Your best electric guitar

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Peavey T-60 , all around guitar with every sound from BB King to 90s metal. Very well made and heavy with a tone similar to a Gibson LP. I know what you mean about sustain 64 Firebird. I play a 64 Thunderbird bass with badass bridge and Seymore Duncans , I play a chord and it sounds almost as good as my Taurus pedals.
 
I am in love with my Ibanez S-470. It's a beauty. I have replaced the neck with a custom made one piece (Ibanez has a shitty 2 piece deal). I left in the stock pickups, but I am considering putting an EMG in the bridge for more crunch on occasion. The neck pickup is so warm, and the single coil has an almost "glassy" tone. Added to the fact that the thing is ultra-light and is like an inch thick I love it. A close second came from a shitty Les Paul made by Sierra or some no-name company I bought a year or so ago off E-Bay. That thing plays like a dream (who knows why, I paid like $120 for it) and sounds pretty damn good to boot.
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My beautiful Paul Reed Smith. It has the greatist tone to it. Even running it though the crappyist amp it still sounds great. I would have picked up a Parker cause I like stuff with lots of plugs but they are inconsiderate enough to not make them for left-handed players.
 
In 1990, A friend of mine picked up a new Malmsteen Strat - cream color body, scalloped maple neck with the small headstock. Installed a Duncan hot rails in the bridge slot, kept the stock Dimarzio HS-2 (or HS-3, I don't recall anymore) in the other two slots, and then took it to Roger Sadowsky to have some fine-tuning done. In '93, my friend needed cash in a bad way and had to sell off nearly all his gear, including the Strat. I bought it for a song (no pun intended). We were pretty tight, and I knew how much he loved it, so I told him that if he ever wanted it back, I'd let him have it for the same price he gave it to me for.

Fast forward to winter, 1999. I've now had the Strat for six years, played literally hundreds of gigs with it as my main axe, know it inside and out, and am head-over-heels in love with it. So, guess who calls and wants his guitar back? Six years later. He still didn't have any money, but he offered me a '73 Super Lead in trade. Well, a deal is a deal, so I packed up the Strat and shipped it back to NJ. Saddest f*ng day I've had in a long time. That guitar was perfect.

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My Yamaha strat copy. They're making some real nice ones now, wish I had the money to sell mine and buy a new one.

Also, the ESP LTD series are killer and below $750... If I had money... oh man.....
 
favs........

My '59 flametop that I sold 22 years ago......sigh.Current fav is a'57 that has been '59ized.It's actually a better guitar than the '59 was.These guitars have tone to the bone,and I'm not saying that because they are old,but because they are good!I got the Vintage-or-die bug out of my system,although I still collect.I have a strat made in Japan from '88 that is the best strat I've ever had.I have
an Alvarez Yairi DY-74 from 1977 that is a wonderful guitar.
I wish all the others played like it.Feel and tone don't care what year they are attached to!
 
well........Not actually owned, but i borrowed it whilst my friend was in the states. The Gretch BST was undoubtedly the best guitar i have ever played. It kinda looked crappy and worn, but was easy to play and was unbelievably comfortable!!!
 
Well, as with some who've written before me, my heart goes out to the 55 Les Paul Goldtop I sold a few years back. All original, P-90's, one of the first LP's with a tune-o-matic bridge. Bought it in '82 for $300 (serious). Had a crack behind the headstock that needed repaired. After taking it to a local repairman (like an idiot) who messed up the repair, I had Dan Erlewine redo the neck...set me back another $700 for repair-refinish-refret, but Gawd was it a masterpeice! That man is a genius! I sold it because I never played it out live, scared of a theft and it crippled my shoulder after 4 sets. Now I regret it. Some guy from Phoenix got a helluva deal on that baby!
But my all time favorite player is my 77 Ibanez Destroyer
(lawsuit model, of course). Greatest neck in the world for my small hands. Bought it new and will never sell it, puts to shame any Gibson Explorer I've ever played.
 
I have a HM Strat from about 1989 that I love. The neck was left unfinished and is amazing.

I wish they'd bring these guitars back.

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When I quit music 10 years ago, the only guitar I kept out of the 14 I owned was a 1985 Jackson Soloist Custom. It was made from a single piece of wood back in the days Jackson guitars were made by about 30 guys working out of a shed in San Dimas, CA. No bolt on here and 2 full octaves fully accessible. The guy who made it made the neck thin which helped my fingers get around better than those Louisville Slugger necks some people deal with. The serial number is J00508. The 508th one ever made. Back in those days Jackson didn't make pickups, Floyd Rose units, or even tuning pegs. I made the mistake of taking the Seymour Duncan JB out of it and replacing it with an EMG-81. It sounds a lot better but now isn't worth as much. But, since I'll never sell it, functionality is all that matters. The thing is set up so nice that it almost plays itself. My friends have spent years trying to find a guitar that plays like mine and have yet to come up with one.

Now that I'm playing again, I'm sticking with Jacksons.
 
Best damn electric I've never owned was a custom thingy called a Robin. Favorite one I did was an SG from 1977.
 
My favorite, would have to be the only one I own, an Alvarez strat copy. I used to own a real strat, but sold it for some stupid reason, probably because I didn't play well.

Now that I'm older, I don't allow myself to spend that much money. I'm not too sure a real strat would sound better than the Alvarez anyway. I think a lot of the sound of an electric is the way it's set up.
 
Probably my 85 Westone, with my Kramer(yes,I said KRAMER) neck thru a very close second. Odd thing is they both stay in their cases the majority of time because I know I can't replace them if anything were to happen to either.
 
drstawl said:
Best damn electric I've never owned was a custom thingy called a Robin. Favorite one I did was an SG from 1977.
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Hey doc had me one of them Robin guitars at one time it was a Ranger series. REAL NICE TONE!!Played sweet too.
 
My G&L Comanche! This is the most versatile guitar I've ever owned. Master vol, bass, treble knobs and incredible pickup switching. You can get any type of pickup combinations possible, and the Z-coil pickups just scream and are super quiet.
 
well my favourite would have to be my only, although i am embarassed to own it. I bought it at garage sale, it *was* an old SG fake made by a company called "kay". however i was forced to replace the neck due to severe warping, then i had to replace the pick guard after an unfortunate collision with a chair(which also destroyed the pickups), and the final insult came right before i was ready to smash the guitar to bits:mt friend found a bass with a broken neck in a garbage can, so we took it apart, found that the electrical was all fine, and yes, put the bass pickups in my SG. This guitar is the biggest piece of shit i have ever seen, but it sounds decent, and it is all i have.
 
'99 Am. Std. still my # 1

Well, I got that 60's Classic strat its a Lake Placid blue with aged parts and I put those Kinman pickups in it. And I now have Bill Lawrence 280's in my Midnight Wine (or burgundy or whatever it is) Am. Std. strat. Even though the Lawrences are muddier sounding, there is just something about that Am. Std. that keeps it my # 1.
 
I have a '69 black Les Paul Custom with the 'fretless wonder' neck. The bridge pieces are made of bone. The action is so light that it takes a while to get used to if I haven't played it in a while. I played this thing for years all over the south. It weighs a ton. I now play a '99 Les Paul DC Standard Limited Edition. It's much lighter and has a graet growling tone. And my '73 Les Paul Deluxe with the mini humbuckers is a really great sounding and playing guitar.
 
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