Do you prefer Gibson or Fender

[eniam rognab]

Next up?

carvin, droooooooool
my bolt plus pales in comparison to this beautner
swampy ash drooooooool

[M Fowler]

I don't want the Hendrix reverse strat.

I like the right hand version with body flipped, pick guard flipped and neck flipped. No whammy. Probably have the pick guard shaped like the old Mosrite's, Flyer's, or Eastman's Blackjack and gold foil pups.

A toggle for pups and volume pot no other controls.

[Reeltarded]

fine then

[IMG:800:600]http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj20 ... G00008.jpg[/img]

Bitch to get used to for most peeps..but... Joe Perry!!

[sepulchre]

I started with a borrowed Melody Maker (after a few pieces of junk) in HS. Then when I was 18 a friend was taking lessons from Billy Gibbons. He knew I liked the Melody Maker and asked if I wanted one. I said sure and he finagled a deal with Billy and got me one for $50. Well, he said $50 and then thought better of it and said $55, felt he deserved a fee I guess and rightly so. I had that guitar for 36 years until it was stolen.

I had had a MIM Strat for a couple of years in the 90s and loved it, but it went to a family member in need and still has a good home. Then, merely months after the disappearance of me Melody Maker ('65 model, btw) a friend saw a MIM Strat Powerhouse in the local GC and asked if I might be interested. Being guitarless I, of course, said hells yeah! and she bought it for me. It's a cool axe but not exactly my dream. I rebuilt the preamp in it since I've been building them since the early 80s, but what was in it wasn't bad if you like 'em.

Then I finally got an American Deluxe - an Excellent guitar ("Alice"). It's Very versatile and plays and sounds Great. I did put a treble bleeder on it because I use the volume a lot - tone too - and it's really nice with the S1 and all. Locking tuners keep it in tune very nicely as well. But you know, I find myself gassing for an LP now and then . . . more and more actually. But I don't see that happening anytime soon.

I recently broke the MIM Powerhouse and revamped it a bit - new (ish) tuners, redid the vibrato to float, intonation, etc. and it's not a bad axe - a little harsh with that preamp compared to the Deluxe, but usable.

So in the end I agree with both HeeBGB ("Yes") and Can'tplay ("if one guitar did it all . . "). So Gibson or Fender? Yep!

[Structo]

I've always played Fender style guitars.

Mainly Strats of one kind or another.

I bought a LP last Summer and have been getting used to it.

The hardest thing for me are the volume and tone knobs.

As for a favorite looking Strat, I always thought that Joe Bonamassa's gold glitter Strat was awesome looking.

[Reeltarded]

love that pinup

[JazzGuitarGimp]

[quote="JoeCon"]Mark and Lou,

Also the bridge pickup should be angled back towards the nut ala Hendrix. I think that is truly part of the Hendrix sound. I've changed pups and tried adjusting them up an down but just can't quite hit his sound for the bridge pickup.

Really considering a left hand body...[/quote

Good point, joe - I missed it!

[bandade]

I was hot on Gibson when I first shopped for a guitar mainly because every guitarist I liked played a les Paul. The first time I played a strat, I knew that single coils where right for me. I went on to buy a Korean made epiphone les Paul standard but lusted after the fender sound until I got a strat. I just feel like single coil pickups are so much more dynamic than humbuckers and while changing my pickups in the les Paul to Seth lovers was a nice upgrade, it still doesn't get even half the attention as my strat and tele. I now have a 56 custom shop strat and a 62 thin skin telecaster, both are equally amazing. With that said, nothing covers hard rock like a les Paul. My next guitar will be a gibson es 330 because I prefer the sound of p90s to humbuckers. Then a 57 les Paul. Then a 60s custom shop strat. Then Martin, then.........the list never ends.

[vibratoking]

Yes I do.

[johnnyreece]

Gibson. I named my son Gibson, after all.

[darefugee]

I'm a Stratocaster guy. If it's good enough for Gilmour, it's good enough for me.

[randalp3000]

Wow I think I just found a bad scan of a picture of the sunburst I found in the late '80's Horrible picture, the top was very tight small curls.

[PoorOtis]

This post is a waste of time!

[Reeltarded]

Very dark Randal!

[Blindog]

I likes 'em both.

Strat is homebrew...body was laying around my favorite local music store back in Oh, no clue as to how old or what it came from.

The Gibson's a '79 355 that I'd found down here in Ga...been doing repair work for the store to pay off the balance and the wife snuck it out and surprised me on Christmas day

Mark