If you had your own sig guitar?
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F. Hails Railsologist
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
Hummm Mine?!?!!?
i have a shape in mind.. a modified with more WINGS SCHECTER AVENGER
Floyd Rose(gotoh or schaller or kahler or original FL), 24 unholy MEDIUM Frets,Blue colour Strings , Baritone guitar to tune in C, my favortie tuning of them all.
Unholy Mahogany Body, Neck Thru Maple Neck and Ebony Fingerboard.
Loro Faía top in Blue... just like this maple one, but not Maple made...
http://img144.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img144&image=rpcquilt650hg.jpg
sperzel locking tune machines.. WFD written in the 12 fret.
and i´ll do my own custom Pickups. eheheheheheheh
that´s IT. THROUGH A FRAMUS COBRA
ahahahahahahahahahahaah
Hummm Mine?!?!!?
i have a shape in mind.. a modified with more WINGS SCHECTER AVENGER
Floyd Rose(gotoh or schaller or kahler or original FL), 24 unholy MEDIUM Frets,Blue colour Strings , Baritone guitar to tune in C, my favortie tuning of them all.
Unholy Mahogany Body, Neck Thru Maple Neck and Ebony Fingerboard.
Loro Faía top in Blue... just like this maple one, but not Maple made...
sperzel locking tune machines.. WFD written in the 12 fret.
and i´ll do my own custom Pickups. eheheheheheheh
that´s IT. THROUGH A FRAMUS COBRA
ahahahahahahahahahahaah
Rich_T
Kyuss_Rockologist
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
-Fender Custom shop built
-Jaguar shape
-Surf green
-TOM and Stop Tail bridge
-Aged parts
-2 humbuckers (JB/'59 probably)
-Bolt-on one piece maple neck
-Matching headstock colour, with the swirly grapics
-Ash body
-Schaller straplocks as standard.
-Fender Custom shop built
-Jaguar shape
-Surf green
-TOM and Stop Tail bridge
-Aged parts
-2 humbuckers (JB/'59 probably)
-Bolt-on one piece maple neck
-Matching headstock colour, with the swirly grapics
-Ash body
-Schaller straplocks as standard.
That90'sGuy
DyzaBoyzologist
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
This is a new idea I might actually go ahead and do:
While I'll probably go to USACG for this, if it were to be my "dream" guitar, I'd go to Don Grosh for it all. He is just one of the best gentlemen in the business, provides great customer service and support and has the best ear for tone that I know of. How many builders do you know only produce a hundred or so guitars a year? How many do you know personally tap the wood to make sure it resonates perfectly before using it on a guitar? This man does not accept anything, but the very best on his guitars and I feel priviledged to own a Bent Top Custom.
I've been toying with this Tele design for a while. I like the feel and it's simple looking, so it rocks! My ideal pickup selection would be [pos 1] bridge humbucker [pos 2] middle single coil [pos 3] middle single coil and neck p90 [pos 4] neck p90 alone. That should get pretty much everything I'm looking for, humbucker for distortion, single coil for jangly cleans, strat type quack for blues, and a fat tone for jazz.
Only thing I might add to it would be a three way toggle switch (one to mag only, one to piezo only, and one to mix) and a Fishman piezo system.
This is a new idea I might actually go ahead and do:
While I'll probably go to USACG for this, if it were to be my "dream" guitar, I'd go to Don Grosh for it all. He is just one of the best gentlemen in the business, provides great customer service and support and has the best ear for tone that I know of. How many builders do you know only produce a hundred or so guitars a year? How many do you know personally tap the wood to make sure it resonates perfectly before using it on a guitar? This man does not accept anything, but the very best on his guitars and I feel priviledged to own a Bent Top Custom.
I've been toying with this Tele design for a while. I like the feel and it's simple looking, so it rocks! My ideal pickup selection would be [pos 1] bridge humbucker [pos 2] middle single coil [pos 3] middle single coil and neck p90 [pos 4] neck p90 alone. That should get pretty much everything I'm looking for, humbucker for distortion, single coil for jangly cleans, strat type quack for blues, and a fat tone for jazz.
