What do you use your guitars for?

Catthan

Tyler Strat: Functions & sessions
59 LP replica: same
"Huff" parts-strat: Backup & public gigs and some sessions.
Epi LPC 90 (MIJ): All the above
Ibby 335-alike: Jazz
MIK thinline tele: Decoration (wall hanger) & Nashville-y sessions

xSkarloey

impmann said:

richardhomer said:

Skarloey said:
I sincerrely hope that this is accompanied by much chin stroking beforehand, lots of guitar face during, and composed relfection on a good job of guitar work well done afterwards. 

Oh go on - make a joke out it!

In order to become so adept at blues guitar work, I've lived a life of repression, poverty and emotional insecurity - in the hope that others will be moved by my chosen means of expression.

This was no easy life-choice, I can assure you....

How is the cotton harvest of Manchester this year? ;-)

Pretty good I'm told (it's all that rain you know).

They're using the finest of the cotton to spin the yarn for Eric Clapton's latest Armani suit so he can wear it to play dem blues, boy.  

moz91

Les Paul - 'main guitar'

Patrick Eggle Berlin Pro - 2nd guitar for rock stuff. Trem gives me options for widdly stuff, and also does a good single coil.

80's Jap strat - Stratty stuff. Everyone needs a strat.

Tele - Stones trib. Occasionally wheel it out for other gigs when i feel like it.

Old mex strat - fitted out with single coil sized humbuckers and strung with 11's. Wheel it out every now and then for rock stuff, just for shits & giggles and nostalgic reasons more than anything else!

Eggle New York Broadway - occasionally used for Get Stoned. Should really use this more. Great guitar...

(Hopefully NGD) Berlin Plus Hardtail - this will most likely rotate with Les Paul as number 1 go to guitar

Jackson dinky - lives under the bed. Has no pickups. Will one day get kitted out with a proper floyd and some emgs purely for reasons of stupidity!

Larrivee OM10 - Main acoustic

Ibanez Satriani Sig acoustic - demoted to number 2 on arrival of Larrivee. Great guitar! On the rare occasion an acoustic is needed as part of a full band I'll use this, quite a big sound and can cover some ground that the OM cant.

Couple of other cheap acoustics and nylons kicking around at home too. Oh and i want a bass.
I think i've got a problem...  

failed_astronaut

All three electrics are getting used in the Police tribute band. If we're playing a short set I'll probably only use one and have a backup but if we're doing a long set I'll make sure I swap between the strat or tele for variety and I've been using the Les Paul Studio for the Sting stuff as Dom Miller uses a LP more than single coils (new album is the exception). 

For the new covers band I'm favouring the LP Studio but again, I'll take either the strat or tele for a different flavour.

My Martin sits in the living room for occasional noodling and my Bass languishes in it's case at the moment.

Can't wait till @HarrySeven chimes in!

guitarfishbay

failed_astronaut said:

Can't wait till @HarrySeven chimes in!

I think he started typing yesterday, still going 

Nunogilberto

Epi LP Custom - main guitar for jam nights etc

2016 Gibson LP Standard T - occasional player, take it to rehearsals etc. Nice to pull out of the case and just admire.

Squire Bullet Strat - modded to an EVH style by myself; hard tail, single HB and volume. Thrashing about in the house and occasional jam night beater.

ewal

Reverend Manta Ray - nominally main guitar, lives mostly in open tunings and used in nominally slow-core'ish mode

Toronado build - nominally second guitar, lives mostly in tuning somewhere near standard and nominally used in a very noisy alternative rock sort of way

Jazzmaster build - nominally third guitar, living mostly in more off-beat tunings and used as per Toronado but perhaps think more Swervedriver than Mogwai

Reverend Club King - currently gathering dust but strung to undertake baritone like duties if the mood takes me

Yamaha acoustic - demo mode of all of the above

Strat build - currently gathering dust in my son's room

Tokai Jazz bass - gathering dust awaiting the moment I need a bass line

DLM

axisus said:

They are all to annoy the wife. Some with cacophony and some just by being there.

