Money no object-guitar.

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Suppose for a moment you could choose. What guitar would you have (only one-not x or x and x etc). This would be your only guitar, you would not have any other to play on.

What specs/pick-ups/colour etc.
 
Actually....i already own it.

My Parker Fly Deluxe. Black, 2 DiMarzio humb pickers that scream, specially designed parker Piezo bridge and trem.

I have yet to find a sound that this guitar will not create.


H2H
 
Mark Knopfler's $6000 (or is that $8K) Pensa-Suhr.......
Hand's down..........

Bruce
 
Here's a pic, but could I bring myself to play it?




Hell, yeah, its just a freakin' guitar, Stradivari never touched the f-ing thing.


peace.
 

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An Epiphone Casino from 1965. Nothing fancy just a great sounding guitar.
 
These would be for my collection.......

1954 Fender 'Stratocaster' 3-tone Sunburst w/vibrato ($25,000 in mint cond.)
1955 Gretsch 'White Falcon' ($18,000 in mint cond.)
1950 Fender 'Broadcaster' ($18,000 in mint cond.)

Here's the one's I would want for everyday-play.....

Godin 'LGX-SA' w/synth-access
Ibanez 'S-Prestige'
Tom Anderson Guitarworks 'Drop Top'
G & L 'ASAT'
 
A custom shop Fender Strat with a stacked bridge humbucker w/coil tap switch , done up in the coolest of flame or quilted finishes, maybe gold or blueburst. aw man, now I really do want one.
 
Beat this: My brother Jim down in San Diego takes a real surfboard, cuts a srat body out of it, adds all hardware including hand-wrapped pickups&lockers, bolts on a neck and gives it to me. I take it to Carruthers who further modifies it by raising action to about 3/16 inch with one of those ball-bearing nuts and .012 string guage for dedicated slide guitar.

And it floats
 
I think I have mine already aswell, a alder body, neck-through, tunamatic bridge, Jackson KE1T with one pickup, no extras whatsoever. Sustain and tone to last a lifetime.
 
fender custom shop set neck strat, bridge humbucker with push pull pod tone switch to cut out one set of coils.american standard pickups for the other two.11 guage springs
 
Easy.

A 1995 D'Aquisto Centura.

The particular one I have in mind was on display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Dangerous Curves exhibition. It was the last guitar Jimmy completed before his death. I'd consider trading my house for it, but I'd rather stay married.
 
I saw a D'Angelico New Yorker on Antiques Roadshow valued at $100,000.This is a holy grail jazz guitar from America's best luthier;arch top,f-hole,blond with an inlay of the New York skyline on the headstock.I think I could find a spot in my collection for it.

Tom

p.s. treeline,I managed a local music store in the early 80s and Jimmy D'Aquisto had a brief relationship with Fender.I remember demo-ing a salesman's sample.Nice!And it was less than a grand,too.
 
I'd hang on to my stock early eighties Les Paul Deluxe (wine red with those mini-humbuckers), thank you very much.
 
Hey, Tom -

Jimmy had consulting arrangements with a bunch of people. I think it helped with the cash flow; he was pretty sick from time to time and had very little energy for building. But when he did, it was like God paid a little visit, had a cup of tea or something, and left again. Wow.

There's a luthier up here by the name of Roger Borys. D'Aquisto would co-design guitars with Roger and Chip Wilson for a period, I think in the late '80s or early '90s. Just beautiful instruments. Chip is a jazz guy in New Orleans these days. Neat guy. Check out this link.

www.nolalive.com/sounds/archive/chipwilson.html


Anyway, that Centura gives me a little reminder now and then of what is possible...
 
If I had to pick just one it would be my American Custom Strat w/ vintage noiseless.


But then I would miss my Strat modified w/ Centertapped Dimarzio Stack double coils.


And then there was my first love(Don't laugh) Gibson SG Deluxe Firebrand.

But then if I threw more money at this dream........?
Isn't America great?
 
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An absolutely dead-on '56 Les Paul with soapbars(I choose this year because it was the first year with a tune a matic bridge)........or an equally fine '59 'burst with a weight of about 8 lbs.Reissues would be fine.
The pic is Mick Ralph's old 'burst.
 

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