Your Signature Guitar?

Re: Your Signature Guitar?

A couple small updates to mine removes the piezo pickup and adds a second tone control and two coils splits on the pickups. A bigsby is also greatly appreciated.
 
Re: Your Signature Guitar?

I'd make it exactly like my guitar is right now , expect I change my pickups from 57 classics to something that abounds better, probably Seymour Duncan... And I'd make the guitars look a little relic'd.... I'd probably change to a real gibson truss rod cover as mine is a epiphone... Roller bridge, shaller locks, rust Grover tuners, tusq class nut, CTS orange drop wiring ImageUploadedByTapatalk1413300719.500002.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1413300760.063285.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1413300783.963182.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1413300840.082052.jpg
 
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Q1: Which company called you?
-Gibson (Les Paul is my home sweet home)
Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of?
Les Paul All Wood Natural
Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours?
Must be Chambered, body would be Korina, top would be flame maple. 7 ply binding but with a black headstock. Maple Neck, Massacar Ebony fretboard, 10-16 compound radius...
Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar?
Seymour Duncan 59/custom hybrid bridge and a Pearly Gates in the neck. 50s wiring. Back of the neck would have a matte finish. Hipshot locking tuners with those cool buttons that Patrick Huffshmid uses. Epiphone's slim taper D profile. Last but not least, graphite nut and a Wilkinson trem. Gold hardware of course.
Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item?
A Lock of my Hair
 
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Korina Explorer of some sort, with Lace Deathbuckers. TusqXl nut and saddles on a Tonepro bridge. Neck through/string through. Push/pulls on all three pots, to split the pickups and series/parallel switch the wiring of position 2.
500k pots and .047 Orange Drop caps.
 
Re: Your Signature Guitar?

1. Company: Probably Jackson at this time (Charvel being a very close second)

2. Model: Kelly

3. Specs: Oiled D-shape neck, 24 fret neck thru construction, ebony board, poplar wings, and the 3 tuners per side headstock. Screamin' Demon bridge, Full Shred neck. 2 volumes and master tone.

4. Customization: Body will be enlarged to not make it look that tiny. One version will be black & white glow in the dark crackle finish /w black hardware and a Kahler, the other black /w cream binding, cream pickups, gold hardware and string through body construction.

5. Case candy: framed picture of me in Speedos :).
 
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My signature guitar (when) I am well known ;)


Definitely an ibanez artist with gold tailpiece and bridge. Uncovered medium to hot bridge humbucker and neck humbucker that is very clear and almost like a beefier single coil. 1 volume knob, no tone knob and a kill switch. Matte orange /tobacco burst and pearl binding on neck and body. Vintage kluson style tuner keys.... so pretty much a different finish version of my current Artist minus the kill switch.

Case candy would be a leather strap with a Scorpio symbol sewed in and a 1mm pic.
 
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Tele body with 6-point trem, basswood.

V shape neck, 1-11/16" nut, ebony board, side low frets.

HSS Pearly Gates + 2x Antiquity for Strat.

Possibly reverse headstock.
 
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Q1: Which company called you? THe guys who import "Hondo II" guitars "Hey, you seem to like plywood, wanna sig model?"
Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? (Need not be in current production.) Bolt-on LP copy
Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours? Doesn't matter, they'll substitute whatever they have the most of in the warehouse right now, for what I spec'ed out
Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar? Again, my one "presentation model" would end up being 99% different than what "the kidz" can actually buy in the shops...
Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item? Case? THese don't come with a case!

Seriously, though, it would be a "Spanish Cedar" bodied/necked 25.5" scale LP, flat-top with no "cap", thin bodied like an L-6s, with a giant, fat neck sporting a superdark "roasted maple" fretboard with SS jumbo frets, an "arrow/Flying V" headstock, TOM bridge, trapeze tailpiece, and WLH pickups. (A buddy just put a set of those into his EPi LP, they sounded awesome) Vol/Tone/3-way switching. Case candy would be a Snark tuner.
 
