Your most 80's looking guitar

PFDarkside said:
I love the neon Jazzmaster! Is it all Warmoth?
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Yep. Solid Warmoth roasted swamp ash body (pretty damned light for a jazzmaster) and a quartersawn maple neck with their Wolfgang profile. It's actually just waiting on a delivery of new pickups - trying out the Paul Gilbert Injector set.
 
GuitarStv said:
Yep. Solid Warmoth roasted swamp ash body (pretty damned light for a jazzmaster) and a quartersawn maple neck with their Wolfgang profile. It's actually just waiting on a delivery of new pickups - trying out the Paul Gilbert Injector set.
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Awesome, so that’s what the Injectors are going in.

What nut width did you go with?
 
I don't think recessed Floyd rose were a common thing in 80s. Ibanez did it with edge, it caught on with floyds in 90s or later.
 
Aceman said:
You make a good point here - there WERE other musical styles in the 80's.
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For a while, we had an all 80's radio station here in Cowtown. One might be blasting out Iron Maiden one minute, then it would seque to The Go Go's for the next tune. I may be a Metal Head, but I cannot judge the other side of the 80’s.

eclectic rocks hard! But you already know that. I admire his guitars and his broad musical stylings.
 
Aceman said:
You make a good point here - there WERE other musical styles in the 80's.
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I played Floydcasters during the 80s too - still have an SSS and an HSH from those days.
But neither has that over-the-top 80s look. No flashy graphics or bright colors.
Not even pointy headstocks. They just look like Strats.
 
As I only own two electrics these days; (after my house & studio burnt down, with no insurance)-

It has to be my Peavey Predator/Raptor? Plus.

Sorry for no pic (i don't have it here right now)

:)
 
^^ Yes. Ibanez formally introduced the Edge in 1986, and it was non-recessed on all the guitars. In 1987, the new models - RG, P, S, R, Maxxas etc. - and the Jem, of course, all got the recessed trems. In Japan, they continued to offer the old Roadstars and Prolines for a bit, which maintained the top-mounted trems.
 
Top-L said:
I don't think recessed Floyd rose were a common thing in 80s. Ibanez did it with edge, it caught on with floyds in 90s or later.
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my '87 hamer has a recessed floyd as seen above, so it was definitely happening. i think even the '85 hamers were recessed
 
OMG, its literally like nothing has changed in guitar design in 35 years!

New guitars are basically the same thing but with wood veneers. Maybe seven strings.
 
GuitarStv said:
Yep. Solid Warmoth roasted swamp ash body (pretty damned light for a jazzmaster) and a quartersawn maple neck with their Wolfgang profile. It's actually just waiting on a delivery of new pickups - trying out the Paul Gilbert Injector set.
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STOP IT! You're making me drool...
 
It's funny how when you mention an 80s guitar, most people (myself included) think of super strats with Floyds, graphic guitars, etc... However, I also think that one of the most iconic guitars of the 80s has got to be without a doubt the natural maple Peavey T60. Those guitars were in just about every single guitar store that I went in during the 80s. I bet I've played a hundred of them. They were everywhere, but I think the only people that I ever saw using them were country artists.
 
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