Guitars...a "best of" approach

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I was thinking of how I recently said that I think PRS has the best stoptail bridge and the best tuners IMHO. Then I wondered if I could say they were make my favorite guitar. Then I realize that I think LPs have the best switch position, but that Tom Anderson seems to be the best all around build quality. Then I started to think about my favorite pickups, and got a hearache. So, if I had to build a "best of beast", what would it be? Subject to edits, I would say:

Tom Anderson body
PRS satin neck with V12 finish (like on the NF3)
PRS Tuners
PRS Stoptail Bridge
Alpha mini pots
Elixr Strings
Schaller strap locks
Upper bout pickup selector (yes, even on a double cut!)
Pickups - I personally cannot chose just one - too many comparable great ones

The body shape could vary for me, as Anderson makes quite a variety.

So, what would your "best of" be?
 
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This........
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it makes all the right earth shattering sounds and can kill an intruder/or deflect gunfire without losing tune.....

--these are life saving attributes other instruments just cant manage! ---the swamps a rough and tumble area ................
 
Here ya go Ray.
If you ask Paul nice I'm sure he'll make
one with the wraparound for you.

th


:)
 
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I cannot understand why folks go for strap locks, grolsh rubber stoppers are so much cooler and more functional, imho.

I've come to like the convenience of locking tuners and a stiff maple neck, also the toughness of a tele. I like a punky bridge humbucker and a sweet articulate neck p90, a mahogany or swap ash body and big bass style bridge or a nice us version Gibson bridge and tailpiece. The vintage Fender tuners with the hole in the top are also great.
 
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Stratocaster Flattop Body - 10% Larger than original - solid mahogany - jet black poly - abalone binding

Rear route - triple humbuckers

Flush mount OFR

Mahogany neck - 1-7/8" wide ebony fretboard - 12" radius - block inlay - vintage Fender frets - abalone binding on neck - headstock unbound - vintage Fender tuners and roller string trees.

Large Emerson pots, cloth Gravitt wiring, Standard Strat 1volume 2 tone but with individual K40Y tone capacitors - a .033uf bridge and .015uf neck - lower tone affecting bridge only and top tone affecting middle and neck.

Triple Carvin M22SD's

Dunlop Straplocks so one strap can move between multiple guitars...
 
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Robert Herndon said:
Stratocaster Flattop Body - 10% Larger than original - solid mahogany - jet black poly - abalone binding

Rear route - triple humbuckers

Flush mount OFR

Mahogany neck - 1-7/8" wide ebony fretboard - 12" radius - block inlay - vintage Fender frets - abalone binding on neck - headstock unbound - vintage Fender tuners and roller string trees.

Large Emerson pots, cloth Gravitt wiring, Standard Strat 1volume 2 tone but with individual K40Y tone capacitors - a .033uf bridge and .015uf neck - lower tone affecting bridge only and top tone affecting middle and neck.

Triple Carvin M22SD's

Dunlop Straplocks so one strap can move between multiple guitars...
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I knew you would have a detailed response ready!!
 
RVA said:
It is all what you are used to I guess. Honestly, I play a variety of guitars so I am not used to anything, but the LP location provides the quickest access for me and interrupts my playing the least.
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Same here. I played my SG for years and years before I ever got a Les Paul. I had my Stratocaster before a Les Paul, too. So, you'd think that if I was used to anything, it would be the SG/Strat switch position. But, I very quickly got to prefer the LP position.
 
Robert Herndon said:
My goal is to get down to one main guitar and my Destroyer...
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I play the same guitar all gig so whatever I grab going
out the front door is the main guitar for that night.
They take turns so none of them become disgruntled.
If nothing goes wrong and I don't take the backup
out of the case that night, the backup gets to be
the main guitar on the next gig.

I like to keep them all happy.
(...and yes, I talk to them during a gig.)
 
RVA said:
It is all what you are used to I guess. Honestly, I play a variety of guitars so I am not used to anything, but the LP location provides the quickest access for me and interrupts my playing the least.
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Same here. But, I learned to play on a Les Paul and played one exclusively for the first decade of my guitar life, so the controls on them are telepathic to me - I never even think about them. When I play other guitars it takes me a bit to adjust to the controls, I'm always looking for the pickup selector where it is on an LP.

As far as "best of" I'm not really sure. I kind of like having different guitars for different purposes because they force me to play and think differently. Les Paul's are like an extension of my body at this point and I feel and play the best with one, but it can become a crutch in a way, so I like to force myself to pick up my Tele or PRS or one of the others and sometimes that creates a situation where I play a certain way or get a certain sound out of it that I likely wouldn't have created with the Les Paul. So, I don't think there is one amalgam of different design elements and parts that is my ideal. It'd certainly be based on the Les Paul if there were because nothing else is as comfortable for me, but I think I'd prefer to just keep using different ones for different reasons.
 
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