Which guitar do you prefer?

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:21 am

Just a random question...

I like all of them just wanted to see other peoples likes

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:50 pm

My first guitar was a Fender Squire. POS, I know, but I loved it. I got a Jackson Dinky Pro Reverse for half the price due to a price tag that was marked incorrectly Smile

I got an Ibanez acoustic about 6 years ago (don't even ask me the model - haha), and a Schecter C1 Plus around the same time.

Of those four, I'd have to say the Schecter is by far the best. Best sounding, best feel, and best looking guitar I've owned. It ain't much, but it's mine and I love her Smile

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:04 pm

I love the neck on my Ibanez.
It's a cheap guitar, but sounds great, especially with the Screamin' Demon pickup I put in the bridge.

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:31 pm

I use to have an Ibanez RG series didn't paid much for it and I loved it. (it got stolen long time ago) I think I would buy it again but I recently purchased a Parker and it feels better I think so I'd say Parker.

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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:42 pm

I own a Fender Am Standard Strat (1991). Used to have Ibanez RG 550, Yamaha RGX 612, Westone Spectrum LX and a cheap ass Condor Strat with H-S-H DiMarzio pick-ups.

Love that Fender sound, though I now would like something with a bit of warmth but with the strat feel, but without the strat hum.

Never cared for a Tele. Never want a floating trem like Floyd Rose again. What a headache.

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:51 pm

I'm using Schecter. Standard series, SSH, swamp ash, birds eye maple neck. It's very very good instrument. They just know how to make a good guitar.

Friend of mine has got Schecter telecaster - No. S0046 Surprised

!!! Beautiful sounding but wierd combination: bird eye maple neck, mahogany body with maple top. Rare bird.

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:58 pm

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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:59 pm

i had a gretsch, a strat, and a gibson es-137 among many others and right now i have a schecter which works quite nice and sounds awesome for the price. but my favorite i have ever played is a limited edition '52 copper colored telecaster. the sound of it made me want to cry cuz how beautiful it sounded.

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:00 pm

haha uhmmmm for some reason i couldtn delete my first post.

my bad. :/

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:32 pm

There seems to be a little about a lot of guitars I like so I built my own from USAGC and Warmoth parts.

For necks I use 24 3/4" scale bolt on fatback strat or tele necks from Warmoth. Made from mahogany or white korina. All except one pau ferro are rosewood boards.

For bodies I use swamp ash strat types but I have one tele body, all are either USACG or Warmoth and are of varying weight, 2 bodies are from some guy on Ebay.

So they have the sound of both, they give me the things I like from both the Fender and Gibson guitar.

Most neck pickups are Duncan Antiquity firebird bridge mini hums, antiquity P-90, antiquity Texas strat and one with a Phat cat, 2 with Duncan PAF type pups. For bridge pickups I either use C5. CC, Duncan Custom shop Brobucker, Phat Cat or Texas strat.

In all I have 13 of them, I'm not completely done with all of them.

I'll post some pictures when I get some time. All are natural wood and finished with wiping varnish commonly know as tung oil, which it is really not.

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:50 pm

I like the one I'm playing at the time the best!

Currently (ALWAYS subject to change) I own an 87 Strat. 62 reissue. Its stock. I've had it since 88. Its aging nicely. Its name is Betty. Its a very naughty white girl.

I have what we like to call a SLI.....(stratlike instrument) Its a Chandler body, Boogie boat neck, and theres a Duncan Jazz Humbucker in the neck position, a 57 reissue strat p/u in the middle and a Duncan JB in the bridge. Its a 5 position switch and it has an old Kahler floater with a heavy counterweight on it. Its a rather warm and heavy sounding guitar....more Jackson than Gibson or Fender.

I have a 1965 Fender Jaguar. It is also stock and it gets recorded a LOT. The neck is one of the best I have ever played in about 40 years of wearing these planks out.

I have a homebuilt thing that currently needs a setup. It has Schaller p/u's, eastern and western maple body, a first year Schecter neck.....<----not to be confused with the Schecter company these days...they used to be one of the first after market high-end parts companies out there. This is a one piece rosewood neck and has the little Fender wire on it. Both p/u's are 5 wire so its got mini toggles for all sorts of selection. It has a Washburn bridge. I picked out the slabs, and did all the laminations about 25 years ago.

I have a 414 Taylor. A 2000 model. Its going to get its braces shaved one of these days, but it records really well....its a little choked for live.

I have a 1974 Ibanez Ragtime acoustic. It is a plywood guitar that plays really well. It has a wonderful wide neck and it sounds like an orchestral archtop on steroids.

I have a Seagull 12 string. Really nicely balanced tone and will stay in tune for days.

I have a 1985 Guild Pilot bass. Please do NOT tell anybody about these basses. They are the last reasonably priced American made basses left. They play like a dream. This one is active P/J and weighs in at 7.5 lbs.

I have a 1987 Guild Pilot 5string bass. Its passive with Bartolini's. Again fairly light @ 8.7 lbs. For all you bassists...the low B is firm.

I have a 2004 Fender Fretless Jazz Bass MIM. What a nice bass! Records great. No dead spots in the neck...action is low and firm.....sounds like a Fender.

If I were to list the guitars I've owned and sold over the years for various reasons, it would depress me. At least my last real collectable went to my SpitBoys bandmate and I still get to play it every now and then. A 1965 Fender Pbass. Stock. VoiceOfGod pickups. This one, you plug it in... Turn the knobs up to ten and....well....there it is. It has Black Roto-Sound flats on it. They're about 10 years old now and are just starting to sound 'right'.

I love guitars as much as I love mics. Maybe more.

The next bass will probably be a Gibson Thunderbird although recently I did see an early Valley Arts 5 string bass for sale very resonable price too.....................hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:05 pm

You got GAS..... Cool

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:21 pm

Yeah....Had it since I just a baby....

Some day I'll send ya a list of the stuff that has gone away.......Like the 4 "L" series Strats....Only one of em was a sunburst....

Or the 1961 LesPaul SG with the Vibrola and P90's instead of Humbucks......

Or the Ampeg AUB1 bass.....Or the first Fretless Dan Armstrong west of the Mississippi.

Or the 57 Pbass, the 61 Pbass, the 63 Pbass( I still have the neck) The 61 Jazz bass with the stacked knobs (STOLEN !! I still know who did it....) Or the 1970 Gold Top (about 7 years back now)....Theres the 62 Tele...the 69 Tele....the 72 Strat...the 74 Pbass or the 74 FRETLESS Pbass (first year BTW). The 79 Pbass...All three of the 1969 Telecaster basses...all cream w/white pickguards, two were customized...one was stolen and 6 months later I saw it on "IN CONCERT" ...its a long story...even my wife knew it was mine. The 76 Jazz. The 89 Jazz<---p.o.s. The Hagstrom 8 string bass......

God there so many...I havent even gotten into the acoustics !

yeah.....I got it bad. Its not likely to end anytime soon.

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:29 pm

yup...the countless fender amps....bassmans, bandmasters, Princeton's, Deluxes......white/brown/tweed/black/silver!!!!!!!!!

The Les Pauls, SG's, ES-335's, 345's, starts, teles.......and a partridge in a pear tree.

Almost 40 years of buying and selling, getting stuff stolen from you, blowing stuff up. It was fun.........but I have nothing to show for it but a lot of useless information.

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:35 pm

BigDaddy there is NO useless information. Thats what these sites are all about.

Gosh I wasnt even thinking of the AMPS...............That'll be another hour of listing.

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