Your best electric guitar

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Hey. What's the best damn electric guitar you've ever owned? What was so great about it? Maybe it was really inexpensive but it turned out to be a real screamer. I wanna know what you've got to say.
 
I LOVE my American Deluxe Strat and my Guild semi.....
Both of 'em - tone and playability up the ying-yang!

;)

Bruce
 
I've got a beat up ol' 1963 ES125 thin body with cut away that I traded a jap strat for even swap. Somebody way before my time reset the neck. Ive had a fret jod done, dressed the finger board and a custom bridge put on to make this guitar play like a dream. It's got a bigsby and two, yes two original P-90's. The cherry sunburst has faded to the coolest yellow/orange/red. This guitar has been well played by the previous owners as well as myself. Belt buckle scatches, dings, chips, wear makes on the neck and crackled clear coat give it the REAL VINTAGE look and you can tell that this guitar has spent most of it's life in juke joints and honky tonks. This is a working man's guitar and I would never sell or trade this one. Great feel, great tone, great look, and I rate this guitar a "10" -- with honky tonk scars and all.........
 
Parker Nitefly. It can scream. It can cry. It can bleed.
It can be a Strat. It can be an acoustic. It can be a
Les Paul. I dumped over 10 guitars and kept the Fly and
an old beat-up Guild Bluesbird.
Rock On!
 
My 1975 Gibson L6-S is killer. Beautiful, flexible sounds, woonderful neck and it stays in tune like all get out. Some days I really dig my late-eighties Fender "1962" Vintage Strat too, but I have a special place in my heart for the L6-S.
 
well.....

Probably my '93 American Standard Strat for the single coil/Clapton tone and my Yamaha FJ5000 neck-through body, dual humbuckers with coil tap for ripping of the Page tone....
Acoustic? My Ovation Celebrity Elite
 
Older is Better

I've had this old Gibson Firebird for about 10 years. This was the first neck-thru-body guitar in production. The tone is very thick, fat and dark. Add a little vibrato, a good amp and it will sustain for days! After the new frets (jumbos) last year it plays lighter and faster than any of the new shredder guitars.
 
My fav so far is my '99 Am. Std. Fender strat. Right now it has Kinman pickups but shortly it will have Bill Lawrence 280's. Soon I hope to get a 60's Classic Fender strat, and I plan on putting the Kinman's in it. It may possibly be my fav when it's all said and done.
 
Bluesman, Why would you pay big $$$$$$ for a vintage Stratocaster and change the pickups???!!!??!!!????! The reason for owning a vintage Strat is for the tone and sound of the aged single coils..........
 
Daddy-O, well I got a good deal on the strat but I didnt like the DeltaTone pickups that came with it. The Kinman's gave it an even more vintage sound but the pickups didnt align with my string spacing so I had to choose between putting a new bridge in it or get pickups that do align with the spacing. The Kinman's are perfect for getting that aged single coil tone, thats why I want to keep them to use in another strat (I wish they would work with the strat they are in now though.) But who knows, maybe when I get the 60's Classic strat I'll love the pickups that come with it. In that case, I guess I'll sell the Kinman's.
 
A '70 Gibson Les Paul DeLuxe goldtop. Oh yeah, that's one of the "bad" Gibsons: volute, pancake body, crappy quality... go suck a rock. This is worth 2 or 3 "vintage" (i.e., expensive second hand) flametops in tone, playability and -- to second somebody above -- honkytonk vibe. Ever wonder why those pristine vintage guitars stayed so pretty? Because nobody liked the way they sounded. Somebody loved Mr DeLuxe a lot.
John
 
My '72 Fender Telecaster. By far the best action and intonation of ANY guitar I own. I can play a 4 hour gig, swing my way out of a bar fight with it and it's still in tune. What a machine.
 
I haven't owned any good guitars at all. Ha!
But that red Ibanez semi was darn goodlooking! I shouldn't have sold it, I have a big apartment with loads of walls to hang pretty guitars on!
 
Now was this best guitar ever played, or owned? Unfortunately not one in the same, I'm afraid, but I gotta eat sometime. Had a '69 Les Paul Custom posture destroyer, which played and sounded pretty cool though. Traded it for an Amer Std strat in '87 which has been my main guitar since then. Now it has EMG SA-81 p/u's, ebony board on maple (neck #3- who needs refrets?), sperzel lock-keys, graph tech goodies and its totally beat to crap, but it still gets more use than my other electrics. Those being a Hamer FM Special(which by the way slaps the beejeezus out of most of the Gibsons I've tried at less than 1/3 the price) and a mid seventies (75 or 6) Ibanez Destroyer, the lawsuit guitar, that satiated some teenage Explorer lust. Oh, and I'm forgetting a couple of Japanese Fender and spare part tele-strats that are riding the bench right now in serious need of work, but played pretty good back in the day. And the Fernandes Nomad practice guitar from the wifeage. Sadly the best guitars I've ever played belong to friends who won't take my spleen in exchange...C'mon, that P-90 equipped vintage SG can't be worth as much as this vital organ... and no you can't have my wife for the Ovation Deacon, as cool as it looks.
 
Ive owned alot

I have had a les paul, Ibanez Jem, Hamer Standard, Fender tele. But Have a Am standard strat and a Squire Jagmaster.
and Cant decide crazy huh?
I love the weight of the am strat, but I love humbucker tone and the jag/mas has that.
So I love em both and wouldnt trade em.
 
My best acoustic? My first guitar -- an early '60s Ventura V75 jumbo with ghastly action that I bought in '71 for $35. I found a new Ventura hard case for $35 (are Venturas still being made? -- I've owned 4 over the years). Sometime in the '80s I decided I needed an acoustic so I took it to a local guitar maker who reset the neck, replaced the plywood top (with braces like floor joists!) with triple-A bearclaw spruce and a Guild-style bridge. I use it in G tuning for songs like 'Runnin on Faith' and it sounds like a piano. I had the luthier leave the original Ventura label inside to annoy the purists. this last summer I installed gotoh tuners so I now have a total investment approaching $400 for a killer bottleneck guitar.
John
 
I have been playing and buying guitars since 1967 and my best's have been an early 60's Epiphone Casino that I stripped and stained to match Lennons and the guitar that I play now , a white Jem Jr. Also a Hirade 1983 model 5 classical .
 
My wife and kids have ordered an Epiphone Les Paul Custom for me for Christmas. This is HUGE considering that I haven't picked up a guitar in 10 years (I am a keyboard player). I have been inspired by the numerous threads I've read and the awesome MP3's you guys have posted for the past year.
 
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