Top 5 electric guitars

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Re: Top 5 electric guitars

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Lawrence wrote:assuming I have to pick factory instruments.....

PRS single cut
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Steinberger M series
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Yes Lawrence, factory instruments. If you had to pick favourites among your custom builds then a whole bunch (13?) of them would be upset. Bit like the favourite child or a songwriter's favourite song. :lol:

to be fair, yours are a lot nicer looking than most factory jobbies.
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Re: Top 5 electric guitars

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Dot 335
Tele (most likely a Suhr T)
Strat (Suhr HSS)

That's about all my bases covered. Out of my current others, I'd keep the Doozy Caribou and probably the ES-137 but could actually live without them. Turns out I don't need an offset (sorry JM Jag) or all-trick pony (sorry Vox Virage)...and the rest are really repeats on the theme...

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Re: Top 5 electric guitars

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Tele (Veritas,Suhr T)
PRS Single Cut
Gibson Les Paul
Strat

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Strat with modified pickup combinations, tone on the bridge pickup
LP type with vintage output HBs
335
Hollow body Gretsch
A single P90 junior type

Now, of course, this kind of selection does open up the 6L6/EL84/EL34/6V6 question of what 3 amps do you need to realise those guitar tones...
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Re: Top 5 electric guitars

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Amp combinations are another thing again. For myself I’ve found the 6V6/6V6 based amps I like with humbuckers leaving the single coil with EL84/ 34s. Of course not always a given but rule of thumb for me.

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Re: Top 5 electric guitars

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Jackson
Charvel
lots if things with a scalloped fretboard
something hardtailed
lots of things with floyds


yeah that about covers it :rofl:
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Molly wrote:Just one great Strat. :-)
You of all people ?!

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Re: Top 5 electric guitars

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Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:
Molly wrote:Just one great Strat. :-)
You of all people ?!
LOL. I know but, coincidentally, I was just watching a Matthew Scott video then a Philip Sayce one and thinking how, as much as it's nice to have other guitars, I could happily get by with one really good Strat. Problem is, I don't think I've found 'the' Strat yet. :-)

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Molly wrote:I was just watching a Matthew Scott video then a Philip Sayce one and thinking how, as much as it's nice to have other guitars, I could happily get by with one really good Strat. Problem is, I don't think I've found 'the' Strat yet. :-)
Yeah I hear you. Sayce got lucky, he's had his couple of guitars for many many years and you don't often see him playing much else. Occasionally he'll swap the neck on on one of them, but I think even the reasoning for him doing that was with all of the traveling he was doing and the CITES restrictions (think it was when he put a maple neck on his 'Mother' Strat).

Talking of that guitar, this would be nice :clap:

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https://www.mclguitars.com/guitars/phil ... ce-mother/


Interestingly, Philip's Strat doesn't actually have a left handed trem.

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Re: Top 5 electric guitars

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Cheers, Jim. Not much original left of that one, eh?

I've got a Strat in my head. I should just get it built.

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Molly wrote:I've got a Strat in my head. I should just get it built.
Am thinking the same, just stumbled on that McLoughlin site and must admit I do like the build quality

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Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:
Molly wrote:I've got a Strat in my head. I should just get it built.
Am thinking the same, just stumbled on that McLoughlin site and must admit I do like the build quality
Ooooo... Will have to look for that.

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Re: Top 5 electric guitars

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SSS strat
SSH strat
HH strat
SS tele
HS tele

that will do the job

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Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...

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Re: Top 5 electric guitars

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sizzlingbadger wrote:This would be in my top 5

https://reverb.com/nz/item/5764752-soro ... il-goldtop

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not sure if you're a fan but i believe Joey Landreth plays that Les Paul and absolutely kills :thumbup:

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