Let's play a " What If " game with Guitar Models

[Mr. B]

I've been cleaning and checking setups and restringing my guitars all morning, and I was just wondering "What if" I could only pick one guitar model, and it was all that was available. Which guitar model would I pick? Meaning that if you picked a Tele, you couldn't also have a strat.

Variations still count as the same "model", so if you picked a Strat, you could have 2 Humbucker, or SSS pickup configuration, a Trem or Hardtail version etc, as long as it was still a Strat. A Jackson Dinky wouldn't count, because it is technically not a Strat.

I'll start. I would give up my Les Paul, Strat, SG, and PRS and just keep Ibanez RG models. I can make them do almost anything, and they just feel "right" to me. I have them in 6, 7, and 8 strings, and I like all of them. They just feel like home to me, and don't get in my way while I am playing. To the contrary, it seems like I am always struggling with some small issue or another when I play other guitar models.

Ok, your turn...

 

[Mincer]

I'd pick something Strat-shaped with 2 humbuckers and a 5 way switch. I could do any gig with that.

 

[uOpt]

HSS Stratocaster.

 

[PFDarkside]

Definitely a “modern” HSS Strat. 2 Post trem, modern noiseless electronics and switching, compound radius with jumbo SS frets.

 

[misterwhizzy]

Les Paul. I could sell my other guitars tomorrow and only miss them a little bit.

 

[beaubrummels]

Telecaster

 

[Artie]

My Peavey Patriots, which are effectively, dual-humbucker Strats.

 

[Mr. B]

Out of all the guitars I have owned, I have never really gelled with Teles. I know a lot of people who say it is their main go-to guitar. I think it is the squareness of the body and that lackluster neck pickup. The bridge pickup, I like. I have thought about one of the Fender Performers or whatever they are called with the humbucker in the neck. That might suit me better.

 

[beaubrummels]

I go by the sound and how much variety of music I can get out of one guitar. I can adapt to just about any body and neck type. There are multiple ways to improve the Tele neck sound; Fender Twisted Tele Neck PU for one, disconnecting the tone control on the neck, for another.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Les Paul for sure. With a good 60's neck and ceramic overwound pickups.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

I could do just about anything with a PRS. Or a good boutique HSS Strat.
But I prefer long tenon mahogany set necks.
I have three set-neck Fenders which suit me better than typical Fender bolt-ons.

Not that I have any problem loving my bolt-ons. But if I could only have one type forever I'd want set-neck.

 

[Liam1963]

HSH Strat or Tele.

 

[solspirit]

My Peavey Patriots, which are effectively, dual-humbucker Strats.

Haha. I saw one on Reverb for $750 or something this morning.

 

[solspirit]

Strat for me, in any hum canceling configuration.

 

[Artie]

Haha. I saw one on Reverb for $750 or something this morning.

They're good. They ain't that good.

 

[Wattage]

Lester

 

[LRS]

If a choice had to be made, I couldn’t go wrong with my Fender Eric Johnson Strat.

 

[GuitarStv]

Jazzmaster with shaved neck heel, three single coils, vtt setup (tone on neck and other tone on bridge), 5 way switch, and a floyd.

I could do a strat body, but JMs are way more comfortable for me - it's really a refinement and improvement of the strat body. Single coils are my favorite sound from an electric guitar, although I'd have an overwound one (maybe hum cancelling) in the bridge. Properly set up a Floyd is my favorite trem system. If I need hardtail action I can always block the floyd and still get the benefits of perfect tuning after deep bends and heavy playing from the locking nut.

 

[TVFV]

Telecaster

One standard, one Nashville, and one Deluxe.

 

[Mr. B]

There are multiple ways to improve the Tele neck sound; Fender Twisted Tele Neck PU for one, disconnecting the tone control on the neck, for another.

I have the Twisted Tele neck in the one Tele I own. Still doesn't quite do it for me. I'd like to try a bright humbucker in that position like the Humbucker from Hell, but it isn't routed so I could fit one in.