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Posted: 5/9/2020 6:29:39 AM EDT
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This is my grail guitar. A Gibson ES Artist. I owned one years ago and sold it when money was tight. Now the vintage prices are just ridiculous
 Maybe someday I'll find one at a good price and have the spare cash to buy it. Attached File |
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Posted: 5/9/2020 6:47:27 AM EDT
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An original Gibson Les Paul Custom in Silverburst is my grail guitar.
My friends dad has one and I not so jokingly tell him to leave it to me in his will because he refuses to sell it. I may just get this Adam Jones Signature guitar if Gibson ever releases it. |
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Posted: 5/9/2020 9:43:15 AM EDT
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I don't see ever spending over $1k on a guitar again, so I'll likely get one of these Zelinsky Private Label Dellaterra guitars in the future...under $1k..
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Posted: 5/9/2020 11:34:58 PM EDT
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Right now would be a Gibson Explorer.
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Posted: 5/10/2020 1:13:11 PM EDT
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Jimmy Page refuses to give me his #1, so a sunburst 59 Reissue with Throbak SLE101+ MXV pickups will have to do. Also have an RS vintage wiring kit and 1950s Patent pending Grovers
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Posted: 5/10/2020 3:26:46 PM EDT
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ESP MX-250. Some day
 www.GuitarsCollector.com - [2000] ESP MX-250 Explorer Black James Hetfield Metallica Guitar |
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Posted: 5/11/2020 2:09:01 PM EDT
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Literally this one guitar
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Posted: 5/11/2020 11:02:18 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/12/2020 12:54:26 PM EDT
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Still trying to figure out what mine is. I'm not sure they make what I want. I THINK it would be a jazzmaster without all the hand cutting switches and a pup switch that's bottom rear. Or a strat with a neck single coil and a bridge humbucker with nothing in the middle.
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Posted: 5/19/2020 9:41:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/19/2020 10:50:15 PM EDT
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Pretty close to what’s hanging on my wall now:
 Attached File1956 All Gold Refin According to the guy who sold it to me 20 years ago it’s a factory job, but I have serious doubts. The hardware is all kinds of wrong, but it’s all late ‘60s-early ‘70s Gibson or OEM. The fretboard is a replacement, too - dots and ebony?! Consensus from some pretty knowledgeable people has it as a ‘56, but I need to have Gruhn or some other heavy hitter make a definitive authentication. The real question is: What to do afterward? My “grail” guitar is a PAF-equipped LP. So, do I go for the 56/58 conversion and have it routed for PAFs, or just restore it to its original P90 Goldtop splendor and enjoy it for what it is? |
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Posted: 5/19/2020 11:30:30 PM EDT
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Don't really have a "grail guitar", per se, but I wouldn't mind having a nice ES-175.
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Posted: 5/19/2020 11:56:31 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/6/2020 5:03:25 PM EDT
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My grail guitar would be a Gretsch Corvette to replace the one I used to have.
I miss that old axe. 
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Posted: 6/7/2020 12:38:09 AM EDT
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Fender artist custom shop Merle Haggard. Otherwise I'll be good with an American in the $1000-$2000 price range for anything I'll do. If I managed one I'd play it but probably be something that got dispplayed a lot. A little lighter than standard with hollow outriggers on each side with a cap on it.
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Posted: 6/7/2020 10:44:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Fender artist custom shop Merle Haggard. Otherwise I'll be good with an American in the $1000-$2000 price range for anything I'll do. If I managed one I'd play it but probably be something that got dispplayed a lot. A little lighter than standard with hollow outriggers on each side with a cap on it. http://cdns3.gear4music.com/media/16/167948/1200/preview.jpg I've always wanted to play one of those. Aren't they neck thru? Mine would probably be a Martin M36. They have the three piece back like a D35.  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/7/2020 11:23:27 AM EDT
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I've always wanted a Gibson Explorer. It's kind of funny, because I've spent thousands on other guitars, but never had an Explorer. One of these days, I guess?? As far as grail guitars go, to grab an original 1976 model would be ideal!!
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Posted: 6/7/2020 5:22:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/8/2020 8:49:08 AM EDT
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Looks like Trigger. Still can’t figure out how the Lone Ranger rode it.
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Posted: 7/18/2020 5:49:55 PM EDT
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1965-66 Emerald green Guild Starfire IV like the one that was stolen from me a very long time ago.
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Posted: 7/19/2020 9:40:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Looks like Trigger. Still can’t figure out how the Lone Ranger rode it. ...but apparently someone did ride 'er and put 'er away broke... 
