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This is quite possibly a thread elsewheres...I admit. I did not research.
BUT,
what is your dream axe made of (bassists, totally welcome to post. I lurve hearing about the bass sex action. Pretty sure I'm one more failed guitar solo away from picking up a 4 strang.)?
I wanna hear about all the gritty deets.
I wanna get exotic wood for your exotic woods!

I think I'd opt for either an Iceman, Nick Page style inverse Ric, or inverse Firebird style body...probably made out of mahogony, with a small, concealed, semi hollow chamber (Ibanez law-suit styles), but the fatness of a LP... neck through IC400 style neck and Ebony board (although, I do love that Wenge). Not sure what scale....I prefer 24 & 3/4"....but it needs to go down to A...maybe beyond....
String through body a long ways after the tune-o-matic.....
High gain bridge pup....maybe a Dirty Hesher.....nice clean single coil or lipstick in the neck.
Give me a silver burst, or stain that grain and fade it to black.
Silver binding, neck and body please.
And just a Valknut to mark the area around 12th.....made out of either black pearl...or something silver....like silver.




Alright, go!

Rickenbacker 481 body (or greco rg550) with a standard scale aluminium neck.
Black with cream binding and big block inlays.
when I make my first million, it'll be the first thing I do!

Nice.
I can't get away from black guitars.
I tried.
I failed.
I don't care.
I love them.

Silverburst LPC that's decayed into that sick greenish blue.

pelliott wrote:Silverburst LPC that's decayed into that sick greenish blue.

that's me too!

my 40th is coming up in a few years, so already prepping the wife for one of these.

failing the Sivlerburst...i would go the cream custom.

Yep, I'm with ya there.

This just changes all the time.
I don't think that I have ONE ideal guitar. I just want to have several. It's important that I have a veritable arsenal of guitars to cycle through at my leisure.

First:

Wenge Body and Neck Jazzblaster. 24.75" scale. Jazzmaster style tremolo. Block Inlays. Tortoise Shell Pickguard. Might rep humbucker sized P90's instead of humbuckers. Hard to say. Pickup choice seems like it could often be influx.

Second:

Lake Placid Blue '72 Deluxe Telecaster. Big ass Strat Headstock. Maple Neck. Tortoise Shell Pickguard. Really like how that looks with LPB.

I own one guitar that I love and don't really jones for anything else.

Though I've never owned an offset...I'd like to own an offset someday.

And I guess there's this.

Iommic Pope wrote:And just a Valknut to mark the area around 12th.....made out of either black pearl...or something silver....like silver.

Have you seen the inlay on this Daemoness?

My absolute pie-in-the-sky dream guitar has a 7-string TransTrem. Since that's obviously not happening, let's look at the more realistic scenario:

7-string
24.75" or 25" scale
Wide-ish nut (2" or a little wider)
Singlecut body, probably leaning to the LP rather than the Tele side of things
2 covered passive alnico PAF-type pickups (if we're dreaming big, probably Bareknuckles)
3-way switch on the upper horn
TOM/stopbar bridge
22 frets
'59 LP neck carve
At least 1 vol/1 tone; 2 vol/1 tone and 2 vol/2 tone would also be acceptable
Black hardware
Dot inlays

Woods and colors get a little more variable. I could be happy with any of the following combinations:

Maple-on-mahogany body (finished with a matte dark stain), mahogany neck (satin clear), ebony fretboard
Mahogany body and neck (satin black or clear), ebony fretboard (bonus points for cream binding)
Walnut-on-swamp ash body and maple neck (satin clear), maple fretboard
Swamp ash body (finished with a matte dark stain), maple neck (satin clear), ebony fretboard

I have a hard time with this sort of thing, because I want to go in so many different directions, visually and sound wise, on both guitar and bass. I generally know what I like to feel when I'm playing now, but guitar is so much more easy to be versatile with. You can get almost any kind of pickup in a humbucker shape, coil tap stuff. With bass, my favorite pickup is a passive P, but I also love a 2 band active MM pickup and occasionally a set of jazz pickups. There's the EMG 35 shape for bass, which is what I went for with my custom bass build I commissioned a few years ago, but found out there wasn't nearly as many options as I'd hoped.

Any given day I would love a 50's style Esquire, Non Reverse Firebird or Thunderbird (of Fenderbird!), a 70's neck through BC Rich Mockingbird bass with the double reverse P pickups, any number of solid vintage Precision, Jazz or Stingray basses.

If I had to go with something that I know I'd play like crazy and love the feel of, I'd have Drake Custom make me a guitar. I love the bass he made me, I just don't use it nearly enough because I experimented a lot, instead of just getting a custom version of what I already knew I loved. I'm still playing around with different pickups to get it dialed in just right (I got it with dual EMG 35 sized humbucking pickup routes, which I NEVER used before. Got passive Nordstrand DCs in there currently), but if I had just slapped a Dimarzio Model P in there, I'd be set. I see that all the time on forums now, the "if you're paying that much, why make it just like a ____" philosophy, which almost always leads to people not using or keeping custom stuff. So I'd get something similar in body shape to the bass he made me, Fender scale length, hardtail bridge (something non tune-o-matic), dual humbuckers, with a bolt on neck and stainless steel frets. Right now I use a Carvin Bolt Plus, which works perfect for me as far as neck profile and tone, but doesn't have much style to it. I like the really long sloped curves of the body style Drake made me, that bass is the most comfortable instrument I've ever played.

If I could get this 12 string, trem equipped 24 fret sg that I made, built out of aluminum. That'd probably be the one.

25.5" scale 22fret ebony fretboard with illuminati inlay, alder body / neck, 7 string neck through, slightly oversized body, string through body with TOM style bridge, Monson Nomad in flatblack tuned to Drop F with Bareknuckle Warpigs.

Hopefully next tax return.

AxAxSxS wrote:If I could get this 12 string, trem equipped 24 fret sg that I made, built out of aluminum. That'd probably be the one.

That thing is ridiculous man...never get tired of looking at it.

Thanks man, it's a blast to play too!