Favorite guitar?

[SweetZombieJesus]

Poll question: Favorite guitar?

For all you axe aficionados out there.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Schecter dual hum Tele clone (Pete Townshend model)

n/t

[sangh0]

Schecter Strat here

I love it. A good friend has the Tele, and I wish I had one of those too.

[zekeson]

2. tools of Satan, heathen

I just loved that one - had to click - it was like a wet paint sign.

[Bluzmann57]

3. Strat

But I am a very amateur player so what do I know? I used to own a Strat, had to sell it because we needed money. Have a Martin now. A gift from my dad, who plays a lot.

[MaineDem]

4. Martin

Any one of them.

[Howardx]

5. gibson sg!

the best

[el_gato]

22. yea, come on! no SG choice?

:wtf:

[SweetZombieJesus]

6. I voted for the Les Paul, because my friend Ryan has an incredibly cool

black and white one that I slobber over everytime he breaks it out.

When I have the money, I'll be getting a Stratocaster, but if I can find a good used Flying V that's not too expensive, I'll buy it, just to annoy my friend Josh.

[FlashHarry]

7. No contest! The Gibson SG!

I detect a slight Fender bias in your poll, SZJ...

[SweetZombieJesus]

11. Gibson just needs better names for its guitars! ;-)

j/k. Chalk it up to ignorance of other Gibson guitars. I'm going all by looks, really. I'm a guitar n00b, you see.

[FlashHarry]

25. True...

Fender does get the marketing award. I've owned a Strat, a Tele, a Les Paul Custom and an SG, and I have to say, the SG had the best combination of playability, tone and ass-kicking looks. (To be fair, I was playing it through an old 100W Marshall...)

[leftofthedial]

8. so many guitars

so little time

[Richardo]

9. Not a guitar player, but what about the National?

[markbark]

17. I always wondered....

were Dobros popularized by folkies/country players who wanted loud without resorting to electric amplification?


--MAB

[markbark]

18. Should have known..

that Google would provide the answer.

Check out http://www.gibson.com/products/dobro/1996/dobrostory.html


Ain't living in the 21st century GRAND? :)


--MAB

[tridim]

10. The Les Paul

is my fave electric, but only good ones with good hardware. I guess that holds true for all electrics. I like Gibson hollow bodies too.

For acoustic, it's Martin all the way. Even the cheap ones are great!

[FlashHarry]

12. I almost bought a D-28...

...but it felt 'cheap'––especially the 'satin' finished neck. So, I bought a Guild JF55 jumbo. It's friggin' beautiful. And it plays and sounds great. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a Martin D-45; I just don't have $4,500 to spare––$2,000 was plenty for me!

[Bake]

52. D-45's are more than that now!

I think they go for between 6 and 7 grand these days. I've got a Martin HD-28 LSV and it is the best acoustic on the planet, except for one single guitar.

I'm a Martin man all the way!

Bake

[ronzo]

13. Can't beat the Les Paul.

Or its spawn, the Paul Reed Smith.

I love my strat, too!!!

[Gato Moteado]

14. gretsch country gentleman.....

....like the one george played.

god bless george. i miss him.

[tridim]

16. I love Gretsch guitars too

forgot to metion that before. I guess I just like hollowbodies in general. The 'twang' can't be beat.

[Fish Eye]

15. Gibson ES 175

Steve Howe Signature ...wish I had it. Stuck with Ibanez Studio Pro.

[Dudley_DUright]

19. I have 3 electric guitars

but my favorite is my Fender strat.

[Hubert Flottz]

20. The finest guitar I ever had in my hands was a Les Paul but,

It was one of the first ones that was shaped like an SG body! There is a picture of the very guitar on the Novo Combo album cover! It almost played itself! The picture of the guitar was taken after an automatic garage door closed on it and broke the body! The repair job was done by Gruhn Guitars and it was like new again afterward! I played it before and after repairs and could find no difference in the action! The guitar looked new after it was fixed! It's still around and I still get to play it often! No other guitar even comes close and the three pickups are mint and awsome with a tube amp!

Best playing 12 string GUILD!

[Brucey]

21. I love my strat, mostly because

it is soooo easy to play.

[frylock]

23. les paul.. with the gold top for me please..

for acoustic, Taylor Guitars hands down. My friend builds em, so just about all of my git playin buddies have one!

[PittPoliSci]

24. Pass my Tele please!

Best damn guitar ever made!

[XNASA]

61. Damn Straight.

I love my Tele. It's by far the most versatile solid body guitar.

You can plug it into any amp, and it still sounds like a Tele.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

26. Gibson Les Paul

For acoustic... any Taylor guitar is excellent.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

27. Love em all for different reasons but a D'agostino flat top or a Gibson

Birdland (rare blonde) will be my next big purchase...love the short scale Jazz guits!

