are you identifiable as a Strat man or a ???? (or whatever guitar type you might be preferring)

siraxeman · April 2014

I've got 12 electrics...3 Strats (HSS,SSS and HHH) 1 Tele, 1 SG, 1 LP, PRS Custom 22, Ibanez Jem, JS and S2540, Peavey Wolfgang, Brian May RS Replica...and the bottom line is I love them all and can happily gig any of them to the point where its hard to pin me down as a Strat player or a LP player etc...I like what they all do but realise I can't be identified as a Strat man or anything else. I guess the only thing I could say is that I'm mostly into humbuckers. What are you?

guitargeek62 · April 2014

Generally I'm a Strat player, but I like to dabble with 335s and PRS doublecuts.

viz · April 2014

I'm a Callaghan guitars man

Nunogilberto · April 2014

Not really. I've got a good few electrics including an Ibanez PGM, Epi LP/SG, Gibbo Flying V, Fender Tele etc - can't pin me down!

Phil_aka_Pip · April 2014

Them that know me as a guitarist would probably say I'm a Gibson man: I play 3 Gibsons (not all at once) and 2 Yamahas both of which have a lot of Gibson in their ancestry.

Richardj · April 2014

I try to get on with Gibsons but just cannot it seems. I am really a Strat/SuperStrat kind of guy!

downbytheriver · April 2014

Strat man. Except for acoustics when I become Gretsch Synchromatic man....

IanSavage · April 2014

Pretty much exclusively a Tele/Esquire man these days (for six-strings, anyway) - I think I've grown out of bells and whistles and shiny things and just want a simple guitar that will take a beating.

Loobs · April 2014

I'm a boob man

noisepolluter · April 2014

Depends what time of the month you catch me. I alternate between strat, tele and 335 on a pretty regular basis.

I've been avoiding playing any kind of Gretsch whatsoever as there's simply no point in tempting myself if I don't have the money.

Skipped · April 2014

I was an SG guy for many years and didn't "get" Les Pauls even though I had a lovely early re-issue which was kept unloved in the wardrobe *. This is almost certainly because an SG was my first "good" electric guitar and therefore became my standard for scale. weight, everything.

Then one day I suddenly realised that the Les Paul is the perfect solid guitar. A design that was right first time (I like to think that the '52 neck angle was a production error). In fact a design classic. Which is why you must all stop what you are doing right now, and put the pick guard on your Les Paul.

* I don't keep guitars "under the bed" because I believe that this guy is correct. :-O
http://www.es-335.org/2013/02/25/gravity-threat-or-menace/

Lixarto · April 2014

I have given this a lot of thought over the years, and the conclusion is stark and definite: nobody cares.

The audience doesn't care, the rest of your band doesn't care (if you have another guitarist, he[1] may care if you're too sonically or cosmetically similar) and I now wonder if you yourself should care.

[1] And it is, depressingly, almost always a he.

ThePrettyDamned · April 2014

I like double cut in most styles. I like the look of single cuts, but they don't suit my playing so great.

Anything with a fairly slim neck and a radius of 9.5 inch or more is fine. Generally, I like slightly wider necks, as they are a bit easier to switch from a picked riff to a tapped line and back again.

Panama_Jack666 · April 2014

Lixarto said:

I have given this a lot of thought over the years, and the conclusion is stark and definite: nobody cares.

The audience doesn't care, the rest of your band doesn't care (if you have another guitarist, he[1] may care if you're too sonically or cosmetically similar) and I now wonder if you yourself should care.

[1] And it is, depressingly, almost always a he.

Why buy anything other than a Squire strat then?

Lixarto · April 2014

You'll get no argument from me - more than one person has said to me "You make every guitar sound the same"; so it is in the fingers after all

Panama_Jack666 · April 2014

Lixarto said:

You'll get no argument from me - more than one person has said to me "You make every guitar sound the same"; so it is in the fingers after all

Wisdom awarded. There is a good Buddy Whittington song about that. It's of Six String Svengali. The lyrics are ace.

siraxeman · April 2014

I get that "you make every guitar sound the same" but its not stictly true...as i said in the OP I've got 12 elctrics and i can hear differences in all of them, but that said i do sound like me on them all..but thats something i totally get and understand but i'm still aware my PRS Custom 22 doesnt sound like my Telecaster really. Methinks thats what it is when others say that about you/me.

mike_l · April 2014

I've tried, but I can't got on with Gibson, and Gibson-based guitars. Also I don't like Tele's, so it's Strats and SuperStrats for me. Preferably with a Floyd.

The body shape of Strat-based guitars fits me perfectly, and have my arms in the right place, whereas the other designs mentioned don't. IE when playing a LP my right arm feels like it's too far forward.

viz · April 2014

mike_l said:

The body shape of Strat-based guitars fits me perfectly

Like this?

Lixarto · April 2014

siraxeman said: I get that "you make every guitar sound the same" but its not stictly true...as i said in the OP I've got 12 elctrics and i can hear differences in all of them

Yes - the point I am making (with possibly an element of flippancy) is that the majority of audience probably cannot perceive much of a difference, therefore it doesn't really matter.

In summation: we choose a guitar to please ourselves, because we can

meltedbuzzbox · April 2014

Lixarto said:

I have given this a lot of thought over the years, and the conclusion is stark and definite: nobody cares.

The audience doesn't care, the rest of your band doesn't care (if you have another guitarist, he[1] may care if you're too sonically or cosmetically similar) and I now wonder if you yourself should care.

[1] And it is, depressingly, almost always a he.

I totally agree with this.

but in the spirit of the thread I am an offset guitar player.

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