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Was my first decent guitar which seems to be a theme on this thread, a lot of people seem to bond most with their first nice one!
Got it for €450 with a pair of Suhr Doug Aldrich pickups (original pickups included) and it's just a great guitar.
Don't really like the look and the colour but I forget all of it when I'm playing it!
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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1: Fender Richie Kotzen Tele was my main guitar for 11 years. I recorded an album with it. Played about 60 gigs over 3 bands. It's never let me down. Tuning stability live it's probably the best guitar I've ever owned. It didn't really sound like a Tele. It has a fat punchy midrange, it's strident. Like a bolt on neck Les Paul with more versatility perhaps? My nephew and brother regularly ask me to leave it to them in my will. Fuckers!!!
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2: The 2017 Les Paul Classic. That's one of the best guitars I've ever owned, it's certainly my main instrument now in my reformed band. It's a much tidier fit and finish than any of the other Les Pauls I've owned, or had access too. The only flaw to me is the horrible bridge pickup and the absence of a poker chip. So I put a set of Lollar Imperials in and found a poker chip on EBay. But otherwise one of the best guitars I've owned. It's got this lovely bloom to the notes on clean and distorted it's just Les Paul. Perfect!
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3: My Ibanez RG560. People knock em, but I did over 100 gigs with mine. Probably one of the most roadworthy guitars ever. The mk1 Ibanez Edge is still the best Floyd type unit ever made IMHO.
I only have the one now, my PRS Mira X. Pickups are original PRS Dragons, Gotoh locking machine heads and a Shadow pickup ring tuner.
Theres something about it thats very alive, it plays incredibly (even on 11-50's) and sounds huge whatever amp i put it through. I've probably owned nearing 100 guitars, this one smokes everything i've owned or played.
My best (though it's not had much competition) is an American Standard Strat. Due to a lack of free time I've been sadly neglecting it of late; but this weekend after I gave it a good clean, re-string and set it up, I got it back to it's awesome strattyness.
It's really a great all around guitar with the bass contour. Those pickups are very bass heavy (to me at least) so I just roll the bass contour off a bit and it gets pretty chimey.
It still sounds kind of "modern" and it works great for gainier sounds but the cleans are pretty good.
Other thing I like is how good the pickups react to the volume pot. The coil split it's ok, at best. I much prefer roll all the bass out to get some single coil-ish tones.
I use it in my cover band that does everything from traditional music to dance to heavy rock.I'm also in a Neo Soul band where it works pretty well but I still like my tele best for that band.
Best all around sound I've ever had with great fit and finish. Super light and comfortable too.