[stlsaxman]

28. Anyone played the Resolectric by National? Great for slide...

The first SG's were called Les Paul Customs, i believe....

[mitchum]

29. Good to see that the Vox Teardrop wasn't on the list...

fucking ugliest guitar of all time (if you don't count those metal boy atrocities of the 80s) Not even Brian Jones could make the Teardrop look good.

Favorite guitar: Gibson Firebird

[Fenris]

30. Well I like my SG

And my Danelectro.

[Emboldened Chimp]

31. What?! No Paul Reed Smith?!

Are you nuts?

I have a Strat, btw.

[ZoCrowes]

39. Good

Overpriced and tacky with the most unplayable neck ever

[mitchum]

40. And they feel like a freaking toy!

[Whitacre D_WI]

32. Personally?

I like old Harmony U.S.A. (not the East Asian cheapies from the past 30 years) archtops. You can't go wrong with a 3-pickup Rocket.

Of course, I'd rather have a Gretsch White Falcon -- but I can afford to collect Harmonies. Maybe I'll buy a White Falcon once I'm on my fat Congressman's salary.

[morningglory]

33. Martin D18 Dreadnought, playing Bluegrass!!!

nt

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

44. Either a D-18 or a SIlvertone...

Can't get much better than the D-18.

[SweetZombieJesus]

34. Oooh, I want a Firebird now

And I still want a Rickenbacker 12 String, since Andy Partridge used one on Oranges & Lemons, and Roger McGuinn of course famously used one.

[bbernardini]

35. Rick Nielsen's 5-neck!

Which you can see here:



There's probably better pictures, but I don't feel like looking for them. :)

[Character Assassin]

36. Straight off the shelf? Carvin. Custom? My frankenstrat....

I own two Carvins. Believe me when I tell you as a pro and semi-pro, off and on since I was 19, there is no better deal out there for higher-end stuff than Carvin.

The first is the H2 in 'greenburst'. I know folks at the company, so I had it made fretless.

The second is the AC275-12, a semi-hollow acoustic 12 string that's blue.

For pure, heavy metal meets punk asshole fun, right from the rack, I've found nothing better than the Fernandes Vertigo Elite, baby.

[BrotherBuzz]

37. Mousgetar

Hey, I was a fifties television kind a guy. Jimmy Dodd wasn't bad but Annette stole the show.



on edit" My Mousgetar is made by " You can tell it's Mattel...it's swell!"

[ZoCrowes]

38. DUDE!!

How could you leave out the greatest guitar ever?! (you KNOW I just had to chime in on this one)



it's causing me to drool at this very moment

[ronzo]

41. I can hear Larry Carlton when I see this photo....

and I'm not baked!

[RetroLounge]

42. My 1979 Les Paul Custom Black Beauty

Chrome hardware. Ebony Fretboard.

Plays sweet when you want to, and screams when you want to.

I even have the symbol from the headstock tatooed on my arm...

[CShine]

43. Gibson Hummingbird. Someday I'll actually be able to afford one.

[Bake]

53. I love the neck on the Hummingbird

Unfortunately, the rest of the guitar sounds like a Gibson. They ought to stick to making electrics; with the exception of some old J-45's and the new Advanced Jumbo, their acoustics bite. Just my opinion. But like I said, I'm a Martin fanatic.

Bake

[CShine]

57. I know where you're coming from, but.................

........I have to disagree with how quickly you dismiss Gibson acoustics. I understand what you mean when you say that they make a lot of high-priced guitars that sound like crap. I have personally played quite a few high-end Gibson acoustics over the years that sound worse than than my run-of-the-mill Yamaha.

That said, there really are a lot of great sounding Gibson acoustics out there. After playing a ton of them over a long period of time, it seems to me that there's a whole lot of individual variation from one Gibson guitar to another. Take two Gibsons of the same model and one can sound fantastic while the other will sound dead. This was once again proven to me when I passed through Nashville a few months ago and stopped in at one of their great old guitar stores. As it happened, there were two Gibson LGO's there from the mid-60's. One of them sounded very good; the other one sounded dead.

From a guitar manufacturing point of view, it seems to me that Martin is FAR more consistent when it comes to producing guitars that regularly have that good, solid Martin sound. With Gibsons, on the other hand, there seems to be an incredibly wide disparity of sound quality from one individual guitar to another. That does not detract from the ones that really sound great. I played a Gibson Hummingbird a few months ago that knocked me out. But I've also played other Hummingbirds that were nowhere near as impressive. When I say I want a Hummingbird, I'm talking about the best ones I've ever played. And there have been more than enough of them for me to know that they regularly produce some knockout acoustic axes.

Bottom line, I will not buy a Gibson acoustic unless I've personally played it first. Where it comes to Martins, I feel like I could order a guitar from the factory and have pretty good confidence in its sound quality, but I would never do that with a Gibson.

