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Original message:141 days 16 hours 43 minutes ago

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Member: mrkmas

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what "artist signature" equipment do you own that is your guilty pleasure?

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Reply:141 days 16 hours 3 minutes ago
Member: farlow

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I have a Cort Larry Coryell LC2 (the cheap one). I didn't buy it because it was a Larry Coryell - my favourite LC period was when he used a Super 400 and a Hagstrom Super Swede, and these days I think he plays acoustic I bought it because it was a Cort Jazz Guitar. It is a very nice guitar but I think you could do much better with a Samick or Ibanez.

http://en.euroguitar.com/view_images_119436

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Reply:141 days 15 hours 41 minutes ago
Member: Im one of a kind

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Omgomgomg last week I ordered a Dean MAB1 Armorflame and it came in TODAY!! It set me back $2500 bucks but it was so worth it. I played it through my Line 6 Spider IIII practice amp and the solos were just SCREAMING through it I even pulled back some NASTYY Dime squeals.

Reply:141 days 3 hours 3 minutes ago
Member: Father Dougal Maguire.

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You must have pulled a lot of extra shifts at work to get that Michael Angelo Battio signature model. I like it, although the paintjob, like the artist, is a little OTT.

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Reply:141 days 5 hours 44 minutes ago
Member: Bobby Fioretti

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I've got an EB Musicman John Petrucci and a Morley Bad Horsie 2.

Those are the only "signature series" that I own. I love them both more than my kids.

Reply:141 days 3 hours 6 minutes ago
Member: Father Dougal Maguire.

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I have a JS100 BK.

I bought it because it is a dream to play on.

If guitar memorabilia counts, I have a Fender Strat pickguard signed by Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal, a lot of stuff from Joe Satriani, a signed guitar from Paul Gilbert, a mini Bumblefoot guitar, actually loads!!

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Reply:141 days 1 hours 1 minutes ago
Member: NegativeGhostRider

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I don't own any, but I've always drooled over these two:

Steve Vai JEM77RB

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"Negative, Ghost Rider...the pattern is full..."

Reply:140 days 19 hours 27 minutes ago
Member: Father Dougal Maguire.

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Sweet Jem Shane, and with the original old style grip too!

I like the burning on the body, reminds me of a cabinet I made in high school that I took a blow-torch too then laquered.

Nice.

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Reply:140 days 13 hours 38 minutes ago
Member: NegativeGhostRider

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I tried to post this last night, and it didn't work. I'll try again...

The PGM10TH

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Reply:140 days 8 hours 39 minutes ago
Member: Father Dougal Maguire.

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Holy shit dude! That is sweeeeeeeeet!!!!!!

I'm saving my pennies, may take a while. I feel a lot of busking coming on. :-)

PS, where did the neg come from? Did I offend someone by liking a guitar? Considering my other posts in g.com history that one is beyond me?

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Reply:139 days 9 hours 11 minutes ago
Member: NegativeGhostRider

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Actually I think I accidentally -1'd you :(. I was aiming for the +1 but I missed, apparently.

I went back to another thread and +1'd you twice, to even things out...

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Reply:139 days 4 hours 46 minutes ago
Member: Linus Maximus

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Beautiful looking guitars! I notice the PGM doesn't have a neck plate. I wonder if there was a reason for that other than aesthetics.

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Reply:139 days 1 hours 41 minutes ago
Member: Father Dougal Maguire.

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Haha.

Thanks Shane ;-)

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Reply:140 days 23 hours 28 minutes ago
Member: Hippieway

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I'm not an Ibanez guy but something like that could change my mind, a little nicer than nice.

Reply:140 days 22 hours 35 minutes ago
Member: Alex Koepp

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I always thought artist signature models of stuff was really just a way of selling you the same stuff for an extra few hundred dollars...

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Reply:140 days 18 hours 20 minutes ago
Member: farlow

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You are definitely right 90% of the time AK. The advantage for me as a buyer is that, buying used, sometimes a perfectly good guitar drops in value because the Artist goes out of fashion, or because the artist changes guitars. Look at the Kiss Gibsons or the Lee Ritenour Yamaha or the Matin Taylor Yamaha. Those models all had excellent specs and when they hit the used market they were the same price as the basic models. Take the Ibanez "Noodles" model: would you seriously buy a guitar on the strength of the ground-breaking axe work on Offspring albums? Have Offspring even had an album in the last 5 years? Yet the guitar is probably a very good general rock guitar.

