Your own signature guitar?

[dasfonzie]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

It'd be nice if Fender asked me that.

I'd get a neck thru all rosewood Jazzmaster with jumbo reversed Strat headstock. They could chamber the body so it'd be lighter. Just an oil finish of course. All gold hardware. With a Tele style bridge and some kind of vintage Tele pickups so I can get that Let it Be tone.. I wold if I got gold colord frets if they would rub off and stuff?

 

[Nite_Maresz_25]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

jackson
it'd look like this

alder body
mahogany neck-thru
ebony board
2 volume
1 tone
3 way
DD/59(my fav combo currently)
jackson 'standard' neck profile
what else......

(i'd have an RR version too)

 

[ratherdashing]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

The Fender ratherdashing Stratocaster would have similar specs to my Number One (or at least how my Number One will be once a couple more mods are done). They are:

Body: one-piece alder, black poly finish
Neck: maple, C-shape, clear satin finish
Fretboard: rosewood, 21 jumbo frets, cream dots, graphite nut
Bridge: vintage Strat hard-tail string-thru
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates trembucker black/black (bridge), Fender Texas Special (mid,neck)
Controls: master volume w. push-pull for coil split, standard tone (mid and neck), TBX tone (bridge), 5 position switch, black knobs and switch tip
Pickguard: single ply white
Tuners: Sperzel locking

 

[stratman1967]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

Hmmmmmmmmm..... I can think of two...

The first would be a Fender Strat
Uber baseball bat maple neck with rosewood board
Smaller headstock
1 piece light ash body with an ultra thin clear nitro laquer finish
Pickups unknown at this point
500K pots with a cap on the volume and the bridge pickup hooked up to the second tone pot with a 15 uf cap (22 uf on the neck tone)
Graphtech string saver saddles
Graphtech nut
Sperzel Sound-Lock tuners
DeTemple Titanium tremolo block

Or and Ibanez based on the old Professional/Artist model

Mahogany baseball bat neck with rw board
Light 1 piece mahogany body with a flame maple top (dark burst)
SD JB/Jazz
500k pots with caps
String through body
TOM bridge with Graphtech saddles
Graphtech nut
Sperzel Sound-Lock tuners

Both would come stock with 12-54 (with a 24 plain 3rd) strings and a much higher than normal action (he-man action)
Both would also have an S&M theme on the fretboard in ablone

I think that about nails it for me

Ish-Ga-Bibble

 

[D-EJ915]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

Jackson King V and Soloist, with NO potentiometers in sight, only a pickup switch (unlike the pics)...In EMG (81/S/89 or 81-7/707) and Duncan models (Invader/Rail/Distortion or Invader/Distortion) as a Standard 25.5" 6-string or Baritone 27" 7-string model respectively.


Ebony fretboards w/red sharktooth inlays at 12th fret. Black binding along headstock and neck. Dark purple color with red bevels on the KV. 26 frets on 7-string models. Neck shape on the 6-string is a really thin "C" while the 7-string is thinner on the top, and fatter on the bottom...but still thin..., just not as thin as the 6.

6-String shown (w/pot):

and

 

[Robbiedbee]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

Fender Strat!

Sunburst, with a maple fretboard.

22 Jumbo frets, Pickups: Hot Rails - JB Jr - Hot Rails.

Floyd Rose Tremolo.

 

[Dankerella]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

I'd probably go with an ESP. 24 frets, neck through, greenburst. I'd have them develop a system by which I could quickly snap in different humbucking pickups in the bridge, kind of like Randall's modules. If I wanted a Duncan Distortion one day and a Screamon Demon the next, I could just loosen the strings, snap out the pickup from a holding ring, unclip a wire quick-connect plug, and drop in the next one. This whole business about needing to solder up a new pickup and screwing it in seems very ancient in today's world doesn't it?

 

[lieufunaki]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

My own signature guitar?

Either a Rickenbacker 320 in midnight blue, with triangle fret inlays like the 6 series and vintage toaster single coils...


or

a Fender Strat body in "Kermit Green" or Dark Blue with a 22.5" scale neck maple fretboard, an Invader in the bridge, and Fender Vintage Noiseless in the neck purposely wired out-of-phase...no tone control, just volume...and no locking tuners because they look like your guitar has freakin braces with the headset. And, I'd use Ernie Ball 9's because they feel like 8's on the 3/4 neck and still have the umph of 9's.

