Seriously Good Looking Guitars - The Guitar Porn Thread

[gnoriac]

Not sure how it plays

I'm guessing completely awful when her elbow's stuck right in front of your face. Also, if you think how much a Les Paul weighs then multiply it several times...

 

[damnhippie]

always had a soft spot for Leo Fender's post-Fender basses...

G&L ASAT

Ernie Ball Musicman Sabre

and the Stingray

jury's out on the Big Al, though... think i might like it, kind of retro-futurist...

 

[miniGMgoit]

I'm a big fan of the stingray bass. Bit thumbs up from me. Perfection.

 

[damnhippie]

I'm a big fan of the stingray bass. Bit thumbs up from me. Perfection.

yeah, love 'em.

i can only afford a cheap copy ...it still sounds great though, i think the secret to *that* sound is in the pickup placement.

I've just realised that the Big Al is not a leo Fender, he had left for G&L by then. ah well.

 

[chriswill]

 

[longdog]

How have we got this far without mention of the 4001/4003?

 

[damnhippie]

there was a Ric a few pages back i think ...great basses, one of my favourite designs.

 

[AndyFilo]

How have we got this far without mention of the 4001/4003?

I love the Glow-Burst finish or whatever Rickenbacker call it.

 

[longdog]

there was a Ric a few pages back i think ...great basses, one of my favourite designs.

Lovely to look at but at two grand a pop they fucking should be

 

[Silva]

I love the Glow-Burst finish or whatever Rickenbacker call it.

I'm quite parcial to the Rickenbackers' fretboard and headstock, myself

 

[Steel Icarus]

Benedetto "La Venezia".

Guess how much. Then click on the link to find out.

http://benedettoguitars.com/guitars/flagship-series/la-venezia/

 

[Weller]

Always regret selling my Gordon Smith Gemini , amazing guitar but didnt realize how good it was until after Id sold it still get to play it once in a while but he wont sell it back to me , pretty expensive and rare now , one of the few British clasics that competed withe the best Les Pauls imo and with coil taps on the push and pull tone knobs did passable Fender and Tele sounds too despite the heavy body , beautiful smooth neck , I miss it a lot , a silly sale at the time sold for a pointy headstock Ibanez that I grew out of soon after

And these were pretty strange no hi res pic though... a 90s Skeletar wouldnt suit my style of music now though

kept this one though its my late 70s Matsumoko Cardinal Series CS 350 one of the few great Jap guitars , fantastic playable neck and amazing sustain string sound separation with coil taps on both pick ups and phase switch on both too it does nice impressions of all the classic solids plus some of its own .
There were some good Jap stuff these and the CS400 Matsumoko made Arias are a steal if you can find a good looked after one imo much much better than the stuff made in Korea afterwards and they still dont fetch too much despite the build / wood / pickup quality

 

[Weller]

and.... my faithfull Fender Newporter 70s Accoustic , never leaves me the Electric sized neck and action suits me great.

Cardinal Series PE 1000 special , as played by Andy Summers from the Police , stunning overlooked Jap classics guitars , crazy sustain and the carved woodwork is beautiful especially the sunken knobs , the reissues dont come close in quality or sound a time when Matsumoko were putting out some real classic stuff amongst the mass produced cheap models they produced for other makers ,fantastic value at the time and could have been made by top class British guitar makers Chris Eccleshall or Gordon Smith the quality playability and sounds are all there plus built like tanks , fixed neck and amazing action .
The neck to body heel joint puts a Les Paul to shame as far as upper fret access goes Gibson later nicked the idea for their "scooped neck joint" Les Pauls

and my 70s basic Cardinal Club Sound 200 never seen another one , my first Cardinal found it in an old guys wardrobe still in its plush case he let me have it for £25.00 , its a great player but needs better pick ups really being the base model but it has its own sound

My guitar wankfest nearly over the others I have no pics of , yet , lol , my Antoria 335 knock off , only thing that lets it down is on the headstock it embarrassingly had the name ROCK STAR , which I painted over , its not that far off a real one and is a bit more bluesy sounding if anything everyone is a bit shocked when they hear how good it sounds but I dont think it has the original pick ups .

Always been a fan of finding some of the good cheapys besides my love of Gordon Smith or expensive models which I always end up selling when times get rough and I miss Musical Exchanges in Brum when it was once full of over 500 second hand guitars , saturdays have never been the same since they changed it when ebay came along : (

love this thread seeing different stuff just a shame cant pick it all up : )

 

[southside]

ALEMBIC make some of the scariest looking Basses I've ever seen they are most likely the cream of the crop and their guitars are even scarier.

This Tribute is a bit scary looking but gorgous. I dont really like the HHS pickup config of their other guitars.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

ALEMBIC make some of the scariest looking Basses I've ever seen they are most likely the cream of the crop and their guitars are even scarier.

This Tribute is a bit scary looking but gorgous. I dont really like the HHS pickup config of their other guitars.

Holy crap they look absolutely revolting.

 

[TitanSound]

How have we got this far without mention of the 4001/4003?

Used by Geddy Lee of Rush at one point iirc.

 

[southside]

John Entwhistles Alembic bass

I first heard of them when I started checking out Stanly Clarke.

http://www.doctorbass.net/imagftp/imagAux1_Stanley_Clarke.jpg

 

[idioteque]

I want this; Suhr S3 Bengal Burst.

