Quote from: V M on May 08, 2014, 12:08:42 AM
A poem:

I love my guitar

I love my guitar and my guitar loves me

My guitar makes no presumptions, assumptions or judgments upon me

My guitar does not play stupid games or gossip about me behind my back

Even when it seems there is no love for me in this world, my guitar is there and unwavering, always ready to sing

I love my guitar

Nice poem!



I have a $400 budget and Im trying to start a lil punk band.  Im either going to buy one or make one out of an Ikea table and throw some killer pick ups on it.

Im trying to choose between these: 

Les Paul Jr



SG Standard


Fender Jazzmaster

Quote from: V M on May 08, 2014, 12:08:42 AM
A poem:

I love my guitar

I love my guitar and my guitar loves me

My guitar makes no presumptions, assumptions or judgments upon me

My guitar does not play stupid games or gossip about me behind my back

Even when it seems there is no love for me in this world, my guitar is there and unwavering, always ready to sing

I love my guitar

Mine says all kinds of crap behind my back, should I be worried VM? But seriously though, that is pretty descriptive. Playing and really getting into takes me out of one world and transports me to another one.

Lara, the first is just what it says, it is a Les Paul Jr and meant to be a starter guitar. Plus just the P90 pickups on the bridge, it is not a very good one for punk becase there isn't enough grit to it no matter how much dstortion you use. If you are looking at punk you definately in the Les Paul Style want a standard Les Paul with the standard burstbucker pickups in the bridge and neck positions. Les Paul's are the cream of the crop, but they are heavy and if you play a lot of solos in the higher fret positions it does get a little uncomfortable after a while with just the single cutaway.

The SG, I am a little prejudice toward this one but if you look at the name on the head, you are blowing your budget by about 800 dollars. Epiphone makes an SG and again, I love these guitars and own both Gibson and Epi SGs and really see little difference between the two other than the name and price tag. And Epi SG Pro will run you around 380 dollars at any Guitar Center. I find right off the rack, most are perfect for Dirtier music if you stay away form the P90 pickups.

As for the fender jazzmaster, I really can't comment on. The only Fender that I own is a Strat with certain pickups for nothing but blues.

Just a little advice, guitars are like cars. No two are the same. Variations on the pickups, the grain of the wood and many many other things will have to do with the sound. Between two of the very same pickups, one may even be a little hotter than the other. I never order one through catalogues or online. I want to feel touch and play. Always test the gutar on what kind of amp amps you will be playing on. I use two different amps which is Line 6 and a Marshall, the Line 6 is just a modeling amp and it can give me some crazy dirty sounds and I love it when I play metal. The Marshal is a tube and this is the one that I get serious with just because of the natural distortion I can get from overloading the tubes on clean channels. The Marshall head was extremely pricy but my Line 6 halfstack cost both with the 4x12 cabinet and head toegether only cost around 600 us dollars. Yeah it's cheap but I have gotten my money's worth of fun out of it.

Mike Ness seems to have done alright with P-90's

Quote from: V M on May 08, 2014, 07:32:59 AM
Mike Ness seems to have done alright with P-90's

No there is absolutely nothing wrong with P90s. I just can't get the dirtiness out of 'em that I can with the burstbuckers on Gibsons or Epis. It's all about what kind of sound you want. I love Texas Blues like Stevie Ray Vaughn and Albert King and why I have the tex-mex pickups on my Strat, but trying trying to play War Pigs on it just doesn't sound right.

I love guitars, have a b.c rich virgin, b.c rich warlock and a zakk wylde bullseye epiphone and an acoustic from Aldi!

Sadly I destroyed my elbow tendons practicing shred leads for 6 hours a day. Could hardly use my arm for a year docs told me I'd never play again. Many years later it seems it was true. Most I can play is about 5 minutes on the acoustic a day before the pain comes back.

Remember to warm up and don't over do it!

@Jess42

Thank you!! That was a lot of great information.  It looks like I have a lot to think about.

Quote from: Lara the Lover and the Fighter on May 09, 2014, 05:14:13 AM
@Jess42

Thank you!! That was a lot of great information.  It looks like I have a lot to think about.

Your welcome Lara, like I said I am extremely partial to SGs. They are light, the neck is extremely reachable and you can play them for hours standing up without getting a sore shoulder. But like VM pointed out, just because I prefer the burstbucker pickups off the shelf, don't discount the P-90s. It's all about the sound you and your band are trying to acheive. I just prefer heavier more dirty sounds than what the P-90s can give me. Just take your time and pick out what is comfortable and most playable for you. Make for sure that it sounds good all the way up the neck. I was going to buy another SG some time ago and doing an E powerchord on the twelfth fret sounded like crap. In the GC I tired to adjust the intonation and never could get it right and just left it alone. There was something definately off about it, so make sure that you go all the way up the fret board and it sounds right. GCs are good because they will let you tune it the way you want, adjust intonation and use whatever amps you want, or at least the one that I go to.

Good luck.

i play guitar! i'm more into neoclassical and metal shred stuff. i have a lot of guitars but i pretty much only play a Fender Strat now. It's kind of a pieced together frankenstein of Fender parts with Seymour Duncan YJM Fury  pickups.

Quote from: sammielicious on May 16, 2014, 04:51:39 PM
i play guitar! i'm more into neoclassical and metal shred stuff. i have a lot of guitars but i pretty much only play a Fender Strat now. It's kind of a pieced together frankenstein of Fender parts with Seymour Duncan YJM Fury  pickups.

