Next guitar?

[ahjteam]

So, I have owned 4 guitars:

- ESP LTD EC1000; Les Paul with EMG's; I just love it.
- Ibanez Artcore; Hollowbody with passive humbuckers; my first guitar, still own it.
- Cheapo Les Paul with passive humbuckers; bought it as backup axe for the first tour I was on, has some serious battle scars
- LTD Kirk Hammett signature with passive EMG's; used it in the states, loved the neck, hated the floyd rose and sold it when I left.


So what guitar should I buy next? I have the heavy metal rhythm guitar (the ec1000), and I have the guitar for the smoother cleans (I really like the artcore for clean stuff), but I think I am missing the thing from between. The twang/indie/rock guitar.

I was thinking strat/superstrat/tele type guitar with fixed bridge next. Aesthetics wise I really hate SG guitars, and I actually haven't played a single SG that I liked feel wise either, but I have this weird perversion for Tele's. I was wondering is there a tele type axe with single coil on the neck and maybe emg 81 on the bridge? does this kind of guitar exist? Kinda like the Jim Root guitar, but with single coil on the neck for the twang? Or is the twang from the single coil on the bridge?

 

[FIXXXER]

buy a reeeeal good one!

 

[Zack Uidl]

I would check into Carvin guitars dude. They are amazing and you can get pretty much anything you could ever want

 

[azistenostora]

One of these?

 

[JeffTD]

Telecaster - even an MIM standard will be great. I think you'd be really surprised at how ballsy a single coil in the bridge can get, too.

 

[P-E]

Rock a Tokai Telecaster into a Triaxis Jari-style.

 

[egan.]

I'd get a fender on the cheaper side or the boutique equivalent if you want to spend some money to get a better fit/finish (anderson, suhr, sadowsky...).

 

[Wolfeman]

If you want a Tele like you described, build one up on Warmoth. I'm pretty sure they ship to you, don't they?

 

[ForgotenWarrior6]

Can't go wrong with Schecter.

Check out the Blackjack ATX

ESP's heavy metal strat is always an option.

 

[ahjteam]

I listened to the clips on Thomann website (yeah, not the best clips ever), but there was one guitar that was way better sounding than all the rest, it had brightest sound and had this small break up compared to others (= the pickups were most likely just a bit hotter than the others):

http://www.thomann.de/fi/fender_62_tele_custom_rw_3tsb.htm

But I don't want to spend 715€ on it...


edit:

If you want a Tele like you described, build one up on Warmoth. I'm pretty sure they ship to you, don't they?

I checked it out and oh man this body looks sexy:

 

[zirkonflex]

I'd totaly go for the Jim Root or the Schecter tele and Put EMG 81 TW's in it.
You can't get much more rock-tele than that

 

[ahjteam]

hey, anyone know a place in Europe that sells a tele with that kind of body as on post #10? I am interested in pre-built guitar as I lack the interest in building one. I rather pay a little extra to someone to make it.

 

[Bevosss]

I was thinking strat/superstrat/tele type guitar with fixed bridge next. Aesthetics wise I really hate SG guitars, and I actually haven't played a single SG that I liked feel wise either, but I have this weird perversion for Tele's. I was wondering is there a tele type axe with single coil on the neck and maybe emg 81 on the bridge? does this kind of guitar exist? Kinda like the Jim Root guitar, but with single coil on the neck for the twang? Or is the twang from the single coil on the bridge?

I have the Jim Root and it is by far my favourite axe. The neck pickup is an EMG 60 and it sounds like a fat strat pickup to me, I believe it was EMG's first pickup and made originally for Fender, which they knocked back eventually. Real solid tuning on it too. The mahogony body weighs more than she looks but makes the EMGs chunk nicely, and the ebony fingerboard gives it a maple-like cut, it seems to separate well.

 

[Bekanor]

Buy Fender Blacktop Tele.

Install coil taps.

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