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Reply:140 days 18 hours 1 minutes ago
Member: Father Dougal Maguire.

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:-) The Offspring were quite avante garde!! (yeah right....)

But Farlow, if you keep them near as new as you can, they fetch a handsome price later on in the game.

I saw an old Frank Gambale Ibanez signature model ( He's now with Yamaha I think? and not as popular these days despite being an awesome jazz player) go for 3 times the initial sale price. They didn't sell well, therefore they are rare as hen's teeth!!

I guess it is knowing what to buy and when to buy it if you wish to make a few quid out of the instrument. I'd rather play them, but I have bought and sold to fund a new personal purchase.

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Reply:140 days 17 hours 9 minutes ago
Member: pickabass

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Hey Padre . . . isn't this? Yeah. Was this JUST a custom model? You said you be promoting it, and it is a signature model.

http://www.guitar.com/forums_gear_talk_topic_its_arrived

http://www.guitar.com/forums_electric_guitar_topic_the_new_deal

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Reply:140 days 17 hours 7 minutes ago
Member: pickabass

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Eh . . . i guess its not a signature model. Lol. Oh well nvm then.

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Reply:140 days 16 hours 58 minutes ago
Member: farlow

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For the first time in ages this week on Aus ebay there was a truly rare guitar - a mid 60s Japanese Coltone with enough dials and switches to run a Space Programme. It went for about $300US, or to put it another way, it was bought in 65 for the equivalent of week's pay and sold 44 years later for the equivalent of 2 days' pay. Great investment - where can I get one?

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Reply:140 days 16 hours 24 minutes ago
Member: Father Dougal Maguire.

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Nahhh,

Its a stock git-fiddle (sort of), I just got the job of telling it how it is dude. The wonders of internet communication. They sent me that knowing I would just say what I felt. I did.

Were you having a go there PB, I never once mentioned a sig, just a sponsorship??

Have you heard my stuff? Who in their right mind would ask me to be a signature!?!?!

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Reply:138 days 19 hours 18 minutes ago
Member: pickabass

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I guess i misunderstood the whole thing the first time around. lol

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Reply:138 days 18 hours 52 minutes ago
Member: Father Dougal Maguire.

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Haha,

Not a problem PB....... keep up the collab work by the way!!! :-)

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Reply:140 days 4 hours 33 minutes ago
Member: Mr. T!

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Wow, I don't think I own anything with someone's name or initials on it. Not even a Les Paul. Sad. Perhaps I'll have to run out and buy a George & Leo.

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

Reply:140 days 4 hours 31 minutes ago
Member: inablackout

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Dean Razorback V Standard, not really a guilty pleasure, but I just think that Dean should be ashamed of themselves to keep making money off a man that has passed......got a really good deal on it though, 550 brand new....

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I wanna ROCK!!!!

Reply:138 days 22 hours 36 minutes ago
Member: Johnny Frusciante

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I thought about getting an Ibanez PGM300 this autumn...

Anyone got any comments on this guitar?

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Reply:138 days 15 hours 7 minutes ago
Member: Zombre

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Hmmmn. I have an Ibanez Universe, and a Malmsteen Strat, and they are bloody awesome guitars. "Nuff said.

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Reply:138 days 14 hours 29 minutes ago
Member: robbiusa

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I have a couple of PRS SE's (Tremonti and Paul Allender) and a Fender MIM Strat (Jimmie Vaughan Tex Mex).

All of them are fairly inexpensive, sound good, and are very playable. As for the signature aspect... I'd never heard of Cradle of Filth and have never tried to learn a Tremonti lick.

Although I have to admit to being a Jimmie Vaughan fan, that isn't why I bought the Fender (bought it because it had features like the V-shaped maple neck, alder body, US Vintage hardware and Tex Mex pickups and was in my price range when I went shopping for a Strat). Plays and sounds great though... price and place of manufacture notwithstanding.

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free to fly... chained by choice

Reply:133 days 17 hours 58 minutes ago
Member: this dying soul

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I used to have the Cort Matt "Guitar" Murphy model - a 1998 version of it I believe. I sold it last year to get my SG.

If I didn't need the small amount of cash I'd sold that guitar for to fund the SG, I would have held on to it a few more years. If the model had become valuble later on that particular guitar probably would have been even more valuble than the rest because it's transparent purple finish was discontinued after only being available one year.

Considering the quality of Cort seems to keep getting better, I think this guitar might have been worth something where it was from the point where they started selling in music stores and got out of the Sears catalogue.

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