What's your main Ax? Why?

[beggar_guitar]

I was posting in another thread and it made me think about my main Ax. For awhile it had been my Dean Hardtail. The thing plays great. Nice low action. Loved the neck on it. Smooth, easy to play, bends real easy.

But I have not touched it in months. I pulled my RG out not too long ago, and I can't put it down. The neck is so thin. Like paper. I love the thing. I honestly don't care for the tone, but it plays so freaking easy. I will no doubt end up replacing the pups in it as much as I am playing it(recommendations??). It just snuck up on me and became my main ax out of no where. I love this Ax. It needs the mentioned pup alterations, and Something for tuning stability, but I am so digging this ax.

 

[jony]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

My main axe..

Epiphone DOT. 2002 model. bought 2nd hand..

So far to me its the most resonant and has the "feel good" (tonally) factor when playing it. Beats the other guitars I have. Sounded better than the MIJ Fenders I was trying out in store.

It gives me all the sound I have in my head (for humbucker equipped guitars).

 

[Jackson Distortion]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

My Jackson DKMG.

It has a familiar shaped body (strat-like) but with accentuating contours (besides an archtop) that make it oh-so-modern. It's paintjob is cobalt blue, which is like a unique blue- with metallic gray swirl all over... my overall FAVORITE feature . Black hardware gives an attractive look to this typically hard-rockin' axe: knurled knobs (easy to grip), locking nut (I like even these), and a Floyd Rose copy that really wants to float (lol), which makes my action medium height- but this makes me slow down and not play faster than I actually am . This bridge also has easy access for the wrench, so string changing 'pain' is decreased.

The headstock is reversed... don't know why I'm attracted to this... with a classic white Jackson logo on it. The neck is very round feeling, but fast and accessible, even though it could have rolled edges. The rosewood fretboard allows the brightness of the guitar to have some balance in tone- especially for the top end of the pickup. The jumbo frets (24) feel super nice and I could run all day on 'em. The small inlay (as opposed to larger typical sharkin) give the fretboard a clean, yet accented look. It also has an unfinished neck, which I like the look and feel of.

This is my favorite axe cuz it feels and looks right... I swear since I bought it I've been ga-ga over it ever since... that's why sometimes I call it "The Toy"- it feels like a new toy you couldn't wait to open as a kid.

 

[Guest]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

For now it's definately my Tokai Love Rock, I play it alot more than my tele.

It may change in the future but for now I'm more sold on that PAFish humbucker sound than on the tele sound.

 

[Robbiedbee]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

Until about 2 months ago, I had a SSS Strat and a Les Paul. I loved them both, but I guess I yearned for them both to be more like eachother. Obviously they are both totally different beasts, and both have their merits, but I wanted to cover both bases. Enter 2006 MIM HSS Strat.

Sonically, it does cover both bases pretty well. I love the clean single coil neck sound more than anything in the world, and a bridge humbucker is almost essential in Classic Rock.

I still have all three, but I consider the HSS Strat to be the main one. The fact that I have the LP for Gary Moore-type tones, the SSS Strat for blues/60s and the HSS Strat for everything else is why we need loads of guitars.

 

[Low_fidelity2100]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

my main guitar.......is a total pos..haha.

its a mexi-tele, an it looks like its been through a fire or was found in a dumpster or sumthing. Its the old style with a poplar body (i.e. no resonance at all). Its my main guitar simply because, I can't afford to get something better right now. If I had the money I'de most deffinately replace the body with a swampash warmoth body. But I can't right now. And for as much as a body (finished and all) would cost I could just buy a whole new tele. So I'll probably end up doing that whenever I get the money. haha

 

[Jonny R]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

I balance my time between my 1991 G&L Legacy, with a JB jnr in the bridge, and a mahogany neck-thru maple sided strat style guitar a friend of mine custom-made, SDs throughout.

 

[Baltar]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

my main axe is my 1st selfbuilt strat.
it has a rosewood fretboard, an ash body (just oilwaxed), a schaller
bridge and a lil'59 in the bridge. the other 2 pups are some standards
of a strat replica. i love the neck+middle position of her.
she's great for most kind of rythm work or soft blues leads just neck pos.
although the bridge pu is nothing of name, it's good for jangly stuff...
thin, crisp, bright

i play her much more often than all my other strats. my nr 2 is (don't laugh)
my squier affinity tele. my other two strats are quite texas blues oriented
set up - what i sadly barely play with my current band. so just solowork for
future.

