"My #1 guitar is a hand-built Telecaster made from a 160-year-old piece of worm-eaten chestnut taken from a friends house during a renovation. It has rosewood fingerboard, maple neck, cocobolo binding, and Jason Lollar pickups (mini-humbucker and reproduction Supro lapsteel). What makes this my favorite is the clean look and warm tone from the Lollars. - Shane Kramer"
"My main guitar is one that I built myself. It's an early-'80s Tokai AST '56 Strat body and the trem block that came with it. I replaced everything else. It has solid steel saddles, a Warmoth neck with ""extras"" (24 jumbo stainless steel frets, compound radius, graphite nut), and Sperzel locking tuners. The electronics consist of a very old Duncan JB4 in the bridge and a Duncan Seymourized Mini-Humbucker in the neck with a plain DiMarzio chrome cover. The one volume and one tone control are push/pull switches for series/parallel on each pickup. And the pickups are wired out of phase when selected together (so that's 8 different pickup options in all). Also, the volume control has a ""treble bleed"" capacitor/resistor on it so that when I roll it down a bit, it still retains some high end definition. And I have a capacitor on the tone control to roll off only some of the highs -- most tone controls roll off too much and get muddy. I have mine set so that all the way down on ""0"" I can get a ""half cocked"" wah type of sound -- very Michael Schenker -- and this way, the controls are actually very responsive and useful all the way around. I've had too many guitars with virtually useless tone and volume controls. Recently, I added a washer under the bridge to help stabilize the tremolo (it is set to only go down). All around, itуs an amazing guitar with tons of sustain, a very bright and articulate attack, and I can get so many different tones out of it that it just blows my mind. - Joe Hart"
"My 1965 SG Standard is one of the best guitars that I've played in 43+ years of playing. It's lightweight, plays great, and sounds fantastic with the patent sticker pickups. I've owned many guitars and this one brings a smile to my face every time that I play it."
"My go-to guitar is my G&L Comanche. It is Leo Fender's creation of a ""super strat."" It has a Swamp Ash body, birdseye maple neck/fretboard, honeyburst finished quilt top, oil tinted neck and fretboard. The Z-coil pickups are very hot in that I have to turn the volume down a bit so it will sound like a Strat. However, I love to turn it up all the way as it has a beautiful powerful tone. It also has a mini-toggle switch to put the neck and bridge pickups in series or parallel. This guitar will create any Strat tone and much more. It also has a 12"" radius neck which makes it a pleasure to play. - Rob Gonzalez"
My number one is my 2006 FSR Fender Tex-Mex Strat because it's so unique (only 250 made for Guitar Center) and it sounds incredible with every style I use it for. I A/B'ed it with an Fender SRV Strat and this guitar was bolder and just sounded more inspirational. - Logan Ash
"The guitar covers all ground, and I haven't found a situation where it doesn't ""fit"". It's the most versatile guitar I've ever played and it sounds amazing in any setting. - Andy Baerg"
My number one guitar is my Collings I-35 Deluxe made with caramel flame finish. The body is mahogany with a carved maple top. The neck is mahogany with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard. The photos were taken by Fat Sound Guitars right before it was shipped to me.
