What kind of guitar do you use?

I recently bought a Gordon-Smith on Evilbay. I think it's a Graf but the few pictures I could find ont' web have a different headstock. Mine is a Strat-like 6-a-side whereas the others have a 3-a-side design. As with every G-S I've played (not that I've played many, maybe 3 or 4), the neck is amazing. I've checked the G-S website and they don't make them any more. I'll send them an email to see if they can give me any information about it.

Parker Fly

http://www.parkerguitars.com/

An older version than the ones on the website though.

Weird that Parker guitars get mentioned.

Only 5 days ago, I was thinking "hmm, never seen one in the flesh before" and 3 days later, I got a guitar shop catalogue, and they had just started to stock Parker guitars.
I've always wanted to try one, ever since seeing them and hearing about them.

I have a Korean Squire Strat knock-off. Plays just like an American made one. You've got to be out of your mind to pay stupid amounts of money for a guitar. Ask Martin Barre.

Fender American Strat w/ Texas Special Pickups

Ibanez Artcore

Seagull Artist Acoustic

Fender 12 string acoustic

1958 Silvertone Acoustic

Fender Geddy Lee jazz bass

Spector 5 string bass

Hondo banjo

Fender mandolin



I'm saving my pennies for a Parker Fly, though

HughesJB4 wrote:   I don't have any actual photos of my guitar, but the one above the same model that I have, but the finish on mine is a little different. (I'll post pics, when I take some photos of my actual guitar). In terms of MIK guitars, it is pretty high end, and the neck is unbelievable, it plays even better than a MIA Jackson Soloist. It's not that the actual fingerboard is any faster than the Soloist, but the Brian Moore Guitars I12000 have something about the the shape of the back of the neck that lends itself to you being able to alternate pick like crazy on it. It has locking Sperzel tuners, and a graphtec nut, so it barely goes out of tune, and restringing takes 1/3 of the time of any strat with normal tuners. My plans in the next few months are to get a re fret, Dunlop 6000 frets, and get the fingerboard re radiused out to 17 or more inches, hopefully even 20 inches if my bridge saddles can accommodate the change.

I didn't post actual pictures of my guitar the first time around, so here is real pictures of my guitar to update my original post with:










Well, some more updates.

The guitar is, somewhat regrettably, going up for sale, and the planned refret is no longer going to happen for this guitar.
It's easily the most comfortable 6 string electric guitar I have played in my entire life, no doubt helped by the amazing body contours, and the tone is incredible

But as it happens, I've decided to join the world of playing 7 string guitars and in order to fund the necessary modifications to my relatively soon to be coming 7 string guitar, my beloved 6 string has to go up for sale.
For the style of playing I want to get into, I need 7 strings and 24 frets, plus a deeper cutaway to facilitate sweep picking around the upper frets and unfortunately the lower cutaway on my current guitar is just too small and doesn't allow you to get your hand all the way up there to do extreme upper fret sweep picking patterns without your hand bumping into the cutaway.
And well, frankly, the finish is too nice too sand it down, so that option is out too.

While I love the neck on my Brian Moore Guitars I12000, don't get me wrong, whenever I pick up a 7 string guitar, I just like the size of the neck and the way it feels in my hand as I play, so it's not always just about an extra string when it comes to 7 string, but the feel of the guitar too, which is of utmost importance. And as it is now, no 6 string guitar electric guitar neck can ever feel as good to me as a 7 string neck.

And as much as I love my BMG, honestly, I wouldn't play much at all once I get my 7 string and would rather sell it to someone who is going to play it as much as I did and love it as much as I did, rather than let it sit there in the case, the case collecting dust not being opened.
And I may just end up playing 7 string electric guitars exclusively once the BMG, and I look forward to one day buying a dream custom shop made 7 string a few years down the track

And if it so happens that anyone here on PA may be interested in buying this guitar, feel free to drop me a PM asking about it.


Edit: And yes, that is a Planet Waves Joe Satriani signature series guitar strap.
They are really comfortable and well made, and priced very reasonably. A friend of mine payed for half of it for my birthday about 2 years ago, still can't stop loving this strap, and certainly wont be selling it with my 6 string


Edited by HughesJB4 - December 19 2008 at 05:07

Trust me, you don't want to know what guitar I own.

progrocker2244 wrote: Trust me, you don't want to know what guitar I own.      But you will never know what type of crappy guitar I own.

LOL. I bet mine is 10,000 times crappier than mine.

My current guitar is a lower-end Jackson Dinky. I think it's the DX-10D make.

HughesJB4 wrote: ^To be fair, the X series Jacksons are actually not bad for the price and are good enough to get professional level tones out of them. I haven't played the DX10D per se, but the KVX10, which is a King V shape X, but it has the same specs as the DX10D essentially. The neck is a little bit too thick for my liking, but overall, it's a good guitar, and the Duncan Design pickups are good, if not great like the real deal American made Seymour Duncans are (as you can see in the image above, I use Seymour Duncan). Conklins look stunning, but they aren't cheap, and in Australia, not a chance I'd get one, I can get a custom made guitar done for about half the price locally.