line 6 variax 700

	Carved-top ash over mahogany body (Translucent Colors) or carved-top solid mahogany body (Black Only)
	One-piece maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, bone nut, and pearl inlays
	22 medium profile frets
	25 1/2" scale length
	10" fingerboard radius
	Custom L.R. Baggs tremolo bridge
	Standard 1/4" guitar output jack
	Digital I/O jack for POD® XT Live, POD X3 Live, Vetta™ II, and Workbench connectivity
	Volume and tone controls respond faithfully for each model
	Included XPS A/B footswitch selects between two outputs: 1/4" standard guitar output for connection to any guitar amp XLR balanced output for sending acoustic sounds to a separate amp or PA
	Powered by footswitch, on-board batteries, Vetta II, PODxt Live or POD X3 Live
	Custom-fitted heavy-duty gig bag
	Available in Black or translucent Blue, Red, Amber, Metallic Gold or Sunburst

Gretsch Bo Diddley

The distictively rectangular and blazing red Electromatic® Bo Diddley model features dual chrome humbucking pickups, a bolt-on maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, adjustable bridge, volume and tone controls, three-way pickup switch and die-cast tuners.

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Brian May's Red special

Unlike the primary instruments of most musicians, the original Red Special was built by May himself along with his father, Harold. They began to work on the guitar in August 1963. Most of the wood came from an 18th century fireplace mantel that a friend of the family was about to throw away. The neck was hand-shaped into the desired form; this was difficult because of the age and quality of the wood. According to May, there are two wormholes in the neck of the guitar.
The neck was finished with a 24 fret oak fingerboard. Each of the position inlays were hand shaped from mother of pearl buttons. May decided to position them in a personal way: two dots at 7th and 19th fret and three at 12th and 24th.
The body was made from oak. blockboard and mahogany veneer; the final result was a sort of semi-acoustic  guitar—the central block is glued to the sides and covered with two mahogany sheets to give it the appearance of a solid-body guitar. White shelf edging was then applied as binding. It was then completed with three pickups and a custom-made bridge. May purchased a set of Burns Tri Sonic pickups but re-wound them with reverse wound/reverse polarity and "potted" the coils with Araldite epoxy  to reduce microphonics. He originally wound his own pickups, as he had for his first guitar, but he did not like the resulting sound because of the polarity of these pickups: alternating North-South instead of all North.
The tremolo system is made from an old hardened-steel knife-edge shaped into a V and two motorbike valve  springs to counter the string tension. The tension of the springs is adjustable by screwing the bolts, which run through the middle of the springs, in or out via two small access holes next to the rear strap button. To reduce friction, the bridge was completed with rollers to allow the strings to return perfectly in tune after using the tremolo arm (the arm itself was from a bicycle saddlebag holder with a plastic knitting needle tip). For the same reason, at the other end of the neck the strings pass over a zero fret  and through a bakelite  string guide.
Originally the guitar had a built in distortion circuit, adapted from a mid-1960sVox distortion unit. The switch for this was in front of the phase switches. May soon discovered that he preferred the sound of a Vox AC30 distorting at full power, so the circuit was removed. The switch hole is now covered by a mother-of-pearl star inlay, but was originally covered by insulation tape.
He still uses the original but he has been using replicas in some performances since his own company (Brian May Guitars) builds this instrument. One of the most well known occasions on which the original guitar was not used is in the videos We will rock you , and Spread you wings since he did not want to expose the Red Special to snow. He also opted out of using the Red Special for the Play the game video, using a knock-off guitar based on a Fender stratocaster since at one point in the video, singer Freddie Mercury  would snatch the guitar from him and "throw" it back to him (also the reason he used a cheap Satellite-badged copy instead of a real Strat). Another video that did not feature the Red Special was Princes of the universe, where May used a white Washburn RR11v (for reasons unknown, and this guitar is often mistaken for a Jackson Randy Rhoads^. May also recorded the original version of "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and performed in the accompanying video with a Fender telecaster

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Brian May Guitars
www.brianmayguitars.co.uk

Alumisonic

The 1100-Custom Aluminum Guitar is the result of several years of research and development into the perfect combination of material types and thicknesses, to produce the ultimate equalization of aluminum clarity with deep, controllable, semi-hollow arch-top resonance and sustain. The arch-top is cold formed and hardened from 99% pure 1100 aluminum, for the most obtainable warmth, with the lowest decibel aluminum resonance physically possible. Dimensionally perfected to classic carve-top proportions, the arch-top is fused to durable .09” thick 6061 aircraft grade aluminum sides and back, for a higher decibel tone balance with the added advantage of incredible strength and impact resistance.
For extra percussive crunch and resonance control, both pickup positions are internally backed with nitrocellulose lacquered Honduran mahogany chambers. These innovative chambers are designed for high overdrive hard rock players, and provide excellent feedback control, with a warm hybrid-blend of aluminum resonance through Mahogany.
By simply removing the 4 screws of each pickup ring during a string change, the center portions of these chambers can be removed. Removal of these Mahogany chamber “plugs” allows the arch-top to attain its fullest potential: for a deep, infinite sustain under overdriven conditions, and a rich array of crystal-clear low and high tones that no other instruments can naturally achieve. Our Alnico ‘V’ humbuckers are slightly over-wound and balanced specifically for classic to heavy rock for chambered guitars.Classic-59 type windings are available and recommended for non chambered bodies for Jazz, Blues, Classic rock and Fusion type players.
The incredibly versatile 1100-Custom Guitar can be customized with optional pickups wired with detachable micro plugs. AlumiSonic provides all commercially available pickups, with a micro plug pre-installed for easy changeability.
Custom Warmoth necks are offered for the 1100-Custom, and are designed to maintain the feel, balance and temperature of a classic, set neck carved-top instrument. Through extensive testing we determined that mahogany is the necessary hybrid ingredient for balance of flavoring, and transference of sound from a quality tone wood neck, to a pure aluminum body. The neck is internally mounted with our patented AlumiSonic Set Neck Mounting System which results in a smooth back with no external neck mounting hardware. This new and innovative mounting method also allows for better tone transfer from neck to body than ordinary neck mounting methods. In addition to providing a stronger connection than ordinary bolt- on necks, the Set Neck is easily replaceable in case of damage. 1100-Custom neck pockets are angled back at a traditional 5 degrees for perfect “Tun-O-Matic” bridge alignment and action, or for the Stetsbar Pro II Tremolo.
The 1100-Custom is the ultimate marriage of three acoustically tuned materials: 1100 aluminum for deep sustain and resonance, 6061 aluminum for clarity and crystalline overtones, and mahogany for that classic warmth and feel. All three materials make for a wicked combination of simultaneously identifiable sounds. The 1100-Custom Guitar is undeniably the finest aluminum hybrid instrument ever created.

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Music man (Nigel Tufnel signature)

It perhaps seems fitting that this list should end with the custom guitar of Spinal Tap’s lead axe-man. Indeed, Nigel Tufnel’s Ernie Ball Music Man signature model exists as the ultimate send up of certain six-string swingers’ penchants for weird guitars. Effectively a version of Music Man’s Albert Lee Silhouette, it’s no surprise that the Tufnel version of the axe takes the design concept and turns it up to eleven in some of the most excessive ways possible. With a red and yellow hot-rod paint job, the Nigel Tufnel signature continues the classic car theme with a gear stick whammy bar, four cylinder exhaust (which is purely decorative), and for reasons beyond comprehension, a speedometer dial. The guitar is rockin’ four humbucker pickups (which take up most of the length of the body) along with a Floyd rose tremolo and a custom Woodpecker decal. Probably the most hilarious features of the instrument, however, are the fret inlays, which display the names of the notes that correspond to the frets of the guitar. Tufnel has been using the guitar since the band’s Break Like The Wind tour of 1992 and it can be prominently seen in the “Return of Spinal Tap” concert DVD. Ending on a Spinal Tap six-string, it feels appropriate to end with a reference from that film that aptly sums of the crazy world of custom guitars; “there’s a fine line between clever and stupid”.

