Guitar players, post your guitar pics

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Oh! It’s one of theirs that’s like their Allan Holdsworth sig models? The body is chambered, right? I’d love to hear your impressions of it.

**squeegee **- dude I love your Tele! Any updates on the pickups?

**lieu ** - **Crotalus **is right; I stumbled into Gracie and when I realized how much better it was vs. what I was capable of playing, it inspired me to put my head down and woodshed…don’t read anything into that about my LP replica; it’s just an observation in general…

And yeah - that '57 plays like buttah - I love to have hardcore guitar friends come over and try it out - the looks on their faces are priceless. It really sounds like the Gibson of Telecasters - snappy and responsive but with a Gibby’s thickness and warmth…and the neck is chunky-ish but feels so good you don’t notice…as one of my cruder friends put it “it’s as comfortable as my own c*** in my hand” - I didn’t ask for details and chose to take it as a compliment :wink:

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Here’s all of 'em

http://www.seigle.net/musicroom/musicroom.html

but I’m not much of a gear head.

Here is a guy I met last year who has over 75 guitars, the collection must be worth hundreds of thousands:

http://www.petenoon.com/

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My first guitar was a new Fender Mustang, about 1964. I wish I’d never sold it, not because it was a great guitar but because I sold a lot of memories along withit.

IIRC they never made a natural one, just those candy colors. Did you refinish yours?

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the photo of your gits looks cool - but what are each of them? Especially the little white one resting on the floor! :wink:

I couldn’t go through all of your other guy’s photos - what leads you to believe that he has a valuable collection? Any particular guitars stand out to you?

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I bought mine a couple of years ago for $400 on ebay. The paint was already gone, and it had some crappy varnish on it. I removed that and put some tung oil on it. I really like old Mustangs and thought that this was a cheap way for me to get an all-original (except for paint) classic Fender on a limited budget. I may attempt to paint it some day, probably as close as I can get to its original white.

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He has a 56 and a 57 LP Junior, and a 56 Special. Most of the rest is sheer quantity of nice, but newer, guitars.

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Jeez, I’d love to keep my guitars on the wall on hangers like some of you, but I live in earthquake country – I might set the guitar I’m playing that day on a chair next to me, but I keep all the rest locked in their cases, just in case. We had a 5.0 quake centered not 5 miles from me a few years ago – that was a good wake up! Those guitars on wall hangers would all be in a pile on the floor (or at the very least they’d all bang into each other and the wall).

Nah, I’m still toying with the idea and dithering. Once I got the Schecter straightened out (I had to return it and bought the same model from a different store), I just pick that up when I want a little more oomph, so the situation seemed less important. I’m not averse to the idea, since the Tele’s body comes routed for up to 3 (full size) pickups, and I can just replace the pickguard and do some soldering. And after, I’d still be able to put the guitar back the way it was the day they made it by reversing the process and putting back the pickups and pickguard. I may start incrementally with some of the Duncan direct Tele pickup replacements, but there’s no hurry. I like the Tele pretty good just the way it is.

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If you click on a guitar you’ll get a pop-up with details. Except the little white one on the floor, which I got for my son when he was 3. :smiley: And the one next to it which is a short-scale classical that, to my chagrin, he never learned to play. Also a few pix below the main one, which you can click on.

Sheer quantity. He has 13 PRS’s, 15 Les Pauls, 15 Strats, 8 Teles, and another 22 miscellaneous. Maybe not collector’s items but none of it junk. He also has walls of amps. I never played with him, just met him at work.

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Ah - sorry; didn’t read the page closely enough. That Hofner looks tre’ cool! And I love your '73 ES-335; minor nit: fwiw, many years come with a trapeze TP that doesn’t have a vibrato unit. I think they switched to trap TP’s in the mid 60’s and stuck with them for about a decade. I know of a geek site with a ton of detail about Gibson models through the years if you would like to verify that…

As for that guy - whoa, you aren’t kidding - that’s a LOT of gear. But darn if it doesn’t seem like overkill. Unless he is collecting to get “an example from each year” or some other overall theme that requires multiple version, what does anyone do with 15 examples of the same basic model??? Don’t get me wrong - I would kill to have the clearance to buy 75 guitars and a wall of amps, but after a while it I bet they would all blur together…

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Nope, mines solid, neck-through design. Here it is on Carvin’s site I’m not a fan of the Holdsworth model (I haven’t played it, but it’s ugly to me. No interest).

