Your Favorite Guitar?

[Bludave]

Re: Your Favorite Guitar?

Hey BD. I have a Tak F363. I actually found it in the trash. All it need was a new tuning machine for the G string, a good cleaning and a setup. I keep it in my office and on the rare occasions I play at work this is the guitar I use.

My favorite guitar is my Santa Cruz OM. I also have a SC Tony Rice, but I really love the SCOM. I bought LC(her name) in 1996 or 1997. It was the best day of my gear purchasing life. I have a bunch of othe acoustics that I use in different tunings and for slide and such, but LC is always calling to me.

As far as electrics go.... I love all my guitars, but my 2 favorites are my Black EC Strat & my 1985 335. Both of these guitars are very special. I also have a 1968 SG that I bough in 1969. I was with my buddy when he bought it new and when he sold it I bought it. Its all original except for the tuners (in the 80's I put a set of Grovers on, but have the originals) and I put new saddles on the ABR!

 

[BluesGuyJ]

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I would say my PRS McCarty with PGn and Custom bridge, it serves me quite well.

 

[Blackie13]

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This one is my favorite right now!!!!

 

[cayle_6]

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No GAS Here
And my Number 2

Wow. I like this one! What are the pickups in it?

 

[arellanon]

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I have two. I use my TL60 for Eb while my ST300 is used for standard.

Well, my guitar playing all stems from one Tom Morello. Back in high school (mid-late 90s) RATM was pretty big, at least here in Los Angeles. So I went to Sam Goody and purchased their cds as well as the "Ghost of Tom Joad" video. Man oh man, did that video knock my socks off! So of course, Morello was the only guitar player, and naturally I wanted his guitars. Back then, he mainly played a MIM black Tele, a "James Trussart" Tele made by Fender, and his infamous "Arm The Homeless" guitar.

So in 2002 I ran across a Carvin catalog while in Japan, and ordered a "tribute" guitar. I ordered a TL60 in the now defunct pearl silver color with the stock pups and a Fishman Acoustic pup. It sports the C22T/C22N pup combo. This particular guitar has, what is IMHO, the best neck ever built by Carvin: a slim "D" with a 15 radius.

Jump to 2009. I decided to give myself a graduation present so the "Arm The Homeless" guitar was next. So I got me the ST in Sapphire Blue with active electronics and an M22SD/M22V pup combo. By far my favorite combo from any manufacturer. This guitar was built with the now standard modern "C" and with a 14 radius.

Here are the guitars that got me into, well, guitars, lol:

And here are my tributes:

The TL has an additional story behind it. It was in 2002, while my TL was being built, when I got introduced to Yngwie so naturally to play along his songs I had to tune my TL to Eb. I have since dedicated that guitar to that tuning.

 

[wolf5150]

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Thanks
It's the Andy Timmonds set,
Dimarzio AT1 bridge
Dimarzio Cruiser BRIDGE model in the mid and neck.

Gotta be used with 2 x 500K pots to get the best and then it's a fantastic setup.

 

[Lucid_Lunatic]

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These 3 are getting played alot. SG for slide, LP for pretty much everything and the Tele for my twangy needs.

 

[KeeperOS]

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I have five guitars and love all five of them. Every time I go about trying to sort out which of them I could live without I keep regretting even thinking about it.

However, of them, I have found out that I need to put these two in their cases in order for me to reach for one of the other three instead:

To the left is my Swing EZ-10 i.e. Izzy and the right, my Michael Kelly Patriot Limited (I just call her Michael Kelly or Patriot).
This is a group shot of all my SuperStrats (i.e. missing the Michael Kelly):

There isn't a particularly interesting story to either one of them but there is a saga for each one.

- My Swing, she was a cheap (300€) lower-end model of the "main" brand of a Korean-based Company, Swing (the lower end one being Smash).
She looked plain, the hardware was cr@p, the electronics and pickups MEGA-cr@p but she had THE feel. The neck was MY neck to a T.

Thus I bought her with the intention of performing an extreme makeover on her, knowing full well that it'd probably cost me at least twice the original cost.
So, about a year or so and an additional 1100€ later I got her to a completely re-built guitar.
Not only did I upgrade literally EVERYTHING on her not hammered or glued onto wood, I even got to the point of upgrading the upgraded parts!!! (got a Tremol-No and a Brass Big Block for the Gotoh Floyd).

She is the guitar I most enjoy playing and possibly the one closest to my ideal.

