Your Perfect Guitar

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:52 am

Share your "perfect" guitar! Could be bone stock, could be a mix of every guitar ever made.
Plus this has probably been done before, sorry if It has.

So I've been planning on building a strat, I lobe the feel of the body and necks but I've got my own opinions on what makes a perfect strat.

Birdseye maple neck
ebony fingerboard
bullet truss rod
small strat headstock
graphite nut
graphite string tree
locking tuners with white buttons
vintage jumbo fretts
F neck plate

alder body
arctic white + nitro finish
SSS routes
vintage 6 hole tremolo bridge
5 springs

mint scratchplate
aged white covers and knobs
chrome jack plate

fralin pickups
master volume - 250k - treble bleed, pull for bridge on
master tone - 250k, .047f orange drop cap, pull for phase reverse
(2nd tone pot) gfs' 5-way preamp mid boost thing "loucile" style
usual 5 way switch

I really like this guitar on paper, it'll look like a run of the mill strat, but I really dig funky wiring oppurtunities that open up more sonic possibilities.

just thought it would be cool to see what everyones "perfect/ideal" guitar.

Will · Post by **Will** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:01 am

My '57 U1 with a different neck reinforcement (square steel tube with epoxied carbon fiber inside) and stainless steel frets. Also, a more enclosed control cavity so shielding could be used. And maybe a volute at the base of the headstock.

Really only durability stuff. I feel antsy taking it out sometimes, so I put a lipstick humbucker in my 335. It would be nice to have the real thing, though. I'll probably use my U1 reissue if I ever get it back.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:09 am

I think we covered this in the signature guitar thread, no?

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:34 am

endsjustifymeans wrote:I think we covered this in the signature guitar thread, no?

what I was gonna say

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:22 am

shall we create a listing things subforum?

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:42 am

Can it be called 'Nick Hornby'?

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:15 pm

Yeah these threads are getting like re-runs.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:47 pm

jcyphe wrote:Yeah these threads are getting like re-runs.

Yeah these threads are getting like re-runs.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:50 pm

mezzio13 · Post by **mezzio13** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:55 pm

Roger was kind of cool.

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:57 pm

dezb1 wrote:
jcyphe wrote:Yeah these threads are getting like re-runs.
Yeah these threads are getting like re-runs.

Yeah these threads are getting like re-runs

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:50 pm

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:53 pm

serfx wrote:

STABxYOU · Post by **STABxYOU** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:48 pm

Pretty much an Ibanez ORM-1, only with an EMG81/SA set and the Talman headstock. Oh, and seafoam green and red tort, instead of black or white.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 12:49 am

I posted mine in the other thread, it's an awesome orange Bigsby'd Tele Custom with a strat single coil in the neck instead of a bucker, small precbs strat-stock and rosewood fingerboard, looks pretty cool, would imagine again anyday.