Your Dream Guitar Collection (Electric)

Currently I only have the Les Paul, and the Strat (albeit a Squier... my first guitar though and it actually has a damn nice action and I love playing it). Hopefully I will gradually acquire more and more of the list (financial situations allowing...).

With this collection, there is a lot of variance in tonal and playing qualities (which I guess stems from all the different tones and feels I like to haer/play and feel are suited to particular songs), and some of this is only from hearing things... I haven't actually had my hands on everything from that list...I guess i just want a bit of everything : )

Then again... if money was no object, I'd probably have most of the guitars in the world...

I love Danny dearly, but I might actually trade him for: 1) a blue flower telecaster. Oh, they're so PRETTY. And the Telecaster does that "piece of wood" garagerock sound so perfectly. Or 2) pre-CBS Jazzmaster with the lovely floating tremolo, but then again, who wouldn't? It is the Winona Ryder of guitars, innit?

The only things I would really like to have is a Gibson with some humbuckers, perhaps something more off kilter like a 70s Explorer or Flying V, except without the heavy metal adornments, a nice electric twelve string (perhaps a Jaguar more than Ric), and either an Alembic 5 string bass with all the knobs (like Entwistle played) or one of those funky Hamer 8 string basses, that Tom Peterssen of Cheap Trick and the guy from Kings X use.

I played one of those 8 string basses quite a few years ago and thought it sounded really cool, but I was dead broke with no way to even consider getting one. It would work real well in a trio setup to beef up the sound.

Oh yeah...one of these days I would like to get a decent acoustic.

I love the Washburn ABT basses, the force 4 or the T24 Taurus would be an awfully nice addition to the collection. I'd like a real p-bass instead of the lotus, preferably the black and emerald green one that Rachel Goswell plays, it is beautiful. Otherwise, I don't have any real guitar desires.

Anyway, my dream guitar collection...

1 Jerry Jones electric sitar
1 cheesy-ass double-neck Gibson SG ala Jimmy Page
1 old, old Fender Tele (my uncle has a 60s model that is THE TOPS)
1 Parker Nite-fly (I know how stupid they look, but GOD THEY'RE SWEET)
1 guitorgan (a guitar with an organ-module built in; its got drawbars)
1 South African Oil-Tin Guitar (they sound SO cool!)
7 cheap-ass Squire Strats in different open tunings
and a partridge in a pair tree

a hollow body telecaster style baritone composed of the bones of
a dead god (quetzlcoatl or ibis), with headstock made from the cross of the crucifiction (spear of longinus?). humbuckler pickups.

a solid gold double-guitar, diamonds and jagged pieces of glass embedded throughout, slicing
the player's hands if solos attempted.

all i want to do now is get MORE jaguars. then maul them all with new bits and modifications in unique ways. hurrah.

so anyway, the complete list:

fender jaguar, candy apple red, inc. headstock w/seymour duncan pickups
fender telecaster, electric blue metallicy colour (dunno the real name)
epiphone les paul, sunburst (which i HAD to get, cos it has TIGER STRIPES)
epiphone sheraton thingy, very dark earthy colours (mudburst?)
epiphone SG, black (left handed)

i would have one of these PRSs. so pretty
http://www.musicpark.com.au/Graphics/Guitar/PRS%20050204/PRS-3B.jpghttp://www.synergyguitars.com/images/Nik-Huber-Guitars.jpg

and yerrrr
http://www.beatwater.com/RICKENBACKER%20

plus new tuners and bridge for my P-Bass special so it stays in tune for more than 2 songs.

stardust acoustic/electric flamed maple
venus
daisy artist
heartbreaker bass
retro h double neck

Other brands:

rickenbacker 381-12
kawai moonsault
one of those yamahas that looks kind of like a melted mosrite
gibson sg
ricky 4080 bass (i think its 4080 - the hollowbody four string he played before he joined spinal scream)
hofner violin bass
fender jaguar.

that's probably enough!?

Mosrite 12-string
Fender Bass VI

A Les Paul would be nice, to see if I could get the authentic Marc Bolan sound.

http://www.misterrecords.com/neptune/images/instruments_04.jpg

how heavy is that thing? It looks like it would take 2 people to lift it!

http://www.bransoncourier.com/articlephotos/article_415_Doug_web_playing__the_Mufftar.jpg

I would like the bass version of this for super heavy kraut jamming (
PHASER + ONE OF THOSE DELAYS THAT YOU CAN PROGRAM DIFFERENT PATTERNS OVERLAPPING)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Daisy-Rock-Heartbreaker-Bass_W0QQitemZ7356041233QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-OLD-NORMA-STRAT-GUITAR-MIJ-60S-70S_W0QQitemZ7355971558QQcategoryZ2384QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm not sure what the fuck the guy was thinking when he listed strat in the item description, but still so fucking awesome.

