Post your best player and why.

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2014 Les Paul Traditional -- completely stock

It's #1 because the thick neck just sits in my hand perfectly... I worry less about my fingers and more about my notes if that makes sense. Plus the '59 Tribute humbuckers make my Marshall JMP 2204 do very wicked things!
 
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THis one is my "best" (with the rosewood board neck, ignore the all maple one in the 2nd pic)


Right now it's this thing, mostly because of the neck. I was told it's a Warmoth, but it turns out, it's a home-made one, made to "Warmoth Fatback" specs. THis neck just feels PERFECT in my hand, it's exactly the right shape/contour/size. I've stripped and Tru-Oiled it, so it's smooth and slick without feeling "sticky". The guitar that the neck is on, is set up pretty much how I've decided I like Strats-all the parts are what I like best. Blocked tremolo (with large brass fulcrum block), Hotrail-type pups, a push-pull volume to add neck pup and a push-pull middle tone to put all 3 pups in series. After having and modding a dozen Strats, I got all the best parts of each and put them together to make this guitar.
THis one is a close 2nd-

one of my 2 fake Ibanez Roadstar's. THis one has a neck that's about 99% the same as the one above, the rest of it is 100% stock, I meant to mod everything before I recieved it, but once it was here, there's nothing about it I'd change. The neck feels perfect, it sounds GREAT (gotta find out what "Hondo X-14" pickups are, there's nothing about them online but they sound awesome) all the controls are out of the way, but still accessible enough (never liked the volume knob where it is on a Strat)
SO yeah, if I gotta pick, it's these 2.
 
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It would really depend on the gig. This would be like trying to pick my favorite golf club. They are all different tools for different jobs.
 
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80's_Metal said:
Looking for your best player, not the best looker or sounder necessarily, but what guitar do you own that plays the best.

Let's look at some data, maybe we can see some trends start...For instance, please include the following, pictures help.

1. Make and model
2. Scale length
3. Body wood, shape,
4. Neck/board wood, shape, etc
5. Pups, finish, frets, strings, nut, bridge, anything special about it.
6. Age, mojo, mileage
7. What do you think makes it play so well
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Make Carvin
Model X220C
Scale 24.75
Poplar body
Maple neck through body ebony board 15 radius slim D profile "shredder neck"
All stock including the Carvin M22SD and N pickups and Shaller Floyd color is pearl Pink and it is feather light.
Built in 1990 and was in the Carvin NAMM Booth for the model introduction.
This one is just "special" and out of a the dozens of Carvin guitars that I have owned this is the one that has stayed with me over the years. Reason is it plays like butta is so light it feels like a toy and she is so resonate it's just "alive". She is as light or lighter than a Parker Fly balances perfectly on a strap for a long set sustains like crazy and screams like nobodies business!! It's not how it looks it's how it plays and sounds and trust me there is something truly special about this particular guitar. I have owned more guitars than I can count over the years of every brand you can think of and this is the one that always inspires me when I pick up her up and play it!! It's become kind of a trademark guitar for me and now if I don't pull out the Pink X from time to time folks start asking where it is LOL

Here she is in a live setting through my unmiced Zinky Blue Velvet.
 
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2005 PRS McCarty
Mahogany/Maple body, mahogany/rosewood neck
25" scale
Whole Lotta Humbucker set with coil split on both pickups
wraparound bridge/vintage tuners

Both the guitars in the pic are great players and both do the job you'd expect of them, but there is something just more alive and vibrant with the PRS. It was was set up superbly and played well from the moment I first got my hands on it, and coupled with the pickups/wiring there is very little this won't do.

I sometimes swap guitars during a gig, and pick up the G&L Legacy for the "Stratty" moments, but sometimes I'll just stick with the PRS and have fun with the different pickup selections/split sounds.
 
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Grandturk said:


Gotta be a tie between these two.

Both pretty different but both are joy to play.
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Oh man, I just had a serious miss my FM Special moment. Well, yours my not be an FM Special but the body shape and color are identical. I think mine had a wrap-around bridge.
 
