What is your favorite guitar?

[misterwhizzy]

I don't mean the one in your dreams. I mean the best guitar you currently own. What do you love about it? Why is it your number one? What could be improved? What is it about another of your guitars that's not as good as this one?

In an effort to let the discussion develop organically, I'll save my answer for later on in the thread, assuming it gets some responses.

 

[jeremy]

i dont know if i have a real favorite but i love my hamer daytona and i played it on all three gigs this weekend so ill pick that one for the moment. basically a well made maple neck strat with a flatter fretboard radius, wilkinson trem, sperzels, and loaded with duncan blackout singles. its my only active guitar. master volume, master p/p tone, and emg spc mid boost. the p/p puts the output jumper on the neck and bridge pups so there is a decent output boost when you want it for those two. the middle pup is always at the lower output. it has a great playing full but not huge maple neck that feels like home. i think its a '94, i bought it off some kid for $300 around y2k. its had a bunch of pups in it over the years. came with ssl1 from the factory but the kid put some fender trash in there, i think it was first gen noiseless, but they came out real fast. originally i think i put a trio of aps2 pups in but when the twangbanger came out, i put that in the bridge. had that set in there for at least 15 years. eventually did a bunch of swapping cause i dont know how to leave things alone and finally put these blackouts in. adding the spc was the last touch and now i can basically do any gig that comes my way with this guitar and get everything i need from it. the pick guard is trashed though so i should really replace it

 

[Mincer]

I currently have 2, my Ernie Ball Music Man and my Warmoth I built last year. Both have scalloped necks, but the Warmoth is a LP-scale, with Seth Lover pickups, while the EB/MM has an Alnico II Pro and Custom Custom pickups. Both sound great in different ways, and I can happily use either for an entire show. The EB/MM neck is legendary, and feels like butter. The Warmoth has an unfinished roasted maple neck that feels just as good. Only thing I will mod on the EB/MM is get SS frets when it is time to refret in a year or so.

 

[Artie]

This is SO tough to pick just one, but to keep in the spirit of the post, I'll go with the one I tend to pick up the most. That would also be my cheapest, (not counting ones that were given to me) . . . my Peavey Rockmaster. I think I pick it up the most because it's light, being 7/8ths, or possibly 3/4'ths size. (Body, not scale.) Also, as a single-bridge pup, master vol/tone, there's nothing to mess with. You just pick it up and play. I've gone through several pups, with the current being a GFS Dream 180. But I think I'm going to try my Custom Custom in there.

 

[Demanic]

Ever since I put the Crunchlab in my Ibanez V I have been loving it slightly more than the others. But it's in close running with my Jackson DXMG with the Jazz/JB combo and my 7 string Shecter with the HB7n/Distortion combo.

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[Aceman]

I have probably a few

[Edit: OK - here is the "just one" followed by the top 3 runner ups, and Honorable Mentions]

#1 My #1 Les Paul. Solid. Slick neck (now). Distortion bridge, T-Top neck. great tuners. It's just "home" and plays great as only a seasoned axe can.


#2 My 73 Tobacco Burst. Same as number one, just a PAF/SuperD and in better shape. The Klusons are tight!
#3 Gotta say my BC Rich NJ Classic Bich. Just sounds great and is a neck through player!
#4 My Nuclear Orange Jackson JS32. Yeah - $299, but damn it's a player. That could have a slightly better Floyd, but the one on there is pretty good for cheap.
#5 Probably my 2002 Lodestar Strat. Just a solid start and everything I'd want in one.

Honorable Mentions: Ace Frehley Budokan, Pinkburst Cadillac, Dean Custom 350

 

[Masta' C]

Now that I have a workspace again, I need to finish my hot pink Meteora XL project (thanks for the reminder, ha ha!), but I'd say my PRS SE Custom 24 in Eriza Verde (nicknamed "Skully"), is the one I pick up most at the moment.

Why? Very comfortable, very easy to play, lightweight, and just really versatile from a sound perspective. Plus, the tuning is really stable after an easy swap to the USA Core series nut.

I think it's the only guitar I have with stock electronics in it still. I know it would be a 10/10 with some good Duncans, but it's already a 9+, so I haven't bothered making any changes.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

I have a favorite Les Paul, a favorite Strat and a favorite PRS. They're really too different from each other to pick a single favorite.
My #1 LP is beautiful, supernaturally lively and absolutely sings with a smoky vintage voice - but it doesn't have a trem.
#1 Strat is the best one I've ever owned, perfect balance of wood and chime - but doesn't have humbucker fatness or chunk.