I'd love to gotten this very guitar as it has the best flametop I have ever seen in person.

I want one of these

http://i16.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/9b/ea/36cd_12.JPG

oh thats nice

i want this:

http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/GTRs/airline-Map/images/gtr_Blk-airMap.jpg

actually who am i kidding, i want every guitar/bass eastwood makes.

http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/GTRs/hummingbird/images/gtr_Indigo-hummingbird.jpg
http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/GTRs/saturn63/images/gtr_Blk-saturn63.jpg
http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/Other/sidejack-baritoneDLX/images/ot_Blue-sidejackBariDLX2.jpg

ok fine i could settle for just those 4

If I won the lotto, Gretsch would be gettin a good chunk of my money.

Tho honestly I'd probably just frankenstein a bunch of my own.

I'd love to own a Rickenbacker, not even really for significant playing purposes. I'd just like one. Occasionally I think about playing them for a while at stores, but there is something about asking them to get down a Rickenbacker that seems a bit touchy.

do eastwood guitars play well? are they well-made $400-$500 guitars?

i am a huge fan, have been really impressed w/the samples ive played (ive been trying to get them into my store for about a year now but lol economy) to be fair, there is kind a quality jump at the over $500 mark because production (generally) shifts to korean production vs. chinese, but its obv that they are working with one of the high-grade chinese factories (oh and believe me there is a massive difference from one to the next).

also the fact that they tend not to use cookie cutter of the rack hardware helps tremendously, many a decent guitar has been brought to its knees via a dir-cheap tunamatic bridge.

i've dreamed about a gibson firebird non-reverse for a long, long time. doesn't get much cooler in my book. they usually go for silly money though and considering how little i play at the moment it's not gonna happen in a while.

I think we all obviously need one of these:

http://www.specimenproducts.com/instru/pac.html

eastwood has a chinese non-reverse firebird that could be just the ticket

http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/GTRs/stormbird/images/gtr_SunB-stormbird.jpg; class="noborder">

fixing ur image 4 u

http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/GTRs/stormbird/images/gtr_SunB-stormbird.jpg

most of the eastwoods are a little too flashy for me but that last one is pretty great

that's pretty nice (the price sure is) but i'm not too keen on the headstock

Headstock is always the least of my concerns.

http://www.martybellfinishing.com/sitebuilder/images/dragon_guitar_003-416x335.jpg

http://www.guitarsite.com/news/images/guitar/espsword1.jpg

kinda want this vintage gretsch just because of how bizarro it is:

http://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/gretsch-tk-300-natural-vintage-used/i-75295/

(click on the pic to see it bigger)

man, talk about a hockey-stick headstock. that is terrific -- it looks like a Mosrite!

btw, while you're there, will you pick me up the $11,000 Rickenbacker? I'll pay you back later, swear

that store is nuts, and is also one of the most attractive (as in the space) guitar stores i have ever been in. i go in there all the time and play all their ridiculous guitars and then buy some picks or a guitar cable or something. i bought my last guitar there (the epiphone dot) and i think it was literally the cheapest guitar they had in the entire store.

http://www.hendrixguitars.com/Images/Mosrite%20Joe%20Maphis.JPG

http://www.gbase.com/files/store_images/gear/1743014/p1_up54nv1z5_so.jpg

1 pls

Still want the Mosrite I posted upthread.

Actually for practical reasons, I want a '72 Fender Telecaster Thinline (don't own anything with humbuckers)

There needs to be a spin-off thread about amps though.