"This is my vintage handmade 1973 Hagstrom Swede number 133 of the 250 made that year. On top of its solid mahogany body and neck, ebony fretboard, brass bridge and nut, I modified it to perfection with vintage Gibson pickups and electronics. This guitar plays like a dream and it's the only guitar I use. I have another modified monster as backup but with specs like this how could it not be my #1 guitar? - Mike ""AcidGuitarKing"" Wingate"
"The X-2000 is the final version of the discontinued Guild Nightbird. It features a solid mahogany body with tone chambers, bound figured maple top, mahogany neck, 22-frets, Tune-o-matic bridge/stop tailpiece, gold hardware, dual humbuckers, volume/tone control, 3-position switch plus single-coil tap. The pickups in mine have been replaced with a set of Tom Holmes Humbuckers. I've never had it repaired or set-up by anyone who hasn't raised an eyebrow and asked a few questions. The best of both worlds, the Guild X-2000 Nightbird easily rivals even the best Les Paul's for chunky rock goodness and can strike a twangy chord just as well as most Teles, thanks to the sound chambers and the single-coil tap. In my band, State to State, I am using a 16-pedal daisy-chained pedalboard, which can potentially suck up a lot of tone and minimize the attack. Thanks to the Tom Holmes pickups and my trusty Guild, I can still cut through the mix and get the exact tone that I want. And this guitar has sustain for days... - Andrew Orvis"
My #1 guitar is a 1956 Telecaster that was restored from its hacked humbuckered version. I've owned this guitar since 1970. You can see how it looked in 1970 before restoration by Andy Brauer. - Phillip W. Dennis
Brian Kinney
"Blondy is a 1991 Samick factory Korean-made Epiphone Sheraton II. She features Grover Imperial tuners, (not pictured) custom truss rod cover and pickguard, gold pickup mounting rings, gold bridge and tailpiece, gold dome knobs. All new electronics, with treble bleed mod, Sprague capacitors, gold Dunlop Straplocks, and Kent Armstrong hot P-90 humbucker-size pickups. Blondy has been with me since she was new. She spent her first five or six years on a stand in my living room. She's not whole without my Epiphone Valve Jr., Exeter. Exeter was modified by me, and thanks to Dirk Wacker, in part, and is about three years old. Together these are what I play every day. Blondy came together after I had tried several different pickups. Exeter also was remodified several times until I hit the spot Blondy asked for. - Patrick Coleman"
"The attached photographs are of my main guitar, a custom-made instrument that I designed and named the BB-9 (as in рBe Benignс). One of the design inspirations was the Nuno Bettencourt Signature N-2 (inexpensive model), but with every material, dimension, and piece of hardware chosen by me. My guitar was built by Massachusetts luthier Jim Mouradian in 1991-2. The overarching design principle was that the new guitar would be a Gibson blues guitar at heart (24 3/4с scale) in a no-holds-barred rock configuration (read state-of-the-art whammy, locking tuners, a flat fingerboard with big frets, and powerful pickups). I drew up the design (attached), outlined the design specifications, and assembled all of the pieces and parts. The neck combines the characteristics of my three favorite guitars (ES-335, Explorer, Steinberger GL-2T) and was manufactured by Hosono Guitars in California. The body is koa, which, with the short scale, maintains a percussive attack with a very warm overall tone. The pickups are an EMG 81 (bridge) and dual-mode EMG 89 (neck) with an EMG onboard gain preamp and active tone circuit for variable, simultaneous high/low boost and mid-range attenuation. While the guitar was designed for the humbuckers the single coil with EQ boost creates an absolutely beautiful rhythm sound. It features a Kahler Spyder with auto-latch, Sperzel locking tuners and graphite nut for a flawless full-on vibrato system. Jim Mouradian constructed the BB9 over a four-day period in December 1991 (finishing touches in Spring 1992). Having played the completed instrument for almost 20 years, it is still my main guitar and still plays splendidly. The guitar has a wide variety of tones with excellent attack, and it is perfectly matched to my Super Reverb. In addition to excellent lead tones, I also wanted a very detailed clean tone, a characteristic normally associated with the higher string tension of long scale instruments. However the hard Koa body of the BB9 dramatically improves the clean sound of the short scale: with a single coil in the neck position and a bit of EQ, the BB9 sounds almost рelectro-acousticс, a great tone! The BB9 is a truly versatile instrument, covering the sonic spectrum from almost acoustic-quality clean tones to scorching high gain, humbucking tones. - Charles Smith"
"This guitar is our favorite rocking guitar. It is an American-made Kramer Pacer. It was special ordered in 1986 from Sam Ash in New York. This guitar has been hot-rodded with special Seymour Duncan pickups--neck is Quarter Pound with tap and staggered poles, middle is Quarter Pound flat poles and the bridge is a super great sounding SH-4 JB humbucker with coil switch. All pickup combos are possible and feature a custom capacitor for improved tone shaping qualities. The bridge is a true Floyd Rose with all its capabilities. The guitar was special ordered with beautiful red metal-flake finish. The maple neck is a duplicate of the Eddie Van Halen specification banana headstock--12"" radius and super jumbo frets. This guitar is a testament to a true American guitar company that out-rocked the big companies during the the 1980s. - Connie and Marco Mendoza"
"This is my custom Blaze Kahuna handmade in Hawaii by Buddy Blaze. This guitar has a sapele body, flame maple neck, 24-5/8"" scale, ebony fretboard, Floyd Rose trem, Seymour Duncan Custom in the bridge and a Little '59 in the neck. This is my ""go to"" guitar because it was my first Blaze and it was made for me. It just feels right, sounds great, and plays like a dream. Blaze guitars just work for me and my style. I have other custom Blaze guitars and they are just as great, but this was my first and you always remember your first."