Only thing I might add to it would be a three way toggle switch (one to mag only, one to piezo only, and one to mix) and a Fishman piezo system.
Marty Horne
New member
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
Mine would be made by David McNaught as the quality of his guitars ia as good or better than anything I've played in 40 years. It would be his vintage double-cut model, diamond quilt top, ebony board, 3 Rio Grande P-90s, stop-tail and honey-sunburst finish. I'm actually planning to order with these specs as soon as I can afford it. I have one of his Phoenix models and it is absolutely AWESOME!
Mine would be made by David McNaught as the quality of his guitars ia as good or better than anything I've played in 40 years. It would be his vintage double-cut model, diamond quilt top, ebony board, 3 Rio Grande P-90s, stop-tail and honey-sunburst finish. I'm actually planning to order with these specs as soon as I can afford it. I have one of his Phoenix models and it is absolutely AWESOME!
texasguitarslinger
Mo Cow Bellologist
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
It would be a Gibson Les Paul Standard with a JB bridge and '59 neck, blue 5AAAAA quilted top, chrome hardware (including pickup rings and jackplate), grover tuners (18:1), bone nut, cream binding, mother of pearl inlays and ebony fretboard.
It would be a Gibson Les Paul Standard with a JB bridge and '59 neck, blue 5AAAAA quilted top, chrome hardware (including pickup rings and jackplate), grover tuners (18:1), bone nut, cream binding, mother of pearl inlays and ebony fretboard.
Quencho092
New member
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
i had this crazy idea.
A light alder strat with birdseye maple neck/fretboard, standard headstock.
Routed H-S-H
But above the neck position humbucker, a horseshoe pickup mount with a surfer antiquity I single coil.
in the neck position i'd put an antiquity I HB, suspended over it would be the surfer antiquity I single coil.
Middle position would be a surfer RW/RP mid pickup
Bridge would be an Antiquity I treble HB.
For the bridge, i'd have a fender reissue vintage tremolo, but blocked...lol.
Electronics would be a 5 way switch SCneck/SCneck-SCmiddle/SCmiddle/SCmiddle-bridgeHB/Bridge HB
The volume control would be push pull, when pulled it makes the 5 way into a 3 way:
Position 1:neck HB
Position 2:neck and middle HB
position 3:Bridge HB
So it's pretty much a custom double fat strat with Duncan surfers in the horseshoe mount and middle posistion, with an antiquity I in the neck and another antiquity I in the bridge.
Cool idea eh.
i had this crazy idea.
A light alder strat with birdseye maple neck/fretboard, standard headstock.
Routed H-S-H
But above the neck position humbucker, a horseshoe pickup mount with a surfer antiquity I single coil.
in the neck position i'd put an antiquity I HB, suspended over it would be the surfer antiquity I single coil.
Middle position would be a surfer RW/RP mid pickup
Bridge would be an Antiquity I treble HB.
For the bridge, i'd have a fender reissue vintage tremolo, but blocked...lol.
Electronics would be a 5 way switch SCneck/SCneck-SCmiddle/SCmiddle/SCmiddle-bridgeHB/Bridge HB
The volume control would be push pull, when pulled it makes the 5 way into a 3 way:
Position 1:neck HB
Position 2:neck and middle HB
position 3:Bridge HB
So it's pretty much a custom double fat strat with Duncan surfers in the horseshoe mount and middle posistion, with an antiquity I in the neck and another antiquity I in the bridge.
Cool idea eh.
dd12939
New member
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
Gibson SG - because mine is one of the best guitars I've ever played
Body: Mahogany, with Figured walnut top, also body is 1/2 inch thicker than standard SG body
Neck: Mahogany, with whatever contour I have on mine,(a wide C I think) standard Gibson scale length, etc.
Fretboard: Brazilian Rosewood, Silver Iron Cross fret markers
Colors: Transparent Black Burst, Heritage Cherry, Ebony Stain
Bridge/Tailpiece: Tonepros Locking
Tuners: Grover Locking
Pickguard: B/W/B 60's Style
Pickups: Bitchbuckers, except in black.
