Do you have any artist signature guitars in your collection?

Fingers657

freakboy1610 said:

J Mascis Jazzmaster and PRS SE Silver Sky.

I love my J Mascis Jassmaster .
Outstanding value for money guitars.

Cols

Fingers657 said:

I’ve always fancied a Brian May but the amount of switching combinations put me off.
I like the pickups and have a few Burns guitars with them.

Give it a go; having the choice is nice, but you’ll probably find yourself gravitating towards just a few of them.  As far as I’m aware Brian May spends 90% of his time on bridge & middle in phase, which is close to bridge humbucker territory.  Neck and middle out of phase gets a look in for squealing solo moments.

It’s very versatile and great for covering a lot of territory, far beyond Queen wannabe moments. The only reason I don’t use it live more often is that the audience automatically expects a setful of Queen covers.

rossi

I,ve had two.A Squier Simon Neal Strat and a Joe Trohman tele .both good .The Trohman s neck ,in relity a strat ,is superb and i kept it to stick on a strat project.

boogieman

My old Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs CS Strat. Basically a 70s big headstock  model with Trower’s own choice of pickups. Came with a Fulltone Dejavibe and a bunch of RT photos and CDs. I never really loved it, although it was a nice enough guitar. I ended up selling it to Slim from the Hamsters. 

NelsonP

Nightswan said:

Ibanez Jem77-FP

@Nightswan ;Your photos are always ace, and this was my very favourite guitar back in the day. I remember getting to play one in Chandlers. I nearly cried.

littlegreenman

My only currently played guitars are both Artist sigs.

Both Ibanez; Satriani JS1000 Satch for my electric, and Henson TH10TODN for nylon acoustic duties.

Do I play them because of the association? Nope. But I am a fan of both artists.

The Satch came about after playing one to try out a Fred pickup in about 1990, turned out the neck profile was exactly what I like, so eventually bought one from @fretmeister for a very good price and is still my main squeeze. Put a Fred back into it though

The Henson because I only play nylon acoustics. Saw some Polyphia stuff and thought it seemed like a good fit. Played one and it indeed was. Plays brilliantly and can sound like a "normal" classical, or whatever you want once you start to use the pre-amp capabilities, especially with plug-ins/IR/etc.

Is it entirely co-incindental that I play sig guitars from artists I listen to and admire? Unlikely. Would I play them regardless? Absolutely.

Hydra

More than I thought....

Last one standing is this.

Byrd Guitar Super Avianti / James Byrd signature model. 
https://ibb.co/J7t0yZp

Otherwise owned
Washburn SS40 Steve Stevens (junk)
Fender YJM Strat
Peavey USA Wolfgang (pat pending) in Ivory
Fender Ritchie Blackmore Strat
Ibanez Andy Timmons  AT10P (worse fretjob from new on any guitar).
EBMM Steve Morse Y2K
EBMM L2 Steve Lukather
Fender Eric Johnson Strat
EVH Circles

Think I'm done with them.

Philly_Q

Hydra said:

More than I thought....

Last one standing is this.

Byrd Guitar Super Avianti / James Byrd signature model. 
https://ibb.co/J7t0yZp

Wow, I never thought I'd encounter someone who has one of those!   I never considered buying one, but I was always fascinated by the design.  And the website still exists!

http://www.jamesbyrd.com/byrdguitars.htm

Hydra

I used to do the websites too a long time ago.
Mine is production model #15. I think there's about 50 or 60 out there. 

Nightswan

NelsonP said:

Nightswan said:

Ibanez Jem77-FP

@Nightswan ;Your photos are always ace, and this was my very favourite guitar back in the day. I remember getting to play one in Chandlers. I nearly cried.

Thanks. I think they are still the coolest Jems made. I hope you can score one some day.

Nightswan

Dean Custom Graphic Rusty Cooley Signature. Laser Etched Xenocide Black:

Ally

I have a Fender Troy Van Leeuwen Jazzmaster. I got it because I just liked the spec and oxblood colour really. The pickup toggle switch works for me more than the standard slide switch as well. The signature aspect didn't really come into it. In fact, that kind of put me off. Great guitar though: I still enjoy having it.

Nightswan

Ibanez Mick Thomson Sig:

Dominic

Brad Paisley Tele
 Brent Mason PRS
Albert Lee MM
Chet Atkins Country Gent 

Says a lot about my kind of music I guess
No,I don't drive a Flatbed Pickup or drink Jack Daniels but I do have a few pairs of Cowboy/western boots

Schnozz

Jay Graydon

Philly_Q

Schnozz said:

Jay Graydon

One of these?

SteveRobinson

Two Gibson Les Paul models. 

Has that been done already?

Schnozz

Philly_Q said:

Schnozz said:

Jay Graydon

One of these?

Yep - Used to belong to Tom Jones' guitarist.

NCo

My number 1, not exactly a signature, but definitely inspired by:

Edit: FFS, will never be able to embed am image lol.

Edit2: @Nightswan You're a gent, thanks!

Nightswan

NCo said:

My number 1, not exactly a signature, but definitely inspired by:

https://imgur.com/WF6dBC4

Edit: FFS, will never be able to embed am image lol.

I use Postimages which is a free Image hosting site. So on Postimages  Upload your pic and copy the Direct Link. Then click on the Attach image/file icon on your Fretboard Forum post. Paste your direct link url into the drop down bar and hit the Space bar on your keyboard and your pic will upload. Hope this helps!!