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Hi!

I had this topic idea since a while, and today I realize it.

So, what would be your dream guitar?With every pieces of your choice?

I start!

Shape:SG

Finish:Silverburst

Bridge:Tune-o-matic

Tailpiece:Lyre Vibrola

Hardware:Silver

Pickguard:Batwing full-face, three-ply black/white/black

Pickups:Angus Young signature Humbucker treble & rythm

Control knobs:Prophecy EX-like, two volume, two tone

Wood:Mahogany

Neck joint:Neck-trough

Neck:slim-taper, rosewood

Inlays:Trapezoid

Headstock:Epiphone-shaped, Gibson marked

Truss Rod Cover:Epiphone shaped, Custom marked

Headstock Inlays:Crown

Tuning keys:Gibson Deluxe with Schaller Mini M6-like pearl knobs

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]I know that it's not an Epiphone, but the Gretsch 125th Anniversary Chet Atkins G6120 isn't just a dream guitar, it's a wet dream guitar. Only 25 will be made. List is $12,500 (although some will, I'm sure, go for much more). Transparent Orange stain over real gold leaf on the body! All gold hardware. You even get a commemorative hand-tooled leather strap thrown in (but then for that price, you should). One of my luthiers saw one at the Namm show and said that pictures don't really do it justice. If I had one it would never go out, just stay hidden away. Hmmmm.....

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Shape: Casino

Finish: Cherry

Bridge: ABR-1 with TUSQ Saddles

Nut: TUSQ

Tailpiece: Vintage Long Trapeze OR 1960's Epiphone "E" Vibrato

Hardware: Nickel

Pickguard: Black 5-ply

Pickups: Custom "Hot-Vintage" Epiphone P90s OR Gibson P90s, Black plastic covers

Control knobs: 1960s Gibson Memphis Tone Circuit, CTS Pots, Switchcraft Jack and Switch, Vintage shielded wire

Wood: Maple ply OR Maple-Birch-Maple-Birch-Maple 5-ply

Neck joint: Long Tenon, meets body at 17th fret

Neck: Gibson 30-60 Taper

Inlays: Trapezoid

Headstock: Epiphone Casino Headstock

Truss Rod Cover: Vintage 2-hole Epiphone E TRC

Headstock Inlays: Epiphone logo

Tuning keys: Kluson single-line, button keys

 

In other words, this:

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I'm actually serious when I say that my current guitar is my dream guitar. I guess in the interests of having a little fun with it, I guess my backup dream guitar would have to be one of those Gibson SG Classics with P90s.

 

Actually better yet, my backup dream guitar would have to be this:Gibson_1996_Les_Paul_Special_DC_TV_Yellow_90316334_1.jpg

 

Gibson Les Paul Special Doublecut, TV Yellow

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I don't really have a dream guitar, just a number of guitars that I lust for at any one time. At the moment I'm lusting for the following.

 

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And, at the moment, I'm lusting for a mid '70s Silverface Fender Princeton Reverb to tackle the clean sounds that my 5E3 can't do.

 

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My dream guitar has been planned for a very long time and , with a MAJOR birthday coming up, I'm kind of hoping....

 

Body Shape: Thinline Telecaster

 

Body Materials: Mahogany with a bound maple cap, like a Les Paul but flat topped. No scratchplate or maybe a clear one.

 

Neck: 57/58 profile Tele 25.5 inch scale maple with a rosewood fingerboard. (Maybe a fixed neck)

 

Tuners: Something like vintage Klusons but with locks if possible.

 

Bridge: Strat type tremolo.

 

Pickups: 2xP90 soapbars. (may consider mini hums but my heart says P90's)

 

Controls: Regular Tele plate and switch but with dual concentric controls (maybe a phase switch added).

 

Hope: that this would achieve my ultimate goal of a Tele/335/Les Paul Jnr/Strat cross.

 

Obviously this would have to be custom made and I've had a couple of quotes around £1400.00. I can't make it myself from parts, even if they were available, as I have neither the time or the skills.

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Shape: 335

Finish: Cherry

Bridge: Tune-o-matic

Nut: Bone

Tailpiece: Frequensator

Hardware: Nickel

Pickguard: White Gibson 335 style

Pickups: Epiphone P-90s OR Gibson P94s (Optional)

Control knobs: Black/Silver Top Hat

Wood: 5-ply Maple

Neck joint: Set Neck

Neck: Gibson 60 slim Taper: 1-piece Mahogany

Inlays: Trapezoid

Headstock: Epiphone "open book" Headstock

Truss Rod Cover: White Epiphone E TRC

Headstock Inlays: Epiphone logo and

Tuning keys: Grover Rotomatic

 

Really just my Valensi Riviera and my Casino put into one!

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My dream guitar just might belong to this guy, and since there's only one of them (not counting "replicas" and "copies") in existence, I doubt he'd be parting with it in any way...I suppose I could live with a Super or Guyton, but ..... I'd still dream of the RS [love]

 

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Dream guitar: Gretsch White Falcon body/neck/headstock/ebonyboard.

Mini Humbucker neck

P 90 (HB size) bridge

2Vol, 1Tone, 1MasterVol & 3way switch

Bigsby,TruArc copper bridge,

all elements gold.

I've got all these elements but just in different guitars,

Time to look for a project hollowbody! [thumbup]

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I think I've already come close with two mid-1970s guitars I picked up where I could find them.

 

One's an Ibanez "patent infringement" ES175 that came out in the Norlin era and was quite an instrument. The other's a guild version of an SG.

 

I just picked up a new Dot.

 

Frankly since I'm not totally a "looks" freak in my old age, the only think I'd like to change would be a master volume on all 3.

 

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I am lucky to have my dream guitar (pic to left): Gordon Smith Galaxy inspired by a 335 but with extra individual touches like a florentine cutaway, inhouse wound H/Bs with coil tap and neat binding. It will take high gain for blues/rock and with one or more coils tapped will give a country snap...eponymously versatile...

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Not so much a dream,I owned them but with being out of work sold them for cash (I'm not whinning someday I'll get them back!)

1969 Gibson LP gold top with 57 classic HB's

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This one really hurts an origional Iron Maiden Strat with 3 stacked humbuckers and a floyd,I dont think they made many and never advertised them.

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The best feeling guitar I have ever owned a 2002 Peavey Wolfgang custom,what unbelieval pickups and feeling neck.

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O well someday I'll replace them.

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