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Not sure if this has been done before, if so feel free to tell me to jog on.....
The phone rings and the guitar company on the other end is so filled with admiration for your guitar playing they want to issue a signature model with your name on the headstock!
What company would you want to be on the other end and what would you have made?
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I'd probably change it up slightly and have a single coil in the neck position instead of a humbucker. Slightly thicker body and neck. Maybe with Alien crop circle inlays too.
Dear Mr Quayle, we at Ibanez have an exciting new range called the AZ and want you to be an ambassador which means we’d like you to have your very own signature model!
Mr Quayle: fantastic, I’m so excited I’ve been chewing this moment over for years in my head, so know exactly what I want; can I have a big rounded neck back but with a 16” board, an ebony fretboard on a mahogany neck, locking floyd rose and some own designed bareknuckle pickups?
Ibanez: erm, no, you see you need to have the AZ neck profile. In roasted maple, which is an AZ thing. With the AZ pickups. And the AZ trem. You can pick the colour though......
Mr Quayle: oh, ok. Can I have a brown one please?
Ibanez: Brown? Remember colour is the only option you have.
Mr Quayle: Yes Brown please.
etc.
Or just my actual MJT Jazzmaster, recreated to the millimetre by whoever pays the best
It would basically be my R8 or Standard probably and would have to have Gibson on the headstock, so it would have QC issues and the headstock is at risk of breaking if I dare look at it.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
It would be a Les Paul style single-cut. But the body would be thinner like an EC1000 rather than a full fat Les Paul. The body would be routed within an inch of its life to make the guitar very light (though avoiding neck diving). There'd be a belly scoop at the back. Perhaps neck-through construction to enable a deep all-access joint for high fret access.
LP scale length, 22 jumbo stainless steel frets. 3+3 locking tuners. Zero fret. Traditional Les Paul bridge, but the neck angle would be much shallower than a LP, more like an ESP EC.
Mahogany body, super AAAA flamey maple cap. Body and neck binding. Available in several colours though my own preference would be either a Gibson style modern blueberry burst or a PRS charcoal burst.
Electronics would include a system enabling the replacement of pickups without having to open the rear control cavity at all. So some kind of hifi style pinch sockets in the pickup cavity would do.
Pickups themselves would be a hot passive (but not too metal) humbucker in the bridge position. Neck position would be a traditional PAF.
Four pots, with true coil splits, out of phase and other options (a la LP High Performance models). I'd also put the pickup switch down here too. There'd be a tuner in one of the pickup rings.
My idea is essentially what I'd create if I ran Gibson. I'd perhaps give it a different name to Les Paul so there'd be no fuss over tradition bullshit. Gibson should be using that iconic silhouette in other ways than just big thick Les Pauls. It shouldn't be left to ESP, Schecter et al.
I'm thinking a lap steel with a sustainer pickup, Duesenberg Multibender bridge and Keith tuners.
I don't know which guitar company would call me up about my lap steel playing, but I'm guessing it would be out of pity, not admiration.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
They buy back the name from Fender for $1 in a rare moment of generosity.
They build a small team of craftsmen, some great people from the various custom shops and PRS. Seymour Duncan comes onboard with a special humbucker.
The top of the range model is the Standard explorer with an exquisite flamed maple top. The best examples will be the Williams signature.
Fender 52 tele. Roasted ash body, roasted maple neck, natural finish.Broadcaster bridge, twisted tele neck, 4 way switching. Perfection
or
I'd like Fender to remake the Fender Aerodyne Telecaster, I've been after one for years but it's alluded me so far.
I actually had a signature guitar made to my spec by Sims in Kent, not because I'm some great player I'm not but my band had a sponsor and we all got guitars made for us.
I chose a Strat shaped guitar but made in a Les Paul Mahogany body \ maple cap way with a Strat looking neck that is gibson scale length and profiled from my fave 1986 Les Paul I was playing at the time. Pickups are EMG's, just one volume and a kill switch
The paint job isn't to everyone's taste but I like it
That was made for me in 2008 I think ........... to be honest if I was asked now I would probably just pick an off the shelf Telecaster