Awesome! Can you teach me all those sweeps, man?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Cacophony_-_1988_-_Go_Off!.jpg

ICBM

Of course if we're including basses as well then it gets simpler.

Rickenbacker 4001 - for using with the band.

Fender Pawnshop Mustang Bass - to disappear into my daughter's bedroom never to be seen again.

Sassafras

If you can't play everything on a Strat, you're doing something wrong.

HarrySeven

guitarfishbay said:

failed_astronaut said:

Can't wait till @HarrySeven chimes in!

I think he started typing yesterday, still going 

Lol!

Errr...mine are primarily used for occupying the entire volume of several large rooms.

Dave_Vader

Anything without a trem is there to look at in a panic and wonder what to do with during any kind of solo

Anything with a trem is for hurriedly retuning after every solo

Acoustics and Basses are for gigs where I actually make some money.

Blueingreen

All my guitars currently are Gibson HH or Suhr HSS.  That means they are pretty interchangeable for rootsy rock stuff where I almost exclusively use the bridge humbucker, but I tend to take a Suhr to gigs/rehearsals so I have a trem, even though I use it very sparingly.

I'd use a Strat single coils for funk rhythm and occasionally creamy leads.  Also occasionally to dabble in some Knopfleresque out of phase stuff.

For jazzy stuff I use neck p/ups mainly, sometimes a bucker but I'm actually surprisingly happy with a  Strat single coil for jazz.  Also recently found myself moving away from traditional jazz tones to something a little less bassy creamier, with a touch of distortion.

The Suhrs pretty much cover everything I need soundwise but the Gibsons are just a little easier to play because of the scale length.  Hence I'm on the look out for an equivalent to my Suhrs but shorter scale, or an equivalent to my Gibsons with a trem.

JD50

64 Jaguar and 72 Mustang, I use one or other daily to wind down after work and sometimes before. Use them at the studio at least once a week, gig record etc one of them is always out of the case laying around the house as my daughter has started to take an interest only 5 but likes to tinker. Plus my wife seems to like them.... Perhaps more the amp as its tweed and matches the sofa..... Also have a vista series musicmaster bass for recording at home and bass is fun.

Grunfeld

Ibanez RG 1570  -- favourite for practise; probably used for 75% of gigs
Epiphone Sheraton II -- 2nd favourite for gigging.  Sounds so cool with the Stormy Mondays. 
Taylor GS mini -- armchair / sit on the back step guitar

Fender Jazzmaster -- loved it for gigging but relegated since it started causing a few hand aches

grungebob

I only have two electrics
my PRS McCarty I use for Low to mid gain stuff
and my Custom 22 I use for clean and heavy stuff it. It splits better than the McCarty and does the high gain stuff better too but the McCarty just sounds sweeter for mid gain stuff. 

Oh oh an I really want to try one of the new Musicman cutlass if that's the Strat like one?

IvisonGuitars

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Jimbro66

Gibson 335 for blues and faux jazz. Also for Travis/Atkins stuff at home (can't afford a Gretsch).

Warmouth H/H Tele for rock and recording sessions.

Schecter Esquire for alt country, rockabilly and dubious Albert Collins impersonations.

Atkin OM for all solo gigs.

McKenna square-neck resonator because the missus thinks it sounds lovely.

Fender Deluxe 8 steel guitar also for occasional alt country/ rockabilly duties.

Weissenborn copy for occasional fairly pathetic attempts at country blues.

TTony

Each new guitar that I buy is going to be my route to much-delayed fame & fortune.

In reality, each new guitar is just another distraction which further delays any sort of guitar-playing competence.


The Kawais satisfy my desire to "collect" something.
The self-builds demonstrate my slowly declining incompetence at building guitars.

octatonic