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Doug Rowell carved guitars

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Dave Gilmour black strat

David Gilmour bought this guitar from the famous Manny's Music store in New York City in 1970 as a replacement for several guitars which were stolen just six weeks prior while touring with Pink Floyd, including David's first black Stratocaster. This replacement was a late '60s model strat with a factory black finish painted over the original sunburst factory finish, with an alder body, and 21 fret maple neck. The guitar became David's main working strat and has been extensively modified over the years. It has been fitted and altered with seven different necks, different pickups, electronics, knobs, tremolo systems, and pick guards, amongst other changes. Gilmour used this on some of Pink Floyd's most famous recordings, including: Meddle, Live at Pompei, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, David Gilmour, The Wall, the Final Cut, and About Face. In 1986 after sixteen years of hard use, David retired the Black Strat and it was loaned to the Hard Rock Cafe for display. In 1997 David recovered the guitar, which saw much abuse while on display, and had it repaired and set up to make it a playable guitar once again. He used it for the Live 8 Pink Floyd reunion in 2005 and as his main working guitar for his On an Island solo album and tour, featured in the Remember that Night and Live in Gdansk DVDs and CDs.

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Ibanez jam winning design

Steve Vai is one of the few guitarists universally acknowledged as one who has changed the way musicians think about what a guitar can really do. His signature Ibanez guitars are no different: Iconic, Sublime, Awe-Inspiring, Outrageous. The Ibanez JEM Series models are trailblazers in a world of imitators – there’s nothing like them.

This is the winning design for new JAM by Alessandro Serrago

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Goldcaster

The GoldCaster ' is a custom made
hollow body guitar that features
a solid 18 Karat Gold Top.
Additionally the following 33 items
are made of solid 18 Karat Gold:
- Nut
- Bridge
- Saddles (6)
- Tone knob
- Volume knob
- Switch knobs (2)
- String tree
- Ferrules (6)
- Neck plate
- Strap buttons (2)
- Headstock logo
- Headstock Lettering (10)

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Selling price is 1 000 000 $ so you decide if it's a prestige or unnecessary makeup

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PRS signature RUN

The Signature Limited Run reintroduces the concept of the popular “Signature Series” guitar first offered over 20 years ago and adds PRS’s top tier Private Stock appointments and a list of influential artists. Limited to 100 pieces, the Signature model showcases a culmination of years of artist input and boasts PRS’s first ever multi-endorsement guitar Tom Wheeler, Howard Leese, Michael Ault, Davy Knowles, and Paul Reed Smith all backing the model.

“Every update the PRS Tech Center (PTC) has to offer has been included in the creation of this model’s specifications, and the artist line up speaks volumes of this guitar’s capabilities,” said Paul Reed Smith.

Highlights include a brand new pickup system with proprietary 408 treble and bass humbucking pickups which produce eight sounds on a simple switching scheme (see switching details below). A highly figured Private Stock maple top, and ME (Modern Eagle) birds with brown mother of pearl centers create an arresting visual impression. This model’s filled in “sinker” mahogany neck gives the player a new but familiar unfinished feel.

Signature Switching Details:

3-way Toggle Pickup Switching Positions:
Position One: Bridge humbucker
Position Two: Bridge and Neck humbuckers
Position Three: Neck humbucker

Mini-toggle Positions (there is one mini-toggle for both the neck and the bridge pickups respectively):
Up position: Slug side coil activated
Down position: Full humbucker activated

Possible Pickup Switching Combinations:
Neck humbucker
Neck and bridge humbuckers
Bridge humbucker
Neck singlecoil
Neck and bridge singlecoils (hum canceling)
Bridge singlecoil
Neck singlecoil with bridge humbucker
Neck humbucker with bridge singlecoil

Signature Limited Run Model Specs

Body
Top Wood	Figured Private Stock Maple
Back Wood	Lightweight African Mahogany
Neck
Number of Frets	22
Scale Length	25"
Neck Wood	Mahogany
Fretboard Wood	East Indian Rosewood
Neck Shape	Pattern
Fretboard Inlays	Mammoth Ivory Bird Inlays with Brown Lip Mother Of Pearl Centers
Hardware/Electronics
Bridge	Stoptail or Tremolo
Tuners	Robson Tuners with Ivory Buttons
Truss Rod Cover	Cocobolo
Hardware Type	Hybrid
Treble Pickup	408 T
Bass Pickup	408 B
Pickup Switching	Signature switching with 3-Way Toggle Pickup Selector