- The Michael Kelly, I wanted to get an LP-style guitar for years but every time I got close to buying one I ended up getting yet another superstrat instead (in fact that too was what happened when I got Izzy).
In the end, I got down to the Patriot Limited and then I had the store owner's son and friend of mine help me A/B all the guitars of that specific model that they had (6 or 7 in total). However once he unboxed this one guitar with a truly amazing top I knew I could never be objective so I had him hand me the guitars literally back to back so that I couldn't see which one I was holding.
The happy coincidence was that in the end my ears found themselves in absolute agreement with what my eyes had chosen and thus I had my most gratifying purchase to date.

Out of all my guitars this is the one with the best tone (and possibly looks) and a great player too. Imagine that in complete contrast to my other "favorite", the only thing I have changed on her are strings!!!

 

[Wonker]

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Gibson noname Junior.

Almost 20 years older than I am.

Still teaches me things from time to time...

F-ing RAD!

 

[Wonker]

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I'd have to say my Gibson Flying V Jr.

I made the guitar I wish Gibson made. It's my main recording and live guitar.

 

[sosomething]

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^^ been a fan of that since you posted the "look what I did" thread. If I ever get another Gibbo V, I'm putting soapbars in it.

 

[ImmortalSix]

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This'n:

Given to me by my dad (and mom) in 1996 --- it's a '96 American Standard.

Nowadays, it has a Road Worn 60's neck in rosewood, and an HSS guard in tortoise, with stock singles and a GFS Mean 90.

It's getting the P-Rails and Triple Shot setup this week, if you can believe that I am tacky enough to put a Triple Shot on a Strat pickguard.

I have had 100 phases, one of which is in this thread (Telecaster), but I have to be honest, this is the first guitar I go to for "my tone," and has been for 14 years.

It gigged with me in university coliseums, auditoriums, churches, garages, and basements, has been used as a drum practice pad, has been thrown in the back of the truck, strung with 13's, strung with 9's, had every SD Little humbucker they make in it, has been set up for floating trem, set up for virtual hardtail, and has been generally badass for the entire time I've owned it. I taught my buddies to play guitar on it and got them laid because of it, taught myself to play guitar on it and, well, you know, did alright for myself as well. It's been to the farm, it's been across the country, it's been to the big city and all it ever needs is...well, nothing - nothing at all.

When it was strung with 13-56's in my "gotta-be-like-Stevie" phase, my friends nicknamed it "Excalibur," because much like Arthur was the only one who could wield the sword in the stone, I was the only one of us who could play it when it had ski-lift cables for strings.

Ladies and gentlemen; "Excalibur."

 

[Elfunkenstein]

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Best guitars I ever played were a $3000 gibson Gold Top, and a Jem. Oh my god, the MOJO if the gold top. I don't even know WHY it was good, it just...was! I would walk all the way to this guitar store (I can't drive and there's a highway right outside my house) just to play this guitar even though I knew there was no chance in hell of me getting it
The Jem was easier to figure out, it was a shredder's dream pure and simple.

 

[Elfunkenstein]

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@KeeperOS, I missed out on getting that Michael Kelly and I've been kicking myself ever since. Great effing guitar right there. I opted for this Gibson custom shop 86 Rudolf Schencker Flying V which plays great...when it works

 

[KeeperOS]

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Mate, my ideology is if it don't work from the get go, MAKE IT.

With the Michael Kelly I did nothing but look the Swing, the only thing still stock are the frets and strap buttons. However she now plays, feels and sounds amazing.

Don't be afraid of fixing what's not right is what I say...

 

[tarpit]

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Greenie is the first guitar that I built.
Before this I was using an Ibanez RG520 and after listening to a lot of John Fruistane in RHCP, I relized how limited the the tone was with my current axe so I went in a different direction.

I bought a mighty mite Ash Strat body from ebay and started with a Maple Fender MIM neck.

I later got a 1978 Fender strat neck after I sold my video card from my comptuer. (Music beats video games)

The Pickups are always changing, but I think I have settled on a set that works really well..

The Bridge is a Dimarzio Tone Zone with a dedicated volume and coil tap in the middle tone control.

The Middle is a 1960's Reissue MIM strat (this is due to be changed sometime)

The Neck is a texas special tele pickup. This is probably my favorite pickup ever. Its pretty unique and vintage sounding at same time, espeically with jazz chords through a marshall JCM900 half stack.

 

[astrozombie]

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Ibanez Universe. REALLY!














*cough*

 

[AdamR]

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Most of my guitars are mid priced guitars, I have 2 Schecter C1s, 2 Ibanez RGs and a Epi, LP Standard with some mods to it. I also have a 92 Gibson LP Studio. Out of all of the my Favorite is the Epi. It plays amazing well and sounds great with the S.D. 59 in the bridge and the gibson 490 in the neck.

 

[ImmortalSix]

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:bigeyes:

LOVE IT!

 

[uOpt]

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Bump because I lost it and shouldn't