Your best electric guitar

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Had a stock 1966 Strat which was unbelievable. Got stolen about 15 years ago, but I still cry. Hamer Artist Custom stands head and shoulders above most other guitars I've owned. Have a Sadowsky single coil on the way, so I'll let you know about that in a month or two.
 
Gibson

My 73 gibson les paul deluxe is my favorite. However I did once play a custom built Jimmy D'aquisto full size jazz guitar with a ebony tailpiece and pickguard equipped with humbuckers with coil taps. The best guitar I ever held in my hands it's probably worth $ 25,000.00 now. My guitar teacher had it and sold it. (bad move)This puppy would make anything today as far as production models look like a joke
Also the Terry Mcinturf zodiac is incredible he is a luthier here in the Raleigh NC area that recently went national, nowlet me tell ya Terry he is a genius,check out his guitars !!!! Make's a PRS look..... well let's just say Terry has got it down. one last mention my guild mark 4 80's m classical is awesome it's the one I reach for a lot to write songs.
 
20-20 hindsight

I was looking for a high-end guitar. You know..."the guitar". I had the Parker in mind because of its versality and great looks. I played 6 of them and tried 2 PRS's. The Parker sounded like crap in comparison. I've never seen a more cheaply made, overly complexly wired, flat, unresponsive, weak, punchless guitar in my life as the Parker. I played through 3 different amps (Marshall stack, boogie, and line 6 ax212). The PRS was a far better guitar in tonality, sustain, nearly as versatile, rich, punchy sounding instrument...at almost twice the price.

Later I purchased a Kramer Striker 424 at $180. This guitar is almost as good in tone and sustain as the PRS, but the harmonics, speed, and puchiness are far greater on the Striker. At $180, it's one of the best guitars in the world.

Gibson is over priced and pompous. Parker is crap and marketing hype. Strats are too thin-sounding, Tele's are only good for county music. Now that I think of it, Ibanez makes some pretty good guitars.

Anyway, before I offend anyone else (which is not my intent), for a fantastic deal, get a Striker (musicyo.com).
 
20-20 hindsight

I was looking for a high-end guitar. You know..."the guitar". I had the Parker in mind because of its versality and great looks. I played 6 of them and tried 2 PRS's. The Parker sounded like crap in comparison. I've never seen a more cheaply made, overly complexly wired, flat, unresponsive, weak, punchless guitar in my life as the Parker. I played through 3 different amps (Marshall stack, boogie, and line 6 ax212). The PRS was a far better guitar in tonality, sustain, nearly as versatile, rich, punchy sounding instrument...at almost twice the price. :(

Later I purchased a Kramer Striker 424 at $180. This guitar is almost as good in tone and sustain as the PRS, but the harmonics, speed, and puchiness are far greater on the Striker. At $180, it's one of the best guitars in the world.

Gibson is over-priced. Parker is crap and hype. Strats are too "thin" sounding, Tele's are ugly and only good for country music dink-donk. Now that I think of it, Ibanez makes some pretty good guitars...

Anyway, before I offend anyone else (which is not my intent), for a fantastic deal, get a Striker (musicyo.com) with 10 tapped coils (4-neck, 2-mid, 4-bridge) & floyd rose trem. You'll be impressed.
 
I usually won't argue on many things...

But there's NO WAY you can say a Parker sounds like crap!! Really, I would have to think you never really played one then. Or maybe it was the little Nitefly. My Deluxe can be the most ballsy shredding axe to a lovingly sweet piezo acoustic.
If you DID play a Parker, you probably weren't given a proper demo on one. There are only a handful of people nationwide who actually know how to demo a Fly, and salespeople at guitar stores make up 0 of them. The controls and settings on the Fly are very complex and many. But once you get the feel for how it works, you can get any sound you want. Fat humbuckers...fine... tapped lead pickup .... fine .... position 4 on a strat .... fine .... acoustic .... fine. And then you start playing with the stereo sounds it creates.
And while having an extremely light design (I can throw it up in the air and catch it with no worries at all with one hand) the pickups being mounted directly to the body and the wonderful resonance of the materiel means it will sustain all day!
To hear the versatile sounds of the Parker fly, check out Phil Keaggy's "On The Fly", done mostly on the Parker Fly Deluxe.

H2H
 
The coolest guitar I personally owned was a '39 Gibson ES 125,arch top, f-hole with a single pickup.It was my jazz guitar in college.
The coolest guitar I ever held and played belonged to the brother of my brother's girlfriend,Bobby Colemen.Bobby's uncle played with Louis Armstrong and left him his Epiphone Emporer Zephyr.It was a huge blond jazz box with 3 pickups,all the inlay and binding work.
I don't know if any of you are watching the Ken Burns Jazz project now on PBS,but they rightly credit "Pops" with being the single most influential musician of this century.
I got a real thrill from playing his sideman's ax.

Tom
 
Daddio may have a Gibson ES 120T.The 125 was a full size in width.Mine was,with a single non-"floating"pickup.Re Jackson,I was a factory tech for two years 95-97 and saw the decline of a once proud name from custom quality to mass-produced import shit.The entry level Jackson guitars now wholesale out of India for less than $100.Too bad.But the custom shop is still putting out good work if you got the bucks.

Tom
 
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