Your most 80's looking guitar

[ThreeChordWonder]

Work in progress

 

[GuitarStv]

*Cue Michael Jackson's Black or White

 

[Ashurbanipal]

I need a Rhoads at some point. Well, I've been kinda gassing for the Ibanez version for years – hard to find (few were made), and now prices are bonkers. Has to be pink for maximum 80s overdose.

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

*Cue Michael Jackson's Black or White

Cue

https://youtu.be/EGY0KEGVK6Q

I saw this 1981 tour at the Southampton "pray it doesn't rain 'cos the roof's still leaking" Gaumont in Englandshire.

 

[dystrust]

​I have several guitars that range from somewhat to definitely 80s looking.

Koyuki is a partscaster made from a Fender MIM Standard Tele body & Blacktop Tele neck. The black hardware, black pearl guard, and rather complicated switching lend themselves to an 80s vibe.

• Vintage Firebird
• Classic Stack Plus(m)
• Hot Stack for Tele(b)
• Charvel / Mighty Mite Andy Summers bridge
• 500K pots w/ .022uf cap wired 50s style
• Jackson-branded Gotoh SG38 tuners
• Black knobs, control plate, & string tree
• Black pearloid pickguard by Warmoth
• 3-way blade w/ Strat switch tip
• 3-way mini toggle (middle pickup / middle + 3-way blade / 3-way blade)
• Charvel football jack plate

Clariel is my original Charvel partscaster; built from an '86 Model 4 body & '87 Model 1A neck.

• Cool Rails
• Custom Custom(b)
• 500K volume
• 3-way toggle
• Kahler heavy bar
• Kahler 5521 locknut
• Dunlop Strap Locks

Kurisu is another Charvel partscaster; built from the '87 Model 1A body and an '87 Model 2 neck.

• SSL-2
• SSL-2RWRP(m)
• SSL-6T(b)
• 250K pots w/ .022uf master tone wired 50s style
• Fralin Blender
• 5-way blade switch
• TusqXL nut
• Sperzel Locking Tuners

As yet unnamed and unfinished Charvel partscaster built from the '87 Model 2 body & '86 Model 4 neck.

• re-routed HSH
• Original PATB
• PA Stack(m)
• PATB Distortion(b)
• Gotoh Floyd Rose
• Kahler 5521 locknut
• 5-way Super Switch for hum-canceling in all positions

These two are possible honorable mentions; the first due to being pointy, the second because Slash.

Roland started life as a 1996 Gibson Explorer.

• Jazz
• Custom(b)
• 500K pots w/ .015uf master tone wired 50s style
• Push-pull tone splits bridge to slug coil & neck to screw coil
• Alumninum tailpiece
• 4-ply black guard by Pickguardian
• Refretted w/ Jescar 57110-S
• Tusq nut
• Sperzel Locking Tuners
• Dunlop Strap Locks

Sabriel started life as a 2001 Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus.

• '59
• '59/Custom Hybrid(b)
• 500K pots w/ .015uf neck tone & .022uf bridge tone wired 50s style
• Jimmy Page wiring
• Aluminum tailpiece
• ABR-1 bridge conversion
• Sperzel Locking Tuners
• Dunlop Strap Locks
• Blank trussrod cover
• Currently being refretted with Jescar 57110-S by BrianS

 

[formula73]

I feel like most of my stuff looks pretty 80s but I figure, depending on the genre and which end of the decade, left and center.

 

[Ascension]

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[Ashurbanipal]

​I have several guitars that range from somewhat to definitely 80s looking.
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As yet unnamed and unfinished Charvel partscaster built from the '87 Model 2 body & '86 Model 4 neck.

• re-routed HSH
• Original PATB
• PA Stack(m)
• PATB Distortion(b)
• Gotoh Floyd Rose
• Kahler 5521 locknut
• 5-way Super Switch for hum-canceling in all positions

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  This is going to kick all kinds of arse.