Tell Me All About Your Favourite Models

[Aahzz]

Velas are magical

 

[Tony M.]

Out of the ones I have seen on this forum my favorites are
Kevin's (Dinktat) guitar and that purple thing Les owns.

Out of the ones I own it's gotta be this one.
In fact, I like it better than the many core models I have tried.
(That violin carve thing...)
It's an S2 (obviously) but it's a really good S2.

 

[Headset]

Much like OP I believe my favorite is the core Tremonti. It’s the only model I own 2 of, albeit one is a stoptail and the other is a tremolo. I also share the love for satin. My two wood library guitars are both satin. I own various other models that mostly live on the racks pictured below. If I had to pick #2 and #3 favorites they’d be my custom 24-08 and mccarty 594HBii. The tremonti is my favorite because of the vintage neck pickup/hot bridge pickup combo, neck carve, and 22 fret design. The 24-08 is my ideal “super strat” and the rosewood neck adds the bass I miss from most my double cuts while the unfinished neck is just divine. The hollow body just rings and sounds so beautiful that it rounds out my favorites.

#1 (also my first PRS)

#2 Custom 24-08 Wood Library

#3 Hollowbody

 

[FragileThunder]

I have Cu24...oops, sorry.

I have Silver Sky...oops, sorry.

I have an SE HBII piezo...and it is my favorite of all of them.

 

[Steve's addiction]

'89 CE all day long. It has a 5 way switch and I can get all kinds of sounds from it. If the house catches on fire, it's the one I save! Honorable mention would be my 513's

 

[Mike Duncan]

Oh, guitars…not models like Cindy Crawford.

DGTs - the rest are just mistakes. Ha!

 

[dmatthews]

I've developed a bit of a thing for 594s.

Now have three of them.

First was a 594 soapy...



Then came a satin 594 wood library IRW neck with ziricote board...



And last one is the 594 HB...



And the obligatory group shot...

 

[garrett]

The original 594 still rules all for what I do. It has topped the CU24, CU22, HBII, and an armful of S2 and SE models. I tend to like lower output humbuckers and the original LT is a fantastic pickup. Add in the locking tuners and the first iteration of the 594 gives me the modern features with very good ergonomics, but with enough of the vintage sound I like.

 

[markd21]

The original 594 still rules all for what I do. It has topped the CU24, CU22, HBII, and an armful of S2 and SE models. I tend to like lower output humbuckers and the original LT is a fantastic pickup. Add in the locking tuners and the first iteration of the 594 gives me the modern features with very good ergonomics, but with enough of the vintage sound I like.

Your 594 rules!! I wholeheartedly agree that the first iteration of 594 is IT!!!

BTW - my 594 totally kills now!! Thanks so much!!

 

[helmi]

Satin singlecuts and Mccarty korinas.

 

[veinbuster]

Home for me is early McCarty (particularly Dirty 100) and Hollowbody Piezo.

 

[garrett]

Satin singlecuts and Mccarty korinas.

Ooh, I still want one of those Singlecut Satin Standard models with trem from the mid '00's. Mmmmmmm

 

[Gtrbldr]

I really like the 22fret old stoptail double cut platform. There are many different versions, being the mccarty, custom22, probably the odd CE22, with different neck shapes and body thicknesses. I am very happy to own two of them. A McSoapy korina (my plainest, but "best" guitar) and CU22 20th. Both guitars received PU swaps, which made them even better instruments.

I like the neck angle (better than de trem versions), the way how the stoptail feels when played, the looks etc. Tone works the same as other guitars, but the fundamentals of these guitars are awesome.

 

[JMintzer]

A young Elle Macphereson always did it for me...

 

[Moondog Wily]

My favorite is the McCarty 594 HBII (2021 WL), but that is in part based on it's light weight (5.6 lbs). The other factors that make me lean on this one are the tones being perfect for the material I play the most (Dylan, Petty, Prince, Willie Nelson, etc.) and the diversity of the controls giving me access to several usable tones. I love my CU24's as well because of where it positions my left arm/hand. I find the 24 fret scale length to be much more comfortable, but both of those are over 7 lbs, so playing them for more than a couple of hours results in sore shoulder/neck the next day, so they get limited time. Here is a photo of my fav (I have since this photo was taken made some cosmetic upgrades and it looks even better):

 

[Ruben Bernard]

I have Cu24...oops, sorry.

I have Silver Sky...oops, sorry.

I have an SE HBII piezo...and it is my favorite of all of them.

please adopt me
I beg

 

[68reissue]

In terms of ergonomics, my S2 Satin Standard 24s are ideal for me. I played a Strat for decades, so a double cutaway just feels like home. And the beveled front of the guitar’s body is every bit as comfortable as the Strat, with its contours; I find deep dish carved tops really strange feeling. Also, I hate the feel of a tune-a-matic under my right hand, and the trem on the S2 is really smooth feeling (I mean smooth to the touch, since I don’t use the trem). And I think the Standards, with the big pickguards, really look cool and classic.

 

[Longneck Tenon]

2007 McCarty
2008 Swamp Ash Special
2022 Silver Sky SE
2023 McCarty 594 SE

They are all in regular rotation, and I have no plans to sell them.

 

[DISTORT6]

I also LOVE my all mahogany bodied guitars.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Santana or gtfo!

I can play -



But I do love my SE245 so much too.