I play this one in church every Sunday.
Ibanez Montage. Built in reverb, chorus and distortion. It's a Jack of all trades, master of none. Very versatile and fun.
Other than that I own too many to list =p
Posted on 01/01/2022 5:53:31 AM PST by kjam22
Happy New Year!
Here is a nice 2022 guitar thread.... in the chit chat section. I have owned this guy for 27 years now. Not a common guitar, but it plays so good. Resonates much more than normal. The neck is perfect. This is a 1983 strat. Originally came with only one tone knob and the input jack was where the bottom knob is.... in the pick guard. I had it professionally moved and a second tone knob installed. Top loader tremolo is not my favorite. (Pretty stiff). I am very good with a tremolo so I’m a little restricted with this guy, but the resonance, weight, and playable neck still make it a good time. I gigged with this for several years and would never part with it.......
I picked it up at a place in downtown OKC called “Horn Trader”. I traded a Gibson Sonix and $75 for it, and never looked back.
I believe Fender made these for two and a half years.
Happy New Year all!
I have a banjo I’m thinking about selling. It’s like an Arkansas cousin....
I play this one in church every Sunday.
Ibanez Montage. Built in reverb, chorus and distortion. It's a Jack of all trades, master of none. Very versatile and fun.
Other than that I own too many to list =p
That looks cool. Had it long?
I play a 2010 strat in church most of the time. 2018 Les Paul if I listened to to much Skynard during the week... :)
Happy New Year!
Dan Smith era Strat. Glad you like it. I have a pre Dan Smith Blackout Strat hardtail with the big head stock that is an ‘82 from Fullerton with the 3 bolt neck. Love to play it. Did a gig two nights ago using a modified china telecaster that weighs more than any Les Paul I ever played. But it sure sounds nice. Have any awesome New Year.
Looks similar to a Jimmy Vaughn Strat to me.
I own a 1970 blonde Strat, a 1957 reissue that I bought brand new in 1987, and a Hello Kitty Squier.
Working on assembling a Mary Kay FrankenStrat.
Ha!I was just at Horn Trader last month. Found a couple of cymbals that Zildjian hasn’t made in years.
Guitar Ping.
I have a Les Paul Studio.
It was a robot, but I stripped the guts out of it and made it into a real guitar, LOL. (The battery would not recharge)
Dark Green with Ebony Fretboard.
Wow..... did not know they were still there.
Cool
I’ve been thinning down all my stuff. Just sold my MiM Nashville Tele and Les Paul DC Faded w/P-90’s and SF Twin Reverb. Keeping my SG, SF Champ and old Guild D-25. I don’t play in bands anymore so an electric and acoustic is all I need.
Oh, got a Uke too. That’s been fun to learn.
Rock on Patriots!!
You can’t go wrong keeping an SG
Guitars or kids?
One of the most unique guitars I have is an Ernie Ball St. Vincent. Looks just like the top picture:
https://www.music-man.com/instruments/guitars/st-vincent
Always gets comments, the neck is fantastic. Not a huge fan of the DiMarzio pickups, but I’m able to dial in a good tone with my very flexible Kemper amp.
I like the guitar more than the performer, though she does clean up well!
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=saint+vincent+musician&t=ipad&ia=images&iax=images
I love the idea of leaving guitars to friends. None of my family members play anyway. I have about 20 guitars (well, 19 now...) and it seems I tend to play only one, maybe one other. Amps? Now that’s a different story. I have come to the conclusion that the guitar is a device used to excite the amp. A good tube amp can be “played” with the guitar. I only discovered this after decades of considering the amp as something to make the guitar louder. Now I chase the amp tone. I love coaxing those sweet tones out of my amps. Current line up in no particular order is Komet, Jim Kelley, /13, Louis Electric, Nolatone. As a matter of fact, I’m heading down there shortly to wake up the neighbors.
Not a “real” guitarist, really. But I own a few. I’m a drummer by trade, and I’ve scaled down to about five kits, two of which I gig with. PDP, and Strike Pro eKit.
My recent acquisition is a Variax. It is a double hum bucker, but has all the models of other guitars built in. Strats, Tele’s, Gibsons, Rickenbackers, acoustic guitars, 12 strings, banjo, sitar, resonators, etc. My son has used it a LOT on his instrumental rock album “Bird Mafia” , which is available on Apple Music!!
Dang. 19 and he’s already out there.
Anyway, I live in Telecaster land. EVERYONE has a Tele, and are having Tele’s custom made, and packing around two or three. Our guitarist always has two onstage, and one Paul Reed Smith. 90% of the gigs are on the Tele. Every other band around here they all have Telecasters.
Great to see a Strat once in a while. My old Ibanez Strat is in the middle of being refinished by said 19 year old son, so is in disassembly and I can’t play it. It has the BEST neck I’ve every had my hands on.
“Now I chase the amp tone.”
LOL I have told guitarists all my career that they’re usually the only person in the room that can hear a difference after 20-30 minutes of tweaking their tone during sound check. I literally have listened to a former bandmate tweak for that long, and at the end of it, it was just like it always was. I couldn’t hear the difference.
I’m thinking it’s more feel than tone. finger response. In the older times, when mostly guitar, pedal, amp was all the signal flow there was, it DID make more of a difference. But now, with all kinds of pedal boards, modelers, and a variety of ways to push the sound into the FOH, the PA system and engineer are more important than the guitar amp, or guitar.
And out front? No one notices the difference.
Slacker. :-) I have ten guitars, three bass guitars, a banjo and a mandolin. I don't play the electrics much these days. I bought a new Martin D-18 a few months back and a 1990 Gibson J-200 a few weeks back. (In one year, I spent more on guitars than the total I spent in my previous 62 years. My wife's into horses, so this is child's play compared to that.)
I have a string of Fender amps. From late model Hot Rod... going back through a variety of fenders.....to a pre-cbs fender band master I bought in 1977. I like a really warm, clean, tube amp. I dirty it up with effects.... or I put it on “11”. I kinda like the “11” method but wife has become increasingly non receptive to that.....
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