Your Signature Guitar - Specs?

[v8stang289]

So, in light of the other thread, If a guitar company of your choosing came to you to spec out your signature guitar that they were going to manufacture. What would you choose, and how would it be outfitted?

Mine would be fairly simply. Les Paul, Non-relieved mahogany body, flamed maple cap. Contoured heel with 60's neck profile and an ebony fretboard with rectangle inlays. Covered SH-5 Custom Bridge and APH1 neck with push/pull coil splits. Tune-o-Matic/Stop bar bridge and tailpiece. Cosmetically I would want a medium transparent blue, with binding on the body, neck, and headstock. I'd also want nickel hardware and black speed knobs.

I could cover lot of ground with a guitar like that. It would do most of what I needed.

What would you do?

 

[Archer250]

If I can only get one spec, then it will have to be

-Superstrat, HSS
-Ash body, maple cap
-Quartersawn maple neck with a '57 Fender soft V profile, maybe slightly slimmer and flatter near the heel, 12" radius
-Recessed Floyd Rose

I've never been wowed by Duncan single coils, but their humbuckers compete with boutiques quite well and sometimes even favorably.

It will probably be a duncan 78 bridge, or a Custom Custom or a PATB 3 with 2 single coils... either Fender Fat 50s or something from Lollar/BKP

Color will depend on how many choices/versions I get

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

Yawn...

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[Ascension]

Kiesel DC 25 sacle thin profile maple neck through ebony board Abalone dots SS Jumbo Frets Abalone logo alder rounded body 2 Antiquities Surfer II's neck and middle Perpetual Burn bridge 5 way Floyd lock nut old school pointed 6 on a side headstock Grape jelly metallic and hybrid hardware Gold Floyd only Black otherwise. Pretty much my 2017 DC only in Purple with a couple
minor changes. My all time favorite guitar!

.

 

[1neeto]

Since my uncle is a luthier and has his own line of guitars, then it would only make sense to get one made from him. What sucks is that he’s stopping making guitars for now, and he’s going to concentrate on repairs and winding how own pickups because of constant cash flow. So unless it’s something he has laying around, I doubt he would make one from scratch.

Mine would be mahogany body with flamed maple top. Maple neck with ebony fretboard 25.5” scale, medium jumbo SS frets, string through body hard tail, and his proprietary pickups on that same configuration and electronics from the pic. I believe the chicken head is a 5-way switch for the bridge, and when combined with the toggles, you can split and combine with the middle pickup for all kinds of tones.


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[Kac]

This is the one I put together. For my custom shop guitar I would certainly keep the rosewood neck and the locking tuners. (Deep C neck profile, 9.5 inch radius, 22 narrow tall frets, bone nut) I would want to try an EVH 78 in there to see if I liked it more or less than the pearly gates.
Maybe a more unique green color for my custom model as well. Thanks

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Mahogany body and neck through
V shaped body Rear routed - single volume, toggle, Killswitch.
String through
Ebony board
large frets, not super jumbo
Duncan distortion or Black Winter pickups
Flat black with dark blue hardware


simple.

 

[ehdwuld]

I have a few already

LP shape
24.75 scales
Stainless Frets medium jumbo
42 mm at the nut
thin 60s C/almost the Wizard II
super light (possibly hollow with F holes :9
JB/Jazz set ( I put those in everything)
Piezo on the bridge

range of colors
blue Flame
quilt Red
burled purple

Like this

 

[Wattage]

Les Paul Classic Lite they have out now would be pretty close other than pickups, I'd like a set of 59's over anything Gibson makes

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

I have a few already

LP shape
24.75 scales
Stainless Frets medium jumbo
42 mm at the nut
thin 60s C/almost the Wizard II
super light (possibly hollow with F holes :9
JB/Jazz set ( I put those in everything)
Piezo on the bridge

range of colors
blue Flame
quilt Red
burled purple

Like this

Ed, What's the story on how this guitar came to be? Did you build it yourself? You hired a luthier to build it for you?

 

[ehdwuld]

Back before China was the enemy
i contacted a builder on Aliexpress
Who was shut down for counterfeiting while he was produceing it ( he said there was a fire or something)

There is a thread on here somewhere about it

Anyway
Swapped all the ill fitting hardware
Locking planetwaves tuners
Piezo bridge
JB/JAZZ set with TS rings
Had the controls put down where i wanted them
Got an access cover on back so i dont have to work thru the F-hole

Should have gotten a battery box in back while there

That was my first builder on Aliexpress
He was a bit shady
............

I have another double cut similar to it from a better builder

Havent changed anything on it yet
Super thin body weighs about 6 lbs

https://forum.seymourduncan.com/foru...incoming-build

all the images got cleansed in the new forum rebuild dangit
post 56 has a video review

 

[Spaghetti Bolo]

Come on dudes, your signature guitar is just a strat or les paul copy?

One piece Hollow carbon fibre molded construction
Custom Ultra powerful onboard Microprocessor
DAW running a custom ported Axe-fx III VST and any desired synth VST
Midi in/out programmable.


Onboard Humidor stocked with Cohibas




Double neck


Neck One:
Headless
Ultra ergonomic
Bidirectional progressive scalloped fretboard
Slight fanning: 25" to 24" or similar
Extra jumbo Titanium/Gold alloy rod frets
Compound radius 16" to infinity or just totally flat
Narrow and fat neck
No inlays
Very narrow nut width <40mm
Very narrow bridge string spacing
Microcontroller controlled Transtrem style bridge: Fully midi controllable transposition and operation. lndividual strings retunable for open tunings etc. The trem can be remote operated with a midi footpedal. Trem is fully locked unless you touch the bar which unlocks it.
Hexaphonic output
Custom Fishman Fluence Pickups made to my specs. Voices are reprogrammed in real time (I believe the fluences preamp uses a programmable analog multiband eq chip)
Pickups mechanically automatic adjustable in all directions (height, angle and location) in real time.