(taken from PRS Guitars)

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Conklin Custom Guitars

Rusty Cooley's custom made by Bill Conklin
Bill’s love of the guitar was sparked at about age 12 when his best friend got a guitar for Christmas. Within a few months Bill decided to pick up a bass to accompany his friend on guitar. It began with simple three chord melodies, but the love of guitars and making music would be deeply instilled for a lifetime.

Before long, Bill began to design radical guitar bodystyles and had soon filled an entire drawing tablet with innovative and imaginative designs. In his senior year of high school Bill went so far as to build his own one-of-a-kind guitar. Bill received so much interest and attention when he played the guitar live that he decided to turn his passion into a business. Just three years out of high school Bill started Conklin Guitars.

Early on, Bill relied on repair work to supplement the business income while honing his skills on modifications and refinishing, refretting, tremolo and pickup installations and custom inlay work. In 1988, Bill married his sweetheart of 7 years (Michele), moved to Springfield, Missouri, set up a brand new shop and concentrated solely on building his own original line of Conklin instruments. In just six short years Bill and his partner (Phil Goschy) had completely outgrown the original Springfield location and were forced to build the larger shop that the company calls home today. In 2001, Bill’s longtime sidekick decided to leave the guitar-building business to become a full time dad. Just by luck, one of Bill’s local customers knew of a young guitar prodigy named Mike Apperson who had been following the progress of the growing company and was interested in doing guitar set-ups. Little did either one of them know at the time what would soon become of their association.
(taken from Conklin Guitars)

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Eric Clapton "Blackie"

Blackie is the affectionate nickname given by Eric Clapton his favorite Fender stratocaster

Eric Clapton switched from using Gibson guitars began to use Stratocasters in 1970, largely due to the influence of Jimi Hendrix of Blind fate bandmate Steve Winwood. His first, nicknamed "Brownie", due to its sunburst brown finish, was used on his album Eric Clapton and Layla and Assorted Love Songs.

In the same year, Clapton found the Sho-Bud guitar shop in Nashville,Tennessee . He bought six vintage Strats for a hundred US dollars each. After giving one each to George Harrison,Pete Townshend and Steve Winwood , he took the best parts of the remaining three (built c.1956 and 1957 ) and assembled "Blackie", so named for its black finish.

It was first played live January 13, 1973 at the Rainbow concert. Clapton would play Blackie for many years on and off stage (such as in his guest appearance in The last waltz); finally, after a tour concert in Hartford 1985, it was retired due to issues with the neck. In 1987 the Eric Clapton Stratocaster was released according to Clapton's specifications; he began playing his new signature model shortly after.

One of the last known occasions when Blackie was seen by the public was for a 1990 television commercial for the Japanese automobile firm Honda when, at the specific request of the company, Clapton used Blackie to record a new guitar solo on Bad Love in New York and was filmed for the commercial doing so. Blackie was also brought out on stage for one number during the Royal Albert Hall shows in 1991

In 2004 , Blackie was sold for $959,500 at a Christie's auction to support the Crossroads Centre, a drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation centre founded by Clapton. The final bid was cast by the US nationwide music equipment chain Guitar Center , causing Clapton's guitar to set the record as the world's most expensive guitar. (In 2006, another Stratocaster, signed by a large group of celebrities, including Clapton, was auctioned to benefit the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami , selling for $US2.6 million, surpassing Blackie's record.)

In November 2006, Fender announced a limited run of 275 Blackie reissues by the Fender Custom Shop , identical to the original. They were released on November 24, 2006 and sold out within hours. The original Blackie was exhaustively examined and measured for the reproduction. The reproduction Blackies were constructed by a team of master builders, with each of the various 275 produced being assigned to one master builder.