"I recently purchased this rare Gibson Les Paul Custom in sparkle finish with the rare рStingerс on the back of the headstock. Itуs a 2007 Custom Shop model and is my new favorite. The guitar weights just shy of 11 lbs. The pictures do not do this one justice, in person it looks absolutely amazing. - Justin Pfeiffer"
"My #1 guitar is a 2002 Gibson Les Paul Standard. It has a Gibson 498T in the bridge position and a Gibson Burstbucker V in the neck postion. I have upgraded the electronics with CTS pots and Hovland MusiCaps. The aluminum tailpiece is by Gotoh. This guitar has been my #1 since it was new. It is so easy to play and has a big, warm sound with presence and without being shrill. I always play my best when I play this guitar. "
"Brownie is one of my two custom-made guitars that cover all of my different needs as a musician. It's named Brownie because it was paid for with brownies baked by my wife. It was built and assembled by Nicolas Volpe in Caracas, Venezuela in 1999. The body is two-piece mahogany, shaped after a '65 Strat. The neck is a Warmoth solid rosewood compound radius bolt-on. It has an original Floyd Rose bridge and Sperzel locking tuners. The pickups are a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge, Quarter Pound in the middle and Hot Rails in the neck; all are directly attached to the body for maximum resonance. The controls are Tone and Volume, along with three DPDT switches which put the humbuckers in parallel or series and the single-coil in or out of phase. The finish is Tung Oil and beeswax. This guitar was made to my specifications after many years of fighting gear that was ""cool"" but always had something I wish it didn't or was missing something. I also needed a tremolo guitar. It shreds if I want to and has sustain like crazy thanks to the wonderfully thick rosewood neck. It also has a very round, clean sound when I need it - Kaos Axiom"
"This Paul Reed Smith Hollowbody Spruce guitar has more miles on it than most marathon runner's feet and it is by far my favorite guitar that I have ever owned or even had the pleasure of playing. It suits my playing style perfectly as it can do anything from crystal-clear sounding high gain all the way down the spectrum to great acoustic sounds via the onboard piezo system. My band Element plays covers from Metallica, O.A.R., Foo Fighters, Kid Rock, White Stripes, U2, Kings of Leon, Radiohead, etc., and I can't imagine ever owning a better #1 guitar. Plus, since I never, ever plan on selling it I put a Hawaiian state flag and a sweet tiki sticker on it as well to always remind me of my favorite place on Earth and also make this Hollowbody Spruce truly one of a kind. - Jay Bennett"
"I guess you could say this is my #1 guitar because it's always the one I grab when going over to our drummer's garage. I've put a Seymour Duncan Phat Cat P-90 in the neck and a Seymour Duncan Invader in the bridge. I also added a Bigsby B5 with a Vibramate plate. Not knowing from week to week what we're going to play, this guitar can do pretty much anything. From Metallica to Black Sabbath, and from Clutch to Neil Young, I can always find the tone I'm looking for. The two pickups actually compliment each other pretty well when played together. - Bill Dodds"
"This custom built guitar features a butterscotch Fender HotRod 52 Tele body, Warmoth Pro neck, Joe Barden compensated bridge, and Gotoh locking vintage tuners. The pickups are Fender American 52 Reissue neck and bridge pickup, with a modified and hidden Fender American '57 Reissue middle pickup. The electronics are a prototype Turnstyle switch (Strat, Tele, Tele Thinline Wide-Range humbuckers, P-90, PAF, Dot 332 PAF, Casino P-90 and Rickenbacker 330 tones). It also features built-in compressor and boost, a 5-way pickup selector switch, Volume and Tone. - Michael Franklin"
"My #1 guitar is a Frankencaster built in the '70s. The neck is a '64 with lots of Mojo, the body is from Mighty Mite when they first got started, and the electronics are a combination of the '64 Strat and Mighty Mite. It's wired Bakersfield-style with the center position for the bridge pickup and the fourth position a combination of bridge and neck. The guitar just ooooozes soul! - James, The Deadlies"