*drool*

 

[southside]

This is my favorite incarnation of the mighty Gibson Les Paul Custom.

 

[southside]

My favorite jazzer sexy looking guitars of all time

D'Angelico New Yorker

D'Aquisto, who was an aprentice of D'Anjelico

Gibson Super 400

These jazz boxes are a million miles from the way I play guitar and would be a waste but they are my all time favorite looking guitars.

 

[joevsimp]

I never went for the Gretsch in the end (couldn't manage the neck) So I went for a 72 tele custom

wan't sure about the sunburst at first, but I got sick of waiting for fender to ship a black one in from the states.

I missed the chance to get one of these ex demo though

E2a: btw I'm not an idiot so I didnt pay an extra hundred quid for the roughed up one with no varnish, I'm planning to customise mine in the new year

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I never went for the Gretsch in the end (couldn't manage the neck) So I went for a 72 tele custom

wan't sure about the sunburst at first, but I got sick of waiting for fender to ship a black one in from the states.

My 71 telecaster deluxe looks a bit like that but with a Jazzmaster headstock (and it's black). Mine is all roughed up though because it really did come from 1971 (or was that 72?), mind you it was in pretty good nick before I got my hands on it (maybe around 20 years ago now - yipes)

I missed the chance to get one of these ex demo though

Where is the tremolo (vibrato) section?
I might spray mine black, it looks quite cool.

 

[joevsimp]

Where is the tremolo (vibrato) section?
I might spray mine black, it looks quite cool.

I think it's supposed to be an imitation of Cobains one, with the weird bridge and trem replaced with a tune0matic

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I think it's supposed to be an imitation of Cobains one, with the weird bridge and trem replaced with a tune0matic

I replaced my bridge with a mustangs and stuck on another metal rolly 'buzz stop' thing behind that (about where the back bit in that pick is) to help it stay in tune (but really I just thought it looked nice).

 

[miniGMgoit]

Brian Eastwood Guitars

Distortocaster

Distortocaster

Jellycaster

 

[gnoriac]

and.... my faithfull Fender Newporter 70s Accoustic , never leaves me the Electric sized neck and action suits me great.

Looks good, but what's it play like? The few Fender acoustics I've tried struck me as mediocre, if not poor.

 

[Weller]

Looks good, but what's it play like? The few Fender acoustics I've tried struck me as mediocre, if not poor.

It plays real nice and easy in my hands , its mainly that for out and out sound quality theres better than the Fenders even the good old ones I agree and I too would usually skip Fenders for quality accoustics but lots of companies I think produces some classic stuff that for some reason sounds much better too as they age and with experimenting with setups / strings etc.

I had a great Welsh made Merlin Accoustic guitar thats been passed along family now that also played and sounded fantastic but Merlin made crap electrics that fell apart and got reviewed as such so the decent acoustics they made were short lived too , that one too wont leave the family.

Best acoustic Ive ever played and always been out of my price range when I find one and very rare now are the 70s Aria Paul Brett models , stunning guitars in my opinion , you know you are holding something special if you come across one of those but pretty rare now and most accoustics they have made since have never matched those , why do they stop making stuff like that .

Ive got a real nice jack of all trades Ibanez too that was nice out the box but nothing Ive ever picked up plays as nice for me as the newporter can spend hours on it and no aches.
This Fender was different and Id played one before seeking my own out due to getting lots of cramp in hands at time , these have a real easy neck unlike the other models but I dont have banana fingers .
Soundwise it has a great blues tone , for licks and bendy sustains stuff or arpeggios /finger plucking not really a full on just hard strum sound its just ... nice for hammering on and vibratos stuff like that really stand out

I think The new Fenders accoustics are poor too and most the accoustics were imo but the Mahogany Newporters have aged really well in my opinion but its mainly about the feel they are the only accoustic Ive come across with a neck that makes it really comfortable for me to come straight on to after the electric due to the neck that they have .
mine is very picky on strings too light and it sounds silly , it took a while for it to sound great but always played fantastic very fast neck for leads with an action most acoustics wouldn't get close too without losing all the tone my nephew whos into heavy metal type shredding can even do that lightening fast on it .

But people didnt buy em so Later Newporter reissues were all veneer and ply cheaper and nastier anyway I think



mine sounds better than this guys though his sounds more tinny than mine but that could be his webcam mic or may have the one with a bolt on neck or dead strings , they have great sustain usually for lead work , as mad as that sounds some of the early Newporters have bolt on strat necks and they seem to lose some of the deep "jazziness" mine has the strat neck but its fixed , Strange talking about bolt on and fixed necks about acoustics but yeah Fender were always quirky with acoustics and some had bolt on necks like the cheap Ekos had , Fender they used the necks from the telecaster and stratocaster production lines on the Newporters and Malibus hence why they feel like an electric to play.

Going by the comments on this video some there have also noticed that Fender kept messing with the Newporter and Malibu range.

Youve probably noticed Im a bit attached to mine and geeky about them , not something I can say about most of my purchases that have come and gone.

Interesting idea for a thread though right up my street

 

[starfish2000]

This is my baby. I impoted her from Japan. She's amazing

 

[miniGMgoit]

Thread resurrection in order to honor the Gretsch 1962 Duo Jet

fap fap fap fap

 

[Steel Icarus]

I dunno...I should love the look of Gretsch guitars, but somehow I just don't.