Post your best player and why.

[BriGuy1968]

Re: Post your best player and why.

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

1. Make and model: 2005 Ibanez Artcore AS83 VLS
2. Scale length: 24.75"
3. Body wood, shape: Flamed Sycamore, Semi-Hollow Body
4. Neck/board wood, shape, etc.: 3-Piece Mahogany & Maple Neck, Rosewood Fretboard, Neck shape is kind of a shallow "C"
5. Pups, finish, frets, strings, nut, bridge, anything special about it.:
   • Ibanez ACH1 Neck & ACH2 Bridge pickups - honestly, the pickups aren't horrible, but they're not great either. Their blandness is the main reason that this guitar isn't my main player (that slot goes to "The Phoenix" - see my avatar). I'm going to be getting a set of P-Rails when I can justify the money outflow to my wife!
   • Finish is GORGEOUS. Violin Sunburst... definitely one of my prettiest guitars! I also really dig the abalone block inlays with the pearl outlines... I'm a sucker for fancy inlays!
   • Medium Frets
6. Age, mojo, mileage: The guitar is 10 years old, but I've only had it for about 4 months
7. What do you think makes it play so well: There's something about the neck... it just plays so smooth and with less effort than my other electrics. Perhaps it's the 24.75" scale (my others are 25.5").

 

[80's_Metal]

Re: Post your best player and why.

Wow sycamore! Cool!

 

[Demanic]

Re: Post your best player and why.

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.

Jazz/Custom must sound fantastic! I'd love to hear that bad boy cranked!

 

[Demanic]

Re: Post your best player and why.

Needs "MORE BEER" sticker.

I disagree, it in and of itself is the penultimate "more beer" sticker.

 

[LesStrat]

Re: Post your best player and why.

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

Parker Fly Mojo
Beats me. Parker scale, somewhere between LP & Strat.
Mahogany single cut.
JB/Jazz. ??. Jumbo stainless steel. DR Pure Blues PHR 9-46. Stock. Stock. It's a PARKER. It's dipped in a carbon-glass epoxy. I've never adjusted anything more than intonation (twice?).
I think it was built in '07. I'll have to double check. It was NOS when I got it in '09. I play it a couple of times per week.
It's a PARKER.

 

[dystrust]

Re: Post your best player and why.

Jazz/Custom must sound fantastic! I'd love to hear that bad boy cranked!

I'm currently putting my home studio back together, but I'll definitely be using it when I get back to recording. Sounds absolutely amazing through my Marshall Jubilee.