Your Signature Guitar?

[OsvyRock]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Ok, let's pretend...

So you've made it to the top of the heap, and now your favorite guitar maker calls you up and begs you to authorize a signature guitar.

Q1: Which company called you?
Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? (Need not be in current production.)
Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours?
Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar?
Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item?

#1: Gibson
#2: Flying V'
#3: Blue Mist, Silverburst, Silver Sparkle, Pelham Blue, Emerald Green.... (Any of those colors will be appreciated). Block Inlays, and Ebony Fretboard. The neck shape should be exactly as the one in my 97' Flying V.
#4: Slash Alnico II Pro's on zebra, Tonepros Kluson tuners, and hardware.
#5: Case Candy? A personal handwritten letter to the buyer/owner of the guitar. A special thanks and appreciation!

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Fender Custom Shop and MIM versions. A joint collaboration with Seymour Duncan.

Mine would be 62 Fender Hotrod strats in what are basically my signature colors now.....reverse metallic bursts (pearl dust) rarely found on some 90's strats.
The finishes would be black pearl dust, blue pearl dust, and bing cherry pearl dust. All of the 62 Hot Rod specs otherwise.....chunky 9.5" rosewood, lightweight alder, 21 medium jumbo frets, vintage hardware.

The guitars would have a quick release plug for the pickguard connections.

The Seymour Duncan half of the deal would be my signature Duncan loaded pickguards, which would be 3 ply gloss black pickguards with a bunch of different pickup sets. If you don't own my Fender guitar, you can cut off the quick connect and solder it in. With my guitars, you just plug them in, and install the guard.

Upon ordering a signature Custom Shop, you'd get your choice of two pre loaded guards. With MIM guitars, each color would have a different configuration.....Hum/Mini Hum, SSS, or two P-90.

C/59 Hybrid/SM-1 mini hum. Surfer Custom set. SP-90's. Case candy would be a Duncan strap and mini screwdriver. Also, a Fender clip-on tuner and string winder.

Pearl dust finishes.

 

[Hairmail]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

I have two:

#1: Charvel

#2: San Dimas

#3: Direct mount HSS pickups, full size humbucker bridge, middle singlecoil, and a neck singlecoil sized humbucker. Compound radius fretboard, basswood body, quartersawn maple neck that is a copy of the neck currently on my charvel san dimas but with jumbo frets and a pau ferro fretboard, 5 way switch, button killswitch, 1 volume knob. Locking tuners and a recessed Wilkinson trem and a tremol-no.

#4: Finished in white with black coloured pickups. Cut outs in the recessed back plate a-la Ibanez to quickly access the tremol-no and adjust spring tension. Oiled neck and natural headstock.

#5: A signed note first thanking the guy who bought it then warning aformentioned person that buys this guitar to never-ever-ever put it in a glass case and display it. Other than that a tin containing mostly Dunlop Ultex Sharp 2 mil and others of various gauges. A guitar colouring book and a custom strap and straplocks.

Pic(Sorry, no Charvel logo or rail singlecoil, neither were available) just imagine one in the neck):



Second one:

#1 Ibanez

#2:RG

#3: A thin-but-not-so-thin-as wizard neck. Recesed edge trem with lions claw cavity. HSH pickups, 5 way switch, killswitch. Basswood 5 pc Maple/Bubinga neck/ Rosewood fingerboard with KTS rods. Recessed aluminium control plate. White pickguard. Oiled neck with rolled fretboard edges. White mother of pearl tree of life inlay. Locking tuners and Tremol-No.

#4: Reverse headstock. It must be seafoam green. Holes in the control plates to access tremol no and adjust tension

#5: Tools. Aformentioned picks. The signed note. Strap and straplocks. Solderless loaded pickguard with HS config and an Ibanez colouring book, complete with crayons.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

#3: A thin-but-not-so-thin-as wizard neck.

The JEM neck is slightly thicker than the Wizard and (at least to my hands) a fair amount more comfortable.

 

[nienturi]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Q1: Which company called you?

Morgaine Guitars / Jörg Tandler


Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? (Need not be in current production.)

Mintage 61


Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours?

