What is the best guitar type in your opinion?

['63-Strat]

I'm probably the wrong guy to ask because I like a lot of different guitar types, lol. Have really been digging the mahogany charvel I got recently though and it stays in tune incredibly well which is one of the main things I like about floyds.

 

[mniel8195]

super strat...hipshot fixed bridge...h/h with could tap on both pickups. thats my favorite setup

 

[dannyr]

Super Strat

 

[Shawn Lutz]

whatever looks, plays and sounds great, name on headstock doesn't matter

that said Gibson Les Paul Traditional Plus, GMW Floyded supah-strats, Jackson strats and parts bitches slapped together myself, Muskiraft/USAGC/Charvel/Fender etc...

 

[Heritage Softail]

Telecaster... The most-recorded guitar of all-time. I once heard a fellow player state, "Give me a Telecaster, a good overdrive (like an SD-1), and an AC-30, and I can play any gig." Then he started playing... I believe him.

I have two custom hand-built Telecasters and they're the finest guitars I own.

The longer I play, the more I believe this. Yesterday afternoon, the bride and I were sitting in the faily room. She asked me to play thru all the guitars out there, five, and with a stomp, a DSL100, and a delay, the old Tele did cover the most ground. It didn't crunch quite like the LP or metal like the Anderson, but it did a really good job on that, and soooo much more.the dirt box was a Triple Wreck, so plenty of gain on tap. A normal boost would not have cut it.

 

[Badronald]

Telecaster... The most-recorded guitar of all-time. I once heard a fellow player state, "Give me a Telecaster, a good overdrive (like an SD-1), and an AC-30, and I can play any gig." Then he started playing... I believe him.

I have two custom hand-built Telecasters and they're the finest guitars I own.

The longer I play, the more I believe this. Yesterday afternoon, the bride and I were sitting in the faily room. She asked me to play thru all the guitars out there, five, and with a stomp, a DSL100, and a delay, the old Tele did cover the most ground. It didn't crunch quite like the LP or metal like the Anderson, but it did a really good job on that, and soooo much more.the dirt box was a Triple Wreck, so plenty of gain on tap. A normal boost would not have cut it.

Ah. The Triple Wreck. Turns ANY guitar into a fire breathing monster. I love mine.

 

[Mizati20]

I couldn't live without my PRS... I've owned countless custom guitars and just about everything under the sun... there is no guitar on the planet that just fits me better... it is around 14 years old now I think... it has the old school "wing" tuners on it, and it's literally to the point where once it's restrung and I stretch the strings, I cannot MAKE it go out of tune, it's kinda retarded...

This guitar will go to the grave with me...

 

[DeezDemos]

whatever looks, plays and sounds great, name on headstock doesn't matter.

Y'know, with everything else, amps, pedals, strings, etc. I feel the same way. But when it comes to my guitar, having the name Gibson on the headstock of my Les Paul means as much to me as the name Harley Davidson on the gas tank! Call me sentimental I guess...

 

[Heritage Softail]

whatever looks, plays and sounds great, name on headstock doesn't matter.

Y'know, with everything else, amps, pedals, strings, etc. I feel the same way. But when it comes to my guitar, having the name Gibson on the headstock of my Les Paul means as much to me as the name Harley Davidson on the gas tank! Call me sentimental I guess...

Now when you talk bikes... For the cruise, rolling the Harley for the win. For some reason, women seem to like them too.

 

[Shawn Lutz]

I gotta go with both Super Strats and Les Pauls

 

[Jdguitar]

I'm checking off other...my EBMM Morse Y2D

 

[yngzaklynch]

I'm checking off other...my EBMM Morse Y2D

EBMM guitars for me fall under the super strat catagory. Bolt-on, 25 1/2 scale... My JP6 BFR is easliy my best guitar.

 

[Jdguitar]

I'm checking off other...my EBMM Morse Y2D

EBMM guitars for me fall under the super strat catagory. Bolt-on, 25 1/2 scale... My JP6 BFR is easliy my best guitar.

But Morse's guitar was designed from his franken guitar that had a Strat neck and Tele body. I suppose it is more Strat than Tele, but I've personally seen Morse get some pretty convincing Tele sounds out of his guitar.

 

[yngzaklynch]

I'm checking off other...my EBMM Morse Y2D

EBMM guitars for me fall under the super strat catagory. Bolt-on, 25 1/2 scale... My JP6 BFR is easliy my best guitar.

But Morse's guitar was designed from his franken guitar that had a Strat neck and Tele body. I suppose it is more Strat than Tele, but I've personally seen Morse get some pretty convincing Tele sounds out of his guitar.

I see what you're saying but I still think EBMM guitars fall under the superstrat catagory. YMMV.

 

['63-Strat]

I'm checking off other...my EBMM Morse Y2D

EBMM guitars for me fall under the super strat catagory. Bolt-on, 25 1/2 scale... My JP6 BFR is easliy my best guitar.

But Morse's guitar was designed from his franken guitar that had a Strat neck and Tele body. I suppose it is more Strat than Tele, but I've personally seen Morse get some pretty convincing Tele sounds out of his guitar.

I see what you're saying but I still think EBMM guitars fall under the superstrat catagory. YMMV.

I agree. But the lines get blurred for some people about what makes a guitar a strat, tele or superstrat. To me, when I think of a superstrat I probably am thinking a floyd rose and at least a bridge humbucker. But you could easily make the case that a strat with a regular bridge and a bridge humucker or bridge and neck etc. is a "superstrat" too. And in that sense, I tend to think of EBMM as superstrats typically.

 

[Jdguitar]

To me a Superstrat is more of a shredder guitar. My Ibanez RG550 is definitely a superstrat. My HP Special is a superstrat. My Morse is a totally different monster than those. It is as heavy as a Les Paul, has a great, singing lead tone and like I said, can go to the other end of the spectrum and be a pretty convincing Tele. After using a Morse as my main guitar for the last year, I don't even feel the need to own any other guitars...which is crazy for me because I own my share. I honestly would put it in the "other" category.

 

[Zap]

Traditional Fender Stratocasters with modern features for me. Love Teles and Les Pauls too, however.

 

[Shawn Lutz]

whatever looks, plays and sounds great, name on headstock doesn't matter.

Y'know, with everything else, amps, pedals, strings, etc. I feel the same way. But when it comes to my guitar, having the name Gibson on the headstock of my Les Paul means as much to me as the name Harley Davidson on the gas tank! Call me sentimental I guess...

well for LP's yeah, Gibson I have a trad + and just pulled the trigger on a 3PU BB

 

[petejt]

Super-Les Paul. A Les Paul style with more pickup selections and a coil split.

I don't like the look of Super Strats at all. I prefer the classic fender Strat look.