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Ah - got it. Cool. How slim n’ fast is the neck? It is my understanding that that is what Carvins are known for - which would make it hard for me, since I am fan of big, chunky, baseball bat necks…

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By the way, there are 5 active guitar threads on the front page of CS - well, really only four since squeegee mis-posted to an old thread, but you get the idea.

Very cool!

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It’s a 12" radius and pretty thin. Not too thin though. I don’t have large hands but I have no problems playing it. Also, it’s a tung oil finish so it’s got a great soft feel all throughout the neck. I’ll see if I can get some better pics tonight.

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I have no particular interest in guitars, but this picture is something else. Beautiful cat and beautiful guitar - together they’re irresistible.

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Thanks! I just wanted a pic to capture them together and kinda got lucky…

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First I’ll make the disclaimers… my only camera is my cell phone, and my only room with adequate light for photos is my bathroom. So, please be nice regarding the craptacular picture quality. Also, I’m very much not a gear guy, so apologies in advance for not knowing exact years/models/etc.

Anyway, I don’t name my guitars, but each one has at least a little bit of a story:

Guitar #1 : This was my first guitar, I think I was maybe 10 years old when I got it. It’s a Montoya something or other. When I was in high school, I became briefly entranced with Michael Hedges, so I tried to thread a bass string in to it - as a result, it can no longer support a low E string, and could (I guess) now be considered a 5-string. Ah, the foolishness of youth…

Guitar #2 : Lap steel. Has the name “Challenger” on it, but it looks oh-so-homemade in every way. I picked it up at a yard sale back in the day for $20. It had a great sound, until the pickup stopped working, largely due to the fact that I took it apart and reassembled it. Poorly. (Foolishness of youth X2)

Guitar #3 : Ibanez “RAWK your face off” kind o’ guitar, unsurprisingly obtained when I was in high school. I remember the guy in the guitar shop making me “audition” on another guitar before he let me touch it. Supposedly, they made relatively few of this model with this particular paint job, so it would be worth some money, had it not suffered an extremely unfortunate break in it’s neck during an apartment move several years ago. Not that I could ever bear to sell it anyway…

Guitar #4 : Ovation acoustic-electric. Absurdly light and feels almost like a toy, but has (had?) the best sound of almost any plugged in acoustic I have played. This guitar has travelled across the world with me, has broken completely in half mere minutes before a performance, and also has a big chunk missing from the headstock due to a foolish studio technician. Pretty much unplayable these days, but I still love it.

Guitar #5 : Also Ibanez, but it’s a copy of a (much better) Gibson model. Currently in desperate need of a pickup transplant to get a brighter sound, but other than that, its fantastic.

Guitar #6 : Alvarez acoustic-electric. This is the one that I have with me at (almost) all times. I was prepared to pony up for a much more expensive guitar, but of all the ones on the wall, this one just felt right when I played it. Also, its a jumbo, and since I sing extremely loud, it fits me perfectly. It is the only guitar I had to once get in a fistfight to hold on to, which proves that sometimes people just plain suck. However, it was once lost and then returned to me by some extremely nice folks, which proves that sometimes people are just plain awesome.

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All my bass guitars are here on my Web site (scroll down).

I still need to get pictures of my thin-stringers up there: a Gibson BN-25 acoustic (not sure what year - that model was built from 1963-73, and my grandfather gave it to me in 1981), a really crappy Kramer Pacer, and an ugly, no-name, made-in-Japan SG copy that happens to have the best playing neck of of any electric I’ve ever laid hands on.

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Neither of mine is anything very special.

Electric - Ibanez Gio - Nothing to see here. This was what came in the starter pack that I bought back in January of this year when I got started playing. It plays really well for a beginner guitar.
Acoustic - Gretsch Dorado - I found this at a yard sale for $40 a few weeks ago. From what I’ve been able to learn, it’s a Japanese import from 1972 or 1973. It’s quickly become my preferred guitar even though it’s much tougher to play than my electric…

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I’ll be with you as soon as I can - in the process of trying to add pictures to my website, I seem to have taken the whole ^#% thing down… I can tell you the difference between amin6 and F#m7b5, I just can’t be trusted with any form of communication invented after the quill pen.

At any rate, on the subject of the infamous Godin 5th Avenue, I’ve decided to wait until they ship the Kingpin model that has the P90 pickup in it. At present, I don’t really need an acoustic that has no electronics, and I’ve got no time to sell the old steelie to get a new one. I’ll be keeping y’all posted, though.

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Hey stpauler, did you see my oud? I bought it in Cairo. No case, just a soft cover, so I had to carry it on to get it back home. Didn’t know you played when I saw your Egypt thread or I would have mentioned it.

Great photo, looks like an album cover :cool: