Unsuitable Guitars

Lixarto

"Unsuitable" not being the correct word, really, but: I suppose, like most of us here, I've had guitars that "weren't me".

This Kramer probably being the most overt example.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/Lixarto/Focus_4000-1.jpg

Body shape notwithstanding, it was a lovely instrument to play (fantastic neck profile), and I sometimes wish I still had it.

Over to you.

daveyh

80s Fender USA standard strat in Fiesta red, around '87.

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Perhaps the thread should be renamed "Unsubtle Guitars" looking at that Kramer?

I owned an SG once. It was a lovely guitar to play, but they scream 'rock' or 'metal' to me. Really not my thing musically. I sold it for that and no other reason....

JookyChap

Just about any Strat - I've always loved how they look, but every time I get one - yeurch.

Niallmo

Loads of fun to play.

ICBM

Firebird - too long.

Ibanez ES175 copy - too jazz.

Lowden O10 - too polite and folky.

Ibanez RG750 - too pointy, too Floydy, too thin neck.

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ICBM;41345" said:

Firebird - too long.

Ibanez ES175 copy - too jazz.

Lowden O10 - too polite and folky.



Ibanez RG750 - too pointy, too Floydy, too thin neck.

LOL! A bit like Sybil Faulty's mother: 'She doesn't like open spaces, enclosed spaces; small spaces, large spaces...'

The strange thing is, we (as in guitarists in general) often buy 'the wrong thing', even KNOWING it's the wrong thing, but do it anyway....

May be there is some deep-rooted psychological reason that none of us understand....

OilCityPickups

I have a not particularly secret thing about weird and pointy guitars ... and I love playing them where they will cause eyebrows to be raised. Did a country gig a few years ago with a borrowed BC Rich Ironbird.
I love it me ...

Lixarto

Ha - I did use the above Kramer at a folk thing (trad Irish) - several pointed looks, but only one comment:

"Are you all right there with that guitar then, Michael?"

"Oh, aye."

"Right you are. Another drink?"

imalone

richardhomer said:

Perhaps the thread should be renamed "Unsubtle Guitars" looking at that Kramer?

I owned an SG once. It was a lovely guitar to play, but they scream 'rock' or 'metal' to me. Really not my thing musically. I sold it for that and no other reason....

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/the-10-greatest-gibson-sg-players-469845/6/6
(#6: George Harrison. Carlos Santana inexplicably not on this list.)

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imalone;41394" said:

(#6: George Harrison. Carlos Santana inexplicably not on this list.)

I realise plenty of 'non-rockers' play/played them too. It's just that at the time I owned mine (mid 80s) they were just about THE most unfashionable guitar, unless you were in Saxon, or some other (not so) New Wave of British Heavy Metal band.

viz

richardhomer said:

ICBM;41345" said:

Firebird - too long.

Ibanez ES175 copy - too jazz.

Lowden O10 - too polite and folky.



Ibanez RG750 - too pointy, too Floydy, too thin neck.

LOL! A bit like Sybil Faulty's mother: 'She doesn't like open spaces, enclosed spaces; small spaces, large spaces...'

The strange thing is, we (as in guitarists in general) often buy 'the wrong thing', even KNOWING it's the wrong thing, but do it anyway....

May be there is some deep-rooted psychological reason that none of us understand....

"And she's always worried about men following her. I don't know what she thinks they're going to do to her - vomit on her, Basil says."

Evilmags

Lixarto;2878" said:

"Unsuitable" not being the correct word, really, but: I suppose, like most of us here, I've had guitars that "weren't me".



This Kramer probably being the most overt example.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/Lixarto/Focus_4000-1.jpg



Body shape notwithstanding, it was a lovely instrument to play (fantastic neck profile), and I sometimes wish I still had it.



Over to you.

Unsuitable or unsubtle. Never had you down as a Randy Rhodes fan.

Bucket

I once took my bright green Jackson Soloist to a blues jam.

ICBM

Bucket said:

I once took my bright green Jackson Soloist to a blues jam.

Most excellent! I strongly believe in using inappropriate guitars. Sometimes you end up with something really unexpectedly brilliant.

I once saw a country player using a Charvel with a Floyd Rose - which looked a bit odd until you heard him do pedal steel impressions with it.

DulcetJones

ICBM said:

Ibanez ES175 copy - too jazz.

I had a Goya ES175 copy, same thing.  It looked cool though. 

stickyfiddle

I had one of the first runs of Gothic Gibson Explorers. Completely brilliant it was, despite bone-crushingly hot pickups.

EDIT: Found a pic. 

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/stickyfiddle/Exp1.jpg

jaygtr

Gordon smith gs2, nice to play, sounded ok and cheap. Poor fretwork and Horrible neck heavy balance though. Sold it to a mate who loves it and has now had it for 17 years

mike_l

Bucket;41466" said:

I once took my bright green Jackson Soloist to a blues jam.

Laura, my jackson has been to a couple of jams. It not everyday you hear/see Pink Floyd played on a jackson...

fretfinder

mike_l said:

Laura, my jackson has been to a couple of jams. It not everyday you hear/see Pink Floyd played on a jackson...

Are you saying that you've given your Jackson a name, and that name is Laura...?

impmann

1979 Fender Strat Anniversary... bought as it was a "rare" one. 

Yup, rare for a reason... boat anchor that sounded like a £50 Hohner to my ears. Sold to a mate (who begged me to sell it to him) in the mid 90s... he still has it and gigs it every week. It sounds great in his hands...