I want a 24 fret neck-thru Koa with ebony fretboard and reverse headstock with locking tuners. Also no laquer on the back of the neck.
Obviously the body will be Koa as well and in a natural (actually stained) finish. It will be shaped and balanced like a higher end Peavey Vandenberg with an 81 in the bridge and a mild-mannered passive single coil in the neck for clean. It will also have a Wilkinson style tremola and a three way swicth with "dead" being in the middle position and a single tone and volume.
There is no "ideal" guitar though. For some stuff I like a wide Gibson style neck and the fretboard HAS to be laquered maple. If I want to play those "crying" David Gilmour type solos, a "shredder" guitar just doesn't work well as I would like it to for that. The shredder guitar would be my primary player as I play more of the heavy stuff than the slower stuff, but I do take as much pride in my phrasing and precision as I do any aspect of my playing, so a guitar I can really bend strings on the way I like is important as well.
the alumnus said:let's see:
24 frets
humbuckers at the neck and bridge
string through
neck through
thin neck (think ibanez rg)
good knob placement
arch top
strat shaped
no faceplate
6 or 7 strings (i can't decided yet)
alder or mahogany body
something along these lines. haven't picked out the perfect pickups, though they will be passive humbuckers. so far i don't think any guitar company makes this, so i'll have to get a luthier to make one for me.
ADS said:My ideal guitar would probably look something like this...
http://adifferentsun.com/slsmg.html
...which I became proud owner of today
Neck-thru, string-thru, mahogany, ebony... man this thing just... fricking... RAWKS!!! I think I've died and gone to heaven. My fingers aren't bleeding yet though, so I don't think I've played it enough yet today.
~Robert