One of these "Blackie" replicas has been played by Clapton during a gig at the Royal Albert Hall May 17th, 2006.

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Hufschmid guitars

These 6-7-8 string guitars are trully handmade in switzerland by Luthier Patrick Hufschmid

I say "guitars" because it would be stupid of me not to mention all of his work (or should i say art).

In 1996 he went to USA to study guitar building at the celebrated Red Wing Technical College in Minessota.

He builds 10 guitars a year with his 2 hands and his approach to building is natural and based on physics as opposed to poetry, romance and 100’000 coats of lacquer.

For the body and neck Patrick always uses premium grade Sapelli Mahogany, for the fingerboards either West African Ebony, Indian Rosewood or Brazilian Ironwood.

As for the tops, there is a huge available selection of gorgeous timbers.

His pickups for which he designed the external appearance are made by Kent Armstrong

Looking at these guitars make me happy

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MK guitar model Muris Varajic

Specs

Body: Mahagony bottom,Maple top,natural binding

Neck: Birdseye Maple, Rosewood fretboard, C shape, 24 frets (last 4 scalloped)

Lacquers: Polyurethane on neck, Waterbase Polyurethane on body

Scale: 25 1/2 inches

Hardware: Schaller Floyd Rose System (not floating, only drop one) and Tuners

Electronic: Stan Hinesley Rogue (bridge), Lagrange (middle), Customized Desperado (neck) and Varitone passive control pot, 5 ways switch.

Amazing guitar that is built by a great craftsman Mirza Kovacevic specially for one of a kind guitarist Muris Varajic.Since Muris is the only one who has the luck to play this guitar,here is what he says about his instrument:

First Impression

When I first saw it... I was amazed nonetheless. I got guitar I wanted in smaller detail, shape, finish, feel under hand, everything. Must say I felt action bit too high but now I'm even thinking of rising it. Just wonderful!

Sound

Mahagony gives it pretty dark and massive tone but with maple top it sounds just like I wanted, heavy bottom with nice mids and highs. Also HSS setup has its cut here, single in neck is my fav position so far.

Feel

That part is really awesome. Many times I've played it unplugged, sitting on the couch, it fits sooo nicely, body shape, neck, control over neck etc. It's surely individual and I like it cause I designed it a bit.

Reliability

It's really solid and steady made instrument, feels so powerful in your hands. Speaking of thrust rod, neck is straight and tight as it can be. I used to tweak it in Musicman Axis soo many times, it just balances too easily, but here it's so perfect and steady, even when I tune guitar 2 whole steps down. Of course, I carry it in solid case, my love is too great for anything less than that.

Craftsmanship

I just love Mirza's work on this guitar. Finish, some small details I didn't think of etc, brilliantly done. Specially I like the way he put my logo on headstock (it was his idea though). He took circle piece of nut wood (not sure if that's the right name for this type of wood though), did graving with mother of pearl and abalone in it and then put the whole piece into the headstock.

Overall Impression

I enjoy in this guitar a LOT, that's my final confession!!

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This post is made with permission of Muris Varajic

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Muris's Guitar Idol 2009 Entry
Muris playing Scarified
Muris playing kaladzijsko oro

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Gibson Les Paul studio

The Les Paul Studio is designed for a studio musician. This means that the guitar is targeted toward guitar players more concerned with tone and playability than cosmetics thus eliminating unnecessary expenses that go into a model designed for performances. For this reason, the elements of the Gibson Les Paul that contribute to tone and playability (a carved maple top and standard mechanical and electronic hardware) are retained, while elements that do not (binding on the body and neck as well as ornate inlays) are not.

Early models from 1983-1984 featured dot fret markers on top of ebony or rosewood fretboards. The neck and body bindings were offered on the Standard and Custom studios. In the mid 80's the dot markers were replaced by trapezoidal inlay. In the early 90's the option of an ebony fretboard was discontinued, but they are now available on the classic, silverburst and alpine white finishes. The maple top on the Studio series is 1/8 of an inch thinner than other Les Paul models that feature a maple top. This feature is roundly considered to provide slightly less sustain. The Studio was made to hit a specific price point below the standard Paul, allowing novice guitarists to enjoy the pedigree, shape and image of a Les Paul at a greatly reduced price. Despite this fact, many professional guitarists (see above) use the Studio as their on-stage instrument of choice, usually citing its reduced weight.