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Posted: 7/19/2020 12:53:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/19/2020 7:59:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've always wanted a Gibson Explorer. It's kind of funny, because I've spent thousands on other guitars, but never had an Explorer. One of these days, I guess?? As far as grail guitars go, to grab an original 1976 model would be ideal!! https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/15323/gibson-explorer-76-reissue-66744_jpg-1450894.JPG I've always wanted a Gibson Explorer, too. But it's one of those guitars I never really got around to buying. The one I want was when they made it in white with the ebony fingerboard (per below) but they quit making that layout quite some time back. Lately it's only been black, cherry, or the natural. They just came out with white again but it's a rosewood fingerboard and cost $2k. I don't want one that bad.  
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Posted: 7/20/2020 1:11:57 PM EDT
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I am about to pull the trigger on mine. It may not be the highest end guitar, but within reason, it is the one I have been wanting. I love the wide nut on Seagulls for fingerpicking, and this is their top of the line.
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Posted: 7/20/2020 2:32:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThis would be mine as well. Although I don't think I'm anywhere even close to good enough to justify one, nor have the finances to procure one. |
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Posted: 7/23/2020 8:29:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I am about to pull the trigger on mine. It may not be the highest end guitar, but within reason, it is the one I have been wanting. I love the wide nut on Seagulls for fingerpicking, and this is their top of the line. https://firststreetmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1939-scaled.jpg What's the nut width on that? I got my Washburn Revival because it has a 48mm nut. Puts it in the classical guitar width range. |
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Posted: 7/24/2020 4:22:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What's the nut width on that? I got my Washburn Revival because it has a 48mm nut. Puts it in the classical guitar width range. |
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Posted: 7/26/2020 10:39:05 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/28/2020 11:48:34 PM EDT
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Jimmy Paige, David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, and Eddie Van Halen.
Those sounds, man. |
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Posted: 8/1/2020 10:12:42 AM EDT
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The only, and i mean only Gibson I want; the 1982 Gibson Les Paul Standard I pawned years ago when I was broke. I sold my Gibsons after their new CEO started getting lawsuit happy, but I kept my Epiphone Les Paul Custom for sentimental reasons, which is also why I want the '82 back.
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Posted: 8/1/2020 1:02:06 PM EDT
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I pulled the trigger on this one. It is a Seagull Artist Series Cedar. It is one step down from their highest end, but I think I will like this one better. I am going to have a hard time waiting on this to get here. This is the one I have always been wanting.
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Posted: 8/1/2020 1:09:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI hope that winds up in the Smithsonian one day. |
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Posted: 8/1/2020 1:10:51 PM EDT
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Taylor 914ce, followed by the maple 614ce.
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Posted: 8/1/2020 1:17:40 PM EDT
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Fender JagStang, specifically this color combo..
Just always been a big Nirvana fan. Can't really play much more than power chords. 
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Posted: 10/6/2020 7:32:56 PM EDT
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I had an all black '79 Strat that I sold for $500 because I had bills and a crazy red headed wife that charged like a drunken sailor.
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Posted: 10/6/2020 7:53:46 PM EDT
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 Including the stuff in the closet I’m set. |
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Posted: 10/6/2020 8:14:15 PM EDT
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Just ordered my current grail today: Solar A1.7BD Artist Limited! Very excited about the Evertune brige. It will also be my first guitar with locking tuners. SO I'll have a bit of a learning curve on setting it up, but can't wait!
