Hmm... asking me to choose between guitars is like asking your parents to choose which child they love more... They won't give you an answer... but deep down inside... they have a favorite!! The one that I would call my "good son" is my Fender Stratocaster that I built and customized from all American Fender parts. Solid one piece flamed maple neck with a thin profile and vintage tint lacquer and non lacquered fingerboard. The body is a one piece choice cut Ash body... with a honeyburst finish (it's a vintage white color with grain showing through like a sunburst). The pickup arrangement is a set of Fender Custom Shop Custom '69 pickups... it has 5-way switching with no other fancy electronics... It has a pearloid pickguard and a vintage Fender tremolo.... with Ernie Ball 11 gauge string set. It's clean and vintage... nice guitar for most all styles... Now... for the "bad son" My first electric guitar was a cheap black Strat imitation that I bought for 90 dollars... basically a piece of plywood with strings and pickups. I loved it though... After many years of playing it I moved onto better guitars... however... I still would pull her out from time to time... We were in the studio recording one time and I got the urge to do an imitation of Jimi Hendrix sacraficing his guitar at the Moterey Pop Festival.... so I lit her on fire..... It was pretty cool. Since then I have sanded the rough edges from the burnt lacquer... she's also been drug through gravel quite a few times... has some beer bottle caps nailed to her... and since the electronics were all burnt up and the pickguard was melted... I fixed her up real nice with an all black double humbucker pickguard two hot BareKnuckle WarPig humbuckers and a chrome tone and volume knob... with a Les Paul three way switch... and a set of Zakk Wylde Boomers (.10-.70). It's a little more hard edged. haha... Those are my favorite axes.. of the 10 that I have. They're so different from each other... yet I play them both all the time.