The Les Paul Studio features the same electronics as the custom model. This includes two pickups (one at the bridge position and another at the neck), a volume control unit for each pickup, a tone control unit for each pickup, and a three-way selector switch. A standard 1/4-inch guitar cable jack is located at the bottom rim of the instrument.

The pickups currently installed in this model are the Gibson 490R Alnico magnet humbucker in the neck position and the Gibson 498T Alnico magnet humbucker in the bridge position. The Studio Lite version of the Les Paul was equipped with ceramic magnet humbuckers (496R/500T).

As of late 2009, the "faded" model Studios (these have a slightly faded stain finish, as opposed to Nitrocellulose finishes) have BurstBucker Pro pickups installed.

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Fender Stratocaster Dave Murray

Guitarist Dave Murray of seminal U.K. metal heroes Iron Maiden has been banging his head with Fender since the mid ’70s. Murray recently joined forces with Fender to create a signature model based on his own ’57 Stratocaster, previously owned by late, great Free guitarist Paul Kossoff. The Dave Murray Stratocaster guitar boasts a supercharged HSH configuration—a DiMarzio® PAF® 36th Anniversary DP103 neck pickup, a DiMarzio® Super Distortion® DP100 bridge pickup and a Fender vintage-style middle pickup. Other features include a lacquer finish, and a flatter soft V-shaped neck with satin back. Vintage tweed hardshell case included.

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BC Rich speed v

When Kerry King picks up his axe, this is one of the distinctive B.C. Rich weapons he reaches for. The hand painted graphics are a highlight of this unique guitar. A tribal pattern inspired by Kerry's own tattoos overlays realistic leaping flames that extend over the sides of this Speed V. As with all B.C. Rich Handcrafted Signature Shop guitars, all the goods are specified by the artist, which means that all the equipment that assists Kerry in creating his signature tone is present: EMG 81/85 active pickups, PA2 pre amp, and a Kahler 2315 Tremolo. If you must play the closest thing to what Kerry King plays, this Speed V is for you.
B.C. Rich is known as one of the pioneers in Neck Through construction. They utilize it on many of their guitars, because it provides the best possible sustain, resonance, comfort and access to higher frets. Neck-through has long been considered the premium construction method for high end guitars. This construction starts with a long piece (or pieces) of premium North American maple. That piece runs from the tip of the headstock to the strap button on the opposite end of the guitar. This means that the headstock, fingerboard, pickups and bridge all are mounted to this single sound foundation. Sonically it is a difference you can hear. The neck-through construction also allows us to cut away more of the body and neck at the neck joint which provides comfort that no bolt-on or set-neck could offer. You will find the neck through feature on all of our top of the line B.C. Rich models.

EMG introduces the EMG-KFK Kerry King (Slayer) signature model for 2005. The combination of the EMG-81 and EMG-85 along with the PA2 (20db gain booster) delivers maximum distortion for Kerry and Slayer's bone crushing tones. This is his exact configuration used for live and studio action.

Package Includes: EMG's exclusive Quik-Connect™ cables (2), 25k split shaft volume/tone (standard) controls (2), screws & springs.

Most of B.C. Rich body styles employ a beveled edge around the shape. In many ways bevels on a top are similar to facets on a cut stone. They catch the light and reflect at different angles giving the instrument more of a three dimensional look. Some of the B.C. Rich top bevels are extreme and wide while others are subtle and narrow. Occasionally the shape of the instrument is accented by painting the bevels a contrasting color.