That will bring my stable up to 5: Strat built into a Gilmour Tribute, Schecter Demon 7, LTD MH-401BFM Baritone, and a LTD F155DX 5 string bass. I also have my holy grail amp: Mesa dual rectifier. Just put in a new set of tubes this past weekend. |
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Posted: 10/6/2020 10:30:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 1.72" (43.6 mm). How do you like the 48 mm? I have never tried a steel string quite that wide. Seagull makes the Pepino D'Agostino signature. It is right around the width of your Washburn. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What's the nut width on that? I got my Washburn Revival because it has a 48mm nut. Puts it in the classical guitar width range. I apologize for not seeing this. I like it. The Washburn has an odd neck profile - almost a soft vee shape instead of the usual u or c shape. But it plays nicely, I have fat fingers and tend to muff strings a lot on narrower width necks. Seagulls are really nice... I have its cousin, a LaPatrie Presentation Classical which I play daily. |
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Posted: 10/6/2020 10:31:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I pulled the trigger on this one. It is a Seagull Artist Series Cedar. It is one step down from their highest end, but I think I will like this one better. I am going to have a hard time waiting on this to get here. This is the one I have always been wanting. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/326574/Seagull_jpg-1528582.JPG Very nice. Congratulations! |
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Posted: 10/7/2020 6:35:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Looks like Trigger. Still can’t figure out how the Lone Ranger rode it. The Lone Ranger rode Silver. Roy Rogers rode Trigger. |
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Posted: 10/21/2020 5:25:15 PM EDT
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My grail guitar is a left handed Fender Bass VI. (Robert Smith is my guitar hero)
Ive seen vintage ones in the $4-6k range and a new one from the custom shop would be more because it has to be master built to get a lefty. |
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Posted: 10/21/2020 6:42:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My grail guitar is a left handed Fender Bass VI. (Robert Smith is my guitar hero) Ive seen vintage ones in the $4-6k range and a new one from the custom shop would be more because it has to be master built to get a lefty. The Schecter Robert Smith Ultra Cure is only $1,330  . Ive heard that if you call them, they sometimes have lefty models not shown on their website.. Attached File |
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Posted: 10/22/2020 11:06:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Schecter Robert Smith Ultra Cure is only $1,330 . Ive heard that if you call them, they sometimes have lefty models not shown on their website..https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/300247/ROBERT_SMITH_ULTRACURE_R_BURST_364_TILT_-1647163.JPG I was lucky enough to snag a Schecter Hellcat VI lefty just when they were discontinued a few years ago. I had emailed Schecter about lefty Ultra Cure and Ultra Cure VI. It was a hard no. I even tweeted at RS about lefty's a few times. Crickets. Schecter builds a decent guitar but it's not a "Fender". Thanks thou! |
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Posted: 10/22/2020 4:44:58 PM EDT
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Used to have a USA made Hamer double cut junior type in the late 80s, early 90s that was friggen awesome. I want that one back.
Looked a lot like this one. |
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Posted: 10/22/2020 5:52:08 PM EDT
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I honestly don't have a "grail" guitar at the moment....
I used to really want a Washburn N4 (Nuno Bettencourt is probably my favorite guitarist). I had an N2 once and that kinda shattered that for me. I still love the style of that axe, but I don't like the Lawrence L500 bridge pickup, and the Floyd Rose system is great, but a pain in the ass. The body is also kinda tiny. It really did engender my preference for reverse headstocks. Now I'm getting back into playing, I don't really have any "grails" that I drool over. The few that I actually do want are financially feasible. There's a Harley Benton telecaster clone I really want, which is only $400 new. Then there's the PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo, which would be around $1600. That's not super expensive to me, though I can't really just drop that amount of coin anytime I want. Eventually, I want to get a really nice acoustic. Martin is nice, of course, but they do more dreadnaught style, but I favor the concert style body. Maybe a Taylor? Maybe Furch? When I get around to purchasing a nice acoustic, I may be looking at the $1500-2500 range. |
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Posted: 10/22/2020 6:14:22 PM EDT
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When I was a kid, I saw a Steinberger M series in a music store. It was an elegant, honey-colored wood, instead of the "usual" black finish.
I later found out it was an -even then- rare koa wood one from their custom shop. They were expensive and weird way back when, and now are assumedly even harder to find. There's one on Reverb for $8000, so it's obtainable, but... can't bring myself to spend that much. (I did buy one of the MusicYo Spirits that look just like the "real" ones when Gibson bought the company, so maybe that's good enough. It plays really well and has a close-enough vibe.) 
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Posted: 11/30/2020 5:57:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Here is my current grail guitar https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/56774/5CBBF0A2-1B40-4F2C-B616-F7D0C9872E43_jpe-1424338.JPG After it was signed here is before https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/56774/79E32ACA-5FD1-484B-9BA5-FAB0FD12C70D_jpe-1424339.JPG I didn't know C'thullu was signing guitars. 
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Posted: 11/30/2020 5:59:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Looks like Trigger. Still can’t figure out how the Lone Ranger rode it. Apparently he spurred it a lot by the bridge .... |
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Posted: 11/30/2020 6:55:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The only, and i mean only Gibson I want; the 1982 Gibson Les Paul Standard I pawned years ago when I was broke. I sold my Gibsons after their new CEO started getting lawsuit happy, but I kept my Epiphone Les Paul Custom for sentimental reasons, which is also why I want the '82 back. I think you are going to feel silly when they get rid of that guy and hire a new CEO. |
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Posted: 11/30/2020 8:21:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Here is my current grail guitar https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/56774/5CBBF0A2-1B40-4F2C-B616-F7D0C9872E43_jpe-1424338.JPG After it was signed here is before https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/56774/79E32ACA-5FD1-484B-9BA5-FAB0FD12C70D_jpe-1424339.JPG Help me out here. Is that Michael Schenker signature model? Fernandes? Is that MS autograph??? |
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