The best guitar you never loved....

[uOpt]

Re: The best guitar you never loved....

I really don't see anything wrong with wanting to have a solid, well-built, properly equipped guitar for then-current music (Kramer) and giving up a guitar that (according to the times taste) does pling-pling sound, or is overly heavy and fragile and misses a tremolo bar.

Of course it looks insane from today's standpoint but in the end people did these things to get guitars that were more suitable (and usually higher quality even though by nature cheaper) for what they wanted to play.

And the established vendors had huge quality issues. Don't forgot that severe flaws in guitars of the time are ignored today, either because they are bought for collecting only, or because the now very high value allows you to invest expensive fixups with a luthier.

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: The best guitar you never loved....

ES-335

+1

I owned an ES-333, which is a 335 with matte finish and no pickguard. I should have loved that guitar, especially given the music I dig, but I was never able to coax the magic out of it. :dunno:

- Keith

 

[darnright]

Re: The best guitar you never loved....

+1

I owned an ES-333, which is a 335 with matte finish and no pickguard. I should have loved that guitar, especially given the music I dig, but I was never able to coax the magic out of it. :dunno:

- Keith

I literally have owned 5 Gibson 335's in my lifetime and I couldn't tell you how many Epi's, Ibanez's, Washburn's and whatever other brand I found of 335 copies (still have 2) and have NEVER fallen for one for more than a month. I will absolutely love it for a month or so...then it'll go on a stand, then in a case in the closet..and then to a store or show and not return. I do not understand that at all!

-dave

 

[The Golden Boy]

Re: The best guitar you never loved....

My Rick 4001...

I wanted a Mapleglo 4001 for years- and when I was home on leave, (ironically the same trip home I got to see Motorhead) a dude was selling his for $400. I could never get that thing to sound like what I always imagined a Rick would sound like- too plinky or too hollow-thuddy. I couldn't stand the way it played. The neck felt really blocky and the body binding cut into my wrist/forearm. I hated it. But I was really proud of having it. "Just like Paul McCartney's..." I hung onto it for 6 years, through several different bass rigs, expecting to "grow" into it. I never did.

I still sometimes lust after 4001s... Until I pick them up, then I remember why I got rid of this cool, old 70's Rick- "just like Paul McCartney's..."

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: The best guitar you never loved....

I'd love to have a Rick 4001.

 

[eggman]

Re: The best guitar you never loved....

Howdy,

At the risk of being kicked off this forum, I'll have to honestly say the Gibson LP Std. The neck was too thin and she must've weighed 12+ lbs! It was also my first ever HBer equipped guitar.
After cutting my teeth on a Strat, A Rickenbacker 325 (Toaster P/Us) and an old Epi Casino ('63 it was), I just couldn't find a suitable tone. Did I mention that it was heavy ?

Eggman