YOUR best guitar?

[AlfredB]

ok, no daydreaming ... what's YOUR best guitar?

mine:

Gretsch spectra sonic (designed by TV-Jones w/ his PUPs)

sweet lil sukka!!!

[mjareo]

Probably the best guitar I have is my Epiphone classical. My 2nd best I unfortunately got rid of before I realized what I was doing. It was an Alvarez acoustic that had the warmest, sweetest tone. Got rid of it when getting a new acoustic with a better pickup and cutaway body - if I knew then what I know now about guitars, I never would have sold it.

oh well....hindsight, and all that.

[mikeh]

My best axe is a Fender MIA 1957 reissue (classi 2 color sunburst). Great axe, but I have to wrk to get the sounds I need.

My favorite is a Yamaha RGS TT (purple) - light, great feel and I can get sounds out of it very easy.

[Richard Monroe]

Taylor 710CE with the Fishman stereo blender. No question.-Richie

[sile2001]

That would be my '04 Taylor 614ce with ES hands down.

[rxQueen]

my ESP LTD SC500

[gibsonguy09]

1967 Gibson ES 125TDC hollowbody electric. Sunburst

[gibsonguy09]

Everything original

[Hard2Hear]

acoustic - 2002 Taylor 615CE
electric - 1973 SG Standard


H2H

[DaveO]

Don't have many, but out of two acoustics, an electric, and two basses it would have to be my Lakland 55-02.

EDIT - I forgot I changed my avatar to be the Lakland a few months ago. That's it.

[Doc Holiday]

1978 Les Paul Custom, black with gold hardware, 3 pickups. The finish is worn off the back of the neck from years of playing. It has survived a car wreck and 2 ex-wives!

[tdukex]

1995 Webber OM with rosewood back/sides and cedar top.

http://www.webberguitars.com/roseomc.html

[tdukex]

Originally Posted by Doc Holiday

1978 Les Paul Custom, black with gold hardware, 3 pickups. The finish is worn off the back of the neck from years of playing. It has survived a car wreck and 2 ex-wives!

At least you have your priorities straight!

[Track Rat]

Electric; my 71 Telecaster
Acoustic; that's a hard one to call. It's a toss up between the 74 Martin D-41 and the Taylor GA-XXV.

[IronFlippy]

Originally Posted by Doc Holiday

1978 Les Paul Custom, black with gold hardware, 3 pickups. The finish is worn off the back of the neck from years of playing. It has survived a car wreck and 2 ex-wives!

My uncle's axes weren't so lucky through the divorce process =/

[lbanks]

Alembic Essence 5ver.

[punkin]

Ernie Ball Music Man John Petrucci model with piezo pups in Mystic Dream finish...use it for everything from jazz to metal.

[astoebe]

I love my Taylor 414mace.......is very bright, and I like bright

i'd like to add I have a 1956 Fender Bassman Dual Rectifier (i know.....not a guitar, but I'm a proud papa and I just got it)

[Purge]

Ibanez ltd. ed. S series 7420 7 string. They make the only guitars that I really like playing (flame away, vintage hounds!) and I keep going back to them. Obviously, I'll have to include a link to this post when I attempt to hit them up for an endorsement deal at some point. They seem to have downgraded their pickups over the years, though...

[5150 Musician]

1990 Gibson Les Paul Standard, yum.

[geet73]

Ibanez RG570. It's pretty customized. It's got a stained finish, white pickguard, the input is on top, and it's got a new neck. I just put some Grover locking tuners on it so I don't have to use that locking nut.

It works. I'm probably going to put some new pickups in it in the future.

[HogansHiro]

Recently bought a Washnburn Millennium acoustic. They only made 300 in 2000. Plays like a dream but it looks like liberace designed it with all the damn abilone and gold hardware.

[noodles2k5]

ebony Epiphone Les Paul Standard with a complete Gibson hardware swap (everything except the wood!)

Not fancy, but I'm proud of it. Bought it myself with a teenager's budget and after customizing, it still cost less than a Gibson.

[gitrguy87]

Silver Schecter C-1 with Seymour Duncan JB humbuckers.

[punkin]

Originally Posted by Purge

Ibanez ltd. ed. S series 7420 7 string. They make the only guitars that I really like playing (flame away, vintage hounds!) and I keep going back to them. Obviously, I'll have to include a link to this post when I attempt to hit them up for an endorsement deal at some point. They seem to have downgraded their pickups over the years, though...

Won't hear me flamin' ya...I agree the 570's are a nice guitar. I've heard some say that they were strictly a shredder axe. But over the years, I've picked up a few and modded them. If you use light strings, I find that you really have to play with a light touch or you'll play out of tune. The stock pups in them are sort of hot and brash sounding (the V7 and V8 hummers). Change them out and you've got a nice, super smooth playing guitar.

For what it's worth (another invitation for flaming I guess), the RG320's are a nice and cheap platform for guitar modders as well. The Wiz II neck is a lot of fun to play on too. They're cheap and you can throw you're own "custom" hardware at it without breaking the bank.