This Bunker Duo-lectar (and also the skill, knowhow and freak spider fingers to play it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAstqXR4QTc

http://www.edroman.com/home/images/DaveBunker5.jpg

(xp) If I was being interviewed by that guy I'd be all "stop touching my bloody guitar!"

http://www.ccdb.gea.nom.br/023_contrabaixo_raul-erasmo.jpg

the fuck i can't have this bass fuck you you fuck fuck you!

i wish i could read Portuguese

one day if i ever have an income i will buy one of those old harmony archtop jazz boxes with those big murky metal-covered p-13s. + if there are any magical wish-granting cosmic deity types listening i would like to instantly play like tal farlow upon purchasing, ok thx

always wanted a lucite Ampeg Dan Armstrong (a la Keef ca. Let It Bleed/Altamont or Greg Ginn)

I'm not a gear fetishist. I only have a Martin acoustic right now, but I guess I could use an electric at some point. I'd probably pick up a Jazzmaster and a Vox AC30, and some pedals.

my guitar lust just disappeared a couple of years ago, not sure why. i'd still grab a telesonic if one turned up cheap though.

wouldn't get another rick or any vox these days

Huh? Why not Vox? Is it because they're made in Korea now? I'd probably go with a vintage British model of some type.

i wouldn't get a new one full stop, i just think if i was looking for another guitar it would be more full-bodied in sound

Huh? Why not Vox? Is it because they're made in Korea now? I'd probably go with a vintage British model of some type.

The Korg UK-built AC30s from the mid-90s are still pretty undervalued

looking for a japanese cheapo for xmas, preferably audition, i have a jedson, sekova and two audition guitars already, great tone off the bat

yeahhh, is there much info out there as to how specifically companies like audition, kay, teiscio, and so on were related? or am i only thinking that they were cuz dearmond was just licencing out his wares to anybody and whoever? or somethin? always wanted a more concise and detailed history on all the weird and cheap offbrand stuff but there probably wouldn't be, huh.

(i so closely associate dearmond with cla$$y gretsch guitars, and duane eddy, sometimes i forget about the cheapie guitars...oh and the whole weird ry cooder thing...i don't think i get that guy. should i get that guy?)

I can (at least somewhat) lead you through the zone on thus stuff - dearmond pre-fender ownership was pretty much just a pickup manufacturer. I would get more detailed here but I am stuck ilxing on iPhone so I am already getting frustrated. Ask away tho, I am glad to type on this thing as long as I don't also have to come up w/ the questions.

I currently drawing a total blank on audition tho??? Is that an old school thing or more recent?

audition were japanese manufactured, mid-late 60s, and from what i've seen of 'em just look a lot like a lot of the other wonky cheap guitars from the time that would look at home in hound dog taylor's hands. i'm a total blank slate on that stuff though so idk if that's totally broad. i mean i don't even know what questions to ask tbh.

ok so this is sort of leading me out of the fog, at least somewhat, in terms of brandname webbing and why i felt like i was seeing similar models with different brand names, and yah the whole dearmond/rowe industries thing was kind of a slap to own face once i actually, like, thought about it. still sort of confused as to specifics i guess. like for example, what harmony, idk, as an entity were and did exactly. they manufactured stuff for fender? weird?

see idk what questions to ask even, like i'm aware of all these bazillions of brands, but only as isolated points in a void...who the hell were eko...whats up with...see i'm not even gonna get started. my knowledge retention is a tenuous thing anyway and i'm currently plodding through development of the guitar e.g. weird reniasance vihuela de mano and four course etc blah, it's sort of weird thinking about modern guitars tbh.

this book is pretty cool: http://books.google.com/books?id=msEJ8cMqng4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=weird+guitar+stories&source=bl&ots=z7G8A-r2N8&sig=AJuW33Bee9U0cuDhltH7kX2vBzY&hl=en&ei=pMn_TKmJGZ_hnQeL_7DeCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

but i think pretty much out of print

aaggghh why did that happen

i am bad at ilx

http://www.ccdb.gea.nom.br/023_contrabaixo_raul-erasmo.jpg

the fuck i can't have this bass fuck you you fuck fuck you!

i wish i could read Portuguese

― a weird clown in the dark (arby's), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 02:31 (1 week ago)

What on earth is that thing? It's...beautiful. I want one.

Looks like something that would be stashed in the 60's TV series Batcave. Also it's got a separate single coil pickup for each string, mounted at 90 degrees!

man both editions of those guitar stories books are very expensive!! and exactly the sort of thing i'm looking for :(

that bass was built by CCDB of Os Mutantes!

and i want it, really really badly.

and seperate on/on switches for each pickup? but only two knobs? i can't tell what's going on with that lower plate.

Google Translate really mangles Portuguese.
From the picture, it looks like:

• Just below the strings - four slide switches and two knobs. All of the switches seem to be up, so impossible to tell if they're plain on/off or on/off/on allowing for phase reverse. Assuming that the two knobs are vol and tone?
• On the triangular control plate - two Fender Jaguar style thumbwheels? Vol and tone again? Also seems to be a 1/4" jack socket.
• Above the strings - another slide switch, maybe some kind of JM/Jag style rhythm/solo dual circuit?

