If you can only have 1 electric which one?

[djphelan01]

If you can only own 1 or 2 electric guitars and you play for fun which would it be? I'm selling off some stuff but torn on what to keep. This isn't an ad to sell stuff. I already have buyers. I currently own a EJ strat , a PRS custom 24 and a MIM tele and a warmoth strat, Ibanez artcore semi hollowbody, and a new Ibanez montage. I think I'm going to sell the two fenders and buy a MIM strat. I have to keep the PRS since it is so gorgeous and I would never be able to replace it for the price I got it for.

[ramsa]

One semi-hollow and one solid...
What do ya think of the Montage? They look slick.

I'm down to a Samick jazzbox, and not having electric withdrawl...

[djphelan01]

I have the KOA montage and I'm still a little undecided. The guitar is beautiful looking except for the neck looks a little cheesy compared to the body.

[GAD]

Right now I'm pretty happy with my ES335 copy and my Jackson soloist, but that's right now.

If I had to have only one guitar it would be something like an ES335. They're so darn versatile.

GAD

[kak1154]

I'd keep my Les Paul. Most versatile electric IMO. Plus, on mine, both pickups are coil-tapped, so I can get a thinner sound if I want to.

As for a second one, I'd either add a Strat or an ES335-type, depending on which direction you want to go.

[Taylor_guy414]

I know many people aren't fans of them, but I would say my 1 choice for electric would be my Taylor T5. For my style and how versitile it is, IMO its the perfect guitar.

[coldshot]

If your talking about only owning one electric mine would be a T5 for it's versatility.

[Bob Womack]

My top three are an ES335, a Les Paul Standard, and a Strat. You gotst lots o' bases covered there, with the semi-hollow/maple center block, maple capped mahogany, and a strat. Veddy noice indeed.

Bob

[jyee]

I bought my carvin with a "only 1 electric" mindset. Particularly because it has coil taps, so you can turn off half of the humbuckers to turn them back into single coil pickups. With only one electric, i think versatility of sound is important. I've got a friend with the line6 variax and pedal board... that's a pretty nice modelling guitar, and it's quite versatile.

if i had to buy one electric guitar and a broad spectrum of sound wasn't important, i'd probably go with a gibson sg. i like the feel and sound... but that's probably influenced heavily by the fact that it was the first electric i ever played (graciously loaned for a few weeks from my teacher)

[opencee]

Tele with a B-bender.

[Brian Hague]

Originally Posted by lofapco

After trying several over the last year and a half, I have settled on a American Std. Strat from 2004. 3 Tone Tobacco Burst and all the different tone's I can handle with my electric inexperiance. I have kept this one because it just feels right in my hands and sounds better than it should with me playing it!

+1. I have a '96 American Standard, and it's the most versatile electric around IMO (I also have an Aria lawsuit-era LP copy). With the right amp (Vox Valvetronix in my case), I can do anything from country to blues to classic rock to metal.

[Acousticado]

Strat and a Les Paul, in that order.

[Seagull Lover]

That's an easy choice for me since I only have one electric. My Godin SDxt is very versatile. I love the choices that I get with the HSH configuration. If I were to choose a second guitar it would have to be a 335 style.

[dahn8]

Tele!!!!!

[vbf]

no contest...my Les Paul.