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Q1: Which company called you? GIbson
Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? a Les Paul
Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours? vintage spec generally, 50s wiring Orange drop capacitors SD 59s no TOM wrap around
Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar? It being Blue Possibly two versions the original one with zebra 59s or what I'd prefer nickel covers. Also horizontal toggle switch instead of vertical.
Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item? A lego version of me and my guitar with a 45 copy of my hit single "I'm allergic to my cats"
Here's what t based off
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Q1: Which company called you? Fender

Q2: Which standard model in their product lineup do you base your sig off of? (Need not be in current production.) Exact recreation of my 95 MIM Strat..

Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours? None really. She is perfect

Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar? It has Jb/Jazz combo, cts 250k pots, orange drop, Dunlop straploks... That's about all the customizing I've done. All the customizing I need

Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item? Picks, strap, picture, art, empty crown bottle... can of spam.. sky's the limit
 
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LMAO! Old thread is old….

I started writing, and noticed the date. I checked to see if I had posted before. Sure enough - started writing EXACTLY the same answer!!!!!!
 
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Yeah I've probably posted before but I think about this a lot so what the hey

1 or 2 piece swamp ash jazzmaster body
1 piece 1" maple neck transitioning from c to asymmetrical around the 7th fret (but really gradually so you don't really notice it until the 12th fret) with a 7.25-12" radius and 6105 jescar frets and a 1 3/4" nut, finished in shellac/tru oil
Probably a HS with my special sauce neck humbucker that I'm getting from David at zhangbucker and a Jerry Donahue bridge tapped to match the 5k neck output (so like mid 5 or 6k plus 7.8k full)
And that new super vee maverick bridge with vintage raw springs and a Callaham strat block

Pickguard would have a strat layout - volume/tone/tone with a 5-way super switch. Master volume and master tone with the second tone working as a spin-a-split and spin-a-tap for the neck humbucker (dual 100kb concentric). Positions as follows:

5. Neck series
4. Neck parallel
3. Neck series + bridge full
2. Neck parallel + bridge tapped
1. Bridge full

This is all subject to change dramatically at my personal whim obviously


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Q1: Which company called you?
Charvel

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

Q3: What specs do you insist upon that make it uniquely yours?
Korina body, carved flame maple top, not a subtle carve either like what shows up on most carved top strats. I want the peak of the carve to be significantly higher than the edges.
Bolt on Maple neck with the Charvel profile, pau ferro fretboard, 12" radius, 22 medium jumbo frets. No inlays except for some sort of cool design at the 12th fret. Don't know what design yet.
Reverse headstock, and an ergonomic heel.
String through body with a Hipshot hardtail bridge and an angled neck pocket at about 2 degrees.
pickups wood mounted (H/S) - full sized humbucker at the bridge and a single coil-sized humbucker at the neck
Two volumes, one tone, 1 3-way toggle, 2 on/on/on mini-toggles switching between series/split parallel for each pickup
Haven't yet decided on finish options, but it would have to show off the flamey top to some degree. Haven't decied on pickups yet either.

Q4: What other customizations do you make to the guitar?
lasers (the deadly kind), a wombat-projectile launcher, and biomechanical DNA from a Transformer so my guitar can metamorphose into a stapler.

Q5: What special piece of "case candy" goes with it as a collector's item?
-A bag of all the abalone they DIDN'T put on the guitar.
-Stickers. Lots of stickers. Doesn't even matter what the images are, just as long as they stick to things.
-A piece of fossilized poo from some sort of alligator-like ancestor.
-A little baggy of gummy cola bottles. Yum.
 
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Fender Japan
Jazzmaster
2 pc. Alder body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard, standard "oval" neck shape, 9.5" radius vintage frets, Fender USA Am. std staggered tuners, Fender USA pure vintage JM pickups, original wiring.
candy green metallic, shoreline gold competition stripes on forearm cut. matching headstock. cream plastics and pickguard. Comes with the neck shimmed with a folded piece of sandpaper and strung with EB beefy slinky
The tweed case with a plush green interior comes with a glow-in-the-dark color-changing glass "tobacco" pipe, a 20 ft pink cable, 24 medium surf green california clear picks, extra set of beefy slinkies, and a black strap. Every certificate of authenticity is signed and numbered by me in a very dank and smokey room.