Oldgrowth two piece very lightweight figured alder body, one piece very thick quartersawn maple neck, set neck, 42mm - 56mm neck width, 10-14" compound radius cocobolo fretboard, 22 stainless steel frets, clay dot inlays, 50s deep strat body contours, custom two point tremolo by Hantug made of full titanium saddles, baseplate and trem block, HSH pickup configuration - Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates bridge model on the neck, Seymour Duncan Brobucker on the bridge and a 5K custom single coil wound by MJ on the middle, special wiring - 1.position neck hb, 2.position neck (split) outside bobbin+middle, 3.position middle, 4.position bridge (split) outside bobbin+inner side of the neck hb, 5.position bridge hb, moreover push pull activated two additional tones; neck outside coil and bridge outside coil, Boruns pots and orange drop caps, kinman style treble bleed, sperzel tuners, TusQ nut, thin skin acrylic or polyurethane (transluscent) white blonde, sienna burst, two tone sunburst, daphne blue, fiesta red, butterscoth blonde color options, tortoise pickguard...



Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar?

7 string version, fixed bridge version, HSS version maybe.


Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item?

Authentication papers, photo album includes the building process of the exact guitar, white dunlop jazz III picks, 0,10-0,52 string sets, tweed case

 

[Aceman]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

I like the way you did this. I'll have two models for two different companies.

Q1: Which company called you?

Gibson / Dean

Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? (Need not be in current production.)

Les Paul Standard / Cadillac

No Epiphone. I will have a USA and a Korean version of the Cadillac

Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours?

Les Paul: Gohto ultra high ratio tuners (22:1), 500k neck Volume, T-Top reissue neck, Duncan Distortion Bridge, reliced to the bare wood neck, 70's construction (Maple 3 piece neck, top, and volte) in Cherry Sunburst

Dean USA: Cadillac in Faded Denim flamed maple top, brushed copper hardware and pup covers. Duncan Custom and PG. Pups tapped. Abilone inlays, Natural mask binding, matching headstock.

Dean Korean: Silverburst top, with Sllver back. Duncan JB8 Bridge and Duncan Designed 103n. Both tapped. DOA inlay at 12th - no year

Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar?

Les Paul - none
Dean USA - Whole thing is custom
Dean Korean - ???

Straplocks on all

Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item?

Funny you should mention that....

The Les Paul used to have a bottle of Doc Johnson's heated lubricant with it (and a number of panties). Great story there. Ask me sometime. I guess I gotta be true to the brand, so a bottle of heated love lube. And a distressed leather strap, Dunlop yellow tortex picks, and three sets of GHS Boomer 10's

The Dean USA will have a cool leather belt looking strap, some sort of weave design, Brown picks (not sure which) and three sets of GHS Boomer 10's

The Korean Dean will have a Black leather strap, a copy of the Cadillac Creeps CD, and some Grey Dunop 1mm picks.

$2500
$1200
$600

I would also have A gibson and a dean available with my custom Zebra PG set. That's a special wound 9k bridge PG in Zebra set in either a Gibson LP Cherry burst or a Dean USA Cherrybusrt flame

 

[80's_Metal]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Q1: Which company called you?
Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? (Need not be in current production.)
Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours?
Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar?
Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item?

1. Guild called me.
2. Guitar of choice is the Flying Star View attachment 45706 (Mick Mars Too young to fall in love video)

3. Blood spatter graphics on white background. Duncan Distortion bridge. compound radius fretboard. big frets but not super jumbo, Made in the USA.

4. A. matching headstock! B. guitar shoots flames out of the headstock! Friggin flames!

5. Guitar comes with Schaller straplocks, autographed 8x10 of myself in my underwear, leather spiked strap, and a pair of matching white and red panties in the case, along with a bottle of fire juice.

 

[B2D]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Q1: Which company called you?

Music Man or G&L.

Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? (Need not be in current production.)

Music Man = Silhouette Special
G&L = Invader

Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours?

All-mahogany body and neck, rosewood or ebony board.
HH or SH setup option.
Volume, tone, and 3-way switcher with a coil tap.
Oil finished neck with stainless frets, 12" radius.
String-through TOM or Floyd option.
Schaller locking tuners.
Selection of finishes that I pick including clear satin for that naked look.

Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar?

Custom Inlay/side dots. Sculpted heel joint.

Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item?

My favorite picks and a matching Couch guitar strap in whatever color the guitar is in.

 

[Hairmail]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

The JEM neck is slightly thicker than the Wizard and (at least to my hands) a fair amount more comfortable.

Actually the JEM neck is only 1mm thicker than the prestige wizard neck and the same as the Premium neck. It does feel better for some reason. I was thinking more towards the Andy Timmons model neck which is even thicker.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

I figured 1mm counted as "slightly".

 

[Dr. Vegetable]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Funny you should mention that....

The Les Paul used to have a bottle of Doc Johnson's heated lubricant with it (and a number of panties). Great story there. Ask me sometime. I guess I gotta be true to the brand, so a bottle of heated love lube. And a distressed leather strap...

