Show us your Axe - a Guitar & Bass slingers thread.

[ScotiaLass]

Mine is not the type of guitar I thought I would own as I guess you get a guitar that your favourite guitarist uses, I don't really care for the necks on Gibson SG's, so I got this Maverick Species 1, it's neck is really slim in comparison. It's a pretty rare guitar as UK company Maverick went bust, but it's way better than similar priced Ibanez RG's I have tried.

Stunning!

 

[Aperitif]

A lovely, passionate exhibition of instruments. Where's @BigonaBianchi when everyone is drawing their six-stringers for a shoot out at the CC Corral? (Ok and 12...or 4, or 5. I know...)

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Here is a very old vid of me playing the guitar top left

 

[SteCenturion]

A lovely, passionate exhibition of instruments. Where's @BigonaBianchi when everyone is drawing their six-stringers for a shoot out at the CC Corral? (Ok and 12...or 4, or 5. I know...)

Probably riding his bike where the rest of us should be, I am stuck on a bus.

 

[SteCenturion]

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Here is a very old vid of me playing the guitar top left

I spy with my jealous eye, something beginning with V & is it flying ?

Is that a Yngwie Malmsteen or Jeff Beck Strat too BOAB ? The one with the scalloped neck/fretboard.

Never seen one other than in photos.

Edit.

You can play a bit too BOAB.

When you cut your hair (or lose it) your skills disappear FACT.

Well it happened to me anyway.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I spy with my jealous eye, something beginning with V & is it flying ?

Is that a Yngwie Malmsteen or Jeff Beck Strat too BOAB ? The one with the scalloped neck/fretboard.

Never seen one other than in photos.

No it's not Gibson flying V, it's an 80's Washburn RR10V. The strats are self Modded . My Fav is actually the Mex Classic 70's (middle). The necks have been scalloped out, had Jim Dunlop 6100 fret wire added, brass nuts added, middle pick up removed, both tone knobs removed, custom scratchplate fitted to accommodate just two pick ups. The white one on the left has Kinman avn 50 and avn 60 stacked humbuckers fitted, The cream one has DiMarzio Hs3's fitted. Bith have a medium action set up with .10's-.46 guage strings. My Main guitar of choice is usually the white strat (middle pic).

 

[ianrauk]

Go on @BigonaBianchi
Dig out your rockstar pic...

 

[Simontm]

Here's my workhorse, Jim Deacon acoustic with electric pickups.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've got a mega twang Gretsch Rancher Jumbo. And the little Yamaha is a much guitar fun as you can get for £50!

Also got a Norman acoustic and an old 60/70s Rapier 44 'lectric which I bought exactly 35 years ago with summer holiday wages.

 

[sight-pin]

I was just having a nose on gumtree and noticed this guitar for sale, not that i'd want to buy it mind but thought it interesting.
http://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-ins...ric-guitar-owned-by-john-entwistle/1116765303

 

[jazzkat]

Aye Ste, I keep looking at used F1's, F3's and F4's when they crop on ebay. I love the look of the F1, but I don't know if I have the patience to setup a locking trem, I really like the look of the roller style pots on them too, but again if they failed I wouldn't know where to get parts. I guess that they are probably not everyone's cup of tea, I want a blue one. (I think this is an F3, F1 is a dual humbucker, very similar looking though).

Years ago I taught a lad who had one of those. It was boat anchor heavy and the pots were just weird! You had no idea how far up or down you had turned them. I'm sure you'd get used to them, but it just seemed like a solution to a problem that didn't exist.

 

[raleighnut]

I was just having a nose on gumtree and noticed this guitar for sale, not that i'd want to buy it mind but thought it interesting.
http://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-ins...ric-guitar-owned-by-john-entwistle/1116765303

If he owned and played that bit of plywood no wonder he switched to Bass.

 

[jazzkat]

My family.

Left to right: 80's japanese squire modded with a rather fetching red sparkle paint job and 3 humbuckers (59, kent armstrong, JB). Mid 90's custom shop 54 strat. 52ri tele. Early 2000's Les Paul standard. Peerless Monarch Yamaha f700 steel string acoustic. Paco Castillo 204 nylon string. In front Ibanez s420, Ibanez RG2570.
Not in the pic is my newest. A 65ri sunburst strat - it's an amazing sounding guitar.

These have been acquired over 20 odd years. Most were bought for a particular playing situation/band/gigs. They all get played at gig's and were all chosen after playing and comparing against other similar instruments. For example I went out for an SG, couldn't find a good one, tried what seemed like every Les Paul in Manchester before settling on this one, it was nicer than some big buck historic reissues too!
I'm a musician not a collector.

 

[sight-pin]

Yeah it's strange looking i must admit.

 

[accountantpete]

Here's mine circa 1959 about to get stabbed