If a guitar company would call you and offered a sig. guitar

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...what would it be?

imagine you get a call from, whatever, fender, gibson, suhr, etc etc..doesn't matter

what would it be like?

for me ideally Fender would call, since I'm a fender guy all the way....if it ain't fender then I'd get the company to make me a fender bodied guitar, 3 single coils,
low output, very vintage.
vintage 50s bridge,
small C shapped neck,
22 jumbo frets,
locking tunners (the only thing not "vintage" in my signature guitar would be this.
Don't know much about woods or anything so I can't comment on those, but I'd have a rosewood neck.
heavily chambered body with no sound holes.


You, go!
 
an old ESP MX-250 explorer with EMG's, tone pros bridge, Bone nut, 24 Jumbo frets, Mahogany body, and Locking tuners. It also has to be black...
 
Gibson 59 Les Paul reissue built exactly like they used to, down to the very last detail. With a super wavy monster top... With a genuine "Gibson" in the headstock
 
Soloist style body swamp ash, grey/White
24 neck Maple/maple Black dots
Fender strat small headstock
1 SD blackouts mod preamp volume, no tone, 5 way super switch
2 humbucker (blackout coil pack for a traditional hum look)
Floyd Rose recessed
Black colored hardware
 
Japanese ESP Phoenix with SSS pickups (tele, strat, tele) with a vintage Tele bridge. White or Daphne blue with transparent pickguard. dark Ebony or Rosewood fretboard, black painted headstock. No trem. All the hardware is chrome colored except the brass rollers on the bridge. Glowing illuminated dot inlays on the fretboard. Plus my logo graphic behind the bridge.

a little photoshop work...

 
...I'd think that the guitar scene must be pretty pathetic to be giving sigs to a dood who's been knocking around the bars/clubs for 25 years but only people in his hometowns even know who he is and most of his best work is done in the man cave for an audience of 1. LOL...

But, to play along...

I've really been digging my ESP Eclipse II in vintage black, so that's where I'd start. I'd have them get rid of the EMGs and put a Duncan Distortion and 59 in there (like I did). Tone pot coil-splitting. Bridge would be Tone Pros and loaded with GraphTech String Saver saddles. Maybe include an ever-so slight forearm contour there. I use to be a strat guy and I've grown to love the LP thing. But a dang forearm contour for ergonomical sake would sure be nice. I've actually contemplated grabbing a rasp and making one in my LP type guitars before.

Oh... and freakin' stainless frets! EVERY decent guitar should come with them anymore unless specified differently by the player.
 
Never happen, but there are several I can think of.

G&L ASAT Deluxe in Trans-white with a flame maple top (like Broderick's but flame, not quilt), ebony neck with NO inlays, not sure on pups as I haven't tried enough yet to settle on a brand, but they'd be coil-tapped dual buckers.

Also have phase reverse switch and a killswitch, and a trem-circuit built in from guitarfetish.



OR
a Carvin with similar specs and finish


OR

-Gibson Firebird in purple
-Fender Custom Shop strat with Floyd equipped with D-Tuna, Fiesta Red with Pearloid white pickguard, Birdseye maple neck, no inlays, Gilmour pup set (passive)

OR.... :lol: :LOL: :doh: I could go on and on. PRS, TA Cobra, KL Explorer Just depends what mood I'm in that day.
 
Strat style body accommodated to:

24 medium/jumbo frets (SS)
HSS (medium output... maybe with some sort of angry button)
A Trem system that can perform 4 tones down, 2 up. Preferable non-locking
low/medium action
Purple flame maple top
Ebony fretboard
A subtle 12 fret marker

Priced at $1.199
 
Well, that's easy....

It actually happend to me, except I called them! My sig. guitars are the custom Suhr Moderns I own.

My ideal spec'ed Modern would be based on the 2010 LE, with the only changes being in BOLD:

Alder body with 3/16" quilted maple top
Roasted Birdseye maple bolt-on neck with Indian rosewood fretboard
Modern Eliptical GG .800-.850 neck carve, 14" fingerboard radius
Tusq nut, Jumbo stainless steel 24 frets, 1.650 nut width
Gotoh 510 2 post bridge with solid saddles and steel block
Chrome hardware, Sperzel locking tuners
Volume, tone, 5 way pickup selector, Suhr SSH+/SSV humbuckers
Faded Trans Wine Red Burst finish, matching headstock

:rock: :rock: :rock:
 
I actually already have something in-progress with Schecter.

It's based on their carved top "Hollywood/Sunset" body style. Mahogany w/ flame maple. Bolt-on roasted maple neck, 22 frets, ebony fretboard, 10" Radius. Custom asymmetrical neck profile. Gotoh FR w/ Floyd Upgrades brass block and stainless/titanium hardware. DiMarzio PAF 36th x 2.
 
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Mahogany body, thick flamed maple top.
Wilkinson bridge (couldn't put it on here).
Maple neck
Black binding all around
Coolboy pickups

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All mahogany body
Wilkinson bridge
Ebody neck (couldn't put that on here either)
Cream binding all around
Coolboy pickups

I've fantasized this a lot. :aww: :scared:
 
Id take the ESP Ninja shape (ammot sig) mahogany neck and body, set neck, quilt maple top, see thru green finish, black binding all the way around, graphite nut, and rods in the neck, sperzel locking tuners, all black hardware, dunlop straplocks, single volume knob and selector switch. If I could get any pups, Id go with MCP hellbaby bridge and BG lizard neck.
 
ESP Flying V with reverse banana or Katana? headstock. Like the Kerry King model but Mahogany body instead of maple.
White or hot rod red with chrome covered humbuckers.
No Pickguard
Medium size rounded neck through body or set neck.
Dark rosewood board/mahogany neck for white color. Maple board/maple neck with slight vintage tint for red color.
White headstock for white body but matching vintage tint maple headstock for red body
Red one would have maple neck uncolored on the back, just a red body.
22 Frets
 
I've actually got a body shape that I designed, kind of a cross between a Les Paul and a Wolfgang only with some angles on it. Mahogany with a carved, flame maple top, natural binding, bolted, set in, hard rock maple neck unfinished with a birdseye maple fretboard, 22 stainless frets, Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary bridge and neck, chrome TOM bridge and Sperzel locking tuners, 3x3 headstock, 3 way pickup selector, 2 volume, 1 tone, black cherryburst finish.
 
A heavily relic'ed and greening Gibson goldtop with wraptail and PAF's. It's the guitar of my dreams.

It'd look like the one on the left, but with HB's and more destroyed.

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Gibson LP Scale and Neck Profile
Double cutaway body with shape/size similar to my RGA121
24 SS frets
Suhr Aldrich pups
3 way switch
Vol knob only
Mahogany Body/Maple Cap
Mahogany neck
Rosewood Fretboard
NO inlays
either natural finish or Electric Blue Sparkle

so yeah, basically if my RGA121 and my LP had a baby that would be my perfect/sig guitar.
 
Cool thread.

Suhr

Alder body w/ maple top in Grey/black, natural binding on the body.
Hard maple neck with ebony board and - black - binding. Small dot Inlays. 22 medium jumbo frets.

PRS style trem, locking tuners, earvana nut.

HSH, passives, coil tap for the neck pickup. 2 volume controls, push/pull for the tone control. Locking strap locks. Natural back.
 
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