That sounds like a great story! I don't wanna know what you did with the strap tho...

Great responses so far. It's almost frightening how much thought some of us have put into this.

Oh, and 1mm == "very slightly." Don't make me close this thread!

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Don't make me close this thread!

That's my job!

Company: Fender
Base model: '51 Nocaster
Unique features: None (Nothing truly unique about me.)
Other mods: Conventional bridge/both/neck pickup selector switch wiring. .022uF capacitor on Fender No-Load tone control. Compensated middle brass saddle.
Case candy promotional merchandise: Nothing in particular. I just want Fender to start making this model again. IMO, any personal "uniqueness" should come from the person playing this guitar.

 

[dmandude123455]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Ok, let's pretend...

So you've made it to the top of the heap, and now your favorite guitar maker calls you up and begs you to authorize a signature guitar.

Q1: Which company called you?
Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? (Need not be in current production.)
Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours?
Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar?
Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item?

Is it weird that I've been thinking about what my sig guitar would look like for the past week?

Q1: Jackson/Charvel
Q2: The HM strat, I know Jackson or Charvel didn't make this model for for the sake of the thread.
Q3: Neck-Through construction instead of the bolt on found on the HM normally. I just really like the HM body style, I like how its more strat like than a Soloist or Dinky and I love me some neck through with 24 frets, Maple neck and Alder body. Also it would have a hipshot hardtail bridge, a normal strat headstock and the same neck as a stock HM. As far as electronics go there will be a mini toggle switch with a 5 way switch and two humbuckers, Jazz in the neck and JB in the bridge, as for the different sounds and stuff I don't know how I would have it set up. Seafoam Green for the color and brass hardware to finish it all off.
Q4: See above
Q5: a box of Jazz 3s and maybe some other stuff. CoA maybe?

Bonus Guitar: Same thing but as a Charvel Skatecaster. Mmmmmmmm :naughty:

 

[CountFeedback]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Q1 Hamer comes back from the dead and gives me a call

Q2 Model: Prototype / 90s Phantom

Q3/4 TOM bridge, mahogany body & neck, tosewood fingerboard, replace triple coil “motherbucker” with standard 2 humbucker
Electronics: JB with roughcast A5 zebra, Duncan/Hamer Ultimate neck nickel, 3 way switch, 500k vol & tone with push pull coil split JB
Color: charcoal metallic, forest green metallic, bronze metallic
Pickguard: abalone, black pearl, white pearl
Checkerboard Hamer Logo

Q5 Bonus case candy: fully stickered subway sandwich card

BUT

Then I have a falling out with Hamer like everybody else and
Q1 Ibanez calls me

Q2 I get a signature Talman

Q3/4 alder body, maple rosewood, vintage trem
same color options and pick guards as my Hamer signature model plus new burgundy mist metallic
electronics: JB zebra, 59n nickel, 3 way switch, vol & tone with push pull coil split JB

Q5 Bonus case candy: most of a pack of Big Red chewing gum

 

[0v3nm4n]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Q1: Which company called you?

Gibson

Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? (Need not be in current production.)

based off the Johnny A/Barney Kessel shape, but a solid body version. Kind of like an Ibanez artist meets the Yamaha SG meets the PRS santana, meets the McKay Duoflo...yeah.

Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours?


my personal guitar would be a limba neck through plyed as such a-la mayones

(limba, (goncalo alves/wenge/ pau ferro) limba, (pernambuco) limba (pau ferro/wenge/ goncalo alves) limba

angled head stock has maple splines in it for stability and fast tone transference

graphite rods under the fretboard

EVO frets

braz rosewood or afr. blackwood fretboard (one will be the head-stock veneer) and an ebony veneer on the back of the head stock like some jazz boxes have or something to that affect

body is a limba with a walnut centerplate and a figured koa top. body would be routed out for Cedar tone bars for tone transference and to replace the some of heavier wood with a lighter one

ebony body and neck binding

glow in the dark side dots

all the ergo-cuts

Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar?


Not the normal gibson set up:

stacked volumes, stacked treb/bass roll off, momentary kill button, 3way switch (with the knob that turns to dial in the piezo pickup in the hannes - evertune bridge) with a 4 way rotary around it to control the different types of phase/series settings, zephyr H H pups with trip/shot rings (I might just take the controls out of the ring and route out the koa top for them, and direct mount the pups)

graphtech compensated nut a-la earvana (maybe)

locking tuners that trim themselves

A hannes bridge / evertune whammy hybrid for maximum tone from the wood and bridge as well as tuning stability that wont die.

Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item?

Mogami platinum cable, locking strap, red bear pick, a booklet on the top 10 ways to waste money, and a slice of NY cheese cake


FYI This guitar is actually being drafted to be built BTW, I'll post a thread on it when the time comes

 

[loversmoon]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Esp called me.

Eclipse II.
pearl white (fender color lol) with gold tonepros hardware.
mother-of-pearl block fingerboard inlays, six-ply white/b/w/b/w/b body-top binding
Seymour Duncan Jb/jazz combo and also offered with Duncan Blackouts.
Ebony board. Mahogany body.
quartersawn maple neck. raw. jumbo frets. 12 radius. small D profile neck.
name at 12 fret. Earvana nut (cause I LOVE THEM)

cleaning kit, levy's strap

certain percentage of all proceeds go to breast cancer awareness.

 

[Lake Placid Blues]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

It would be Fender.
It would be a swamp ash strat.
Neck radius and profile would be Charvel and it would be optional one piece rosewood or one piece maple-oiled.
Trem would be vintage.
Locking tuners.
Pickups would be HSS with auto split; 59 and two surfers probably.
Colors would be trans blue, two tone vintage fender burst, three tone fender vintage burst, ice blue metalic, and lake placid blue metallic, of course.
Pick guard would depend on the body color and the neck color.

 

[vinta9e]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

The HM strat

There, you said "HM Strat". I don't get it why anyone would want to change the HM's neck joint design, as I find it perfect as it is, but nevermind. What I really wanted to say is that you might find the Showmaster interesting.

As for the original topic...

Ok, let's pretend...

So you've made it to the top of the heap, and now your favorite guitar maker calls you up and begs you to authorize a signature guitar.

Q1: Which company called you?

Well, since I've made it to the top, they would all call and promise the moon - that's how corporate marketing works, innit?
I'd be in the position to say "alright, show me whatcha got" and take my time screwing around custom shops just to try stuff not meant for the mere mortals. And I could tell the guitar design bigwigs all the favourable and unfavourable comments about their work right in the face and they would have to listen! :nana:

"That's a pretty top", "This one sounds congested", "Look, this headstock is designed to break when I knock a loud fart, is that on purpose?", "That's a comfy neck, I love it", "Do you mind if I tap that blank of brazilian?", "That is an amazingly well crafted instrument, I just don't understand why it has taken a shape this ugly", "Do you think a Floyd would look good on that?", "This neck joint sounds wimpy", "Could I have a GPS tracker built in?", "How about ebony?", "So, you've inlaid this beautiful piece of wood with plastic? There's no way I'm going to put my name on it. You gotta do better or leave it blank", "How about sterling silver?", "Thank you for the hospitality, my agent will call you back when I'm ready", "It's an honour to meet you, mister"...

Q5: A piece of cork. For supporting the floyd when the strings are off. Or just for sniffing. Case candy? No, I don't believe in that.

Q2,Q3,Q4: I found a cool ol' chunk o' wood and have been customizing it for a while. The process of tweaking is slow and does venture into dead end streets sometimes. I'm not in a hurry and other tasks burn money a bit too fast so don't rush me into it. But when I am done I'll sure come back and show her in full glory.

I don't need overly extraordinary features in a guitar but appreciate something whose parts work together in harmony and synergistically, in the ideal case. Just as an example - I thought I fell in love when I first saw that Cabronita clip. And I don't even play Telecasters or Gretches on the regular. At heart, I'm an 80s hair/metal kind of guy feeding on neon coloured superstrats. Yet, the Cabronita vid gave me butterflies in the stomach, because in it I saw a really coherent design. As soon, as I heard the guitar sing, I immediately forgot about ever considering a laminate neck vs a single piece one, solid, chambered, or hollow body, glued or bolt-on construction, pondering over neck pickups, titanium hardware, big blocks and stainless steel fretwire, I just wanted to immerse myself in that musical experience, making sure my ears suck up all the good vibes.

I do like it when a guitar has a distinctive voice and character but cannot be any more specific about it. Same with girls, I don't have a clear preference for either blondes, brunettes, latinas, busty, slim, chubby, teens, milfs. I enjoy all kinds of... hahaha, beauty.

 

[stevesmith1987]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Q1: Which company called you?
Gibson
Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? (Need not be in current production.)
Explorer
Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours?
The paint job/hardware like the Les Paul I'm using in my avatar.
Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar?
Seymour Duncan JB/59
Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item?
Bottlecaps with my band's name

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

YJM Strat

Alex Lifeson LP