But having that point of view does not change my love for the Gibson acoustic sound when they get it right on a particular instrument. It really comes down to what kind of sound you want. If you want an acoustic with a really bright, ringing sound, a well-chosen Gibson is second to none. I've played too many great-sounding Gibson acoustics to discount their quality. But I do acknowledge the great number of high-priced Gibsons out there that really aren't worth squat.

Martins, on the other hand, are ideal for that mellow, full-bodied sound that nobody else on earth has ever matched. I could never argue with their ability to produce a first-rate guitar. But when it comes to great acoustics that have a bright, ringing tone, nothing can touch a well-chosen Gibson when you've had the chance to play it personally BEFORE buying it. Gibson acoustics are well-regarded among professional musicians for a reason. There really are some fantastic sounding ones out there. You just have to be willing to hunt for the right one.

[oustemnow]

45. My 74 SG will do just fine, thanks

though I wouldn't mind getting a decent Strat or Tele to complement it.

[leftofthedial]

46. well my favorite is my 1955 Martin O-15

plays like buttah! I've written a couple hundred hit songs you never heard (yet) on that guitar.

But I love my Tele too. Especially played through my late 60's Bandmaster. A guitar player I work with plays a Tele and makes it talk. He owns or has owned many amazing guitars: Strats, Les Pauls, Hamers, you name it. But his favorite is that Tele.

I also loved a Hamer once. Can't remember the model. I suck on electric though. Decent rhythm player, but for what I do, I pretty much stick to acoustic these days. Two different Takamines I use live. They take a licking and keep on ticking and they sound great. I play all sorts of different venues through all sorts of different sound systems, sometimes solo, sometimes in a duo and sometimes in a band. I'll take my Takamines any day for an acoustic used in an amplified setting. Always get a reliable, consistent, excellent acoustic sound.

Then there is my dysfunctional relationship with my Breedlove. Walnut and cedar. Wide nut. Great fingerpicking guitar. Sounds amazing in the studio. Rich, balance, a little bright like I like it, but with these huge warm, deep lows. I can never get a good live sound out of it though.

Now, my dream is an Olson, but shit, he doesn't even take orders anymore. Should have sucked it up and forked over the 5 grand when I had a chance a few years ago. Oh well. Someday when I'm old(er) and decrepit(er).

Sorry for rambling.

Any other pickers out there?

[rppper]

47. other here.....where are the B.C. Rich's ????

probably the sharpest, evil'est looking brand of 6 string's and bass's on planet earth...jumbo frets, humbucker p/u's....my idea of the perfect guitar anyhow......just look.....




...mmmmmmmm.....lita from my teen days, swinging a sweet double warlock...

[ronzo]

48. That mock sparks a chub.....

I've seen better bodies, tho.....

[midnight armadillo]

49. My fav's not listed

I'm a big fan of G&L instruments, having played an L-2000 bass guitar for years. Their version of Strats &Teles are really nice too. Plus many of their models are still Leo Fender designed!

As for my favorite guitar...a nice high end nylon-stringed classical! Something with a cedar top, or maple back & sides with a spruce top.

[dbt]

50. Gibson Firebird, please

Nevermind yer Johnny Winter models with the big lobe at the "bottom" of the body and yer cutesy banjo headstock. Gimme the one that looks like Gibson's idea of a Strat with the P-90 pickups (the ones that cry when you push 'em too hard.) Plug me into a '66 Fender Band-Master with at least one dicey tube and it's Ladies' Choice at the juke joint!!!

:bounce:
dbt

(Yes, all electric guitars are Tools of Satan. What's your point?)

[Zuni]

51. My favorite guitars

Solidbody--Les Paul Standard (tobacco sunburst finish), Fender Telecaster (with 2 single coil pickups)
Hollowbody---Gibson 335, Telecaster half hollow, Rickenbacker (has a weird tinny sound doesn't always sound right, but sometimes is perfect)
Acoustic--I like Martins, but Ovation Acoustic Electrics are pretty cool

[regnaD kciN]

54. Ramirez 1a...

THE quintessential "Spanish" classical guitar. The guitar of Segovia, Parkening, and too many others to count...myself included. Now, if I only had the time to play as much as I'd want...

[Eat_The_Rich]

55. '59 LP Junior

[BurtWorm]

56. It may not be much to anyone but me

but I love me Ibanez AEF20TRS Transparent Red Sunburst Acoustic/Electric. It was sounding and feeling so delicious last night.

http://www.guitartrader.com/itm_img/AGIBPD+RDAEF20-f.jpg

[Cooley Hurd]

58. Rick 360-6, w/ toasters...

Maple-glo!!!

[mitchum]

59. I've got one of those (black & white)...

sounds as pretty as it looks

[XNASA]

60. Real Men Play Teles.

And none of this wimpy .009 Super Slinky string crap either.

11's. It's the only way to get that tone.