Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

[uOpt]

Somebody puts a gun to your head and forces you to pick one single guitar that you will have to use to play the music you like. You aren't allowed to shoot back. You can assemble your own.

I think after all the lessons learned over the years I arrived at this:

• Strat body
• made from at least 2 pieces of basswood
• 6-point steel block trem
• maple neck with flat ebony board, frets that are either wide or tall but not both
• 59 roundback shape, 1-5/16"nut, lightest truss rod available
• height-adjustable nut. Screw how it sounds open
• sperzel locking tuners
• 2x Antiquity 1 for Strat ("Texas hot"), and no ****ing rwrp
• 1x covered Pearly Gator regular spacing, double cream under the cover
• Extra switches for neck pickup in series with the rest and for humbucker out of phase

That. Or a Les Paul. That works, too

 

[agentzero12]

Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

Gun to my head? My les Paul classic. As much as I like other guitars, that one is on the top for me.

 

[SlyFoxx]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

A PRS with numerous switching options. I'd really like to try a 513 and a 408 but my old C22 does a nice job as is.

 

[blueman335]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

Gun to my head? My les Paul classic. As much as I like other guitars, that one is on the top for me.

+1. An LP.

What kind of neighborhood does uOpt live in that people break houses and use firearms to force you to play certain instruments? That's about what it take for me to play a Strat.

 

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

Probably a Gibson Explorer before they went to that stupid granadillo. I know last year or the year before, they were making Alpine white ones with ebony fretboards, and I remember begging for one, cause at 15 I couldn't get a job yet. If not the explorer, then probably a Schecter ATX C-7, because with 7 strings, you can use pretty much any tuning.

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

335...with a bigsby

 

[karpathion]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

The swiss army knife of the guitar world. A tapped Explorer all the way!

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

Esquire...or Les Paul Junior single cutaway...or possibly an SG Special. I can't decide! Aaaaaaaah! I'm gonna get shot! ****! Okay; Junior! (Damn. I panicked. Shoulda picked the Esquire.)

 

[youngthrasher9]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

A Carvin DC600 with a hipshot fixed bridge, hipshot tuners, a Duncan A8 '59/custom hybid in the bridge, a A4 '59n in the neck Jumbo stainless frets, thin D or C shaped neck, holdsworth headstock shape, 1 push/pull volume, 1 3 way toggle. Plain ebony fretboard, alder wings, and maple neck.

Or a black Les Paul custom with Duncans.

 

[aleclee]

Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

The EBMM Axis in my avatar picture. Even with its EVH roots, it's far from a one trick pony.

 

[Ashurbanipal]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

Don't need a theoretical one - already own it. SSL2 x 2, 59/C. Pretty roses not included.

 

[Jocelyn]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

Well I am not allowed to shoot back... I will pick up a double fat Alder strat loaded with JB JAZZ, and vintage trem. Oh and before I begin playing, as i cant shoot him back. I will hit him on his head with it.

 

[Agileguy_101]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

Between the guitars I own? This easily:

Out of any of the guitars I've ever played? Without hesitation, a Music Man Reflex.

 

[ExplorersRock]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

Well, if I were to go with a stock, off-the-wall guitar... My Gibson Traditional Pro Explorer, no question.

Custom-made... Well, I have a custom axe.
- Strat shape, no pickguard, 25.5" scale
- Alder with quilt maple top in blue-burst
- Flame maple set neck w/rosewood board featuring white binding and Jem style vine inlay
- C-shape neck w/6105 frets and a graphite nut
- Reverse headstock w/sperzels
- Fender Deluxe Strat Trem
- Custom 5 in bridge, and a Custom Shop Hot '59 in the neck.
- LP style contols (2 vol, 2 tone, 3-way toggle) w/the tone pots being push-pulls to individually tap the HBs

She plays beautifully!

 

[Adieu]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

Somebody puts a gun to your head and forces you to pick one single guitar that you will have to use to play the music you like. You aren't allowed to shoot back. You can assemble your own.

I think after all the lessons learned over the years I arrived at this:

• Strat body
• made from at least 2 pieces of basswood
• 6-point steel block trem
• maple neck with flat ebony board, frets that are either wide or tall but not both
• 59 roundback shape, 1-5/16"nut, lightest truss rod available
• height-adjustable nut. Screw how it sounds open
• sperzel locking tuners
• 2x Antiquity 1 for Strat ("Texas hot"), and no ****ing rwrp
• 1x covered Pearly Gator regular spacing, double cream under the cover
• Extra switches for neck pickup in series with the rest and for humbucker out of phase

That. Or a Les Paul. That works, too

MAHOGANY BODY, archtop FLAME MAPLE - SINGLECUT, something halfway between a tele and an LP shape
3-pc MAPLE neck, 25" scale, ESP NARROW "U" PROFILE
MAPLE fretboard (blonde, never baked!!)
22 MEDIUM frets
IBANEZ LoPro Edge, NOS 90s, w/ one of the in-bridge PIEZO technologies (don't know em well enough to name the best choice)
BONE NUT, NO TOPLOCKS
Good locking tuners (Shallers, perhaps?)
Bridge: MAXON SUPER 70
Mid: FENDER CS TEXAS SPECIAL(bridge model)
Neck: EMG 89R
Switching:
1 THREE-WAY SWITCH: emg 89 H/H+S/S
2 BLEND (balance) pots, one between the Super 70 and Texas Special, one for blending in EMG 89R
2 volumes, stacked pots to control 4 pickups
1 mini-toggle to turn on Piezo
1 mini-toggle to send Super 70 to jack, bypassing all pots
1 mini-toggle to send EMG 89 to jack, bypassing everything but the 3-way selector


...OR - I could just say "screw it" and buy an ESP Standard "Vintage Plus" That or the below Custom Shop model is kinda tempting too (I know *I* can assemble my own, but can I have *ESP CUSTOM SHOP* do it for me???):

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

My gut reaction? The dry cleaners should be able to get that out.

My guitar choice? Some sorta Blackguard Telecaster with a Stratocaster pickup added in the middle, wired to give B, B+C, B+N, C+N, N.


EDIT - Let us hope that Midget Koala never reads this thread. It would take him so long to choose that the theoretical gunman would have lost patience and squeezed da trigger.

EDIT #2 - Does this theoretical gun toting, "guitar curious" lunatic rear chickens? :naughty:

 

[Robbiedbee]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

HSS Fender Strat, 59 in the bridge, not sure which singles I'd like, maybe something like Texas Specials or the closest thing SD do. Push pull to split the humbucker. Done and done.

 

[phred]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

Strat with maple neck and floyd. I will hide loaded pickguards from the interloper. HSS Texas Specials or 57/62's with 78 or 59. HSH PAF/CS69/Super D

 

[Psykel]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

White Gibson Explorer with 2 x Phat Cats, ToneStyler and a Bigsby.

 

[vinta9e]

Re: Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

A lively, punchy bolt-on superstrat is all it takes to make me happy. Don't need to look into a gun barrel to know what works for me. By the way, my idea of an everyday guitar is not that much different to yours, uOpt, except I'd prefer a good non-recessed Floyd, and probably choose alder or maple body in this case. One piece maple neck with either a pretty fretboard or no fretboard at all. Fat and narrow C carve and a straight, wide radius, like between 12 to 16 inches will do. Medium jumbo frets. Grover man sausage machine heads. Hot humbucker at the bridge and maybe a fat single coil or two. Master volume that works. Basic, simple switching because less is more. Nothing too flashy, I guess. Unless it comes in an 80's paintjob.