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1. 1996 Gibson Explorer
2. 24 3/4
3. Mahogany
4. Mahogany neck / ebony board; it's a medium-C, thicker than a thin taper, but not the near baseball bat of my LP & 335
5. SD Jazz / Custom pickups which I've had in there since 2002 or 2003; a few other sets before then. Vintage white that's yellowing a bit and stock Gibson frets that have been leveled, so a refret is in the not so distant future. Nut and bridge are both stock, but I've replaced most of the other parts except the pick guard which I plan on doing soon since it's cracked. Currently strung with DR Tite Fit 10-46.
6. I've had it since Feb. 2000, and I'm pretty sure that I'm the second owner. When I bought it the top was badly smudged purple / pink from the case shroud, but it's faded to barely visible since. It's also been my #1 for most of the last 14 years, so it has its share of battle scars and mojo. You can't see it in the pic, (taken in 2008 I think) but the top horn is scuffed down to bare wood.
7. I don't know if it's the perfect balance or the neck shape that just fits my hand, or if I'm just used to it after all of these years. All I know is that I keep trying to replace it with other guitars first a LP and later a 335, but I keep coming back.
 
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All of mine are best players. That's why I still own them. I set them all up exactly the way I like for my guitars to play.
 
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1. Make and model - Gibson Les Paul Standard
2. Scale length - 24.75
3. Body wood, shape, - 1 piece mahogany back w/ 2 piece maple cap
4. Neck/board wood, shape, etc - mahogany neck w/ rosewood board. '59 profile.
5. Pups, finish, frets, strings, nut, bridge, anything special about it. - Burstbucker 1 & 2, nitro, med-jumbo, nylon, ABR-1 w/ aluminum stoptail.
6. Age, mojo, mileage - ~7000km
7. What do you think makes it play so well - The setup, string gauge (10-46) and the pickups.

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80's_Metal said:
Looking for your best player, not the best looker or sounder necessarily, but what guitar do you own that plays the best.

Let's look at some data, maybe we can see some trends start...For instance, please include the following, pictures help.

1. Make and model 1999 Les Paul R9
2. Scale length
3. Body wood, shape,
4. Neck/board wood, shape, etc
5. Pups, finish, frets, strings, nut, bridge, anything special about it. Basically stock, except Seymour Duncan Antiquities and "bumblebee" caps
6. Age, mojo, mileage
7. What do you think makes it play so well
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low action, flat board, prominent frets

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1. 2001 Jackson MII DK2
2. 25.5"
3. Poplar,Dinky strat,
4. rosewood/maple..neck is thin and flat.. and just feels right. all my guitars have about the same action.. this one is 2mm @12fr/6th string
5. 1979 TTop(B),Iron Gear Smoke stack II(N) and Pig Iron OW(M).. kill switch.. volume bypass.. multi-cap tone...original hardware was swapped for exact replacements in black
6. this guitar has alot of mojo and plays/sounds very nice.
7. All my guitars are setup and wired/modded by me. this one used to be my least played until i installed a TTOP i had in a box 4 years ago.. was purely out of desperation and had little money anything at the the time.. was the perfect match of guitar and pickup

i just ordered some electronics for this guitar so i can change the wiring up a bit.. ordered 2 DMT Dual Mode High & Low Pass Tone Control and ill wire the humbucker directly.. now its V,V,T.. it will be V,T,T

 
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80's_Metal said:
Looking for your best player, not the best looker or sounder necessarily, but what guitar do you own that plays the best.

Let's look at some data, maybe we can see some trends start...For instance, please include the following, pictures help.

1. Make and model
2. Scale length
3. Body wood, shape,
4. Neck/board wood, shape, etc
5. Pups, finish, frets, strings, nut, bridge, anything special about it.
6. Age, mojo, mileage
7. What do you think makes it play so well
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1) Ibanez UV70p
2) 25.5 "
3) Basswood, RG Shaped
4) Neck : Wizard-7 5pc Maple/Walnut neck w/KTS™ TITANIUM rods , Fretboard : Rosewood fretboard w/Green dot inlay
5) Dimarzio Blazes 7-string HSH, edge zero ii-7 bridge
6) less than a year
7) large radius, ultra low action (1mm/1.4mm high E/low B @24th fret, about 0.05-0.1mm neck relief), warmest tone, great for djent and shred. Started with some problems, ended up being the guitar that gets most of playing time.
 
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Gotta be this. Stock ´99 Squier Affinity.

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All this due to fact that it has the most comfortable neck I´ve played.
 
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