Your Ideal Guitar Spec

Greeny · May 15, 2014, 10:24:26 AM

I've realised - after years of playing guitar - that I know exactly what spec I want for my ideal guitar. So, assuming that money is no object

, what are you having?

Oldrottenhead · May 15, 2014, 10:31:33 AM

a nice one.

Greeny · May 15, 2014, 10:34:18 AM

I want (so badly!)...

A Fender Telecaster Deluxe

With two P90 Soapbar pick-ups (cream finish)

A maple neck

An aged cream pearl pickguard

And a green-burst body finish like this...

Yeah... that'll do it.

henwrench · May 15, 2014, 10:42:40 AM

OK, same here....I lie in bed at night dreaming about this sort of thing...

   I'll start with my 'ideal' bass...

   Fender Jazz shape body and neck with a pink paint job that would also extend to the oversize headstock and white pick guard. Block markers on the neck. Precision pick up arrangement. Because of the P style P'ups there would be a redundant rotary control which I'd have re-wired to electrocute anyone who moved it. Not like it would kill them or anything...

   henwrench

Flash Harry · May 15, 2014, 04:19:56 PM

Bass - yes. a Jazz with rosewood fretboard, low, fast action. See that's not hard.

Colour? Not really. Black or white will do.

I'd love an American Strat. Black, or white. Maple fretboard. Humbucker, Single Humbucker with a Floyd Rose.

Yep.

Geir · May 15, 2014, 04:40:47 PM

I'd like a custom made Tele, with a lipstick pickup at the neck and a split coil enabled bucker at the bridge. A Floyd rose tremolo. Maple neck, jumbo frets. White.

na_th_an · May 20, 2014, 02:24:14 AM

A worn out fender jaguar or fender Bass VI, sunburst. Rusty pickups with a grainy tone.

I won't be able to get one EVER :lol:

Johnny Robbo · May 20, 2014, 03:38:57 AM

OK... here's my dream machine:

Basically, a strat with...

22 (medium/jumbo) fret 12" radius neck & rosewood fingerboard
Pearloid fret markers
Grover machine heads
2 tone sunburst ash body
"Hard-tail" strat style bridge
1 x P90 (neck position)
1 x Seymour Duncan '59 (bridge position)
Both pickups wired out-of-phase for that "Peter Green" sound in the middle position
Tortoiseshell pickguard
Telecaster style volume control (no tone control - never used one in 30-odd years of playing)
Treble bleed cap on volume control (so the sound doesn't get all muddy when I back the volume off to clean the sound up)

Give me that guitar, strung with a set of D'Addario 11s & I'd be a happy chappy!

Greeny · May 20, 2014, 03:52:13 AM

Quote from: Johnny Robbo on May 20, 2014, 03:38:57 AMGive me that guitar, strung with a set of D'Addario 11s & I'd be a happy chappy!

Nice spec! Would be happy with that myself!

Agree about Tone Controls... I never use them either. In fact, I just have everything on max all the time, and get variations by pickup selection and controlling the volume at the input / recording source.