Ultimate Guitar

OK, design your ultimate guitar.

1)72 Telecaster Custom
2)Wine Red with super high gloss black pickgaurd
3)Maple neck/24frets
4)supercharger humbucker in neck position w/5 position switching
5)left hand tremolo (SRV inspired)
6)relic shape (maybe)
7)high gloss stripe around outside of body(on the edges)


I can't seem to think of anything else.

My perfect custom guitar would be:

A '56 Les Paul Classic without scratch plate - Sunburst of course
2 Seymore Duncan Alnico Pro 2 Humbuckers
Rosewood/22 Fretted Fretboard with snake inlay
Gold Hardware
0.11 - 0.48 Ernie Ball Strings

Mmmm perhaps a Bigsby trem on my spare one.

Jackson Soloist (Mahogony) Body
24 fret Ebony fingerboard, custom designed inlays
Original Floyd Rose System
Duncan Distortion or SH-4 -bridge
Seyomour Duncan Full Shred -neck




i've been toying with the idea of running fiber optic cables through the inlays and body :)

let's see here...
this is a for a simple guitar, something you can plug in and play, no frills.
first this is MY current guitar...

-Ibanez RG w/Wizard II 24-fret neck
-V7 neck pickup
-V8 bridge pickup
-five-way selector+volume and tone knobs
-fixed brige+black body and hardware

i would just like to strip it down a bit.
now THIS is nice guitar here.

-Ibanez RG w/Wizard II 24-fret neck
-black hardware and body
-one volume knob
-Seymour Duncan Invader bridge pickup
-fixed bridge

just the pickups really but the new guitar is actually really cool. i guess if you just changed that one pickup it would suit you own tastes better. but i think that's it's beautifully simple.

Personally, if funds were limitless I'd like a double neck with necks 120 degrees apart, one neck with some bass strings and low guitar strings, one with guitar strings. But am I worth it? Am I ****!

Here's another idea:

A guitar with all wound strings and some kind of built in device which doubles the pitch of the output from the higher 3 strings. This way all strings would have the same output making it possible to play tapping runs from low to high strings without loosing volume.
Perhaps it might be better to use all unwounds and halve the pitch of the lower 3. Either way some truss-rod adjustment would be required.

More naturally and economically:

A floydd rose fitted, through neck, 24 fret 7 string with an active humbucker pickup in the bridge with a coil tap and a little on off switch fitted next to the top E string. Mother of Pearl inlays, Gold hardware, Blue Sunburst. Classic sharpened Fender (Ibanez) shape but with a pointy headstock. Stop me drooling!

I dream of getting this guitar guilt for myself someday.

it will have:
-chambered single cut body style
-quilted maple top with high gloss natural finish
-mahogony or ash back
-22fret maple fretboard
-mahogony through or set neck
-stoptail w/piezo pickup
-2 PRS McCarty humbuckers w/coil tap

I guess that just about coveres it without getting too technicall.

For me anything that said Kramer and was made in the USA!

I would go for a expensive Gibson Les Paul, custom art work, Seyomur Duncan, custom inlay stuff, it would be cool.

OK - heres what i´m definitely goin to have one fine day:

3 octave-per-string Neck with scalloped frets from the 15th fret onward and from the 30th fret onward a fulltone scale

9 strings in perfect 4ths tuning:
C#, F#, B, E, A, D, G, C, F (from lowest to highest)

the part of the fretboard where the three lowest strings are should be fretless (bass) like the Vigier Guitars (Excalibur)

The whole thing without tremolo.

The strings should be set up with very low tension, so that they can also be tapped easily (oh gawd.. why dont i just buy a Warr-Guitar???)

the rest is up to the constructor (pickup, etc)

and the frets should be stainless steel - not that soft crap that wears off after 2 years of playing. and they should not be round like normal frets - they should have a tip - like on that pic:



..oh yes.. i´m chapmanstick-infected...



[Edited by Azrael on 03-24-2003 at 04:54 AM]

Someone puts alot of thought into this.....

What's with the pointy frets Azrael? I'd love a chapman stick too. Have you heard the King Crimson Album "Indiscipline", it's a total classic and there's some freaky stick play in it.

those frets are much more precise plus they give you the feel of more space between the frets.