Thread title is pretty self explanatory if ya ask me! I'm bored and felt like sharing pics of my stuff, and I know we have at least one other guitar player on here (
@Gilbosh I believe?).. So here is a thread to show off what ya got!
This is my main electric guitar. It's literally my dream guitar - aside from like, a $5,000 Gibson I can never afford : P
I've always been a big fan of the Randy Rhodes style V because of how comfortable they are sitting down - contrary to belief. Most people think you can't sit and play a V, and with the Gibson or normal V style, you can't. But due to the cutaway on this and smaller wing, all I do is attach my strap in the back, choke it up high, and it balances perfectly upright on my leg in a classical position for easy playing.
As crazy as it sounds, this guitar actually helps my back injury that I have been dealing with for years now. It's become increasingly difficult int he last 2 years, maybe to the point of impossibility sometimes, to play guitar. However, this one has always served me well.
I used to have a cheaper Jackson RR (like a $350 one) and always dreamed that one day I'd own this exact model. Well, not to get too personal, but a month before my grandfather died last year he told me he wanted to get me a new guitar, of any model/type I desired. Obviously within reason.. But, let's just say he really took care of me with this, and it's something that I never would have been able to buy/afford by myself.
To this day I can't believe I own this thing. It's the smoothest, most easy to play guitar in this style I have ever laid my hands on (thrash/heavy metal esque guitars, I mean). I can't even explain how fast the neck is, how sick the pickups sound or how great having a locking tuner cna be.. Never have to deal with the hassle of tuning again.
Here's the specs and info.
Jackson RRMG
Carbon black on black with dark silver/black fret inlays (it's a lot darker than it looks in this photo)
EMG 81/89 pickups. The EMG 89 is a split coil and has a switch to go from humbucker to single coil mode.. Effectively making this a 3 pickup guitar despite having only two installed. The single coil is really great for a bluesy, twangy sound. When I want that thick, smooth lead sound, I keep it on the humbucker option for the neck pickup. It may look like a metal guitar, but the sounds you can get out of this thing are great. Obviously it's thin and not as heavy as a Les Paul, but along with a tube amp, you can really get a great blues sound with it if you know what you're doing! I don't think I need to explain to anyone who knows just how great of a heavy sound you can get with a Rhoads + EMG 81
Authentic Floyd Rose locking tuner/tremolo. Amazing. My whole life I only owned "licensed" Floyd Rose systems, meaning they worked the same but were simply not as good, durable, or sturdy. I've had this guitar for a little over a year, and other than when I've changed the strings, I have not had to unlock it and fix the tuning even once. It's amazing.
Gibson Explorer - silverburst (DAT FINISH THOUGH)
Specs/info:
Standard Gibson Explorer with silverburst finish.
Two Gibson "Burstbucker" pickups. BOTH of them have the coil splitting option mentioned above on the Jackson, meaning you can get 4 completely different sounds out of this thing despite it appearing to just have two standard humbuckers.
The "SAMHAIN" on the bottom is a custom paint job I did last year. Samhain is one of my favorite bands, and I felt like the big area of space needed something to go there. I used to put stickers all over my guitars and be all xxxPUNKxROCKxxx/hXc bro, but since I've switched over to higher level, nicer equipment, I just like to let the finishes speak for themselves. But I thought this would look perfect and match well, and it did. I used a Samhain sticker, painted around it, took the sticker off and filled the rest in.
Again, owning this exact guitar was a dream of mine for years. Gibson actually did not make Explorers with this finish until a few years ago, they only did it custom (AKA, thousands of greedy dollars). I was thrilled when they put this into production.
This one, sadly, is out of commission at the moment. The story of how I got this one is way too long to explain, but in sohrt, when I ordered the Jackson above, the horrible company whose name I won't even mention here sent me THIS instead. Needless to say, I lost my fucking mind when I opened the box and this was in there instead of the Jackson I'd ordered for a pretty penny.
Regardless of the fiasco, this is a beautiful Martin acoustic DCPA5K. I am a poor person, so owning a very nice acoustic like this was never in the realm of possibility for me. However, this peice of shit company ripped me off by sending the wrong order, lost the Jackson I originally ordered, and put me through a gigantic hassle. They wanted me to send this back before I even got my original order. They were nthing but rude from day 1 despite THEIR mistake.. So, I said fuck them, and kept the guitar. They can go fuck themselves, they are a giant company making hundreds of millions per year, and they are known to have godawful service.
Anyway. Sadly, and not surprisingly considering the company this came from, the guitar arrived with a hairline crack at the base of the body. I got it fixed, but once the winter hit, the wood on the guitar started to expand and contract as the temperature changed. Fucking nightmare. Over $400 to get it fixed, which I certainly don't have, and probably never will.
However, once warm weather hit, the guitar seemed to fix itself somehow, lol. This year the winter fucked it up again.. and basically, the notes work until the high E string. No matter what, the high E and all frets after 15 in the other strings are dead. Super bummer, because it makes an amazing, gorgeous guitar simply unplayable.
Maybe one day I will fix it, or maybe it iwll fix itself every Spring & Summer, lol. If so, I guess I will just use it then. But it's a shame to see this beauty sit in the corner and not get touched due to whatever the fuck is wrong with it. When it did work, this was onre of the most stunning, great sounding acoustics I have ever touched. Martin is really the best of the best when it comes to acoustic! I'll try to find a pic of the neck on here, the wood is so pretty.
Anyway, I have some other stuff I will write about in the post below. If I can find/dig up pics, I will do so! But for now, these are the 3 main guitars I own, with the Martin being unusable at the moment.
