Your Lotto win Guitar

[John_L]

If you won over 10 million (dollars, pounds or euros) on a lottery what would be the guitar you would buy first?

I tend to think that I would go for something odd maybe a pedal steel or a Chapman Stick. Both of these are guitars (well they have strings) that I would like but cannot justify price (or space in the case of the first) wise right at the moment. However I think if I had the spare cash right now I'd go for a Six String Warwick Thumb SC.

 

[bluesbend]

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I'd be looking for this rig.

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After that, this.

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[Christopher Caruana]

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gibson 1959 VOS les paul
Gibson les paul custom

 

[Bludave]

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I have had my list prepared for years

1956 Les Paul. This is the year that they "fixed" many of the problems with the original. In 52 the neck was at the wrong angle, the bridge & tailpiece are in the wrong spot & it is uncomfortable to play. In 56, they fixed all this.

1957 Les Paul First year of the Humbucker. The "REAL" PAF's

1959 Burst 'Nuff Said

1959 335 Truly my favorite Humbuckeing guitar. They sound amazing

1949 Telecaster First Year.

1959 Telecaster with Rosewood One of my all time favorite Teles

1952 Telecaster Butterscotch Great Telecaster

1954 Stratocaster First year!

1959 Stratocaster I believe this was the first year of Rosewood fingerboards.

1961 Stratocaster"Slab Board One of the best Strats ever made!

Now colors really don't matter too much too me. All the Vintage guitars finishes have faded & discolored, but I would want them as close to original as possible. All original pickups and hardware.

Now I know that many people have not really played many 50 or 60 year old guitars, but I have & there is something very special about a guitar that has been resonated & played for all that time. Its hard to put into words, but they just sound a lot better, but they don't necessarily play as well as a new guitar does. That does not seem to bother me. I like my guitars to fight back a bit!:cool2:

 

[sosomething]

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I'd probably spec out a custom Motor Ave Le Mans or a CP Thornton Classic.

Motor Ave Le Mans:

CP Thornton Classic:

 

[PFDarkside]

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No question, 58/59/60 Burst.

 

[phil_104]

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I've always said (when I had my PRS and SG) that if I won the lottery, I would get something nice, but not extravagant, like a nice burst LP. Well, now that I have that...


I think if I won the lottery, I would go to my usual music store, pick up a nice 335, a CS strat, and that Robby Kreiger SG they have in store.

 

[jmh151]

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For me it would be Custom Shop Gibson. I want a 59 Reissue, 60's neck profile, stainless jumbo frets, compund radius, RS Electronics pots and caps, pickups to be determined later.

 

[lex666]

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I'd get:

'59 Les Paul VOS
Marhsall Silver Jubilee
'61 SG
Mesa Road King II
Another Les Paul with a nice flame or quilt maple top, just for looks :scratchch

That Custom Shop Gibson ES 335 with diamond shaped F holes that was discontinued recently

...and a very nice Martin acoustic

 

[marvelous_seven]

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In no order:
Custom Shop Jackson
Custom Shop PRS
Custom Shop Gibson
Custom Shop Fender
Custom Shop ESP
*all equipped with Custom Shop Seymour Duncan pickups

Jerry Jones Sitar
Stradivarius violin (hey it is the holy ancestor of guitar)


EDIT:
I'd also add some Parker (with any whistle and gizmos in it) and some good acoustics like Martin or Taylor would be cool too

 

[ImmortalSix]

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[tone4days]

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prs ted mccarty double cut 245 soapbar

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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This beautiful little guitar...

http://www.themusiczoo.com/images/5-24-10/Gibson_SG_Special_ReIssue_VOS_000621_1.jpg

It's only $3000 so I have the rest of the money to spend? If so... I have a list for ya!

 

[OctopusRider]

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PRS Hollobody II in Vintage Natural :eyecrazy:

 

[super rad stuff]

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haha lolwut?!!!1?!

 

[beandip]

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We'll start with an old D-28. I'm not picky, and it doesn't have to be from the Golden Era. I'm fine with something from the late 40's to 1960.

Got that? Good, now I'm looking for a Banner Head Gibson J-45. Nothing pristine. I can live with repaired cracks and headstock snaps. Hell, we can be missing some original equipment. But the sound has to be there.

Then we'll go with a Taylor 514ce. The Cedar topped one. Cool.

 

[tc]

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1956 Stratocaster First year!

Nice list! The first strats were made in '54 though. Sure in mid '56 they started using the "standard" alder body wood spec.

I'm nowhere near as greedy

'55 Stratocaster
'59-'61 Stratocaster
'64-'65 Stratocaster
'68 Stratocaster
'59 Les Paul Standard
A 1930s Martin OM-28
A nice Taylor
LACS Ibanez RGA (I'll just bribe someone)
Jackson Kelly Custom Shop
PRS Hollowbody (I or II, don't mind)

...but then I'd really like to have three or four nice amps. Like a really nice brown or blackface Fender, a Marshall JTM-45 meets Plexi thing and a high-gain beast like a SLO. Maybe I'd buy a Dumble just to see what's the deali-o :lol:

But if I had that amount of money, I'd travel all over the world, I'd buy myself a nice house, I'd pay for tuition at whatever college I've ever considered to be too expensive, make sure I can live decently for the rest of my life without having to work too much (so I can dedicate myself to things that generally don't leave much money, like music), buy a pair of nice cars like a Nissan GTR and a mid sixties Shelby GT-350, a couple of those guitars listed above, and give some of my fortune to my family and some starving kids in Africa. Sounds like a plan.

 

[astrozombie]

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pete townshend super jumbo.

 

[dmandude123455]

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59' Les paul
Les paul custom
a really old beat to hell strat
61' SG
Jackson RR5
Jackson Soloist(with tiger strips and a floyd)
and maybe the overpriced EVH replica just because
and a gibby flying v
and an explorer e-2 :O

Marshall jcm800
Marshall plexi

and the best cord that money could be made from gold, unicorn hair and the horns from narwhals.


BOOM

 

[ravendouglas]

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First thing ,I would contact Mr.Page and try to buy one of the following......any les paul thats been played by him on stage,or that awsome paisley fender tele given to him by Jeff Beck I think...if he said go screw myself..well then I guess I would let Gibson build my flame top purple lespaul,THAT THEY WANT 6 GRAND FOR.