guitarmanjt Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 I'm just curious, if you guys could build your own ideal Gibson Guitar, how would that go? What would it look like? What electronics would it have? What hardware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpanda Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Goldtop Les Paul. '57 Classics Piezo Bridge Handpicked wood 12 Fret Inlay of my signature. Regular chrome Hardware Kluson style tuners Dark back nothin too fancy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fl00dsm0k3 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 it would be shaped like a mandolin with a es 175 style cutaway american flag finish emg 81x 85x sx pa2 ABCX SPC and floyd rose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarmanjt Posted July 13, 2011 Author Share Posted July 13, 2011 Gibson Les Paul Sunburst Finish I don't know much about pickups, but probably Burstbucker 2 and 3, black exposed coils Bigsby Tailpiece A bridge that won't cut through the strings Green Tulip Tuners Trapezoid Inlays Coil Taps on both pickups (If I knew how phase inverting and series/parallel wiring of coils and pickups, I might include them) 1960 imprinted in the pickguard like the Les Paul Classic Chrome Hardware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Hmmmm.... a 335 or 175 Robotted, with a piezo bridge with individual pickups to run through something like the Firebird X stuff, most of the controls hidden with wheels under the pick guard or on an extended pick guard or even hidden on the side of the guitar facing the player as on an AE except with robot you shouldn't need a tuner. A master volume where your pinkie could mess with it while you're playing. Probably tobacco sunburst. Kinda like a Chevy sedan body hiding an 850-hp engine and full racing suspension. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ne14t? Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Goldtop Les Paul. '57 Classics Piezo Bridge Handpicked wood 12 Fret Inlay of my signature. Regular chrome Hardware Kluson style tuners Dark back nothin too fancy... Kinda sounds like what I am working on building. Gunna do a completely bare natural finish Les Paul styled guitar with a heavily spalted maple top, I am going with a Canadian theme on the guitar and I am going to either airbrush or wood burn a very intricate Maple leaf (I am leaning HARD on the wood burning). I am on the debate about staining it to give it an aged look or just sealing it with a clear coat and letting it age naturally. -Kluson Tuners -Piezo Bridge -Seymour Duncan 59 buckers -Jimmy Page wiring (coil taps and phase inverter) -Possibly vintage caps? still on the fence for this -Gunna make the control cavity covers out of Titanium and then blue it, after my awesome sucess of knocking off James Hetfields pick gaurd on the 76 explorer he used I am more then confident this will be cake. I wanted to have some kind of design on the fingerboard like the "tree of life" inlay on Steve Vai's guitar but I think thats just too much work, see where this goes. And I think its the Alex Lifeson les paul that has the piezo bridge but the three way selector acts as the mix for the piezo and the humbuckers THIS IS A MUST FOR MY GUITAR, not sure how I will do it but I want it, otherwise I have to add a fifth knob to act as a mix or maybe go master tone and make one a mix (holy crap I might have had an epiphany right now!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff-7 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 it would be shaped like a mandolin with a es 175 style cutaway american flag finish emg 81x 85x sx pa2 ABCX SPC and floyd rose That might be the most hideous creation (visually and sonically) to ever escape the plant if that ever happened. This type of thread has been beaten to death repeatedly but I'll bite. ES 355 in a nice cherry finish (or maybe Pelham Blue hmm..) Chrome or brushed aluminum hardware Bigsby BK Stormy Monday pups Actual paper in oil caps CS inlays Reflector knobs 60's neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 ES 355 in a nice cherry finish (or maybe Pelham Blue hmm..) Chrome or brushed aluminum hardware Bigsby BK Stormy Monday pups Actual paper in oil caps CS inlays Reflector knobs 60's neck. Close to mine 355 Pelham blue Bigsby Aluminum hardware 57 classic pickups Block inlays Black finished neck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinner 13 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 one of these two designs....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpanda Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 And I think its the Alex Lifeson les paul that has the piezo bridge but the three way selector acts as the mix for the piezo and the humbuckers THIS IS A MUST FOR MY GUITAR, not sure how I will do it but I want it, otherwise I have to add a fifth knob to act as a mix or maybe go master tone and make one a mix (holy crap I might have had an epiphany right now!) Actually Lerxst took out the tone pot for the bridge pup and replaced it with a volume pot for the piezo. the output jacks are where they sounds are mixed and split. the regular jack is a mix of the pups and piezo the "Life-o-sound" jack splits the two sounds. but your way sounds cooler, and much easier to control. but lifesons wiring is mush easier to execute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enmitygauged Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Take Chanmans DB, Add The New Standards locking tuners. Speed Knobs as im not sure if his has em or not. ( I cant remember I was too busy ) Ebony fingerboard Thistle or Crown in the headstock No inlays but a C like the ES137 classic in the neck Burstbucker pro on Bridge P90 on Neck Dark back Plain truss rod cover Tune O matic bridge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 It would be a Firebird shape, with lots of knobs, weird paint jobs, six embedded chips, and would cost a fortune......Oh wait, that wouldn't be a guitar.... [flapper] .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It actually would be a Gibson LP semi-Hollow, with the double cutaway style, '57 pickups, a SOLID AAAAA curly maple top ( like Carvin does ), one piece mahogany back, gold hardware, bigsby, and be signed by TehBeast...... Oh, and be a cinnamon burst........... [thumbup] ( I have a Carvin Custom Shop guitar like this ready to order..) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 If I built a Gibson guitar it'd probly be a fat piece of ****. If Gibson built me one, it'd probly be a Pehlam Blue '61 style SG with p90s or Filtertrons and a short Maestro. I dunno I really dig 335s though maybe same idea as the SG but a 335 with a Bigsby instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 If I built a Gibson guitar it'd probly be a fat piece of ****. If Gibson built me one, it'd probly be a Pehlam Blue '61 style SG with p90s or Filtertrons and a short Maestro. I dunno I really dig 335s though maybe same idea as the SG but a 335 with a Bigsby instead. Definitely gonna have to put a Filtertron in my bridge... some day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 It would be an ES 135 (balsa centerblock) with Axcess heel, 350-style inlays, Bigsby, 57 Classic + bridge/P90 neck. Either black/chrome or white sparkle/gold. Custom f holes, maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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