If could only keep one guitar forever, to cover any and all modern styles (but maybe not the velvety vintage tones) it'd be the PRS.
Plays effortlessly, great trem & rock solid tuning, exceptional palette of textures, sweet switch, and a neck that fits my hands perfectly.
I've shared more stage time with it than any other. Well, at least since '87 when it entered my life.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say this instrument changed the way I approach playing.

Here's a post about the day I found it, written a few years ago on the PRS Forum for a thread When Did You First Hear About PRS:
https://forums.prsguitars.com/thread...96/post-373699

 

[NegativeEase]

Favorite? The one pictured in my Avatar -1979 Pedulla -handmade one off.

Neck is incredible, been trying trying to talk Mike and his wife to make me one or 2 more -but he was so busy with his basses when I was bothering him and now he's retired so not likely to get another.

 

[elelpe]

I'm a single cut guy. My current favorites:
1. A custom tele with Wilde Keystones pickups built to my specs: solid spruce body, rosewood neck with eboy fretboard. My guitar that has the thickest yet comfortable neck.
2. I'd love to have a LP but just can't gel with it. Then I've got a 2008 PRS SC245 in McCarty sunburst. PRS is a reliable guitar but I never got one before because of their pickups. Tried a lot in stores, play well but sound meh. This one is different though. It plays and sounds right. My only guitar that I don't modify/stays stock as is.

 

[DCikes88]

Wow. My own answer made me think, because honestly, of the 5 or 7 I own (depending what state a guitar has to be in to be considered a guitar), I most often reach for one of the cheapest ones and the least modified (except visually), which is kinda ironic, but considering other responses, not uncommon.

It's a 15 year old Squier CV50s strat. Stock pickups, stock electronics, stock vintage style bridge. Changed the tuners, pickguard and nut, "modded" the screw-in trembar so it stays where you put it, and went loco with sandpaper. It used to be Olympic white with gold anodized pickguard. Maple neck with a rosewood skunk-strip, possibly the best I've ever had in my hands, don't even know the body-wood. I just know that it calls for me everytime I look at it.

I have two guitars with SD HH pickup sets, one with an EMG HSS, and one with a surprisingly good Ibanez stock HH set. But, alas, it always comes back to this one. That damned neck :7:

PS the missing knob has been located and placed on that lonely tone pot.

 

[maug2122]

All my guitars are my favorites .
One day, I'll pickup a Strat and I'm on Blues, SRV, Hendrix and Classic Rock thing.
Then if I pick up any of my Floyd Rose / Shredder guitars, I go into Vai, Lifeson, Malmsteen , Satriani or Thrash mood.

It like having a bunch of kids and asking which one is your favorite ? .

 

[DCikes88]

All my guitars are my favorites .
It like having a bunch of kids and asking which one is your favorite ? .

OT: never ask your parents this question unless you are absolutely certain you're their favorite and/or if you have a beautiful maple neck.

 

[LRS]

I own four electrics, and they differ enough from one another to make each one quite suitable for specific tasks. So for what they do, I like them equally well. So in the order from left to right:

- Fender EJ Strat
- Fender AVRI 52 Tele
- Eastman T64 (Casino type)
- Eastman T386 (ES-335 type)

 

[uOpt]

My 1983 Burny Super Grade plain top LP clone.

 

[DCikes88]

My 1983 Burny Super Grade plain top LP clone.

Mind slapping on a pic or two? The ones I see online are about as good-looking as an LP can get.

 

[misterwhizzy]

There are some interesting stories here, but I'm disappointed in those of you who treat the word "favorite" like women do with their "best" friends. The whole point was to choose one. eclecticsynergy, I particularly liked the post you linked.

 

[Mincer]

But for many, there isn't just one. I think that's the point of owning multiple guitars.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

I own four electrics, and they differ enough from one another to make each one quite suitable for specific tasks. So for what they do, I like them equally well. So in the order from left to right:

- Fender EJ Strat
- Fender AVRI 52 Tele
- Eastman T64 (Casino type)
- Eastman T386 (ES-335 type)

Pretty boring collection.

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[misterwhizzy]

But for many, there isn't just one. I think that's the point of owning multiple guitars.

It’s supposed to be a tough question.