Pickers. What's your main axe?

[XNASA]

Poll question: Pickers. What's your main axe?

Not counting basses, what kind of guitar is usually hung around your neck?

[phillybri]

1. Ibanez RG 450

Cobalt Blue....I love my baby!

[Sal316]

2. I love my strat!

(not mine, but close.. it's an American Standard)

[XNASA]

3. Here's my Tele, for the record...

Except mine has a Seymour Duncan mini-humbucker in the bridge position.

[BurtWorm]

4. Hagstrom

The Swedish Telecaster. It's a junky, but oddly attractive little number that I picked up cheap 20 years ago.

[XNASA]

9. My buddy has a Hagstrom that looks like a Les Paul.

He got his about 30 years ago. Sounds nice, but it's kinda clunky (hard to play).

It's got a cool white/gold pearlescent finish and gold hardware.

[opiate69]

5. SG

I've been addicted to them ever since I saw the pictures of Tony Iommi playing one in the Black Sabbath Vol 4 liner notes...They have the "balls" of the Les Pauls, without the back-breaking weight.

[RandomKoolzip]

11. Oh yeah, SG's fuggin rool.

I always wanted an SG since I was a kid. I mean come on, Angus Young, Frank Zappa, Ian Mackaye. They just look so cool, and mhave such a "meaty" tone....

[XNASA]

12. My #2 electric is an Epi SG.

Looks just like this one:



It's actually a bit easier to play than my Tele, but it seems a little one-dimensional. You can coax a greater array of sounds out of a Tele, IMHO.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. I have a custom Taylor that I mostly play

but I also play a strat, Guild semi hollow and a Les Paul....I have several other guitars though. I collect them.

[mitchum]

7. Rickenbacker 360

Epiphone Coronet
Harmony Rocket
Framus Starcaster
Framus 5-String "Jazzmaster"
Supro lapsteel
believe it or not, I'm NOT a gear queen...

[RandomKoolzip]

8. Hamer Cruisebass

made for about two years in the early eigthties, with one pickup off, it sounds like Chris Squire's tone from "Close to the Edge." With both pickups on it sounds like P. Mccartney's tone from "Silly Love Songs." Rare instrument, wouldn't sell it for the world.

[Xandor]

10. Can't vote twice :(

So I voted for my Taylor 414ce acoustic. If I could have, I would have also voted for my Strat Plus.

[Friar]

15. ooh ooh, a Taylor

I'm jealous...

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

13. 1975 Martin D-18

Like this, only I think mine is prettier...

[Friar]

14. I got a Larrivee

Yay me! Gotta love these delicate things:

<http://www.larrivee.com/content/products/guitars/specs/D-03/D03MH0.php>

Also have a Standard Strat. I've been playing for 36 yers, so there!

[ProfessorGAC]

16. In Order For Me

I voted Tele. But, i switch around depending on what i'm trying to do.

For all around, i play a Standard Tele. Wine Red with White Pickguard. Maple Neck and Fingerboard. No Tricks. Totally Stock. Like it for rhythm because with a stop tailpiece it stays in tune forever. Also, terrific for slide. Roll off the tone to about 3, and it's great.

Probably my #2 is an Ibanez RG 400 series. Black, Two humbuckers, locking trem, ebony finger board. Through the Boogie, it screams, and sustains forever. (Yes, you could go out for a bite and it'd still be screaming.)

I also play a Strat, but it's been modified. It's got an active EQ, a Birdseye maple replacement neck (with the 50's style headstock), Seymour Duncan SSL-1's, and Kahler Vibrato. Totally different tones than the Ibanez, so i switch those depending on what i'm doing.

One of those three is always on a stand in my rec room next to the Boogie. Plug and play, until i get tired of that sound. Then i switch to a different guitar for a while.

I play my 5 String Fender Jazz mostly for bass. It's a Standard Series and totally stock. Rosewood fingerboard. I've got a 4 string P-Bass too. Mexican Standard. Black/White with Maple neck.

For acoustic, i play mostly my Takamine electric acoustic. I never take my Taylor out of the house, or barely even from the case, so it's an underused, but terrific guitar. Then i've got a Giannini that i kept tuned to an open G for acoustic slide. Both of those are sitting on stands in my rec room. So, i can grab either. Also, when i play piano, a friend can grab almost anything that will work to play along.

Fun thread and poll. Thanks.
The Professor

[tarheel]

17. My primary guitar is this :

A standard "Fat Strat"





It's not my ideal guitar, but on my budget, it's the best one I've ever been able to afford. This picture is not a "Fat Strat" but rather a Standard Strat. Mine is the exact same color and fingerboard, except I have replaced the neck pickup with a Fender Lace Sensor, and on the "Fat Strat" the bridge pick-up is a double-coil humbucker. It looks like the one below:

[Moosenose]

18. I've got a nifty axe...

ash handle, 9 pound head. The pick part is around 10 inches long. It's excellent for digging out tree roots.

[sangh0]

19. Schecter Strat

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[regularguy]

20. Epiphone Emperor...Joe Pass model....

Great guitar for the money.......

[Character Assassin]

21. My beautiful, hideous Frankenstrat

'74 body
Warmouth neck and frets
(Rarities of rarities) a 2-Tek bridge
custom harness
Bartolini System 111 active pickups
.63-.19 strings

It's actually difficult to play other guitars (besides acoustic). Thinking of having Klein make me a fretless number. A wee bit on the pricey side, though.

[XNASA]

22. .63 - .19 strings?

Your fingers must be thicker than my wrists. I thought I was macho for using .11's sometimes.

Betcha your never out of tune.

[tarheel]

23. Yeah Lord !

Those aren't guitar strings, they're piano strings !

[Character Assassin]

24. Yep. I play fingerstyle, free-jazz/experimental, only on an electric.

I came originally from an acoustic background, so playing sets like .08-.32 or whatever passes for light-gauge nowadays has never really been very easy for me. I end up either pressing too hard or being wildly inaccurate.

I don't really use any string-bending, but emphasize a lot of open-tunings and ringing sustained notes, so the strings are quite appropriate for that. With their size and the 2-tek bridge, the sustain on this axe is longer than any other electric I've ever played.

That, and the tone, which sounds great dry, also survives whatever rack effect I might process it through.

I recommend the biggest strings possible to anyone, unless he/she is a inverterate string-bender.

Funny thing is, one of my heros, Pat Metheney, usually uses the lightest gauges possible. Then again, Tony Rice doesn't.

Eh, pick players. I can't ever figure them out.