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Let's see your favorite guitars

#101
mapleglo said:
I always thought the Ric 480 was a cool guitar. Here's my interpretation.

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And a Strat with humbuckers.

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Are those Lace Alumatones, which ones, how do you like em? They have a hot n nasty one I'm very interested in. Nice wood working and interpretation skills there Very Classy.
 
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#102
gjohnson441496 said:
This Jazz bass. I went almost 40 years only playing my P bass. I found this one and I absolutely love this bass. There's nothing special about it. It's passive, with whatever stock pups are in it (I would like to know if anyone knows what a stock 2005 Fender Jazz bass pups are). It does have that S1 switch which makes one heck of a difference. This is my favorite bass.

EDIT: I automatically thought about my bass, before reading through. There's some really nice guitars here too. Didn't mean to interrupt, but I love my bass guitar!

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You broke the rules, go to your room and I want you to think about what you've done here.
It's cool I thought I'd get hammered by the hard core bass smarty pants here. It's gone way better then I expected, all the way around. Question: you still here in Cincy?
 
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#103
BurnOut said:
Before I started on my great bass adventure, I was a guitar player for 38+ years. Still keep my skills up, not that I was that skilled. I played rhythm with some touches of lead. I enjoy playing guitar. I'm having a lot of fun playing bass, wish I would have taken it up way before I did. Got in my first serious lasting band immediately. That didn't happen on guitar, as guitar players are a dime a dozen.

So what's my point here you ask. I know there's a bunch of y'all that play guitar. Let's see your very favorite guitars. Yes I know some smart comedian is gonna wanna put up their 6 string bass. I'm talking about 6 or more small diameter string variety. Electric, acoustic it's all good, one of each if that's how you feel.

I'll go first since I started this silly ode to guitar thing. When Kurt Cobain and his grungy friends pounded a stake into the heart of hair metal. No one wanted those extravagant hair metal guitars anymore. They were a mire pittance of their former prices. Thus began my odyssey to buy up a bunch of my favorite brand Kramer for very little. I bought some very nice ones. My favorite guitar is a refinned early Kramer Pacer, named The Blue Meanie. I think someone was trying to hide the fact it was involved in the hair era. Bought it for 100 at a Music Go Round. I tried to take off the blue on the headstock hoping to find the logo, but it was gone.(hence the primer up there) Someone put a Duncan JB in the bridge position, and it's a great pickup. It has a Floyd Rose which I love for how they lock the tuning in place, plus I dig the mechanics of it. Always solid, hot, in tune guitar, no matter how hard I flog it. And lots of dings and dents mojo.

Radio Edit:I mean the guitar you grab when you play guitar. So what's your favorite, show em if ya got em.

(I'm including my #2 cause it's too nice not to show. A 1979 Silverburst Les Paul Custom. It was my first real guitar, bought in 1984 for a very nice price. It will always be close to my heart.)View attachment 1098414 View attachment 1098415
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Right to left: '84 MIJ Ibanez Destroyer, '04 MIK Schecter Omen XXX-4, '16 MIA Spector Forte 4
The guitar to the far right is my first electric guitar, a 1984 Ibanez Destroyer X-series, MIJ. I brought it back to life just last month, changing it from broken and forgotten to my first grab. After some necessary repairs I installed a Seymour Duncan Nazgul/Sentient pickup set, Graphtech saddles, and a tremolo stop; solving all of it's shortcomings in one fell swoop and now it is a fantastic playing guitar! It is built quite solid and the action is very good. I got it around '94 and it was turquoise with yellow zebra stripes. That of course had to go, so I coated it with flat black spray paint and adorned it with death metal stickers. To this day I do not regret destroying the factory finish, I think it looks wicked like this, and I'm glad I did it when I was a teenager cuz I probably wouldn't have the balls to do it now! ;)
 
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#112
I've got three guitars that fit the bill for this thread. First off is my Brook Tamar acoustic. It was built for me in 1999 and feels and sounds beautiful. European spruce top, English walnut back.
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Then there is my Fylde Gordon Giltrap Signature model... also an amazing guitar! Englemann spruce top, rosewood back.
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But what is most amazing is that I won it back in about 2004. Here is Gordon presenting it to me.
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Finally, here is my Gordon Smith Gypsy II semi solid. Great little guitar! Birch body, flame maple veneer front, mahogany neck.
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#116
Here is my scalloped neck Music Man...the original idea was more from Blackmore and John McLaughlin, and to have less stress on my left hand, which it certainly does.

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#117
BurnOut said:
So you're a fan of the Flying Vee I'm guessing. A little to showy for my taste. But they are beautiful. A friend in high school had the V with the V pickups and the carved top. I could pretend I know the official model name, but to lazy to Google it. You haVe a Very nice collection there.
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Flying V II. Strange guitars but getting quite collectable0

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#118
BurnOut said:
So you're a fan of the Flying Vee I'm guessing. A little to showy for my taste. But they are beautiful. A friend in high school had the V with the V pickups and the carved top. I could pretend I know the official model name, but to lazy to Google it. You haVe a Very nice collection there.
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There's a reason :)

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