburst, goldtop, vintage sunburst...). I might not even try different woods because i just love Gibson Les Pauls the way they are madly

 

[Armotron]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

To be different then what they are making now, id get a Fender.

Light Strat Mahogany Body w/a pickguard and a Nitro-Cellulose Finish
Maple Neck-Ebony Fretboard or just an all maple neck - C shape Rolled Edges
3 Duncan Antiquity P90 Soapbars wired like a Strat w/ a 5 way switch.
Vintage Tuners.
Vintage Tremelo and Vintage Tremelo Block w/ 5 springs
And Stock with .011s

id use it along with my current strat.

 

[WITH FULL DISTORTION]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

I´LL HAVE mine, but i´ll HAVE to Get a JOB first
and it will DELAY A LOT i Guess
anyone wants to EMPLOY ME?
Q

 

[mrid]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

Basic 59 LP Standard with a twist

-One piece body and neck /w flame maple cap (Honduran Mahogany or Limba)
-Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard
-Dunlop 6105 frets
-Locking Grover 18:1's
-No binding
-oil finish
-wrap around bridge with integrated saddles, ala PRS
-Antiquity set /w full strength magnets. 10-12k bridge and 8-8.5k neck
-50's wiring
-out of phase in the middle position

 

[Mincer]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

this is great guys...lets keep them different from what companies make now...

 

[ex-250]

Re: If you had your own sig guitar?

-gibson explorer
-mahogany body
-classic white finish
-no pickguard, control setup like the '84 gibsons
-2 volume, 1 tone, chrome knobs
-set mahogany or maple neck....either'd be fun
-gibson 50's neck profile
-really dark rosewood fretboard
-dunlop 6100 frets
-abalone dot inlays
-bone nut
-sperzel locking tuners
-tonepros TOM bridge
-DD/jazz or DD/DD

basically its just an upgraded '84 explorer that would be built in the custom shop with a few structural modifications