Dream guitar

What is your dream guitar? Mine will have to be either a Epiphone Casino or a Gibson Les Paul Gold Top

'59 es345 mono, preferably in natural

A Fender American Vintage '65 Jazzmaster. Of course, it's a dream. The closest I can get is the 60's Jazzmaster which I plan on saving up for. However, if I could find a good relic Jazzmaster in three-colour sunburst... that would be it for me.

check out mjt guitars

You know me well...

Either way, Fender does their own relic job on the 60's JM, which is pretty nice. Let's see if they can do this to a good Jazzmaster.

I would love me a '65 Mustang or Jaguar. Damn I need more money!!

I remember helping the singer from my band pick herself a mustang, she wanted a strat but her hands were just too small.... that guitar is nice as hell, but when we were trying all the short scales I found I couldn't play them that well, especially some rhythm stuff, because my hands are too big.... and I have skinny fingers, but they are long and anything less than Gibson scale is confining. I am not sure how tall guys like me who play jags and stangs carry it off. 24" scale is SOOOO small!

Haha, I'm 6'4 and can play them so easily compared to a strat but a les paul is where I'm most comfortable. Just the balance and scale is perfect for me, could be because my first guitar was a les paul? I love mustangs and jaguars though, my favourites guitars as far as how they look and sound goes but play ability wise a les paul tends to win for me! Are Les Pauls compound radius? 10''-16'' or something? can't remember! but I don't really care about all that to tell you the truth, if it sits nice in my hand and feels perfect to me I'm happy! I tend to care more about how the frets feel and their size than fretboard radius

24 & 3/4" feels good for both lead and rhythm, I mostly write on my Gibons and Gibsonish guitars.... though every rhythm and certain lead/one-line playing is fun on a strat and tele, the 25 & 1/2" scale makes you go for the wound strings which are twangy and bold in a way that only a big neck with high tension delivers. changes my phrasing! on a Gibson I play in strict position, but give me a fender and I hear a huge difference between notes fretted on D and G, so I will change hand position a lot more to capture the right timbrality to express myself. Same notes, but its so different.

I am not quite 6' tall, so your comfort level on 24" scale is all about build. I think Boom is the onlyguy on here with my enormous finger length who posts regularly. We have the same length fingers (we measured on another thread), but Boom is a bassist. I am a tiny, scrawny, willowy little guy.... with GIANT, elfin fingers.

I love mustangs and jaguars though, my favourites guitars as far as how they look and sound goes but play ability wise a les paul tends to win for me! Are Les Pauls compound radius? 10''-16'' or something? can't remember! but I don't really care about all that to tell you the truth, if it sits nice in my hand and feels perfect to me I'm happy! I tend to care more about how the frets feel and their size than fretboard radius

no, Gibson and epi LPs are a 12" radius if I recall, or is it 14"? I forget... compound radius guitars are rare... I actually do not like compound because I set my guitars up with medium action on the wound strings and high on the plain strings to facilitate the huge bends my mutant hands are capable of on an unwound string (the high action keeps the bends super precise and clean, on YOUR guitar I will probably have to reign it in to avoid fretting out past a whole step, though I may break or at least DAMAGE your instrument through vicious strength and a tendency to bend thinner neck profiles creating neck vibrato and doing multi-note 1/2 step dives by fighting the truss using my thumb as a lever point... I knw a veritable army of great players who won't let me play their instruments because I am too aggressive with my left hand)... compound throws the feel of this setup when you play beyond fret 8. Compound guys are a bunch of shreddy, EVH tappng, note-twiddlin'-low gauge fairies. I don't suggest heavy strings are more tuneful, its how yu use them. I play mediums because I am strong as an ox from wrist to fingertip. The whole compound thing is really before my time. It was around when I started, but it was an oddity. Now Its a fuckng "feature".... on most guitars I can deal with any radius as long as its consistent and I know the measurement so I can do the "JIM" setup around it.

Haha, I think your right about 12'' have a feeling I've read that somewhere before, either way Les Pauls feel best to me in general. Never heard of anyone cause them truss rod to move by being too aggressive haha.

