What Are Your Favorite Guitars To Play?

[Bogner]

List Your Favorite Guitar(s) To Play?

We All Like What We Like For Whatever Reasons So I Thought It Would Be Cool To Post What You Are Playing And Share About It.

 

[Bogner]

Today I Am Playing My All Korina/Brazillian Board McCarty. I Love The Simplicity And Feel Of The McCarty Model And I Am Particularly Fond Of The Wrap Bridge. I Prefer It To The 2 Piece. A Simple, Versatile And Dependable Guitar That Just Works Beautifully.

 

[Gtrbldr]

Today I Am Playing My All Korina/Brazillian Board McCarty. I Love The Simplicity And Feel Of The McCarty Model And I Am Particularly Fond Of The Wrap Bridge. I Prefer It To The 2 Piece. A Simple, Versatile And Dependable Guitar That Just Works Beautifully.

We have very similar taste. Love the OG McC platform for the same reasons. Have two, my favourite being an all korina McSoapy (no brazz board). Simply lovely.

Hopefully, when my 7 yr old daughter finally sleeps, I will pick up one of my McCs as well.

 

[Jimmy Ramone]

2004 CE22 with swapped-in 57/08 pups. I prefer maple necks and this one is so good it almost plays itself. Got it last year as a backup to my 2002 Swamp Ash Special but after the pickup swap, it quickly became my number one.

 

[veinbuster]

Laskin classical: as good as a nylon guitar gets
Laskin steel old growth Brazilian: rings like a bell tower
Viola: full braz hand carved neck, dry rub dye - the ultimate dark and stormy
Dirty 100: pure everyday guitar, perfect midnight blues
Emperial: Thorn at his best - play it smooth or sloppy, great for finger style

 

[Maxime Bousquet]

Laskin classical: as good as a nylon guitar gets
Laskin steel old growth Brazilian: rings like a bell tower
Viola: full braz hand carved neck, dry rub dye - the ultimate dark and stormy
Dirty 100: pure everyday guitar, perfect midnight blues
Emperial: Thorn at his best - play it smooth or sloppy, great for finger style

This list is very interesting!

 

[Teddy4]

I have a 2003 brazilian with 53/10s in it and that fretboard just feels the fastest and smoothest to me. So effortless to play!

 

[Bowtiefanatc]

Braz CU24, HB Spruce and 25th Anni Mira…

Those also happen to be the only 3 I currently own

 

[Abe]

Short list of simplicity for me as far as what I actually own as mine. Just these 3.

PRS SE Hollowbody II

Breedlove Organic Solo Pro Concert CE Nylon Acoustic

Taylor 514ce V-Class Acoustic

 

[Zoot Allures]

2012 Swamp Ash Studio
Vela Semi-hollow
SE Hollowbody Piezo
Gretsch 6112 Jr.
G&L American Legacy
Martin 000-15

 

[Texsunburst59]

Here are my favorites I’ve been playing a lot the past few months.

‘09 PRS DGT 10-Top

‘94 PRS Standard 24

‘03 Tom Anderson Hollow T Drop Top

‘15 Suhr Classic Pro

‘00 Gibson Classic Premium Plus

 

[direwolf08]

Just got the American Ultra yesterday and I am loving it, so it takes the top slot during the honeymoon period. My SE Custom 24 is in the shop right now, but these are my faves currently.

 

[Senor Verde]

Old school McCarty, 1997-2008. I've stated many times on this forum that the first time I played a McCarty, it felt like it was specifically made for me.

2017 Gibson ES-335. Not a reissue. Plays almost as well as my McCartys and has a different but equally great sound. Very fun guitar.

The rest are fun and have their merits, but don't get gigged much.

 

[Senor Verde]

‘00 Gibson Classic Premium Plus

I had a couple 2000 Les Paul Classics. They are very nice guitars, yours is a beauty. I just couldn't get along with the slim-taper necks.

 

[dmatthews]

I have become a McCarty freak...

 

[Teddy4]

I have become a McCarty freak...

That Soapy

 

[Texsunburst59]

I had a couple 2000 Les Paul Classics. They are very nice guitars, yours is a beauty. I just couldn't get along with the slim-taper necks.

I’m actually partial to slimmer necks, so the Classic is perfect for me.

I also actually like the Stock pickups in this guitar as well.

 

[dmatthews]

That Soapy

Dayum it's good.
I've gigged and taken it to practice a crap ton of times, and it ALWAYS kills it!
Cheers mate.

 

[doublescale1]

I've had many PRSi's over the years but the one that has remained since I ordered it new is my '07 Gold Top McCarty. That's a guitar that just feels like home to me. Love the neck a lot on that guitar; not too much of a handful but enough so my hand doesn't get fatigued during an hour to hour+ set. The original pickups back then were to me, very dark, so today I've got a set of Joe Naylor's Railhammer Hyper Vintage humbuckers in that guitar, and have had them in there since the Railhammers first were available (I even got the set at a "low introductory price" upon the first release of them before there were covers available). I've also had them wired Series/Parallel with Push/Push pots and I use a mini TC Spark clean boost to compensate for the slight volume loss when I go to Parallel for a bit of spanky-ier Tele-style voice so I don't lose the humbucker no-noise and have to mess with the amp volume on stage; that works real well for me, it covers a lot of ground. Here's that guitar:

And although it's not from Maryland, my other go-to guitar is a Fender Nashville Tele. You can see that I like a lot of voicing and tonal options in a guitar. This one has a great, super broken-in feeling rolled-edge neck with med-jumbo wire that is just so easy to get around on. With the 5-way selector and the pull-up tone control for the classic Tele Neck&Bridge-combo voice and the ability to use the middle Strat pickup by itself, again, I've got all the voicing options I need. It's not a crazy-expensive guitar but it sure sounds good, making it easy to serve the song and it plays great. Variety is the spice of life.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

https://imgur.com/a/A3WznyU

Not really the black one though.