Neck Two:

The Synthaxe concept fully realised and updated with modern tech.
Motion sensors, touchpads etc




Colour: The whole instrument including every piece of hardware is one solid colour; The same telemagenta as an Dunlop 500 Delrin .96mmm. Backups made in Gold, Silver, White, Yellow, purple and hot pink.

 

[Kac]

Come on dudes, your signature guitar is just a strat or les paul copy?

I’ve tried to play guitar after guitar and keep coming back to Fender strats for like 20 years now. I don’t want to build some special custom guitar and then go ehhh and go back to a strat anyway…

 

[Spaghetti Bolo]

I’ve tried to play guitar after guitar and keep coming back to Fender strats for like 20 years now. I don’t want to build some special custom guitar and then go ehhh and go back to a strat anyway…

I hear you, my first guitar was a strat and if I could only keep one it would be that very same guitar.

 

[LesStrat]

My #1 is nearly perfect: Parker Fly Mojo. The only things I would change if I were to "redesign" it are: Les Paul scale, and smaller frets. The jumbo frets make it too easy to overfret and pull the strings sharp.

 

[jeremy]

thick chambered mahogany body with belly cut, flat figured top with a bit of arm contouring, tele-ish shape with no lower horn for full upper fret access with a slide, shh routing with the middle bucker jammed up next to the neck single coil

thick C maple set neck with rosewood board, angled headstock, 25" scale, 22 medium jumbo ss frets and black tusq nut. light weight locking tuners, straight string pull.

neck single coil - .187 x .688 a5 rod magnets, 6.8k #42 heavy formvar
middle bucker - 8.2k paf type bucker, symmetrically wound, polished 2.5" alnico 2, #42 pe nom-max
bridge bucker - 9.5k antiquity wind, rough 2.5" a2 bar

 

[Mincer]

Come on dudes, your signature guitar is just a strat or les paul copy?

One piece Hollow carbon fibre molded construction
Custom Ultra powerful onboard Microprocessor
DAW running a custom ported Axe-fx III VST and any desired synth VST
Midi in/out programmable.


Onboard Humidor stocked with Cohibas




Double neck


Neck One:
Headless
Ultra ergonomic
Bidirectional progressive scalloped fretboard
Slight fanning: 25" to 24" or similar
Extra jumbo Titanium/Gold alloy rod frets
Compound radius 16" to infinity or just totally flat
Narrow and fat neck
No inlays
Very narrow nut width <40mm
Very narrow bridge string spacing
Microcontroller controlled Transtrem style bridge: Fully midi controllable transposition and operation. lndividual strings retunable for open tunings etc. The trem can be remote operated with a midi footpedal. Trem is fully locked unless you touch the bar which unlocks it.
Hexaphonic output
Custom Fishman Fluence Pickups made to my specs. Voices are reprogrammed in real time (I believe the fluences preamp uses a programmable analog multiband eq chip)
Pickups mechanically automatic adjustable in all directions (height, angle and location) in real time.


Neck Two:

The Synthaxe concept fully realised and updated with modern tech.
Motion sensors, touchpads etc




Colour: The whole instrument including every piece of hardware is one solid colour; The same telemagenta as an Dunlop 500 Delrin .96mmm. Backups made in Gold, Silver, White, Yellow, purple and hot pink.

This is all more my speed.

 

[chadd]

I'd have to go with a Kauer Banshee (modified firebird style) with the mods I've done to mine. Steinberger tuners and Bigsby. I'd love to have a bridge pickup that can get me thicker humbucker tones, like my Rio Baby-BBQ but can be tapped to give me the chime of the Lollars that came with it. Doug has been doing some crazy finishes lately and I'd do a couple sparkly ones.

 

[DKSEARS]

If I were to boil it down to bare necessities for specs, I'd have to go with:

I'd have to start with two versions: One each, Floyd Rose and some kind of hardtail (there are times I prefer either).

Mahogany body with some kind of interesting top, since I tend to like seeing the grain of the wood.

Probably a standard Strat body shape, but wouldn't mind something different like the Knaggs Tuckahoe (like this: https://willcuttguitars.com/collect...eries-tuckahoe-winter-solstice-sapele-lam-034).

For pickups, I lean toward the DiMarzio Super Distortion / PAF Pro combo, DiMarzio Transition set, DiMarzios from the EBMM Axis / EVH series, or a Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates set. These seem to be what I gravitate toward most.

 

[esandes]

I can start by revising my favorite guitars.

1. Gibson R7 gold top custom shop but with Slash pickups and SS jumbo frets.

2. Fender Jazzmaster Thurston Moore but with a recessed neck, Mastery bridge, 1 11/16" nut width, SS jumbo frets.

I'd like to build a custom G&L tele with a modern classic profile maple neck/fretboard, ash body, string through hard tail but I am not sure about what pickups to use. Recessed neck as well.

A HSS strat along the same lines as the tele but with a 500k volume pot at the 2nd pot location for the HB and a 250k pot for the SCs at the 3rd pot location. I never liked the 1st pot location near the bridge SC so that would be gone. Probably a 78 bridge and definitely SSL1 mid and neck.