Your Sig Guitar

Peen Simmons

Peen Simmons

Let’s Get Obtuse!
If you were asked to design a sig guitar, what specs and features/options would you include?

Also, do you own a guitar that meets the requirements you’d design into your sig guitar?
 
If my Billy Corgan model had a Piezo it would be damn near perfect for me. It would have to be the piezo that Alex Lifeson has in his sig model. Come to think of it, his sig model but with the rail hammer Billy Corgan pickups would be exceptionally cool.
 
Short scale, bolt-on, baseball bat neck, P-90 in the neck, bucker in the bridge split so that the single is RW/RP to the neck, lightweight, Mary Kaye finish, singlecut.

I do not. But maybe now that I've thought about it, I'll build one. Or get a little help from a friend @telecaster911
 
I go through phases and like different guitars. I think though a small bodied semi hollow, two buckers with tap and parallel option three way mini toggles two volume, two tone no F holes LP toggle, maybe a p 90 in the neck, but I think I really want a parallel for the neck. Mahogany body and neck.

I actually want to order a custom kit for this if I can this year.

Headless hardtail, don't hate.
 
Already have:

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I haven't been playing it much because it needs a refret but it just arrived at @telecaster911 to take care of that.
 
Here’s mine… Balaguer Toro in custom purple denim finish



The Toro is BG’s S style guitar. I would get it with:

roasted maple neck and fretboard

Stainless steel frets

BG locking tuners

Gotoh 510 bridge

Balaguer Feral pickups in neck and bridge
 
Basically a multiscale strat, splittable humbucker in the bridge and strat style single coil in the neck. More-or-less traditional strat aesthetics.

(would have to be hardtail because of the multiscale)
 
Electric - either a telecaster or something simple with P90s - maybe an LP Junior

Acoustic - something about 00 or 000-sized in carbon fiber with a hand-filling neck (nut width at least 1 3/4") and a 24.9" scale. Built-in passive pickup and would take medium strings.
 
I have given this some thought ever since I played some hand made guitars at NEFFA. Dreadnought acoustic with nice bass and midrange sounds. No cutaway, triangular sound hole, arched top, and built-in electronics with the jack below the strap button.
 
Mine would be an alder or swamp ash t-type. Roasted maple neck. Maple board. Vintage stainless frets. Flat-ish radius (12 or so). Generous nut width. U profile.

PAF-type bucker in the neck. Single in the bridge—but voiced more for chime/clarity than twang. Six saddle string through bridge. Standard switching with option for splitting the neck. Locking tuners.

Available in Shell Pink, a pale lavender, and a light tangerine color. Chrome hardware. White guard.

My G&L Bluesboy is damn close. The neck isn’t roasted and the profile is more of a slim C (which is un-objectionable). Nickel frets. No coil tap for the bucker. But most of what I want and those features I didn’t include were simply unavailable or not deal breakers that were worth the upcharge.
 
The perfect guitar for me would be a HSS Strat style guitar with a MusicMan neck and Parker trem (a Floyd is more realistic, I know). Emerald transparent finish.

A MM Silhoutte Special would be close enough. :embarrassed:
 
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