Post your favorite guitar

[jpgray]

Include a pic, if possible. I was considering some more esoteric choices, but I have to go with the basics, and what I play most often:

[Fenris]

1. Hello.

[jpgray]

2. I want one of those so badly

I've played them dozens of times, but never plunked down the change for one yet. You can play almost anything and it sounds great. (Goes well with your McGuinn style slingin' :D)

[Fenris]

3. Aye.

Tuning's a bit of a bitch though. Still worth it though.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

41. Works for me. I'm a twelve-string afficianado.

[Maestro]

4. Hope you don't mind.

My fav has four strings. ;)

[Squeech]

27. I have one of these with five strings.

The weird part is, the neck is only 1/16" wider, so the strings are *really* close together. So it's not real comfortable to play.

But it sounds almost cosmic.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

5. Holy Shnikees!!!!!!

God luv ya!

[salvorhardin]

6. I've never had one but...

I've always wanted a Gibson Explorer.

[darkstar]

7. Here's a lovely paint job

[TheWizardOfMudd]

8. Wasn't that recently auctioned off by Todd?

That was the last I heard.

[darkstar]

9. Here's a link

to Todd telling the whole tale, from acquistion to sale:

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[TheWizardOfMudd]

10. Thanks

[darkstar]

12. False Advertising!

Sorry. Read the bit at the link and it appears to only go up to '98. I think I heard TR sold it, too, so it's not the whole story.

Sorry, WoM and all DU guitar fans!

[XNASA]

30. The very rare, yet ultra-cool "Fender Starcaster"

Or a 72 Tele Thin-line (Note: Groovy Humbuckers)

[Quahog]

32. I think I have a Starcaster

It's at my mom's house in California, probalby in the attic. It's been up there for probably fifteen years. I tried to refinish it at one point, and farked up the binding something fierce. But it's all original, just needs someone with some luthiery skills to refinish it and make it lovely again. I should have mom send it out to me, it is a way cool guitar.

[XNASA]

33. It's worth quite a bit, at least a nice one is....

It's worth at least $2K if it's mint.

A sought after piece for sure.

[Quahog]

42. Wow

Well, I'll have to investigate next time I'm out in San Diego. I remember it had this sickly greenish transparent finish over the wood top, single ply binding around the body (which I ruined with finish stripper.. just melted away), and I defiintely recognize those groovy knobs. I bought it as a complement to my main axe at the time, which was an early-70's Tele deluxe with the twin humbuckers, in glorious mother-of-coffee-table brown. Never could control the feedback on the Starcaster.

Gave the Tele to a guy I played with for years. He was the best guitarist I've ever known personally, and he had a favorite axe stolen, so I just gave him the guitar, which he had always loved. He still plays it, has it set up for slide (which he often plays using the back of a mannequin's head).

[sangh0]

39. Do not refinish it

unless it NEEDS to be refinished in order to prevent further decay

[cleofus1]

43. you've already mucked it up

if you've taken off the original finish...it's worth only a fraction of one with it's original finish...it will never wound as good as it might have...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. This is my favorite and I own it. Only 153 made.

Don't own a digital camera so I found one online

[Fenris]

15. Nice.

Whose model is it? And is it metal, or is that paint?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. It's a Freddie Tavares Aloha Strat out of the Fender custom shop

and it's aluminum, emerald, abalone and bird's eye maple

[G_j]

36. wow, that is nice!

I love the (curly?) maple neck also... :-)

btw. years ago I was in a band called "Johnny Aloha and the Volcanoes of Sound"
we played a sort of eclectic, demented folk (not Hawiian)..go figure

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

38. Yeah...they call it bird's eye maple

Really hard wood so it's got the tone of a strat but also the spanky sound of a tele ( especially when using only the neck pickup).

[CrownPrinceBandar]

44. Awesome Fucking Guitar...........

NSMA, you rock!!! I like how it looks like Mark Knopfler's National.

[BrotherBuzz]

13. Another lovely paint job

[asthmaticeog]

14. No pics, sorry,

but my fave guitar is a 1984 American Standard Fender Strat with an '83 A.S. Fender Tele neck (jumbo fretwire) and a DiMarzio split-rail humbucker in the bridge slot. It's BRIGHT red and it has a huge paint chip above the bridge. I will never sell it. Never.

2nd fave: my '71 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe that was originally a goldtop but is now stained that reddish color that ES-335s often come in. Original pickups are long gone, but are replaced with Seymour Duncan "Old '59" PAF replicas. It used to be my main instrument until I ran across the above-mentioned Strat in the used pariah junker section of my preferred guitar store.

I'd post pics, but the Strat is currently languishing in my drummer's van (I just got home from a gig like ten minutes ago) and the Les Paul's out being rewired.

[No2W2004]

16. The guitar I wish I had

1959 Gretch Duo-Jet.

[Skittles]

17. Alivn Lee's red guitar

:D

[Curious Dave]

18. How about categories

Favorite Archtop: 1934 Gibson L-5. Its got mojo beyond belief!
Favorite Acoustic: Martin D-42
Favorite Electric: Gibson ES-335. Good for playing everything from BB King to the Ramones :)

Still, the L-5 has been getting most of my attention lately.