"This 2004 Gibson CS-356 is one of a limited run of about 40 that were made in honeyburst with a slim '60s neck for Wildwood Guitars in CO. She is all stock except I put speed knobs on her to match my Les Paul Custom. I got the guitar off of eBay by pure luck (and without the prior knowledge of my wife). So when it came, I named it after her with a custom inlay truss rod cover. That way, if she complained about me spending money then I could always say ""But honey, I could never sell YOU!"" She liked that I had done that (it was the first time I'd named one of my guitars) and so any problems were avoided. However, since then, she told me that she really liked my acoustic the best so it has been named ""Barb"" and the CS-356 was renamed ""Audrey"" after my late grandmother. This guitar is my #1 and has the perfect blend of features in my opinion, with a Les Paul-sized body (but a little lighter, it weighs 7 lbs 4.2 oz) and similar tones. The Classic 57 pickups give me everything from a Les Paul's growl and bite to a ES-335's ""woody"" tones, and I can even make it sound like a Tele if I play near the bridge on the front pickup and set my amp just right! A lot of other guitars may come and go in my collection but ""Audrey"" will always be my ""keeper # 1""! - Mike McQuain"
Aaron Sawyer
"This is my altered Strat, and it is one of my favorites, mostly because I made all the alterations to it myself. The neck was purchased off of Ebay (hence the black headstock), and the body was carved down on the back to make it a bit lighter, then I redid the finish. I rarely use the trem so I took the bar off of it. Originally I added three '57 reissue pickups, but I was not really happy with the sound and the sustain was not what I wanted, so I bought a blank pickguard and some PAF humbuckers, routed out the channel and rewired the 5-position switch for phase in/phase out combos of upper and lower pickups. The middle position is both pickups. This gave me the sound(s) I was looking for and it plays so well. The action at the 13th fret is about one penny. - Doc Martin"
"I work at Rumble Seat Music in Ithaca, New York and we travel to quite a few guitar shows. I put this guitar together from some parts that I purchased online and at the Fall Philly Guitar Show in 2008. I features a Kramer Sustainer Body, a Kramer Elliot Easton Neck, an Original Floyd Rose Tremolo, and a Schaller pickup. I bring the guitar on the road with me and I always try to add one sticker each trip we make! The guitar turned out to be exactly what I wanted and it has been my #1 guitar since. - Chuck Riley"
A beautifully crafted-Indonesian made clone of the American-made Axis. Fit & finish is top notch. Great intonation & tone. Great sounding axe. - Jeff Harper
"My number one guitar is a Strat with a scalloped neck. I play a lot of Indian music and do sitar-type bending. Also, the best feature is the custom-painted pick guard painted by Treza Bettencourt (Nuno Bettencourt's sister). Finally, its a Strat, my favorite model guitar. - Steve Booke"
"This is a hollow-body telecaster that I built about two years ago. The top, back and sides are 1/16"" aluminum, at the neck is a 3/4"" block welded in. It has two 1/8"" rails that run from the neck down to the tail. Where the strings go in is a 3"" heavy channel and the bridge is bolted down to it. It has one Seymour Duncan Hot Rail, with a mini toggle that separates the rails for single-coil or humbucker. The guitar has a Squier Strat neck which plan to change to an American Strat neck. The guitar is well-balanced and light, with crystal clear tones for clean playing and really ignites when playing metal-type music. When I first built it, I said if it doesn't sound good I will hang it on my wall. After plugging it in I couldn't believe my ears. So, it has become my favorite ax! - Russ St. George"
"This is my Hamer. I am very fortunate to have several beautiful guitars, but this one with a 25"" scale, chambered body and Brazilian rosewood fingerboard just has that ""thing."" The 25"" scale gives it the snap of a Fender, while the humbuckers and Brazilian board add the Les Paul mojo. The humbuckers have coil taps, so they become crisp and clear taking on the single coil realm! I play blues, funk and country and my Hamer lets me do it all! - Jeff Williams"
"This guitar is George of GeorgeBoard's personal guitar he built. The bookmatched body face is 12-star figured walnut. The headstock is 5 star figured walnut. The neck and fretboard are peruvian walnut. The bridge and nut are also walnut, unknown. The pickup is burled walnut. He calls it his walnut chocolate lovers delight. All body parts are bonded to 3A honduran mahogany with 5A honduran back plate. The back is nicer looking than most people have on the front. There is triple ivoroid edge banding. Fretboard dots are golden pearl. It is coated with super deep clear lacquer with micron finish. This is the best of only four ever made, two sets of identical twins. - PJ Piburn (George's wife)"
