hey guys, i was just wondering...what are all your favourite guitars? you can only name one guitar and you have have to describe it!

have fun!

My favorite strat is my early '92 SRV Signature. She feels great and sounds even better.

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With my current domestic upheaval I'm limited to one guitar and my hat. Everything else is in storage, the customshop, my old faithfull workhorse strat, my tele, the jackson, the esp. All I cant be without is the 57 hotrod.

Seems that some of them guitars have to now go. I never realized how much owning a few guitars was stopping me enjoying one guitar to its fullest.

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Indeed... I stopped buying guitars and only have my favorite electric of all times now, which I'm getting to know intimately:

Warmoth chambered mahogany Strat-style body, finished in hand rubbed Danish oil and beeswax. Warmoth "Clapton" soft-v neck, ebony over flame maple, 6105 frets, abalone dots, tinted satin finish, 10"-16" compound radius, bone nut, Schaller locking tuners with ebony buttons. Gotoh trem bridge with Callaham block. EMG SV (Strat Vintage) pickups, wired for volume/tone/blender, EMG PA2 clean boost set to +3 db (not shown in this pic... it's between the tone and blend knobs now). Black pearl plastics, custom trem bar. I bought the cloisonné yin-yang symbol in San Francisco's Chinatown, and the headstock features a custom decal with a Fender-esque logo based on my signature.

If a Strat and a 335 had a night of illicit love, this is the bastard that came along nine months later. If I can't play it on this guitar, then I need to switch to an acoustic.

I have 14 guitars. My favorite is my red Mustang CIJ. Reason being - whenever I'm trying to learn a new riff, slide, whatever, I like to work it on the shorter neck on the Mustang. For me it's a little easier to learn on. Then when I transfer it to the Strat, Tele or one of the others, it's a pretty easy transfer and it seems to work smoother for me. Plus, the Mustang isn't seen everyday so it gets a little attention when I'm with my buds. Everybody wants to try it.

But it's a favorite over any of the others by only a very small margin. I'll pick up one I haven't messed with for a week or so and it will get it's time on the favorite list.

All in all, my Tele's are my favorite model and my day to day players.

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"You can never have too many Tele's." A quote from my Sweetwater Sales Engineer

Wow! Very nice SlapChop!!

That black pearl guard on mahogany looks very nice. Im so not a fan of that pearlesque look, but that looks really nice. The fender styled personal signature is something i'm considering on this neck i'm building. If you would be so kind sir can you measure from fingerboard edge, round the back of the neck to the other fingerboard edge (i use a material, taylor's tape). At the 1'st and 12th frets. ZZDoc and I have long been comparing V neck measurements on any model we come across, that has a V. Doc had a rosewood V necked masterbuilt that he specified should be the same as a clapton. He found it to be too thick though. I attribute that to the rosewood laminate construction as opposed to a one piece maple construction. That guitar of his is long gone, so any measurements will be very helpfull.

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niki, I'll try to do that soon... what's the hot set up... measuring a string that has been pulled around the neck?

I wasn't sure about the black pearl on mahogany thing either, but my son the art-school wunderkind assured me it would rock, and he was right. Here's a pic of the headstock on the beast. I love the ebony buttons:

52 Fender Telecaster reissue with the thick butterscotch color and road worn

My 1989 Strat plus delux. 2 piece Ash body, blackburst w/ maple neck. Wilkenson nut has been replaced with LSR roller nut. Lace Sensor pups: Gold (n), Silver (m) and Blue (b). Schaller locking tuners. No trem-setter. I bought it that way on 4/24/1999. That is the only guitar where I actually remember the date I got it. I paid $400 for it. It's like a perfect pair of pants. Nothing feels more comfortable or fits me better. I'm pretty sure the people who made it took some of my DNA because I have had many guitars added to my collection and still nothing feels as good. I have a few come close though.

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Live guitars: 2009 LTD Truckster, 1989 Strat Plus, 2001 Am Standard Strat, 1996 MIJ Jaguar, 2007 Gibson Explorer 76 reissue, 1999 Ibanez RG7621, LTD MH-301, LTD FM400, 1999 Jackson Kelly, Mystery Les Paul, Hamer Chaparel, Fender FM 62SCE A/E Mandolin

Hello Bendsnlicks,

Here is my favorite guitar
'62 hotrod. No strings!!!
Taking a bike ride to get
a set or two.

Cheers.

Slap

I love the headstock.... how did you have the decal done? Also am a big yin yang follower...whats holding that onto the guitar? Very nice.

Also addressing the original post, I have many many guitars, and I have special feelings about all of them...but my main go to daily player is an American Deluxe Strat in Montego Black, Gold Pickguard, Maple board.

Love the Zencaster
Noodles

Thanks, j. I made the decal with a kit from a hobby shop, made for ink-jet printers. It worked real well... the logo was done in Adobe Illustrator, based on a scan of my signature.

The cloisonné pin has a straight pin sticking out the back (the kind that's held onto a garment by a friction grip stud). I just marked the location, drilled a super narrow hole into the guitar slightly less deep than the length of the pin, and then dripped a little SuperGlue on the pin and pressed it into the hole until it was flush. It's on for life.

Slap

I started hyperventilating after reading the pin part anticipating that the "drilled a hole" line was to follow. that freaks me out a little, and your a brave man for doing it.

I love the idea ( being a yin yang guy ) but a drill near any of my guitars would require anti anxiety meds.

again...Very nice

Noodles

Well, well!

I knew if Mr SlapChop ever posted a picture it would be something worth looking at - and it is!

We've been hearing for some time about this "Strat-type" guitar: now we have the specs in all their glory! Girlie of me, but I like the black tuner buttons against the fingerboard. And the body grain has a nice restrained air of "studio pro" about it.

Neat!

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To the OP: my fave is my 2005 Am Std. Sienna Sunburst on ash, butter pale maple 'board, S1 switch with a humbucker at the bridge.

Or maybe my fave is my good ol' mod-caster with Silver, Blue and Red Lace Sensors and a VS100 bridge.

Or maybe it's my Fiesta '57 RI.

Or...

Or...

- C