 

[captain cavman]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

I switch from a '79 LP Custom to a '61 strat , depends of the feeling of the moment and the mood I'm in !

 

[PUCKBOY99]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

'05 Frankinstein Firebird custom built to my specs & design...

More pics in my link......

Purpleheart/ebony/birdseye maple over mahogany...maple neck w/ebony board...Steinberger 40:1 tuners...NOS '70s Bill Lawrence mini-humbuckers.

Superb balance...superb build...SUPER PLAYER !!!! :bigthumb:

 

[Hoss]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

"Petey"...well because it's my only electric...lol...but seriously, i like it better than any of the others i've ever owned and i can't imagine anything sounding or playing any better...now there's a certain Legacy at a local shop that is pretty buttery playing, but i'm tooo skeeered to plug it in!!!

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

My main axe..

Epiphone DOT. 2002 model. bought 2nd hand..

So far to me its the most resonant and has the "feel good" (tonally) factor when playing it. Beats the other guitars I have. Sounded better than the MIJ Fenders I was trying out in store.

It gives me all the sound I have in my head (for humbucker equipped guitars).

+1 . . . my epi Dot is a great sounding resonant guitar. It does everything I could ask for from a bumbucker equipped guitar.

 

[Pierre]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

Hard to tell...
The Charvel model 4 resonates more than my Kramer Stagemaster, but the Kramer maybe plays a little better.
I keep the Kramer in E standard with full floating floyd so that's what I grab when I need it. Otherwise for other tunings I grab the 4, sometimes the model 1a.
The more guitars you have, the harder it is to chose...

 

[Innocent_Bystander]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

My '91 Standard. I think it's because it's my first good guitar and I've spent the most time with it. I have others that I like to play but for whatever reason I feel most comfortable with my Les Paul.

 

[Closed Eye]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

2000 Les Paul Studio. The neck pickup is the first I've really put to good use in any of my guitars and the JB gives a nice lead/rock tone. I've also gotten into to using all the tone/volume controls. It's almost disarming how many combinations there are with two pickups, four knobs, and a switch. I'm amazed every time I pick it up!

...although that may change with the new axe! It's a Viper w/ Duncans!

 

[Jeroen]

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My main axe is a Japanese Squier Strat from the '84 - '87 period that I bought in original state for a mere 175 euros. It plays like a dream, it has a '60's reissue neck, and it's setup fairly low. And it sure sounds the part too. The only trouble are some detuning problems I keep having with it when playing a lot of bent notes, so I'm upgrading to Graphtech nut and string trees, and Schaller locking tuners that I got cheap.

 

[cream123]

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it's pretty much a tie between my yahama acoustic and my squeir with the ash burst. :laugh2:

 

[these_go211]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

i divide my time b/w a 2000 les paul studio and a 2005 sg w/ p90s. the les paul was my first good guitar. it's sounds good and feels great in my hands. but the sg is so light and the p90s are so creamy it's hard to put down. so a solid black les paul and the red devil horned sg make a great pair! they feel different and sound very different.

 

[Dirt123]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

#1 would be my Benedict Benelectro, with a JD bidge PU & an SD vintage mini humbucker neck PU, wired 5-way ala JD's tele. It covers a lot of ground, rock-n-roll, country, blues & jazz.

#2 would be my home-made HSS strat, currently with a JB splitable bridge PU & 2 old Lawrence Hum-canceling singles. I'm thinking of switching out the JB for a PG or '59, so the difference between guitars is not so radical. Nice for higher gain stuff because it's quiet & has a trem, but I gotta have a tuner handy.

#3 would be a home-made Tele with 2 SD P-90s, mainly for slide.

I have a few other guitars but I'm thinking of thinning the herd.

 

[Axl H]

Re: What's your main Ax? Why?

Epiphone LesPaul Silver Sparkle, from the 80's or 90's.

Found it in a shop in copenhagen used, and the neck was just perfect!!

And the cool finish is just a plus hehe.