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Post subject: Best punk-ish guitar?
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:56 pm
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Okay, I've been having guitar option problems lately. I'm a pretty diverse guitarist (Note: I didn't say SKILLED, I said DIVERSE :lol:) but I'm mainly in punk rock-ish stuff. I was thinking about getting a Mustang or a Jaguar but I knew they had terrible sustain, and the last thing I have is money for a pedal to add some sustain. I've also had my eyes on certain Strats and Les Pauls and SGs and others, and i thought I'd go to a guitar community to ask. I would've gone to the SamAsh/Guitar Center strip mall area, but it's too far away from here.

Thanks for any and all help everyone.

EDIT: To help out, some other styles I play are doom/alternative/sludge/heavy metal, alternative rock, psychedelia, folk, hard rock, blues, jazz fusion, rock and roll, grunge (real grunge, not Nevermind and Ten fake grunge), hardcore/skate/ska/garage punk rock, ska/reggae, garage/indie rock, avant-garde/experimental, funky stuff, et cetera.

Some bands I would consider my/my band's style to would be NIRVANA, the Beatles, Mudhoney, Blue Cheer, The Offspring, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Melvins, the Foo Fighters, the Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, earlier Metallica, Megadeth, 1993/1994-and on Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, STP, David Bowie, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Cream, et cetera.


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I have a strat and a sg they are both amazing on any type of music including punk. The sg also has alot of sustain so does th strat. I suggest going to a store and checking each one out its really upto what you think about the guitar not our desision all we can do is give tou ideas


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I have a Classic Player Jazzmaster Special that sounds so good in punk mode that I named her Sheena (after the Ramones song "Sheena is a Punk Rocker"). 8)

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You've got a dilema with what looks punk and what sounds good. That adds up to a very expensive guitar. Check out Warmoth. They have a lot of body shapes you can probably use with your strat parts. The only way to get good sustain is with alder or ash. Maple would be the best but then you can't lift it. They have a routed body blank you can cut into whatever dagger like shape you want and works with strat parts.


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I d say a les paul kind of guitar .....


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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:28 pm
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i would have to say a strat or maybe even a tele. i think both would be good fopr punk.


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You can get away with just about any guitar... A Les Paul Junior or similar with a P-90 is a popular choice, but so is a carved-top Les Paul with humbuckers, or an SG.

I suppose it depends on what feels good. A lot of the punk sound is from your amp.


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You've got a dilema with what looks punk and what sounds good. That adds up to a very expensive guitar. Check out Warmoth. They have a lot of body shapes you can probably use with your strat parts. The only way to get good sustain is with alder or ash. Maple would be the best but then you can't lift it. They have a routed body blank you can cut into whatever dagger like shape you want and works with strat parts.


I don't care how it looks, really. As long as it plays good, then I'll buy it. Looks are an afterthought.


But thank you to everyone who actually took some of their time to post, it's helping.


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Get a mosrite johnny ramone model. The ultimate punk guitar.

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I use my Strat, and it works perfectly. A HSS strat or a Tele, would be a good place to start. The Telecaster is, after all, one of the most diverse axes out there.

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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:17 am
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wilburcook wrote:
i would have to say a strat or maybe even a tele. i think both would be good fopr punk.

The Tele was good enough for Joe Strummer, a very versitile guitar imho.


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strat or tele...


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A Telecaster! enough said
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:09 pm
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CheezerRox wrote:
Okay, I've been having guitar option problems lately. I'm a pretty diverse guitarist (Note: I didn't say SKILLED, I said DIVERSE :lol:) but I'm mainly in punk rock-ish stuff. I was thinking about getting a Mustang or a Jaguar but I knew they had terrible sustain, and the last thing I have is money for a pedal to add some sustain. I've also had my eyes on certain Strats and Les Pauls and SGs and others, and i thought I'd go to a guitar community to ask. I would've gone to the SamAsh/Guitar Center strip mall area, but it's too far away from here.

Thanks for any and all help everyone.
What punk are you playing that a mustang, or a jag don't sustain long enough?

not a mean spirit question, but back in my days playing punk, sustain wasn't really a concern. and even in new pseudo punk I hear(pop punk is very different from what we called punk rock,) I don't really hear anything that needs killer sustain. if we had an idea of what kind of tones you want, we could maybe help you better.

FWIW when we played punk, i used my Ibanez, which was a super-strat heavy metal kind of guitar, but you really couldn't beat it's snarl.Pun rock has never really required anything even near top level guitars. Don't get me wrong you see Tele's and LP's and such, but I think a loud dirty amp screams punk, more than any one kind of guitar.

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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:52 pm
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What punk are you playing that a mustang, or a jag don't sustain long enough?

not a mean spirit question, but back in my days playing punk, sustain wasn't really a concern. and even in new pseudo punk I hear(pop punk is very different from what we called punk rock,) I don't really hear anything that needs killer sustain. if we had an idea of what kind of tones you want, we could maybe help you better.

FWIW when we played punk, i used my Ibanez, which was a super-strat heavy metal kind of guitar, but you really couldn't beat it's snarl.Pun rock has never really required anything even near top level guitars. Don't get me wrong you see Tele's and LP's and such, but I think a loud dirty amp screams punk, more than any one kind of guitar.


Well, it's not that they don't have enough sustain for the kind of PUNK I wanna play, it's just that punk isn't the only thing I play. I just edited my first post to include more ideas of what I play. Punk rock is just what I play the most, but not by TOO too much.

And thank, you're post was very helpful. :)


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