Construction: Neck-through
Body wood: Maple
Top style: Beveled
Tuners: Grover Super Rotomatics

Fretboard: Ebony
Frets: 24 jumbo
Scale: 24 5/8"

Bridge: Kahler 2315 Tremolo
Pickups: EMG 81/85, PA2 Pre Amp

Colors: Generation 2 Tribal over Flames

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Parker fly

The Parker Fly is a type of electric guitar built by Parker guitars. It was designed by Ken Parker and Larry Fishman, and first produced in 1993. The Fly is unique among electric guitars in the way it uses composite materials. It is notable for its light weight (4.5 lb; 2.0 kg) and resonance. It was also one of the first electric guitars to combine traditional magnetic pickups with piezoelectric pickups, allowing the guitarist to access both acoustic and electric tones.

Inspired by earlier musical instruments like the lute, Ken Parker began experimenting with hardwood exoskeletons to provide rigidity to the instrument but hardwood was too difficult to work with and did not achieve satisfactory results. Inspired by a friend who used carbon fiber to build speed boats, Ken Parker started experimenting with the material. Today, Flys are built with an exoskeleton along the back and around the neck of the guitar. It is made from a carbon fibre/glass/epoxy composite material that is thinner than the paint finish. The same composite also comprises the fretboard material.

The exoskeleton provides the guitar with strength and rigidity, as well as increasing the guitar's sustain. It also gives the added benefit of allowing a smaller, more efficient body. One of Ken Parker's primary goals in designing the Fly was to build a guitar with less mass than a traditional electric guitar but with the same or even more rigidity. The composite exoskeleton is one of the primary reasons why such a design is possible.

The frets on the Parker Fly are constructed of hardened stainless steel, they have no tangs, and are instead attached using a high-tech adhesive. Parker Fly guitars typically have twenty-four frets.

The Parker Fly has a vibrato system that allows the player to select from a fixed-bridge mode, a bend-down-only mode, and a free-float mode. The vibrato system uses a flat spring allowing the user to easily adjust the tension. The spring's natural tension is selected according to the gauge of strings used by the guitar player. The original Fly design incorporated a wheel on the face of the guitar to adjust the spring tension, while more recent models have moved the tension adjustment to inside the guitar. The tremolo bridge has been designed to stay in perfect tune, even with heavy use of the bar.

Most versions of the Parker Fly feature a set of two magnetic humbucker style pickups and a Fishman developed piezoelectric pickup designed to emulate acoustic guitar sounds. The piezoelectric pickup is aided by an onboard active pre-amplifier requiring the use of a 9 volt battery. The magnetic pickups are passive, but sit within the active circuit path. Fly guitars feature a stereo output jack, allowing the piezo and magnetic pickups to be sent to different amplifier, or blended into a mono signal. Some Fly models have only magnetic pickups, for traditional electric guitar sounds, while some models have only piezo pickups, for use as solid-body acoustic-electric guitars.

The Parker Fly's magnetic pickups are based on the traditional humbucker design, but feature a proprietary mounting system which eliminates the need for pickup rings and mounting brackets. The pickups are instead mounted via two extended pole pieces that screw into bushings sunk into the pickup cavities of the guitar. This mounting system produces a cleaner looking interface between the pickups and the instrument. The first Humbuckers used for the fly were produced by Dimarzio based on their Air Norton (neck position), and ToneZone (bridge position) designs. These pickups are commonly referred to as "Gen 1 Dimarzios". Responding to complaints about their non traditional hi-fi sound, Dimarzio introduced a new set of humbuckers in the spring of 1999. Commonly referred to as "Gen 2 Dimarzios", these new pickups were custom designed for the Fly's unique voicing. Featuring ceramic magnets, the Gen 2 design had more mid range focus, and higher output than their predecessors, and are still used on many current fly models
The Parker Fly guitars are equipped with sperzel tuners, which allow the string to be locked into place at the pole in which it winds. This feature allows the string to remain fastened into the pole without requiring more than one wind.