"After acquiring the previous guitar (""Brownie"") I needed a fixed bridge guitar with a classic tone, so I built Paula. The body is American black walnut, shaped to be a mix between a Les Paul and Tele. The top is black poplar root. It has a bolt-on solid wenge neck with Indian rosewood fingerboard that's 1"" deep (bigger than a boatneck, more like a baseball bat) and has a 12"" radius. It has strings-through the body, Nashville Tune-o-Matic bridge and 3x3 standard Gotoh tuners. The pickups are Kent Armstrong-designed Chinese-made P-90s. It was one volume and one rotary selector control. This guitar took me almost a year to finish working one Saturday per month in a friend's shop. I've started building one more guitar now - once bitten with the building bug, you just can't stop. - Kaos Axiom"
"This guitar covers most bases, single & humbucker. It has custom truss rod cover. - T Acomb"
"The semi-hollowbody body is crafted of mahogany, with a fully chambered interior, and highly figured walnut top, vertical grain maple neck with 1 15/16"" nut width, bound osage orange fretboard with green abalone dot inlay, 22 jumbo frets and Bartolini ""soapbar"" humbucking pickup with volume and tone. It allows me to play bass and guitar at the same time. - Bob Burnett"
"This guitar has been my #1 since 1980. It features a 3-piece mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard with block Mother of Pearl markers, original nut, Schaller tuners (non-original), original stock pickups converted to mono, maple top, back & sides with original finish, and stock 6-position Vari-tone switch. Originally it came with a tremolo bar, but it was removed for better playability when I acquired it. This guitar simply flies. It's an amazing sounding guitar that gets you where you need to be 99.9% of the time. Versatility, to say the last. It has a very fast neck, that's a tad on the small side for some, but since I have average-sized hands, this works like a charm."
"This is my Laguna Greg Howe model guitar. I love this guitar because of its incredible versatility. It's sleek and fast, and most importantly, sounds amazing. It's got a DiMarzio humbucker custom made for Greg in the bridge position, called a GH5. The neck position has a single-coil sized DiMarzio Breed humbucker. The body is Louisiana swamp ash with a flame maple top. The bridge is a Schaller-style Floyd Rose which stays in tune extremely well. It's bsolutely amazing that this guitar sells for only $1000. - Louis Gauttier"
"I built this guitar myself over a couple of years. It has a solid cherry top (slightly carved), solid sapele mahogany back that has been hollowed out (centerblock only contacts the top in the bridge area), and 5-piece mahogany neck with rosewood board. The finish is nitro lacquer on top and Tung Oil on the back. It also has a graphite nut, cream binding, two Seymour Duncan Phat Cat P-90s, a Gotoh 510 bridge, and Grover locking tuners. I used custom treble bleed volume and no-load tone circuits to brighten the tone as you roll back the volume, giving more shimmery single-coil tones with the volume cut. - Mark Hopkins"
"I made my #1 guitar. It has an ash body with a rosewood fretboard. Lindy Fralin pickups help her sing when she wants to and scream when she has to! Chocolate tint on the body, honey tint on the neck, with a light dose of nitrocellulose lacquer to let her breathe. I put a white binding around it to accent the brown and aged all the hardware and tried to give it a ""lived-in"" feel. Kinda like your favorite pair of jeans. I am an aggressive strummer, and one my least favorite things about a Tele is the bruises it gives me when I strike the strings, so I shaved off a little contour (Strat-style) to allow my forearm time to heal. I had the BORN TO WORSHIP sticker made. Something special happens when I strap on a guitar and play. I think the guy from Chariots of Fire said it best: ""I feel God's pleasure when I (play guitar)."" - Tim Woosley"
