what is your favorite guitar company?

retrogroove girl has a sexy sense of style and class. i lkie her choices for electric, and mine for accoustic.

 

Gretsch.

Hmm, I've never been a huge fun of Rickenbacker's toaster pickups and single coils, but like their bodies... Joe Walsh has a nice collection, though, highly modified. They sound great for slide with seymour duncans.

I could go for a Gretsch white falcon, but I just don't think they're worth the price. Top that off, they're made in Japan and I really don't trust many overseas companies besides Alverez guitars made by Kazuo Yairi, Blueridge, and 80s MIJ Fenders, Agile, and Tokais from 1983. Other than that, I really like Matons (Austrailian) but the availibility is limited here in the states. I may be going to a workshop studying under Tommy Emmanuel D ) again this early August, but I may not if I go to Canada.

http://www.tommyemmanuel.com

I just got back from a shop... I played a nice John Greven and couple Lowdens that I liked.

 

http://www.acousticplayermagazine.com/apm002/apmprofile002/tommy_4_profilevideo_002.html

 

moby

 

cannon

 

http://www.acousticplayermagazine.com/apm002/apmprofile002/tommy_4_profilevideo_002.html !!!!!!!!!

 

20th century fox

 

tampax

 

wtf... have you guys ever seen a martin back packing?!!?!?!?!? well i did and i tried it out and it had horrible sound

 

It's called a martin backpacker. I had backpacker mandolin that I just got rid of. I'm going to be getting a Godin or a Tacoma mandolin, possibly.

I also know someone who has a Gibson Mastertone banjo for only $500. I'm jumping to get it.

 

national, I love that funky sound, and they're just so damn pretty

 

Well... you can get that from any resophonic or duolion... It's just that old Nationals are the best resos, imo. They're just heavy as hell. I like the pre-Gibson roundneck Dobros. I don't really care for the hounddog line, though. They just aren't the same. I'd take a national, any day, though, but as for modern resos go, I'd rather go for a Crafters Of Tennessee. I own a guitar that was owned by Randy Wood when I bought it, but the owners were the founders of GTR guitar, (nor Gruhn) Tut Taylor (also founder and owner of Crafters Of Tennessee), Randy Wood (famous master luthier), and George Gruhn himself.

 

haven't heard of crafters of tenn, I'll have to look at that, weight is only an issue if I'm going to hitch with it and I'd only hitch with something cheap and unpretty

 

That's why I wouldn't ever think of owning a National. Though, I'd like to. I enjoy keeping my collection on string swings on the walls and don't have floor room for stands as I have all the edges of my room taken up. I even block the little corridor to my bathroom with a Cyber-Twin as I have no room for it anywhere else. Not only that, but now I'm running out of wall room and have no room for my humidifiers, unless I put it in front of my couch, but I don't want to kick the water tank accidently and spill it or crack it. Haha, I'm clearing out stuff on ebay... as I said, in the market for a Godin or a Tacoma mandolin, maybe a resonator (thinking Agile or Crafters of Tennessee), or that Gibson Mastertone banjo. The people just want to get rid of it for about $500 or so... but that's a $3000 or so banjo. I could always sell it and get a really nice Deering and use the rest of the money for a trip to Canada.

I'm addicted to blues and folk/bluegrass... so, a Neil Young bootleg of Homegrown for ya. I love Bela Fleck.
http://www.deadboots.com/muzic/toonz/Neil_Young_03_20_99_set_1/Neil_Young_03_20_99_set_1%20-%20Track%20%208.mp3
http://www.deadboots.com/muzic/toonz/Bela_Fleck_08-05-90/07_Track%20%207.mp3

 

canada, north america's attic.....

 

The idea for the resophonic guitar was crossing a banjo with a guitar... since banjos were masculine and guitars were feminine, which is also why guitars were smaller bodied for hundreds of years, the cone is like the resonator from a banjo, so technically, it's just a gigantic six string banjo played with a slide generally in open tunings or EADGBE ...

 

i really love resinators, they just have a beautiful sound.

 

Beard makes some great resos as well... handmade. I'm a member of the world resophonic association. http://www.resophonic-association.com/english/index.php

http://www.kksound.com/mp3/resonator.mp3

 

I didn't read through all of the posts, but what about Rickenbaukers (I have no idea if I spelled that correctly)? That's the type of bass guitar my husband has. He's got a Gibson too I believe.

 

The most i really get to play of nice guitars is in the shop unfortunately. My brother plays, and has a few decent one's, but he's moving to leeds (a good 4 hour train journey away.) I cant complain really because im a violinist at heart, and thats where my skills lie, but im a not bad (not good though ) blues player, and i wish i could play on decent guitars more regularly.