singemonkey
Hence my dedicated slide guitar. It's very useful to have a guitar that I can leave in D for practising and is always ready for playing at gigs. G is not a problem. I use my main guitar for that because I only really need to retune the E and the A string for that so it's super quick.
Tuning from standard to E or D changes the tension on the neck so radically that you have to tune 2 or 3 times. As you change the tuning on one string, a string that you tuned previously goes out. It needs to stabilise. Hence it's way better to have a pretuned guitar in those tunings.
Kraai
I own a Gibson Les Paul,Luke Musicman, Steve Morse Musicman, Tele, Strat, SE Santana PRS , Gibson EDS 275, Custom Shop Epiphone G175, Acoustic Yamaha APX900NT. Nice to have spares to d-tune . My favorites must be my Luke and Les Paul , but boy does it cost to keep me in strings.
flatfourfan
VellaJ wrote:
I'm assessing the relevance of the Ibanez in my collection, while the pickups are awesome for metal, I just don't play that much in that style at the moment. (Flatfourfan, if you're reading this, you're first in line, I know ? )
FFF misses nothing.
Waits........
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Banditman
Hmm, good exercise in considering what you're actually wanting tonally. For me it'd be:
Solid bodies:
My Les Paul Classic but given an RS Guitarworks rewire to '59 RI spec, Tonepros AVR-II bridge & tailpiece, Graph Tec nut and a set of Bare Knuckle Mules. Or a '59 RI.
Tokai or Gibson Goldtop LP with P90s OR the Gretch Billy-Bo Jupiter Thunderbird (really gelled with it when I gave one a whirl).
Fender Strat - A good standard model, though I find the Eric Johnson seems to tick my boxes nicely. But any good standard Strat with mojo will do.
Fender Tele - Again, a good, straightforward honest Tele. (Preferrably natural or butterscotch with black pickguard)
Hollowbodies / semi-hollowbodies:
Gibson or Tokai ES335
Gretsch 6120RHH
Yamaha SA503 TVL.
Acoustics:
I've got a soft spot for the J-200, but any good 6-string dreadnought that speaks to me will do.
Wildcard itch-scratch choices would include:
Fender Jaguar - A bit pointless if you've got a Strat or Tele, but I just like 'em.
Tyler Studio Elite HD in candy cherry red shmear - shear indulgence.
arjunmenon
Kraai wrote:
I own a Gibson Les Paul,Luke Musicman, Steve Morse Musicman, Tele, Strat, SE Santana PRS , Gibson EDS 275, Custom Shop Epiphone G175, Acoustic Yamaha APX900NT. Nice to have spares to d-tune . My favorites must be my Luke and Les Paul , but boy does it cost to keep me in strings.
Just out of curiosity...is your EBMM Luke a purple one?
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Lentz HSL maple neck with a bigsby
Lentz DL-90 rosewood neck
Ratcliffe Strat
Cornerstone Zion (Fan Fret)
Larrivee OM-10
Morgan OMR
Doesnt get much better than that for me
arjunmenon
Brentcgp wrote:
Lentz HSL maple neck with a bigsby
Lentz DL-90 rosewood neck
Ratcliffe Strat
Cornerstone Zion (Fan Fret)
Larrivee OM-10
Morgan OMR
Doesnt get much better than that for me
Brent, you're Strat is a pretty good workhorse..surprised to see it missing from your list
Gearhead
Different approach: start from how many guits you can have.
One guitar: needs to be a Strat. But must be proper Strat with handwound pups and all the custom hardware, one piece body etc.
Two guitars: a Strat and a Les Paul. The Les Paul must preferrably be an R9 in lemon burst.
Three guitars: add a semi-hollow with P90s or a Tele. But proper stuff.
Four guitars: add a Tele or a semi-hollow with P90s. Proper stuff, like I said
Five guitars: add a steel string acoustic, but then something that makes the hair on your arms and neck stand up when played.
Six guitars: add a Danelectro Pro and set it up for slide. Get the neck replaced with a square one, re-do bridge.
Seven guitars: add a Les Paul Special. But: a proper cherry red single cut with wraparound bridge like Bob Marley had.
Eight guitars: add a 12 string acoustic or electric-with-piezo. I'm thinking Guild.
Nine guitars: must also get me one of those Rickenbackers, or a Gretsch Billy-Bo or some other excentric thingie
Ten guitars: time to trim the herd. Must not have ten...
StefStoep
My wish list:
1) Gibson SG - currently own one! ?
2) Fender Strat MIA - currently own a MIM, would love to upgrade.
3) Gibson LP - was more than happy just to have the SG but played recently on a LP and now "I needs it my precious"
3.1) + Piezo and maybe coil tapping but have never heard a LP being coil tapped so would like to hear it first.
4) A decent steel string acoustic, currently own a Epiphone PR6E but would a Takamine Santa Fe
There would probably much more that i want but if i look at the question it is more about what is "needed" to do what you do.
Wants:
5) Gibson ES335
6) Gibson LP / SG P90
Highway-Chile
Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
singemonkey wrote:
Which Epi? An early or a recent one?
A Kalamazoo one. As far as I can remember it was a two pickup Rivoli, something like this:
Ratcliffe did you use Analog to process/edit that image?
eric-vaxxine
Oh Crikey. I cannot compete with Highway Chile.
I have a 1982 Gibson Dove, 1997 Blonde ES335 Dot re-issue and
just a 1962 Fender Stratocaster to gig with.
Not important, but I also have the neck of that bass pictured
on The Clash's 'London Calling' album, on the body of a 1980's
Fender Precision bass.
Pretty good repair job too.
Highway-Chile
I likely have quite a few years gathering kit than you Eric. Besides, you have some very fine vintage instruments friend. I only have two vintage guitars... my 1964 Fender Strat that I have owned since I was 17 or so, and an '83 Les Paul. My Nashville B-Bender Tele is a very nice instrument but it's a 2005. I would love that 335 Dot RI.
About the neck of the bass........ is that the real deal...the actual neck in the photo? That is quite the piece of rock paraphernalia.....or punk paraphernalia. Collectible I would imagine?
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Arjun Menon wrote:
Brentcgp wrote:
Lentz HSL maple neck with a bigsby
Lentz DL-90 rosewood neck
Ratcliffe Strat
Cornerstone Zion (Fan Fret)
Larrivee OM-10
Morgan OMR
Doesnt get much better than that for me
Brent, you're Strat is a pretty good workhorse..surprised to see it missing from your list
Nope it's there ? Ratcliffe Strat!! It's an epic guitar
arjunmenon
Brentcgp wrote:
Nope it's there ? Ratcliffe Strat!! It's an epic guitar
? My bad.
V8
Highway Chile wrote:
I think I hurt me'self drooling...this pic could be titled "20 good reasons to live in the USA"?
Malkav
Pretty much all the obvious choices but in 7 & 8 strings :-[
Wizard
Chad Adam Browne wrote:
Pretty much all the obvious choices but in 7 & 8 strings :-[
Wizard thinks: "If you like a lot of strings, you could always get a piano ..."
StefStoep
Wizard wrote:
Chad Adam Browne wrote:
Pretty much all the obvious choices but in 7 & 8 strings :-[
Wizard thinks: "If you like a lot of strings, you could always get a piano ..."
Lol ?
guidothepimmp
Jackson soloist
Charvel model series
Kramer baretta
Washburn idol
Gibson sg
Hamer California
Zion