Either one would be fine...Probably the Fender first, and I'd want it to be built in the US, and sold for like $140, because ain't nobody gonna rip off the kids in my name :butkick:

The 320 would be my expensive guitar, but that's ok...because in 40 years they'll be cheap on ebay.

 

[ray667]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

Id get a double cutaway set neck telecaster with a 24.75 inch scale. tune o matic bridge and stopbar. music man style headstock with 4 tuners on one side, 2 on the other. Bridge pup would be a seymour duncan pegasus and a sentient in the neck. obviously 2 volume pots, 2 tone pots with a standard 3 way switch. finishes would be black with a dark red tortoise style pickguard or dark walnut finish with a black pickguard. Available in 6 and 7 string versions. in sure if fender made this it would sell out in a day.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

What is it about today? Wherever you look, zombie thread resuscitations. :scratchch

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

My own signature guitar?! Gosh, I never thought this day would come.

 

[JeffB]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

Im still good with my choice ten years later, though I would go with a big fat r8 neck and some different pickups.

 

[probo_squad_henry]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

don't care for the brand.
telecaster style body.
floyd.
maybe a dimebucker/59 set.
mahogany body.
maple neck and fretboard.
reverse tele headstock.
no pickguard.
one volume, one tone, selector switch, killswitch
routed from the back
white finish with black hardware, etc.

idk why, but i love the look of "metal" teles

 

[probo_squad_henry]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

Fender Strat!

Sunburst, with a maple fretboard.

22 Jumbo frets, Pickups: Hot Rails - JB Jr - Hot Rails.

Floyd Rose Tremolo.

i'm guessing you like iron maiden

 

[Snake Aces]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

I think I answered this question in another thread 5 years ago or so. That being said, it's not every day you get to keep a 10 year old zombie thread going.

I would go with a Warmoth guitar, at this point in my life it would be a carved top swamp ash regal with a black and blue ceruse finish.
The neck answer could change when I play on a roasted maple neck in the next month or two but for now it would be a 24.75" Indian rosewood neck with 6100 SS frets. 10-16" compound radius, 1 11/16" nut width, 59 roundback profile.
The pickups as of right now would be Seymour Duncans. Jazz in the neck with an Alnico II Pro in the bridge, split coil push/push volume pots, 3 way switch with a no-load tone pot on the neck humbucker.
Black TOM/STP bridge hardware and black tuners.

In the past my sig model would have been my Warmoth LP in my avatar but since Warmoth got sued making that exact shape and setup no longer possible from them I figured I'd change with the times.

 

[orpheo]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

I think I answered this question in another thread 5 years ago or so. That being said, it's not every day you get to keep a 10 year old zombie thread going.

I would go with a Warmoth guitar, at this point in my life it would be a carved top swamp ash regal with a black and blue ceruse finish.
The neck answer could change when I play on a roasted maple neck in the next month or two but for now it would be a 24.75" Indian rosewood neck with 6100 SS frets. 10-16" compound radius, 1 11/16" nut width, 59 roundback profile.
The pickups as of right now would be Seymour Duncans. Jazz in the neck with an Alnico II Pro in the bridge, split coil push/push volume pots, 3 way switch with a no-load tone pot on the neck humbucker.
Black TOM/STP bridge hardware and black tuners.

In the past my sig model would have been my Warmoth LP in my avatar but since Warmoth got sued making that exact shape and setup no longer possible from them I figured I'd change with the times.

Thankfully I can make a singlecut with the 'LP' shape without any problems whatsoever.

 

[Snake Aces]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

Thankfully I can make a singlecut with the 'LP' shape without any problems whatsoever.

I hope to make my next guitar an Orpheo. For now all I know is Warmoth with these kinds of options but if I can ever scrape the money together for another guitar I'll be sending you an e-mail.

BTW, I've been meaning to ask you, how would you feel about making an all bocote neck on a swamp ash LP? Could you do it?

 

[aleclee]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

Since Parker US is effectively history I might give Strandberg a whirl. If not that, I'd probably work with Ibby on something lightweight like Satch's but with a more rounded neck carve and stainless frets.

 

[Lampy H]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

A neck thru explorer that looks like this.

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[RStabler]

Re: Your own signature guitar?

ESP Eclipse-II very similar to my snow white eclipse with a few changes:

25.5" Scale
Maple Neck
SD Blackouts Preamp with coil packs
White bobbins, black poles, "Black Winter"-style black logo(or no logo)
Custom inlays or no inlays