Things you love on guitars, or that are way cool

Lixarto

bluechargeboy said:

Sing it with me:

Oiled necks and big frets and nice locking tuners;
Rolled fretboard edges and upper fret access;
Strat knobs and ebony, new shiny strings,
These are a few of my favourite things...

I sang it. Probably not to the tune you imagined. Hmm.

OilCityPickups

Simple guitars ... Esquires and Juniors
Beat up Fenders
Big arsed semi acoustics
P90s
Plain tops
Huge frets
Bigsbys
Guitars that smell of beer and fag smoke
Quirky old Brit stuff like Burns and Shergold

dogload

Split level scratchplates and a 1950's diner-style plastic logo saying 'Rickenbacker' on the headstock.

Floating trems and creaky bridges that most people seem to hate if not fear on a Jazzmaster.

Bigsbys and f-holes.

Fluorescent psychedelic paint jobs on non-pointy, non-genre-specific Fender types. 

Twice as many strings than usual.

Generally therefore, what my guitar collection comprises!

dindude

Solid colours, inc metallics and Candy.

Simple electrics, I.e no coil splits.

22 frets or less.

Thin-ish finishes.

digitalscream

Stephens Extended Cutaway

Plain or oiled finishes

...that's pretty much it.

bertie

elephant dandruff

bertie

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Maple necks on Strats

they've all got maple necks ?!?!?!?

stickyfiddle

Ooh, stainless steel frets. Loverly

Fez

Humbucker in the bridge on a strat.

Rosewood fingerboards.

Sunburst finish on a strat - one day I will get one.

Sperzals

Phil_aka_Pip

bertie said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Maple necks on Strats

they've all got maple necks ?!?!?!?

Some of them are topped with rosewood. Mine isn't - it's maple all the way through.

Bidley

Hot-rodded strats
Maple fretboards on RG/Dinky types
Maple fretboards on strats
Explorers (particularly white ones)
Lairy JEMs
Gold top LPs
Sunburst SGs
Solid black PRSs
Black guitars with gold hardware
Icemen

Bucket

stickyfiddle said:

Ooh, stainless steel frets. Loverly

Never tried these but on the strength of their reputation I'm thinking of coughing up to have them on my planned MJT Strat. As well as on here, loads of people on Sevenstring.org seem to think they're brilliant too.

What are they like? Why does everyone rave about them so much - are they that much better than normal frets?

Also @digitalscream - agreed on the Stephens Extended Cutaway, brilliant piece of design.

ICBM

Black paint

Chrome hardware

Tremolos (or vibratos, if you must )

Bridge pickup hotter than neck/middle pickups

Toggle switches

Narrow and relatively deep necks

Front strap button roughly parallel to the 14th fret

Medium frets

11 gauge strings

Old - but clean - strings

stickyfiddle

Bucket said:

stickyfiddle said:

Ooh, stainless steel frets. Loverly

Never tried these but on the strength of their reputation I'm thinking of coughing up to have them on my planned MJT Strat. As well as on here, loads of people on Sevenstring.org seem to think they're brilliant too.

What are they like? Why does everyone rave about them so much - are they that much better than normal frets?

Also @digitalscream - agreed on the Stephens Extended Cutaway, brilliant piece of design.

Just mega-slidey and stay shiny forever. Apparently add a smidge of zing to the top end too, but only my Cabronita has them, and it always has had, so I don't know what it would've sounded like without. That said, it has a slight zing that my others don't, so maybe that's the frets doing it. Either way, it feels and sounds great.

Bucket

You had me at "mega-slidey"

Think I'll stump up.

ThePrettyDamned

Bucket;181525" said:

You had me at "mega-slidey"

Think I'll stump up.

They last ages, too.

I'm definitely going to want a stainless fretted guitar some day.

Thought of another I love: 6 point terms, and kill switches.

Trying to work out how I can get a killswitch in to my build, but I might need a shadow kill pot...

Deadman

Any Motorave offering. Those things are just uber-cool.

usedtobe

P90's. Les Paul Juniors.