Hell yeah! \m/

I've been known to make frankenstrats and bastardcasters, scallop fingerboards, shred, listen to Yngwie (and flirt shamelessly with him) and even worked at Seymour Duncan for like 4-5 years.  In fact SD and I used to hide in each others' offices when people we didn't need to see came to visit.

I lost count of how many Strats I have. 12 maybe?

Are you a Marshall fan too?  I have stacks of them in my living room...

@Jill F ,
Oh yeah, i am a Marshall fan. i don't have any right now. i traded my 1987X 4 input head for a Jubilee. At the time it made more sense. doh! Sold the Jubilee to get a Splawn, ended up not getting the Splawn and bought a JCM800 and traded it for a Charvel San Dimas. :p The best Marshall i have owned isn't a Marshall. *giggles* It's my Crate VC6112. Totally nails the Facing The Animal tone without an od pedal. Just a little delay and it's purrrfect. Sadly it popped the power transformer and the replacement is expensive. Currently i am playing through a Peavey Windor head modded to be more like a Marshall JMP MV. It's not too bad. 

  Right now i only have 2 Strats. The frankenstein...it's a Mexican body with a MIJ neck. My other strat is a total hack job. i work at a music store doing guitar repair and i get lots of parts left with me. i have a really early MIJ sunburst strat body waiting on a neck. Pretty sure it will end up being my main guitar.

Quote from: sammielicious on May 16, 2014, 05:53:55 PM
@Jill F ,
Oh yeah, i am a Marshall fan. i don't have any right now. i traded my 1987X 4 input head for a Jubilee. At the time it made more sense. doh! Sold the Jubilee to get a Splawn, ended up not getting the Splawn and bought a JCM800 and traded it for a Charvel San Dimas. :p The best Marshall i have owned isn't a Marshall. *giggles* It's my Crate VC6112. Totally nails the Facing The Animal tone without an od pedal. Just a little delay and it's purrrfect. Sadly it popped the power transformer and the replacement is expensive. Currently i am playing through a Peavey Windor head modded to be more like a Marshall JMP MV. It's not too bad. 

  Right now i only have 2 Strats. The frankenstein...it's a Mexican body with a MIJ neck. My other strat is a total hack job. i work at a music store doing guitar repair and i get lots of parts left with me. i have a really early MIJ sunburst strat body waiting on a neck. Pretty sure it will end up being my main guitar.

Holy f***!  YET ANOTHER LUTHIER HERE???  Nobody does that, but we have so many here. WTF?

I have a 1969 aluminum panel Model 1959 (100W Super Lead) set up with Russian tubes that just nails Hendrix, a 1987 50/25 Jubilee, and some mini stacks from the late 80s.

So sorry you blew a ->-bleeped-<- in the Crate. (I know... bad Jill.  I just couldn't resist.)

I love the old Fujigen Strats.  I have one I scalloped 20 years ago with a Dremel and a 12 pack of Natural Light.

Quote from: Jill F on May 16, 2014, 07:21:46 PM
Holy f***!  YET ANOTHER LUTHIER HERE???  Nobody does that, but we have so many here. WTF?

I have a 1969 aluminum panel Model 1959 (100W Super Lead) set up with Russian tubes that just nails Hendrix, a 1987 50/25 Jubilee, and some mini stacks from the late 80s.

So sorry you blew a ->-bleeped-<- in the Crate. (I know... bad Jill.  I just couldn't resist.)

I love the old Fujigen Strats.  I have one I scalloped 20 years ago with a Dremel and a 12 pack of Natural Light.

Im about to make a Les Paul Jr copy in a few days. lol

I had a Les Paul double cut away that I totally frankensteined years ago    It was beat to death right handed model that I'd picked up at a pawn shop and I turned it into a lefty

Routed out a new control box, reset the bridge, filled in the old holes, refurbished the wiring and P90's, replaced the nut and the already busted up tuners, then painted it with white car body paint

People thought I was crazy and they were probably right but it looked and played really nice

I guess I did a fairly decent job because it grew legs and walked away from a gig one night 

Quote from: V M on May 16, 2014, 09:41:38 PM
I had a Les Paul double cut away that I totally frankensteined years ago    It was beat to death right handed model that I'd picked up at a pawn shop and I turned it into a lefty

Routed out a new control box, reset the bridge, filled in the old holes, refurbished the wiring and P90's, replaced the nut and the already busted up tuners, then painted it with white car body paint

People thought I was crazy and they were probably right but it looked and played really nice

I guess I did a fairly decent job because it grew legs and walked away from a gig one night 

That sounds friggin awesome.  Why can't I ever find a decent project guitar??

I have an old Ramon Sanchez semi but the bit where you plug the amp lead in fell out of it. ;-;

a few days ago i managed to get a sound similar to Adrian Belew's "experimental" guitar sound on the Fall '77-Spring '78 Zappa tour and i called it the "Belew Man Group". This time around i used a factory-preset as a base though. I was a bit lazy.

No electric for me until I finish.....

Looks like it's coming along pretty good    What kind of wood are you using for the body?

Just nailed Hendrix "Castles Made of Sand" after some time off playing with a 1979 Strat and a 1969 Marshall.   That one has some fun chords with muted strings in the middle.

Now it's off to getting mah face zapped for the 10th time.

i have a stratocaster, fender acoustic, gibson flying v and a body that i made out of rose wood that i have call the shark bite surfboard mated with tellecaster neck