Actually the four switches can be two way and still allow phase reverse.

giveit
http://www.guyatoneguitars.com/images/koolguitars.com.au/watermarked/1982_GUYATONE_SHarp-five-goldsilver.jpg

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/14427_10151335843784744_636880072_n.jpg

While I don't usually care very much for burst finishes or flame tops, the light blue binding really makes this for me. But in this case, I can sorta imagine a blonde bikini girl slowly drifting across the top on an inflatable raft.

after playing my brother's Fender-scale guitar, I think I want one; it just felt easier to play than my Gibson (nb: I fucking love my Gibson, step off)

GAS begins...

What gauge strings on that Fender? Longer scale length is generally considered "harder," all things being equal. I mean, GAS needs no excuse or apology but if what you're looking for is "easier" then a decent pro setup and/or lighter strings will change things up on your current guitar in a hurry.

lol like I have any clue what gauge strings are on my own guitar, let alone anyone else's

I find that having a longer-scale length is more comfortable, actually.

Like, I feel like I have a little more room to make chords on a longer neck. My fingers would get a little crowded on my old LP.

Totally not arguing that point an it's why I kept "harder" and "easier" in quotes. One player's "stiff" is another's "precise," etc etc

it seemed easier to make barre chords on his guitar, for one thing

That could be down to fretboard width and radius, as well as scale length.

Or action at the nut (har har), which any qualified tech can def improve for you.

Impossible to Web-MD this without knowing exactly which model you played.

well, mine is Gibson Epiphone limited edition Riviera Custom P93

his is an Antigua Fender Telecaster

the Tele:
fretboard radius - 7.25"
scale length - 25.5"
nut width - 1.650"
U shape neck
not specified, but Teles usually ship with 9 gauge strings?

the Epi:
fretboard radius - 12"
scale length - 24.75"
nut width - 1.68"
C shape neck
shipped with 10 gauge strings

The smaller fret radius, slightly narrow neck, and it's U shaped back go a way to explaining why barre chords are a little bit easier on the Tele.

i know what it means but the acronym GAS is the weirdest thing to catch on in internet guitar communities. and the capitalization. all these old men shouting that they don't just have gas they have GAS.

my guess is the combination of radius and nut width. 1/16" in width doesn't sound like much but it makes a big difference in feel.

er i guess more like 1/32" difference in this case but anyway

ok i'll bite, what is GAS

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dc/Gas_pop_cover.png/220px-Gas_pop_cover.png

Gear Acquisition Syndrome

the tendency to focus on buying guitar equipment over actually playing guitar. i hate the term too though.

Excessive GAS takes time away from playing the guitar (synth/drums/camera/etc.), but very mild GAS can help someone to focus in on what they want out of their instrument.

if that instrument is "butt trumpet"

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0332/7621/products/4_8dc9e02e-1f4b-4375-a375-b30bb7321fce_grande.jpg?v=1437502172
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0332/7621/products/3_2f32a36b-213f-4576-b68b-d5981b8b3339_grande.jpg?v=1437502170
http://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/products/fender-mustang-reshaped-psychedelic-finish-1960s-s564

http://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/products/dunable-yeti-worn-black-serial-1613

this is a very very pretty guitar with a terrible headstock logo

if that link dies eventually, I am referring to this guitar (but made out of darker wood): https://dunableguitars.com/?page_id=998

you're not kidding - that logo is a crime

My only electric axe for a while has been a cheapo Johnson solara -- I actually like the way it plays and the tone, but I'm looking to upgrade to something similar but more gigworthy. I was looking at the Guild Bluesbird, which I'm seeing (the more recent ones, not the 70s models) in the $700-1000 range. I'm also seeing DeArmond bluesbird models closer to $500. Is it worth spending more for the Guild? The DeArmond I was looking at happens to have a cool-ass D tailpiece that's a little more distinctive than the guild, fwiw.

People seem to like the DeArmonds (though a little more love for the set-neck versions than the later bolt-on ones.) Latter-day (post-Fender) Guilds (which I assume is the Guild you mean here) are spoken well of, too, but people don’t seem to fall in love with them.

I had a big Jones on for a DeArmond M-77T, just liked the look of them. I had a chance to play an M-75 (earlier model, no Bigsby) and wasn’t 100% taken with it, although it seemed fine for the price.