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IBANEZ PGMFRM1

The PGMFRM1 or The Fireman Comet was released in 2009, at the same time with the 20th anniversary of the PGM models. This guitar is one of the signature models of Paul Gilbert from MR.BIG and Racer X. The design is based on the Iceman model, but Paul Gilbert reversed the guitar and add a cut away. Its name “FIREMAN” came from a fan that saw the guitar from a video posted by Paul Gilbert. The boy called it Fireman because its a reversed iceman. Only 45 of these guitars were produced and released by Ibanez. Ibanez also released another Fireman model with a different material and pickups

Features

The PGMFRM1 electric guitar design features a korina body and neck, three Single coil DiMarzio pickups. This guitar also feature a Gibraltar II fixed bridge and Quickchange II tailpiece. Each guitar comes with: Certificate of Authenticity Signed by Paul Gilbert, Core One Creative Coiled guitar cable, exclusive Hippie strap. 30?, Direct Sound extreme isolation headphones, and deluxe hardshell Case.

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Eko c22/s

Jeloutong arched body,laminated neck of maple/mahogony/maple.Rosewood fingerboard.Di marzio "paf" and "dual sound" pickups.Tone and volume control knobs for both pickups.Three way switch.Amazing sound.Rare eko guitar with di marzio

I personally own this guitar and just had to show it cos i didn't find many of this model on net
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Gibson Les Paul '59

In mid 1958 gibson replaced the goldtop finish with a sunburst finish with the grain of the maple top visible until 1960 and renamed it the gibson les paul standard sunburst . ( 59 models had a thick style neck , the 60 models had a thinner neck )

From mid 1958 to 1960 under 2000 gibson les paul standard sunburst guitars were made , all in "flame" or "tiger stripped" maple tops with cherry red back finishes . Some tops were highly flamed while others were low flamed.

Although the gibson les paul standard sunburst was an attractive and probably the best built overall sounding guitar of its time. In the late 50s , archtop guitars were " the in thing " for jazz guitar players and fender stratocasters dominated the rockn' roll market because of its thin brighter sound .

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Fender Stratocaster Roland ready

Fender’s far-out Roland-Ready Stratocaster guitar has all the features of the Standard Stratocaster -- fast-action Maple neck, comfort-contoured body, 3 single-coil pickups and synchronized tremolo -- with the addition of a built-in Roland GK-2A pickup system that lets you drive peripherals directly from the guitar’s on-board controls to get the most amazing sounds...

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Gibson robot guitar

The Gibson Robot Guitar (a.k.a GOR) typically refers to a sub-class of les paul style guitars from gibsonThis is because the first run of limited edition Robot Guitars was exclusively made up of Les Paul bodies. Currently, there are five different Gibson models available with Robot Guitar features: The Robot les paul studio Robot sg Robot flying v Robot explorer, and a Robot les paul junior. Developed by Chris Adams its most notable feature is that it uses an onboard computer to automatically tune itself. This is not the first guitar to be able to tune itself, but it is regarded as the most modern, unique, and un-invasive self-tuning model available, because it does not employ cams or cantilevers throughout the body of the guitar. The non-limited edition SG and Les Paul Studio are available in a variety of finishes. The Flying V and Explorer are only available in metallic red. The price can range from about $1,000-$3,000 or more for custom options. In the case of the "Original 1st Production" Robot guitar, the only finish available was Blue Silverburst nitrocellulose (as in the photo to the right), and it is notable because Gibson have stated in the Robot marketing materials that (the color) "will never be used on any other Gibson guitar". The original Robot guitar also featured headstock and neck binding which are not standard on any current Les Paul Robot.

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Pensa Suhr MK1

In 1980, Knopfler and Rudy Pensa met, and eventually together with John Suhr created the Pensa "MK". This model served as a basis for a series of Pensa-branded handmade guitars still available from the company: the MK1 (bound mahogany body and neck with a 22-fret Brazilian rosewood fingerboard and carved quilted maple top, Floyd Rose locking tremolo, Sperzel locking tuners, black headstock, gold hardware and an active EMG pickup set with an 85 humbucking bridge pickup and two SA single-coils, master volume and master tone with switchable pull-out SPC "presence control" mid-boost circuit), MK2 (three Lindy Fralin Blues single-coils, stop tailpiece, matching headstock) and MK80 (three Seymour Duncan Classic Stacks, birdseye maple fingerboard, three mini toggle switches, 3-ply aged white pickguard, aged parchment plastic parts, gold hardware, matching headstock and Gotoh vintage bridge). Other custom options are also available.

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