"I'd like you to meet my 1983 Electra X935CS Pro Endorser. This guitar is more like my best friend. No really, I've spent more countless hours with it than most people I know. It's my favorite (I have 12) because, firstly, look at it, it's just beautiful! It has never let me down, it stays in tune no matter what I do to it. It was not my first, but it was the first one that I really became attached to. It was the only electric guitar that I played on stage during my ten years with a working band. I don't play out anymore, but I do play often, and my Electra is always there. - Pete Palmeri"
"Known as ""Lily,с the рKingsleyD Signature Modelс and the рArtinger Retro Sport.с The guitar was built by Matt Artinger, a wunderkind custom builder from Emmaus, Pennsylvania. Iуd been playing Mattуs prototype Hollow Sport model with my trio (instrumental jazz/pop/rock) as well as one of his single-cutaway hollowbodies, both of which have humbuckers and a trapeze tailpiece. For some of the tunes I was writing I started hearing a Bigsby and single-coil pickups. I started talking to Matt and the idea for this guitar took shape: start with the Hollow Sport platform, add a Bigsby, a pair of P-90s (in this case a vintage pair along with a vintage wiring harness), an ebony fretboard with a 25.5-inch scale length, and a transparent green finish over a flame maple top. The back and sides are mahogany with a рwarm naturalс finish. The underlying idea was to take an ES-330/Casino (personal references: Grant Green and the Beatles) and Gretschify it some, hence the green color, logo, and inlays. (logo and inlays courtesy of my designer friend and fellow gearhead, Tom Kesel) When building a guitar from scratch with a custom builder, even one as talented and consistent as Matt, neither the builder nor the player knows whatуs going to come out at the end. Happily for all, in this case it was a guitar that from the beginning had an amazing sense of life and vibe. At my gigs, invariably I get comments about the guitar from people who wouldnуt ordinarily notice the difference between one guitar and another. For me it absolutely nailed the sound and look I had envisioned. And hey, it has my signature on the headstock!!! Thatуs why itуs my Number One. - Kingsley Durant"
This is my Gibson SG Standard Vinyl Pickguard. I chose a waltz record for the pickguard because I love 3/4 time. - Eike Hagen
"My #1 guitar is a Wasson guitar, Serial #1. I built it myself, by hand, from scratch, starting from chunks of select mahogany and quartersawn hard curly maple. I didn't even know how to play guitar when I built #1.I learned how to play on it and it is still my #1 guitar four years later. I have gone on to build custom hand made electric guitars for great musicians, including Felicia Collins of the CBS Orchestra, Late Show with David Letterman. But #1 will always be my #1 because it has soul and holds a special place in my heart. It features a solid mahogany body with red transparent laquer, solid hard flame maple 25.5"" scale neck with satin finish and graphite nut, 22 stainless steel frets, and ebony fretboard with Abalone dots. The pickups are a Seymour Duncan Jazz and JB with a 5-way switch, and the hardware is a Hipshot hardtail bridge and Sperzel locking tuners. - Kevin Wasson "
"My #1 guitar is from the Vox Custom Shop in Marin County, CA. It was built by Bob McDonald, ex-head engineer for Modulus Graphite. It was on display at the Vox booth at the 2010 Winter NAMM show. This guitar is a custom one-off variation on Vox's current production model SDC-55. The body and neck are Spanish cedar, with an ebony fingerboard. The headstock is overlaid with a custom cut piece of ebony, shaped to resemble the treadle of a Vox wha pedal. The pickups are Vox's new proprietary noiseless design called CoAxe. There is a master switch to select single or dual coil modes, and a 5 way strat-style blade switch to select amongst the 3 pickups. This gives the guitar 10 distinct pickup combinations, all noise and hum free. This is the only Vox guitar in existence with 3 CoAxe pickups. The guitar's finish is silver sparkle with white binding. The guitar was shipped in a custom semi-hard case, finished with leather that looks like crocodile skin. I own several fine guitars, but this one is my #1 because it has unsurpassed playability, and I can get any tone I want via the simple and elegant switching system. It is a unique and beautiful guitar. have named a few of my most special guitars; this one I named Sylvia. - Rick Greenly "
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