Your theoretical guitar with best "coverage"

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Guitar manufacturers really should be peeking at this thread.

WAAAAY more trems/floyds, maple/ebony fretboards, push-pulls, blend knobs, piezos, and three-pickup configs to be seen here than you'd expect from looking at what's on the market.

GUITAR COMPANIES: FREAKIN ***TAKE NOTES*** ALREADY. While modding is fun... now... that was after a few painful and nervous days spent with drills, soldering irons, and knee deep in forums wondering what the heck went wrong. Fiddling is fun'n'all, but sometimes ya just want a product that's freakin done right the first time, right off the assembly line: all bases covered, no corners cut, no cheap electronics, no flimsy hardware, no zinc anything, no teeeny-block trems, no noisy wiring.

I'm kind of 50:50 on this. I agree manufacturers NEED to take notes ASAP because I am getting less and less interested in guitar companies and making my own stuff. But if I do find a guitar that I want to buy, I have an absolute NEED to touch it and change almost everything, especially the wiring. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night because I'd be staring at that guitar trying to think of what I'd change. It it is so perfect stock that I couldn't touch it, I can easily picture myself getting rid of it. I like all the tears, sweat, and sometimes blood, that is put into modifying/making guitars. That is the best part.
 
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I'd grab my FSR Ash Tele...

then I'd beat the S.O.B. to death with it and grab my '58 Les Paul Historic!
 
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Dual-humbucker ES-335 w/ heavier roundwounds

Great for bebop-style lines, great for blues, great for funk rhythm
 
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If I had a gun to my head, I'd be very content to play my Jackson Soloist SL2HT... very similar to the fat strat mentioned earlier... alder body with jazz and a jb.
 

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I have been rethinking this thread. I think I would take my 80 (Japanese) Ibanez Iceman. It has a TV Jones Classic Plus pickup, Fishman Pezio Powerbridge, ToneStyler tone pot, Spetzel locking tuners and a Bigsby. The TV Jones is powerful enough to let me play any type of rock and I could go from acoustic to Jazz with a blend of the Fishman and magnetic. The ToneStyler allows me to dial in almost any tone I want.

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Alder Tele
Maple Neck probably 9.5" radius C shape standard thinness (not as thin as the warmoth standard thin is though more how current fenders come)
Brass 3 saddle bridge that allows adjustment (like an adjustable compensated bridge)
4 way switch
Maybe middle strat type pickup with an on off switch.
Lo cut like a jag has

Problem is I like different tones for different things and like lots of guitars but my tele covers most of my bands material pretty alright right now so a slightly more pimped out tele probably does better.
 
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