Your Signature Guitar

[Aceman]

How can you not be a fan of a guitar company? Serious question.

Is it because the company is known for putting out mostly Chinese junk and you don't want your name associated with it? (Everyone is doing this now.)

Is it because you don't like the quality of the instruments? (They use proprietary bridges and you want an OFR)

Is it because you don't like the management? (The only company I've read that people seem to have "problems" with are Gibson, regarding management and declining quality. But its an iconic brand. Ive read some weird stuff about BC Rich too.)

Is it because they wouldn't be able to build the guitar you really want? (For instance a traditional brand approaches a modern player.)

Is it because the brand is so unknown that you don't think it means anything? (And you would rather not be contractually obligated to play their guitars.)


If someone gave me an opportunity for a signature guitar, I would jump at it. But I'm not a professional player.

More than that goes into it....


Like I said; Can I play another brand on stage?
Am I allowed to mention other guitars I have played in interviews?
Can I post a Youtube vid of me & my first guitar?
Are they free? Or reduced cost?
Is there a sales target expectation?

This is NOT about giving YOU the guitar you want. It is first and foremost about selling THEIR guitars.

 

[Top-L]

More than that goes into it....


Like I said; Can I play another brand on stage?
Am I allowed to mention other guitars I have played in interviews?
Can I post a Youtube vid of me & my first guitar?
Are they free? Or reduced cost?
Is there a sales target expectation?

This is NOT about giving YOU the guitar you want. It is first and foremost about selling THEIR guitars.

Hmmm. Trying to imagine the worst possible deal...

Lets say I had a breakout metal video and album that had some traction on YouTube.

I was approached by Sawtooth guitars to do a signature.

But the caveat was that I had to play Sawtooth guitars exclusively for three years.

And I had to have my picture in Sawtooth ads under Master Micheal Angelo Batio.

And they sent me two essentially $300 guitars to play for that three years.

Would I take it?

I would take it as a joke. To say I had a signature guitar.

Even though it is probably a production guitar that someone quickly spraypainted in the warehouse to my "specs".

I would take it.

Maybe.

 

[DKSEARS]

If they could make me the exact guitar I wanted, I would go for it, unless I was opposed to their morals or ethics.

This is how I see it. My "needs" in a guitar are not all that special, in my opinion, but if a company I admired wanted to do a deal, I'd probably go for it, if they're willing to give me the keys to the design room.

 

[Aceman]

I was approached by Sawtooth guitars to do a signature.

I'm out. I'll buy my own. Thanks but no thanks...

 

[CaptainWhizz]

Is it because you don't like the quality of the instruments? (They use proprietary bridges and you want an OFR)

Is it because they wouldn't be able to build the guitar you really want? (For instance a traditional brand approaches a modern player.)

I think the original hypothetical said you had full control of design and specs (we will have to suppose without infringing on trademarks), so for example, if you ask them to, Fender have to make you something as close to an Ibanez Jem as possible.

 

[CaptainWhizz]

Gibson already pretty much made my signature guitar, they just didn’t know it, or put my name on it.

Not mine, although incredibly similar; the top is nicer than mine.

 

[Kac]

Absolutely! I basically play old strats, I’m sure whatever company I don’t Like would be able to make me something decent.

 

[Mincer]

I'm out. I'll buy my own. Thanks but no thanks...

I see a ton of hate with Sawtooth, but I am out of the loop...whats with them?

 

[Aceman]

I see a ton of hate with Sawtooth, but I am out of the loop...whats with them?

One: Just another mass produced guitar base-generic manufacturer
Two: Batios HORRIBLE vids
Three: Some questionable designs.
Four: I really can't over emphasize how bad Batio's vids are.

I'm sure they are all a Mitchell or a Johnson, or an Arbor guitar is. Probably as good as Squire but lesser known.

 

[Mincer]

One: Just another mass produced guitar base-generic manufacturer
Two: Batios HORRIBLE vids
Three: Some questionable designs.
Four: I really can't over emphasize how bad Batio's vids are.

I'm sure they are all a Mitchell or a Johnson, or an Arbor guitar is. Probably as good as Squire but lesser known.

Really? That bad? I guess I just usually skip his videos no matter what guitar he uses. But they have to be paying him more than Dean.

 

[Cynical]

A guitar company wants to make a signature guitar. You have full say in design/specs/etc. The problem is, you aren't a fan of that company for whatever reason(s). Do you do it?

I wouldn't.

I'm pretty brand-disloyal when it comes to guitars (of my six, all six are from different companies), so if I thought they could build a guitar that I'd really like playing, I'd have no qualms about it.

 

[Kingkiller94]

Personally, no. I don't believe in endorsing products/companies that you don't care for. That'd be selling out in my eyes.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

One: Just another mass produced guitar base-generic manufacturer
Two: Batios HORRIBLE vids
Three: Some questionable designs.
Four: I really can't over emphasize how bad Batio's vids are.

I'm sure they are all a Mitchell or a Johnson, or an Arbor guitar is. Probably as good as Squire but lesser known.

This Sawtooth video covers both the "questionable designs" and "horrible Batio videos" points above:

 

[Cynical]

^ It's amazing how they've managed to put both humbuckers in awful and almost totally unusable positions on that thing...

 

[Mincer]

I didn't think there could be a bad configuration of pickups, but this takes the cake. It is awful in every possible way.