Controls: 2 Volume, 2 Tone, 3-Way with Push-Pulls on the Tone controls to split the pickups and Push-Pulls on the Volume controls to change the pickups to Parallel wiring. Also, the knobs would be moved slightly closer to the strings for easier access.
Gibson SG - because mine is one of the best guitars I've ever played
Body: Mahogany, with Figured walnut top, also body is 1/2 inch thicker than standard SG body
Neck: Mahogany, with whatever contour I have on mine,(a wide C I think) standard Gibson scale length, etc.
Fretboard: Brazilian Rosewood, Silver Iron Cross fret markers
Colors: Transparent Black Burst, Heritage Cherry, Ebony Stain
Bridge/Tailpiece: Tonepros Locking
Tuners: Grover Locking
Pickguard: B/W/B 60's Style
Pickups: Bitchbuckers, except in black.
Controls: 2 Volume, 2 Tone, 3-Way with Push-Pulls on the Tone controls to split the pickups and Push-Pulls on the Volume controls to change the pickups to Parallel wiring. Also, the knobs would be moved slightly closer to the strings for easier access.
Gamera
New member
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
If I could have any sig guitar, the body shape would be different. Something Strat-like with double cutaways but shaped slightly differently. Kind of like the Reb Beach/Ibanez Voyager or Nuno Washburn models. Highly contoured edges all around with great access to all frets.
Fret markers would be simple dots (or other shapes, triangles, whatever) located at the top of the neck (like the Ibanez Petrucci model.) And it'd be cool if you could control their color/brightness with a hidden dimmer switch. Kind of like the dashboard of a new Mustang. :cool3:
As for pickups, it'd be routed H-S. No middle pickup. 2-way selector switch. Single volume, single tone control.
Input jack would be hidden in the rear/side.
Trem would be completely custom. Something capable of staying in tune for divebombs, but less hassle to string up than a Floyd. And it would not have a traditional trem bar. Instead it would have a "slap pad" on that back of the trem (where the fine tuners are on a Floyd) that you would grip with your hand and move up and down or give it a quick "smack" with the palm of your hand for quick whammy adjustments.
No fancy wood tops. Just flat colors; metallic 70's muscle car glitter colors, or simple graphics (created by me) on flat colors.
If I could have any sig guitar, the body shape would be different. Something Strat-like with double cutaways but shaped slightly differently. Kind of like the Reb Beach/Ibanez Voyager or Nuno Washburn models. Highly contoured edges all around with great access to all frets.
Fret markers would be simple dots (or other shapes, triangles, whatever) located at the top of the neck (like the Ibanez Petrucci model.) And it'd be cool if you could control their color/brightness with a hidden dimmer switch. Kind of like the dashboard of a new Mustang. :cool3:
As for pickups, it'd be routed H-S. No middle pickup. 2-way selector switch. Single volume, single tone control.
Input jack would be hidden in the rear/side.
Trem would be completely custom. Something capable of staying in tune for divebombs, but less hassle to string up than a Floyd. And it would not have a traditional trem bar. Instead it would have a "slap pad" on that back of the trem (where the fine tuners are on a Floyd) that you would grip with your hand and move up and down or give it a quick "smack" with the palm of your hand for quick whammy adjustments.
No fancy wood tops. Just flat colors; metallic 70's muscle car glitter colors, or simple graphics (created by me) on flat colors.
Gamera
New member
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
Dunno...lemme check...
...checks website...
Hmmm...yeah. Kinda like that. But instead of a bar, replace it with a sort of flat plate that you could smack anywhere you want. And get rid of all those locking tuners, fine tuners, and other complicated Floyd-type stuff.
dd12939 said:
Dunno...lemme check...
...checks website...
Hmmm...yeah. Kinda like that. But instead of a bar, replace it with a sort of flat plate that you could smack anywhere you want. And get rid of all those locking tuners, fine tuners, and other complicated Floyd-type stuff.
stevie_bees
Cat In The Hatministrator
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
I would go for a Fender, but I would get them to make a custom shop version of the Squier Super-Sonic. (Kinda upside down left handed Jaguar type) It would have a locking Wilkinson bridge, noiseless pickups with the Clapton mid boost and TBX control. 22 jumbo frets, ebony fingerboard, roller nut and locking tuners. It would be finished in gold and black metal flake stripes to go with my surname. The case would have to match of course!!