[VOX]

19. My acoustic babies...

Gibson SJ-200 Montana Gold, done by Ren Ferguson in the Gibson Montana custom shop. BIG sound.

Martin 000-28EC, Clapton signature model, #1201, first year of manufacture. Sweet.

Hawaiian-made all-koa wood concert ukulele by G-String Ukulele Co. in Honolulu. You just have to smile when strumming this little beauty.

[Magrittes Pipe]

21. Purty...

[cleofus1]

22. this is what i have

my toy my love



i'd like to get this one soon...maybe

[johnnie]

47. I have the black EPJ

I love that guitar.

[Bonhomme Richard]

23. My Hamer........

Played a Strat for years but the Hamer just fealt so right in my hands.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Sorry, No Pic, Yet

I still haven't figured out way to post a picture from the HPPhoto site that isn't the size of a postage stamp.

But, my favorite of my nine is an Ibanez JS-1000. It's transparent red (basswood body) with an ebony finger board. DiMarzio pickups and a Floyd Rose bridge.

The neck is VERY different from most Ibanez models. It's much more a C radius, is narrower, and thinner. The day i got the guitar i was playing even faster than normal. (As most of the other guitarists here would attest, i'm pretty much a shredder.) My guitar playing pals all agree that the same thing happened to them when they played it.

Very easy to play. Plenty of gain, but very smooth sound. To paraphrase Brian May "I'm in Love with My Guitar. . ."
The Professor

[cleofus1]

26. here you go buddy

the joe satriano special js-1000



sweeeeeet....

[ProfessorGAC]

35. Mine Is Custom Shop

There's a small music store in the South Suburbs (Chicago) that has been in Ibanez dealer since 1973. He was the first in the Chicago market.

He gets a few really choice items per year out of the custom shop. The color of my guitar is not one of the standard colors. The best part is, they only charge him about an extra 10% for the custom colors. So, i only paid about an extra $100 for the clear red, and they only made a half-dozen or so. Pretty cool, huh?
The Professor

[charlie]

34. Ah, the Satch axe

Ol' Joe's unmatched when it comes to flailing with buckets of sass and grease. And he designed a gorgeous, fantastic guitar. I don't know how many times in the past 15 years I've pulled a JS model off the rack, hoping for some of Smokin' Joe's magic. But alas, as much as I've wanted to love it, it ain't for me -- neck radius is too rounded, frets too flat, board too narrow.

For me, the shred machine of my dreams has been the Washburn N4 (yeah, I know, Washburn... shaddup, they got it right with the N4). Wide flat rosewood board, jumbo frets, Stephens cutaway, Floyded, unfinished alder body (very resonant, I prefer bare light woods for that reason), and supremely versatile Bill Lawrence L500 pickups (sound full and rounded unprocessed, but also deliver the industrial stomp Dimebag Darrell craves). I'd never felt "married" to a guitar until I got my hands on an N4 a decade ago.

[ProfessorGAC]

37. Yeah.

The flat fingerboard doesn't work for me. My hands aren't that big and it makes double stop stuff in the middle of the neck awkward if the neck is too broad and flat.

Satch's fingers are longer than mine, but he doesn't have real long fingers either. (Not like Vai, MacAlpine, or someone like that.) So, the neck he designed for himself fits me to a tee. Pretty lucky, that!

Most of my guitars are painted, so it's nice to have one clear finish guitar, especially since this is a custom shop color. The grain on the guitar is absolutely perfect, too! I'm so glad i bought this one.
The Professor

[phillybri]

25. Ernie Ball EVH model...

In translucent purple...Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice...

[Bertha Venation]

28. too many, but the one I want the most, for sentimental reasons, is

Martin's Jim Croce model.

[GOPisEvil]

29. Fender Bullet H-2

I should have never gotten rid of mine. :-(

[Quahog]

31. My babies

I haven't had a Strat in a LONG time, and I am way impressed by the new Deluxe American Standards... those somalian cobaltisium pickups or whatever they're called are the KITTY'S TITTIES! All the quack with none of the buzz. Gonna get the ash model in aged cherry sunburst... mmmmmmm.....

[jpgray]

46. Very nice. (nt)

[Bonhomme Richard]

40. And Fav Acoustic

Ovation Legend

[TrogL]

48. I used to have one of those

Traded it in on a synth.

I can play bass but I never really got the hang of guitar. I keep trying to use piano fingers.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

45. I have an 89 black-bodied American Standard Strat...

w/ a rosewood fingerboard. It came with a lame-ass white pickguard. I replaced it with a Warmouth dark tortoise-shell one. I also replaced the white pickup covers and knobs with black ones. It looks hot. And one of these days, I'm going to take the stock pick-ups out and put some Duncans in.

Sorry, no pics.