"Players Delux Sienna Sunburst" 2005 fender Stratocaster
Slightly flashy and tarty with the gold hardware, but rather special. The kind of guitar that will grow old disgracefully. This guitar has a very resonant sound, noiseless pickups, and a switch to change the pickup wirign from series to parallel.
"Iced tea" 2004 Gibson Les Paul Standard
The real mccoy. The bees knees. The mutt's nutts. Nuff said. The only problem with this guitar is that the pickups are so powerful, then can overwhelm the output signal. You can easily smooth it out by dialing back the volume controls a tad. This is the first guitar I have ever played which has tone controls that not only work, but are actually useful in molding your sound. This one has the fatter 50's style neck. It is really quite beautiful.
"White blonde" Fender 50's Telecaster
This guitar has the most sultry tones from the neck pick up. Real sweet. It's light, loud even when not plugged in, and pretty and cool like ice cream. The clean tones are very nice, and sound much more acoustic than the Les Paul. The dirty tones are just that , dirty! Filthsome angry nasty viscous trebly rough distortion. Nice. THis is a really basic guitar, with a vintage style bridge, and very little refinement. But I think that's the point.
"Tobacco Sunburst" 1995 Dean Bass (Unsure of exact model)
A nice bass. Nothing that special, but it is well made, with solid electrics, nice progressive volume and tone pots, and a thin neck. This bass has been extensively gigged, and despite being sat on, having beer spilt over it, and having been used as a riot shield to keep rogue audience members off stage, it has held up pretty well. This was My First Guitar! I worked like a slave scraping shit for 3 weeks to get the £260 together to buy it.
"Vintage Sunburst" 2001 Epiphone Les Paul 100
This is also a pretty low budget guitar. Again it is let down by cheap pickups and machines heads. The G string in particular refuses to stay in tune. It is quite bendy, and can only really cope with fairly light gauge strings (9's) or it starts wobbling around and detuning. It has totally ineffectual tone controls. Both the neck and bridge pickup sounds pretty much the same, with the neck pick up being only slightly more mushy than the bridge. It might look like a Les Paul, but it isn't one. (Note: This is NOT the Epiphone Les Paul reviewed and compared in my Gibson Les Paul v Epiphone Les Paul comparison page. This is the cheapest of cheap Epiphone LP100. The one reviewed in the aforementioned page was the Epiphone Les Paul Standard.)
1999 Encore E1B
This guitar cost £49 and it is not nearly as bad as the price tag would suggest. Upgraded machines heads, have made it playable. A great first guitar