If you can demo them both, do it! Looks are a huge deal in an instrument, IMO. Nothing to be ashamed of.

I hope I get a chance to play a Guild S-300 sometime... and I hope I don’t like it. Because based on looks alone I’ve been wanting one BAD. In white, pls, with the chrome stock pickups, not those hard-rock DiMarzios.

I'd think some of those Hagstrom reissues might be in your wheelhouse style wise.

I kind of regret not picking up the Paul Westerberg First Act guitar when it was released but maybe I will see it around for like <$50 somewhere. I haven't played in several years so I should sell my guitars but I guess somehow they bring me joy (thx Marie Kondo).

My dream guitar would still be a vintage Gretsch hollowbody (not picky). I still have a rickenbacker330, jazzmaster 62 reissue and this crazy magenta glittertop les paul that my dad got for me when I was 15.

whoops jaguar not jazzmaster.

i still want three electrics although i don't play enough or have enough space to justify them. getting an upgraded japanese jag reissue last year does mean i have one electric that really kicks ass. but i'd still love to get these:

1. a reissue jazzmaster with early specs--sunburst, gold anodized guard, 50s logo.
2. a goldtop les paul with p-90s like the one clay tarver plays with chavez
3. a really resonant tele with a massive maple neck, probably white blonde

I got the jetglo rickenbacker primarily because it was the a color choice for Peter Buck, Carrie Brownstein and Paul Weller. I can't remember why I got a white jaguar. I think maybe because I thought I needed a more elegant color. I got the jaguar over the jazzmaster because short arms. The les paul color is so embarrassing but that guitar is so comfy to play. I also always wanted a Danelectro seafoam guitar but mostly just because of the aesthetics.

At some point I'm going to buy an EGC500. Also I'd like a Moog guitar but I wouldn't spend for it.

I'd really like a Dean Razorback, preferrably with lightning bolts on it, although an explosion would do. But until then, I will get by with my G&L ASAT. Can't fuck with teles, imo. Kinda want something with P90s in it too. I have a G&L Fallout, but I never really got along with the body shape.

As far as basses go, I'm more inclined toward an opposite aesthetic. Interested in trying out an Epiphone Jack Casady or Guild Starfire.

Could put some humbucker-shaped P90s in the imaginary Razorback, I guess.

I have an Epiphone '56 Goldtop reissue with Fralin noise-cancelling P-90s, sounds great.

I bought an unfinished body and neck for a Jazzblaster like Lee Ranaldo but I can't decide what color to have it painted

Olympic white + a fancy pants tortoiseshell guard is a leading option:
https://spitfiretortoiseshellpickguards.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/img_3757.jpg?w=2000&h=1334
but with shiny humbuckers instead of the ivory JM pickups

or charcoal frost, with either fancy tortoiseshell or mint:
https://spitfiretortoiseshellpickguards.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/nick-bock-copy.jpg

Got my dream guitar yesterday. You’ll laugh at how modest a dream it was - I’ve wanted a mid 80s Ibanez Roadstar for years ever since learning that my all time favorite guitar sound, that on Meat Puppets’ Up On The Sun, was not Curt Kirkwood’s characteristic Gibson LP but rather a Roadstar he’d just gotten.

Been in the twin cities for over a week bc my mom is in the hospital and the guitar center in maple grove had a used one for $350 (cream color) and I drove her car out there and played it and loved it and bought it.

It’s not perfect (e string likes to slip off the feet edge a bit) but it’s perfect.

(Note: the other part of the up on the sun gtr recipe per Curt K was one of those Tom Scholz Rockman thingies - do they make some kind of clone of that these days?)

https://reverb.com/item/35773270-japan-casio-fujigen-eg5-1984-grey-guitar-with-a-cassette-player?show_sold=true

https://reverb.com/item/36365364-vintage-travis-bean-tb500-bass-prototype-only-one-ever-made

For $50k you can buy Vincent Gallo's Travis Bean bass

literally a "dream guitar" - last night i dreamed that i found online a vintage blue semihollowbody guitar, but with a headstock that was twice as long as a normal headstock with a hinge in the middle; i.e. the top half of the headstock could fold up. i guess the idea was then you could clip sheet music to this part? for some reason this made the guitar EXTREMELY desirable to me. i don't even read sheet music.

One you can file under cool as he11 but way too much money to ever consider actually purchasing is that Collings Julian Lage signature electric guitar.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mezk2pTbHuNNyEGb8qfGCd-1024-80.jpg.webp