Share your stuff if ya got it!
@Gilbosh I believe?).. So here is a thread to show off what ya got!This is my main electric guitar. It's literally my dream guitar - aside from like, a $5,000 Gibson I can never afford : P
I've always been a big fan of the Randy Rhodes style V because of how comfortable they are sitting down - contrary to belief. Most people think you can't sit and play a V, and with the Gibson or normal V style, you can't. But due to the cutaway on this and smaller wing, all I do is attach my strap in the back, choke it up high, and it balances perfectly upright on my leg in a classical position for easy playing.
As crazy as it sounds, this guitar actually helps my back injury that I have been dealing with for years now. It's become increasingly difficult int he last 2 years, maybe to the point of impossibility sometimes, to play guitar. However, this one has always served me well.
I used to have a cheaper Jackson RR (like a $350 one) and always dreamed that one day I'd own this exact model. Well, not to get too personal, but a month before my grandfather died last year he told me he wanted to get me a new guitar, of any model/type I desired. Obviously within reason.. But, let's just say he really took care of me with this, and it's something that I never would have been able to buy/afford by myself.
To this day I can't believe I own this thing. It's the smoothest, most easy to play guitar in this style I have ever laid my hands on (thrash/heavy metal esque guitars, I mean). I can't even explain how fast the neck is, how sick the pickups sound or how great having a locking tuner cna be.. Never have to deal with the hassle of tuning again.
Here's the specs and info.
Jackson RRMG
Carbon black on black with dark silver/black fret inlays (it's a lot darker than it looks in this photo)
EMG 81/89 pickups. The EMG 89 is a split coil and has a switch to go from humbucker to single coil mode.. Effectively making this a 3 pickup guitar despite having only two installed. The single coil is really great for a bluesy, twangy sound. When I want that thick, smooth lead sound, I keep it on the humbucker option for the neck pickup. It may look like a metal guitar, but the sounds you can get out of this thing are great. Obviously it's thin and not as heavy as a Les Paul, but along with a tube amp, you can really get a great blues sound with it if you know what you're doing! I don't think I need to explain to anyone who knows just how great of a heavy sound you can get with a Rhoads + EMG 81
Authentic Floyd Rose locking tuner/tremolo. Amazing. My whole life I only owned "licensed" Floyd Rose systems, meaning they worked the same but were simply not as good, durable, or sturdy. I've had this guitar for a little over a year, and other than when I've changed the strings, I have not had to unlock it and fix the tuning even once. It's amazing.
Gibson Explorer - silverburst (DAT FINISH THOUGH)
Specs/info:
Standard Gibson Explorer with silverburst finish.
Two Gibson "Burstbucker" pickups. BOTH of them have the coil splitting option mentioned above on the Jackson, meaning you can get 4 completely different sounds out of this thing despite it appearing to just have two standard humbuckers.
The "SAMHAIN" on the bottom is a custom paint job I did last year. Samhain is one of my favorite bands, and I felt like the big area of space needed something to go there. I used to put stickers all over my guitars and be all xxxPUNKxROCKxxx/hXc bro, but since I've switched over to higher level, nicer equipment, I just like to let the finishes speak for themselves. But I thought this would look perfect and match well, and it did. I used a Samhain sticker, painted around it, took the sticker off and filled the rest in.
Again, owning this exact guitar was a dream of mine for years. Gibson actually did not make Explorers with this finish until a few years ago, they only did it custom (AKA, thousands of greedy dollars). I was thrilled when they put this into production.
This one, sadly, is out of commission at the moment. The story of how I got this one is way too long to explain, but in sohrt, when I ordered the Jackson above, the horrible company whose name I won't even mention here sent me THIS instead. Needless to say, I lost my fucking mind when I opened the box and this was in there instead of the Jackson I'd ordered for a pretty penny.
Regardless of the fiasco, this is a beautiful Martin acoustic DCPA5K. I am a poor person, so owning a very nice acoustic like this was never in the realm of possibility for me. However, this peice of shit company ripped me off by sending the wrong order, lost the Jackson I originally ordered, and put me through a gigantic hassle. They wanted me to send this back before I even got my original order. They were nthing but rude from day 1 despite THEIR mistake.. So, I said fuck them, and kept the guitar. They can go fuck themselves, they are a giant company making hundreds of millions per year, and they are known to have godawful service.
Anyway. Sadly, and not surprisingly considering the company this came from, the guitar arrived with a hairline crack at the base of the body. I got it fixed, but once the winter hit, the wood on the guitar started to expand and contract as the temperature changed. Fucking nightmare. Over $400 to get it fixed, which I certainly don't have, and probably never will.
However, once warm weather hit, the guitar seemed to fix itself somehow, lol. This year the winter fucked it up again.. and basically, the notes work until the high E string. No matter what, the high E and all frets after 15 in the other strings are dead. Super bummer, because it makes an amazing, gorgeous guitar simply unplayable.
Maybe one day I will fix it, or maybe it iwll fix itself every Spring & Summer, lol. If so, I guess I will just use it then. But it's a shame to see this beauty sit in the corner and not get touched due to whatever the fuck is wrong with it. When it did work, this was onre of the most stunning, great sounding acoustics I have ever touched. Martin is really the best of the best when it comes to acoustic! I'll try to find a pic of the neck on here, the wood is so pretty.
Anyway, I have some other stuff I will write about in the post below. If I can find/dig up pics, I will do so! But for now, these are the 3 main guitars I own, with the Martin being unusable at the moment.
Share your stuff if ya got it!
