Your Dream Guitar Collection (Electric)

http://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/products/dunable-yeti-worn-black-serial-1613

this is a very very pretty guitar with a terrible headstock logo

if that link dies eventually, I am referring to this guitar (but made out of darker wood): https://dunableguitars.com/?page_id=998

you're not kidding - that logo is a crime

My only electric axe for a while has been a cheapo Johnson solara -- I actually like the way it plays and the tone, but I'm looking to upgrade to something similar but more gigworthy. I was looking at the Guild Bluesbird, which I'm seeing (the more recent ones, not the 70s models) in the $700-1000 range. I'm also seeing DeArmond bluesbird models closer to $500. Is it worth spending more for the Guild? The DeArmond I was looking at happens to have a cool-ass D tailpiece that's a little more distinctive than the guild, fwiw.

People seem to like the DeArmonds (though a little more love for the set-neck versions than the later bolt-on ones.) Latter-day (post-Fender) Guilds (which I assume is the Guild you mean here) are spoken well of, too, but people don’t seem to fall in love with them.

I had a big Jones on for a DeArmond M-77T, just liked the look of them. I had a chance to play an M-75 (earlier model, no Bigsby) and wasn’t 100% taken with it, although it seemed fine for the price.

If you can demo them both, do it! Looks are a huge deal in an instrument, IMO. Nothing to be ashamed of.

I hope I get a chance to play a Guild S-300 sometime... and I hope I don’t like it. Because based on looks alone I’ve been wanting one BAD. In white, pls, with the chrome stock pickups, not those hard-rock DiMarzios.

I'd think some of those Hagstrom reissues might be in your wheelhouse style wise.

I kind of regret not picking up the Paul Westerberg First Act guitar when it was released but maybe I will see it around for like <$50 somewhere. I haven't played in several years so I should sell my guitars but I guess somehow they bring me joy (thx Marie Kondo).

My dream guitar would still be a vintage Gretsch hollowbody (not picky). I still have a rickenbacker330, jazzmaster 62 reissue and this crazy magenta glittertop les paul that my dad got for me when I was 15.

whoops jaguar not jazzmaster.

i still want three electrics although i don't play enough or have enough space to justify them. getting an upgraded japanese jag reissue last year does mean i have one electric that really kicks ass. but i'd still love to get these:

1. a reissue jazzmaster with early specs--sunburst, gold anodized guard, 50s logo.
2. a goldtop les paul with p-90s like the one clay tarver plays with chavez
3. a really resonant tele with a massive maple neck, probably white blonde

I got the jetglo rickenbacker primarily because it was the a color choice for Peter Buck, Carrie Brownstein and Paul Weller. I can't remember why I got a white jaguar. I think maybe because I thought I needed a more elegant color. I got the jaguar over the jazzmaster because short arms. The les paul color is so embarrassing but that guitar is so comfy to play. I also always wanted a Danelectro seafoam guitar but mostly just because of the aesthetics.

At some point I'm going to buy an EGC500. Also I'd like a Moog guitar but I wouldn't spend for it.

I'd really like a Dean Razorback, preferrably with lightning bolts on it, although an explosion would do. But until then, I will get by with my G&L ASAT. Can't fuck with teles, imo. Kinda want something with P90s in it too. I have a G&L Fallout, but I never really got along with the body shape.

As far as basses go, I'm more inclined toward an opposite aesthetic. Interested in trying out an Epiphone Jack Casady or Guild Starfire.

Could put some humbucker-shaped P90s in the imaginary Razorback, I guess.

I have an Epiphone '56 Goldtop reissue with Fralin noise-cancelling P-90s, sounds great.

I bought an unfinished body and neck for a Jazzblaster like Lee Ranaldo but I can't decide what color to have it painted

Olympic white + a fancy pants tortoiseshell guard is a leading option:
https://spitfiretortoiseshellpickguards.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/img_3757.jpg?w=2000&h=1334
but with shiny humbuckers instead of the ivory JM pickups

or charcoal frost, with either fancy tortoiseshell or mint:
https://spitfiretortoiseshellpickguards.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/nick-bock-copy.jpg

Got my dream guitar yesterday. You’ll laugh at how modest a dream it was - I’ve wanted a mid 80s Ibanez Roadstar for years ever since learning that my all time favorite guitar sound, that on Meat Puppets’ Up On The Sun, was not Curt Kirkwood’s characteristic Gibson LP but rather a Roadstar he’d just gotten.

Been in the twin cities for over a week bc my mom is in the hospital and the guitar center in maple grove had a used one for $350 (cream color) and I drove her car out there and played it and loved it and bought it.

It’s not perfect (e string likes to slip off the feet edge a bit) but it’s perfect.

(Note: the other part of the up on the sun gtr recipe per Curt K was one of those Tom Scholz Rockman thingies - do they make some kind of clone of that these days?)

https://reverb.com/item/35773270-japan-casio-fujigen-eg5-1984-grey-guitar-with-a-cassette-player?show_sold=true

https://reverb.com/item/36365364-vintage-travis-bean-tb500-bass-prototype-only-one-ever-made

For $50k you can buy Vincent Gallo's Travis Bean bass

literally a "dream guitar" - last night i dreamed that i found online a vintage blue semihollowbody guitar, but with a headstock that was twice as long as a normal headstock with a hinge in the middle; i.e. the top half of the headstock could fold up. i guess the idea was then you could clip sheet music to this part? for some reason this made the guitar EXTREMELY desirable to me. i don't even read sheet music.

One you can file under cool as he11 but way too much money to ever consider actually purchasing is that Collings Julian Lage signature electric guitar.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mezk2pTbHuNNyEGb8qfGCd-1024-80.jpg.webp