I would go for a Fender, but I would get them to make a custom shop version of the Squier Super-Sonic. (Kinda upside down left handed Jaguar type) It would have a locking Wilkinson bridge, noiseless pickups with the Clapton mid boost and TBX control. 22 jumbo frets, ebony fingerboard, roller nut and locking tuners. It would be finished in gold and black metal flake stripes to go with my surname. The case would have to match of course!!
Hoss
Joyfulnoiseologist
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
a carved top semi-hollow tele shaped body with a birdseye maple cap with back curves and input jack location like a moore, lp 3-way, dual hums (59/customcustom) coil tapped & parallel, hipshot hardtail bridge, all in a butterscotch color with a maple maple strat neck, medium jumbo frets, earvana nut, custom 3 cross inlay at 12th fret and sperzel locking tuners... the "TeleHoss"
i wonder where i can get somthing like this done.... :laugh2: :dance:
sorta like this
thanks to johnjohn (and several others on the forum, yall know who you are!) it will be coming soon!!!
a carved top semi-hollow tele shaped body with a birdseye maple cap with back curves and input jack location like a moore, lp 3-way, dual hums (59/customcustom) coil tapped & parallel, hipshot hardtail bridge, all in a butterscotch color with a maple maple strat neck, medium jumbo frets, earvana nut, custom 3 cross inlay at 12th fret and sperzel locking tuners... the "TeleHoss"
i wonder where i can get somthing like this done.... :laugh2: :dance:
sorta like this
thanks to johnjohn (and several others on the forum, yall know who you are!) it will be coming soon!!!
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pureoldsound
New member
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
Well I don't know if it is my Sig guitar but it was made with my specs with regards of wood to be use width and the electronics that I wanted....So if that counts as a Sig guitar, then I'll say Gauge guitars (Aaron, aka Blueline) is my winning ticket….
Well I don't know if it is my Sig guitar but it was made with my specs with regards of wood to be use width and the electronics that I wanted....So if that counts as a Sig guitar, then I'll say Gauge guitars (Aaron, aka Blueline) is my winning ticket….
Vasshu the humanoid typhoon
Unseen
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
No comapny....I would order 4 from Mørch guitars...Johnny makes awesome basses and guitars, wind his own pickups and so on.
Slightly strat shaped, would have 4 different guitars, one hh and a sss, plus an ssh and a ss one.
Dunno about any special features..hehe
The hh and the ssh will have flushmounted floyds, maplenecks with an added maplecap fretboard.
The sss and the ss will have rosewood boards with a vintage curve, the later would be
a hardtail and the sss will get a trad strat trem.
The sss will get a reverse headstock..love those.
The ss a more normal one.
Body wood and such is up to how I want them to sound...so that is not decided yet
Hope to get them one day before he retires.
No comapny....I would order 4 from Mørch guitars...Johnny makes awesome basses and guitars, wind his own pickups and so on.
Slightly strat shaped, would have 4 different guitars, one hh and a sss, plus an ssh and a ss one.
Dunno about any special features..hehe
The hh and the ssh will have flushmounted floyds, maplenecks with an added maplecap fretboard.
The sss and the ss will have rosewood boards with a vintage curve, the later would be
a hardtail and the sss will get a trad strat trem.
The sss will get a reverse headstock..love those.
The ss a more normal one.
Body wood and such is up to how I want them to sound...so that is not decided yet
Hope to get them one day before he retires.
Luke Duke
PRSlustologist
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
Mine would be a pain to build but here goes. It would be a one off and the production model would be slightly different.
Body Shape---would be like a 50's LP double cutaway but a semi-hollow with a set-thru neck and maybe an F-hole I don't think so though.
Body and neck wood--would be white limba
Top---highly quilted maple
Pups---solid mounted SD Duke Buckers (something akin to a Jazz in the neck and a 10-12k A2 bridge, or a Custom and JB coil and an A2 mag
fingerboard---ebony with MOP or Abalone Masonic emblem on the 12th fret as well as working tools for my one off, on the production I'd want just MOP or Abalone blocks, with medium jumbo frets, elegant and understated.
Headstock---With a Holly overlay and my name inlaid in MOP of Abalone
Bridge---Tone Pros TOM
Electronics---500k CTS pots, .03UF orange drop caps, switchcraft jacks, and 3 way switch. I would have 2 vol and 2 tones with all the controls placed like on a SG or 335
Who would build it? I don't know...Jaros guitars look really nice as do DTMs.
Luke
Mine would be a pain to build but here goes. It would be a one off and the production model would be slightly different.
Body Shape---would be like a 50's LP double cutaway but a semi-hollow with a set-thru neck and maybe an F-hole I don't think so though.
Body and neck wood--would be white limba
Top---highly quilted maple
Pups---solid mounted SD Duke Buckers (something akin to a Jazz in the neck and a 10-12k A2 bridge, or a Custom and JB coil and an A2 mag
fingerboard---ebony with MOP or Abalone Masonic emblem on the 12th fret as well as working tools for my one off, on the production I'd want just MOP or Abalone blocks, with medium jumbo frets, elegant and understated.
Headstock---With a Holly overlay and my name inlaid in MOP of Abalone
Bridge---Tone Pros TOM
Electronics---500k CTS pots, .03UF orange drop caps, switchcraft jacks, and 3 way switch. I would have 2 vol and 2 tones with all the controls placed like on a SG or 335
Who would build it? I don't know...Jaros guitars look really nice as do DTMs.
Luke
Benjy_26
25's Nemesis
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
Mine would basically be a late 50's LP style with some changes:
* a fat, 50's neck
*slightly figured 2 piece maple topp,
*two piece honduras mahogany body
*Large sound chamber under the top (bass side)
*three piece Honduras mahogany neck (a la Hamer)
*lightweight aluminum tailpice and TonePros hardware
*500k CTS pots, .022 Orange Drop caps, 50's wiring
*Pearly Gates neck/ Custom bridge with push/pull coil taps
*bone nut
*Straight string path design on the headstock
*Schaller M6 tuning machines
*Schaller Strap locks
*3 Layer body binding
All of this in either transparent amber or transparent wine red, with nickel hardware, including pickup covers.
Mine would basically be a late 50's LP style with some changes:
* a fat, 50's neck
*slightly figured 2 piece maple topp,
*two piece honduras mahogany body
*Large sound chamber under the top (bass side)
*three piece Honduras mahogany neck (a la Hamer)
*lightweight aluminum tailpice and TonePros hardware
*500k CTS pots, .022 Orange Drop caps, 50's wiring
*Pearly Gates neck/ Custom bridge with push/pull coil taps
*bone nut
*Straight string path design on the headstock
*Schaller M6 tuning machines
*Schaller Strap locks
*3 Layer body binding
All of this in either transparent amber or transparent wine red, with nickel hardware, including pickup covers.
Re: If you had your own sig guitar?
I'd have my signature guitar be made by Ernie Ball/Music Man. It'd basically be a tweaked Silhouette with the following features:
-HH pickup setup, 3-way switch.
-Master volume, Master tone, coil-split via push-pull tone pot.
-22 fret neck with 6105 frets and ebony fretboard, 12" radius.
-pickups direct-mounted to the body
-OFR bridge, recessed, and replace the stock locking schallers with quality non-locking ones.
If I could have EB/MM custom build one of those for me that'd be my dream axe.
I'd have my signature guitar be made by Ernie Ball/Music Man. It'd basically be a tweaked Silhouette with the following features:
-HH pickup setup, 3-way switch.
-Master volume, Master tone, coil-split via push-pull tone pot.
-22 fret neck with 6105 frets and ebony fretboard, 12" radius.
-pickups direct-mounted to the body
-OFR bridge, recessed, and replace the stock locking schallers with quality non-locking ones.
If I could have EB/MM custom build one of those for me that'd be my dream axe.