Can only be purchased in a set with a special edition green tolex w/ tan racing stripe Deluxe Reverb Reissue with a Weber hemp cone British series 1225
 
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Q1: Which company called you?

BC Rich​

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

Pro X Mockingbird​

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

It'll look like Randy Rhodes' vintage white Les Paul Custom​

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

Instead of the Les Paul Volume & tone controls, it would have the classic Mockingbird electronics. It would also have the BC Rich "R" logo on the headstock in abalone, or MOP.​

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

A BC Rich history booklet.​
 
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Mine would be a 59 Strat ala SRV. If someone wanted to make a replica of it like Fender did.... so be it, but I aint putting down my 59
 
Re: Your Signature Guitar?

Dr. Vegetable said:
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?
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Ok I'll bite.

I could list 10 or more guitars that I'd like to be my sigs but here are a few that are the most "important" ones.

Every guitar would come with a Cheetah or some other cool animal fur strap and a pack of some famous Finnish Salty liquorice candy, "Salmiakki" ;)

This is my all-round guitar for everything and anything if I could have only one guitar ever:

Ibanez RG 7-string
Maple (yes maple) body, white gloss finish (black headstock) or natural wood finish (natural headstock).
Maple (3 or 5 piece) neck
Maple fingerboard, no inlays
Floyd Rose tremolo, can be OFR, some sort of Ibanez Edge or any good one, doesn't matter.
Black hardware with white body, chrome hardware if natural finish.
Bridge humbucker (any good high output, Super Distortion, Invader, ToneZone, etc will do)
Neck singlecoil or Sustainiac Sustainer
I'd try to incorporate the Finnish flag (blue cross over white background) to somewhere, possibly tha back of the guitar or freatboard inlay.

If I could have a dedicated guitar for solos and solo-oriented music the next one would be it:

Caparison Horus 6-string 27 frets
Maple body (white, natural or snowstrom (that they currently offer) finish)
Maple neck (24,75 inch scale)
Maple fingerboard, no inlays.
OFR Tremolo
Black or chrome hardware (as above)
Original Caparison bridge pickup or DMZ Evolution bridge pickup.
Any powerful singelcoil or singlecoil-ish sounding mini-humbucker, DMZ Virtual Solo, CoolRails, Quarter Pound, Hot Stack, etc.
Same thing with the Finnish flag.

Gibson Les Paul or SG
Single-cut and/or double-cut
Maple body, chambered if it gets too heavy, quilt maple top, natural finish
Maple neck
Maple fingerboard (What's up with this maple ****?), no inlays.
TOM bridge (with or without a Bigsby) or Kahler tremolo.
Gold or chrome hardware
It would come in two different versions: one with some hot paf pickups and one with EMG's (Zakk's my #1 man)

This next one I actually got a quote from Fender Custom because our local dealer asked me to and we both were curious how much it would cost.

Fender 70's Start
Swamp ash body, natural finish
Maple neck
Rosewood fingerboard, 22 scalloped frets
Reverse headstock
White pickguard
Gold hardware
OFR tremolo
Lace sensor Dually bridge humbucker (don't know the color yet)
Lace sensor or Holy Grail neck singlecoil.

I think that's all. For now... ;)

Okay the maple thing is that I'm not too worried about whether "the wood makes a difference" and if it's huge or not. I have an all-maple SG and it sounds fine but feels totally different than a mahogany one. I just like to look of maple and it would make the guitars stand out. And it's not like this hasn't been done before many times.

If I were to make a mega-deal with some super company that could make all of these and possibly make signature guitar series I might include some other models as well, like:

Jackson RR, 24 frets, Floyd trem, only bridge humbucker (EMG81, X2N, Invader). Very close to the Alexi Laiho models. Similar colour schemes as above.
Peavey Devin Townsend 7-string baritone. It would be the ultimate riffing guitar with his tuning (GCGCGCE)

Peace, out.
 
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