Thread: Guitar players out there?

I play rock, metal, blues, soul and country. I've got an Epiphone Sheraton which is a eally nice guitar but I'm thinking of getting an Ibanez or a PRS more for the rock and metal. I've got a Seagull electro-acoustic and a Fender jazz bass too.
My guitar heroes are Brian May, Eric Clapton, John Petrucci, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
I play a bit of piano too.

I have my eye on a Gibson SG 61 RI right now, I'm trying to get SWMBO on board.
I've always been partial to Gibson's, I love Les Paul's, but they're like hanging an Anvil around your neck. I love the Blues, Classic Rock, and the sound out of the 57 Humbucker's on the SG, flat out...

I have had TOO MANY guitars and such but my current line up includes:

~ Greenridge Acoustic 00 12 fretter
~ Warmoth Tele that I cobbled together (Pau fero Baseball bat neck, Lacewood semihollow body, earvan nut, schaller locking tuners, Torres engineering bluescaster wiring harness and pickups...)
~ Teisco ET-300 (with three Gold Foil Pickups)
~ Teisco Tulip (x2)
~ Teisco ET-100
~ Eastwood Mosrite copy
~ Harmony Hog (An H165 circa 1962 all solid mahogany)

I have a yen for prolitariate instruments of yesteryear.

I don't play the way I used to, but that comes and goes. I am more of a collector these days. Some of my favourites right now include:

-71 Les Paul DeLuxe...this is my go-to guitar. It plays everything well, it's fast, warm, bright...plugged directly into an amp it sounds like a dream and holds notes endlessly and effortly.
-73 Les Paul DeLuxe...exactly the same as the above (70-74 I believe were all identical), except that it was owned, played and smashed by Pete Townshend. He gave it to one of his roadies, who picked up all the pieces and put it back together the way Townshend had it before (he did some small modifications to it, nothing too crazy). I think it probably sounds better now than it did originally lol.
-66 Gretsch Chet Atkins Nashville...hollowbody with paint-on f-holes (so, no cut outs). I find it's a bit brighter and a bit less muddy than most hollowbodies, but without an eq pedal it's usually a bit too muddy for what I like playing.
-Late 60's MicroFrets Carl Perkins Custom...If you ever see a picture of Carl Perkins playing a black hollowbody with his name inlayed on the neck, that's this guitar (there was only 1 ever made). I wish I could tell you how it played and sounded, but I don't want to touch a thing on it. I will tell you that every single piece of this guitar is like nothing else I've ever seen before. Everything looks absolutely custom made. I would love to see another MicroFrets guitar up close to compare the two. MicroFrets was one guy who made all the guitars and when he died they went out of business, and I've always wondered if he made a bunch of components that he used on all of his guitars.

What's up with that??? No Gibsons, no Deerings, no White Ladies!!! Surely among all of you fine folks there is a bluegrasser. One who appreciates Bill Monroe, Earl.... and the rest. Good grief!!!!!

I've got a Fender banjo if that makes you feel any better I'm not even close to being able to play anything like bluegrass though.

I've got a Furch acoustic, an Epiphone Dot, a '57 Hohner electric lap guitar, a Taylor travel guitar, a GeorgeBoards weissenborn style lap guitar and a Johnson metal-bodied resonator, as well as a couple no-namers for good measure. Oh, and also a 3-string cigar box guitar
I mainly play in the neighborhood of blues/rock, and particularly love delta blues stuff. I play both lap style and regular. More acoustic than electric for me. I love guitars, but that might have been obvious

Guitar player checkin' in! I play an ESP LTD-MH 301 and A Wooden Gibson Flying V at home. I also play an Epiphone Hummingbird Acoustic mostly in school; I teach music.

i actually got into straight shaving through my guitar work. i've played for twelve years and have gotten into luthiery in the last three. After getting fed up with spending money on cartridge razors i decided if i could get my chisels and knive sharp enough for guitar work i could do the same with a straight. With a little time and effort i found i was right.
i currently own a 2005 gibson lespaul standard (lost three guitars in a house fire used the insurance money to buy it).
a ibanez gax 70 ( my first guitar)
a samic copy of an es-335
a tacoma not sure of the model
and a classical acoustic.
i'm also currently working on a rebuild of an old 1800's parlor guitar, if i ever get it finished maybe i'll post pictures

Nice to see some players on here! I like bluesy stuff like SRV, BB King, Buddy Guy, Hendrix. Also a big fan of Eddie Van Halen and John Mayer. I think John Mayer's tone is really heaven on earth. Being away from where i actually live I still took a guitar with me. Nothing fancy, a modified chinese J&D. Being a bit of a guitar tech, I put rewound Alnico V single coils, new pickguard, Kluson Deluxe tuners, Fender saddles, input jack, a treble bleed mod...I think the fit and finish on these is great for that price and I love it even tho it's cheap. They wouldn't let me take the guitar into the plane with me, so i had to put it in my luggage with the neck unbolted. Had to think about it all the time. Well "United breaks guitars", SAS apparently doesn't Here's a picture: