Is your favorite guitar also your most expensive?

[stephen sawall]

Most of my guitars are worth more than my number one {Gibson Les Paul}. My most expensive is my number two {69 Stratocaster I bought 33 years ago}.

 

[SpiritCrusher86]

My #1 used to be my Edwards Sykes LP...

Until I got this beauty:

It's with the tech getting a set of Suhr Aldrich pickups installed with coil splits.
I'm having the middle single coil removed and I'm just going to leave the slot empty.
Can't wait to get it back.

Out of curiousity, why are you getting the single coil removed? Why not just keep it for added versitality?

 

[D/FW XJ'er]

Nope.. My '04 Hwy1 Tele definitely gets most of the play time. I just traded off my '67 SG RI because I wasn't using it.


My Daphne Blue Strat is a close second.

 

[Ventura]

Tonight I did play my most expensive guitar and man, that sumbitch sounds SO good and plays SO fine... Bottom line? I love each and every one of them... If I had had had to pick just one, well first off I wouldn't want to be in that position, but it would either be my modded Hamer Archtop or my '57 Les Paul Goldtop darkback. And that hurts to say because I absolutely LOVE playing my '57 black beauty triple pup and my '68 Custom....AS WELL as my Japanese ESP's - which as anyone who owns one knows - they play like buttah....

Peace,
V.

 

[Atropos_Project]

Absolutely. Then again, my Taylor cost me 10x what my Ibanez did, it's a bit of an apples and oranges comparision.

 

[sdrootsman]

yep, my carvin ct6 is my fav and the most ive ever spent on an axe, but my $80 indonesian squier tele custom comes in at a close 2nd

 

[petejt]

Yeah I think so.

My main guitar cost $1,600 (but I got it for half price!), and my backup cost $1,000.

 

[kasperjensen]

Yes.

My PRS Custom 24 is my favourite... Although my £200 Fender Tele is a close second

 

[zerohawk]

nope, favorite guitar is still the first "real" guitar I owned, a 1989 Ibanez RG570. Mostly sentimental value, as it isn't worth much, but it's one of the best sounding and playing guitars I've owned.

I had it refinished many years after first getting it from a friend, it was pretty mangled or I wouldn't have touched it. I had the binding added, along with a flame maple cap, BK Miracle Man pups, new electronics, and a Texas Special in the single coil. The rest is all original, and still kicking ass.

Oh wow! Killer re-top my friend. My first thought was Team J-Craft wildly expensive custom! As for my favorite axe, it would have to be my LTD EC-400. I bought that and sold my PRS shortly after because it actually intonated better and stayed in tune much longer than the custom 24. The PRS was a much nicer looking guitar though, naturally lol.

 

[Toshiro]

My "cheapest" guitar is my #1, an 89 RG750, picked up from a pawn shop in 1995 for $250. It's had 3 different sets of Dimarzios in it(currently Breeds) and 4 different pickguards through the years:

Damn thing plays like buttah.

 

[firejack]

nope, favorite guitar is still the first "real" guitar I owned, a 1989 Ibanez RG570. Mostly sentimental value, as it isn't worth much, but it's one of the best sounding and playing guitars I've owned.

I had it refinished many years after first getting it from a friend, it was pretty mangled or I wouldn't have touched it. I had the binding added, along with a flame maple cap, BK Miracle Man pups, new electronics, and a Texas Special in the single coil. The rest is all original, and still kicking ass.

Erock that is one of the sexiest Ibbys I've ever seen!
That is so sweet mate.

 

[firejack]

My "cheapest" guitar is my #1, an 89 RG750, picked up from a pawn shop in 1995 for $250. It's had 3 different sets of Dimarzios in it(currently Breeds) and 4 different pickguards through the years:

Damn thing plays like buttah.

Awesome guitar mate!
I really wish I'd kept my 91 RG550.
I've tried and owned many Prestige and Signature Ibanez guitars since around 2000.
Apart from my PGM301 Gilbert, they just don't compare to the 91 RG I had.

 

[firejack]

Out of curiousity, why are you getting the single coil removed? Why not just keep it for added versitality?

I'm just not a single-coil kinda guy + the middle single-coil interferes with my picking style.
I get all the tones I need from a dual humbucker layout with coil-splits.
My Edwards Snapper has a H-S-S layout and I'm going to replace the more traditional-sounding Duncan single-coils with some single-coil size humbuckers soon.

 

[Toshiro]

Awesome guitar mate!
I really wish I'd kept my 91 RG550.
I've tried and owned many Prestige and Signature Ibanez guitars since around 2000.
Apart from my PGM301 Gilbert, they just don't compare to the 91 RG I had.

Thanks! Yeah, the old ones have the mojo or something magical for sure.