By the way how do you post gear pictures on your board? I cannot work it out, don't know if I'm being stupid or what but can't see the option to do it :S

Never heard of anyone cause them truss rod to move by being too aggressive haha.

I can totally shift a truss without doing much by my standards. I even broke one that was overtightened to compensate for a twisted neck once. People hate me. I have a very nuanced and delicate right hand though.

By the way how do you post gear pictures on your board? I cannot work it out, don't know if I'm being stupid or what but can't see the option to do it :S

GEAR PORN section... 2nd tab. post a pic of your son rocking out on your guitars.... I know when my boy was a month old he had already snuggled my SG. Apart from having better motor skill than I did at his age, he has an ear like no toddler I have encountered and he is always trying to play my enormous 335 which is "Lucian's guitar, red!" We have also progressed past high-note-low-note games on piano to natural-sharp-flat games.... I am training my boy to kill all of you guys on guitar and piano by the age of 10.

Theres no option to add photos, confussing the shit out of both me and my fiancee haha, has it changed or something :S

My daughter loves my strat and is always stealing guitar picks to try and play it. I should try doing high note - low nte with my daughter on the keyboard soon and see how it goes. Haha, have to see how he is at 10!! never know may be the next hendrix one day

I started ear training at birth with Lucian, don't hesitate Liam! Can't hurt him. I was raised around musicians but was discouraged but got hella good anyway to the point where I've made a passable living for 1 at this most of my adult life and still get asked to play for people on their records and tours even though I am unavailable. Train your kids rom birth and maybe they will rule the world!

I always thought that if I have seen my uncles so drunk they can't stand but could still throw down with Clapton and joe pass then I stood a chance. Especially knowing the piano and cello, viola, violin like I did....

and then I willed my hands into being huge and flexible

1985 Gibson Les Paul Custom in Ferrari Red through Vox AC30 Anniversary and a shitloads of effects...

Brilliant (to me).

good one.... can't get Ferrari red pre-norlin and 80 marks an improvement in norlin era construction! The ac30 anniversary, be it the original rose morris versin or the 1 channel Korg version is not so bad. I have played them. I prefer other ac30s, but its apples and apples and based on playing style.

It literally changes weekly, depending on what bands/music I'm listening to, and what mood I 'm in. If it's a smashing pumpkins, alternative week I'm a strat man (Well to be honest I'm a strat man most of the time), but a white strat, with a few blue bits, hot rail pickups, but then I'm a strat man if it's a grunge week, just with different specs. It just really depends, and I'm not incredibly desisive. If somebody walked up to me and said Joe you can have whatever guitar you want, with whatever specs, etc. I wouldn't be able to make up my mind.

Currently it's a depressing generic metalcore, instrumental metal, and post rock week, so I'd be going with some kind of mayones, probably legend, or setius, though all of their guitarsare probably the best in the world ,for metal anyway.

SSS config, but actually running Bare knuckle Cobra/Lace sensor standard/SD JB JR. Three buttons for pickups selection, sort of jaguarish, stacked vol, and tone pots, Wilkinson trem, killswitcyh, and kill toggle (Both very useful), EQ, active preamp, gotoh locking tuners, d'addario 10-52s, mahogany body, with a flamed maple top, and a maple neck, with an ebony fretboard, wearing jumbo frets.

young guy: I want a custom guitar with a bunch of different pickups, crazy switching, jumbo frets, active electronics setup for a specific heavy bottom string gauge, etc etc

middle-aged guy: I want a stock 50s Gibson

Hey, I'm a young guy who has come to learn that stock is usually best and all these switches just digress from just playing the guitar properly, I have tried all these combinations of pick ups, active pick ups, coil tap, phasing, active distortion circuits etc I found the best thing is typically just passive pick ups that have a bit of mojo and don't sound sterile. A very dynamic pick up with a great amp and effects will go further than fat ass frets and all that other crap.

Ok chill, I'd have passive pickups in there, with a switch to "activate" it, for a bit of a volume/output boost. The switching is useful, as it allows maximum positions, the pickups are specifically chosen for good tone (You can't deny good pickups, help tone), jumbo frets are quite helpful for ease of playing.

I have nothing against stock guitars, but for my DREAM guitar I'd be thinking about the top specs.