Ibanez Chromeboy. Any version. Been the dream since the 90s.
Vai’s FTLoG guitar. Been obsessed since the video and had the Guitar World (I think) centerfold on my wall until I moved out of my mom’s place.
Les Claypool’s Carl Thompson bass. I don’t even play bass lol
I think of all of the signature models out now, Govan’s seems amazing and I think I’d love Petrucci’s EBMM but I’ve never seen either in real life.
Ed Roman guitars used to do a custom EBMM Van Halen clone with a TransTrem, nicknamed “Edberger.”
I like the idea of the Floyd equipped James Tyler Variax, but 1) it appears to be out of production now, and 2) the pickups are sitting in a slightly raised wooden ridge in the middle of the guitar face instead of a nice smooth face.
Well since no one has claimed the “TelySevalas” RG from Gilb’s first Intense Rock vid it’s up to me! Just awesome, regular dots and matching pickguard. I’ve never been able to figure out if there’s a name for the color, looks different in every photo. I’m guessing it’s a pearl finish that looks really different in different light.
Apparently PG had it in pieces for years and gave it to a friend in return for organizing his emails of all things, wonder if it was ever restored. I’m working on painting an RG in metalflake, if that works out who knows . . . might get ambitious and make a replica from an old RG.
[EDIT] Near as I can tell the guitar disappeared, it was owned by someone named Chad Dyers back in 2003 and even photos from then are dead links now. BTW I’m convinced the guitar in my head never existed, it was hot-pink and the deep burgundy I remember was the result of the synthwave-style lighting in the studio. Ah, well.
I’ve always wanted one of those Parker fly guitars. Sadly they are not made anymore 🫤
Some part of me still wants the Mattias Eklundh Caparison sig model, even though I’m past my 8 string phase. The 6K price tag also helps curb the urge.
That’s gorgeous!! I’m insanely envious!
6000 lol man, some guitars are ridiculous…
I notice it’s got the true tempered frets. I think I’d rather get a midi pick up to get a proper intonation over the wavy frets. Tho they are expensive too…
I’d love one too, I didn’t know they were not made anymore?
Yeah the company finished up a long time ago now unfortunately. So the only way to get one is used and extremely expensive 
I remember playing one early on. Nice instrument. Not sure how they faired when they were sold to US Music Corp (2003).
Factoid: Ken Parker rightly gets most of the credit, but he and Lawrence Fishman (Fishman Electronics, anyone?) shared several patents used in the guitar.
I never knew that! I have fishman pups in my Ibanez. Sound great to my ears!
Epiphone re-released those in the later naughts for a period. Wouldn’t have been too hard to add the mini and super distortion, don’t know about the Kahler though unless you really wanted it to be an exact replica of his guitar. They didn’t come in pink or green either I think both Bruce and Paul did that.
I still have a ‘97 USA patent pending that I bought in high school after working and saving all year.
I actually played some Gretsch guitars yesterday in a store for the first time. I was amazed at how nice they were to play! I didn’t plug in but was curious as to the feel of the instrument. These guitars are unbelievable! The neck playability was possibly the best I have ever experienced. Just so enjoyable to play. I was playing some alt picked shred licks - testing it out - soooo comfortable. I was playing high end Gretsch guitars - have yet to test the cheaper ones. Also the build quality was just gorgeous!
As I said I haven’t plugged one in yet - but would highly recommend checking them out for anyone who is into shred and guitar ergonaomics.
I’ve had my ups and downs with this one, but it’s turned out to be my holy grail guitar.
It’s a custom Lentz Croydon Carvetop I had commissioned years ago. Took a while to warm up to the humbuckers, had to get past the YJM fixation to vibe with it.
A short clip of what it sounds like, some random party playing…
I’ve really grown to love this guitar, it was build to my specs on the neck carve, notice no taper, it’s depth is even nut to heel, like a old tele, but so comfortable it’s unreal.
I don’t really have a dream guitar per se, but I definitely have guitars I want in the moment, then the moment is gone and I want something else, or realize I have too many guitars and don’t need anything else. At this brief point in time I kind of want one of the 90’s jackson mahogany fusion hh’s. Mostly because it was the first jackson I ever played and I remember my 13 or 14 year old self thought it was cool especially because it had a 24.74” scale. Don’t know what I would think about it now, which is kind of why I want one.
That guitar always looked like it was a lighter laffy taffy purple to me. It didn’t look metallic or on the burgundy side. It is the same guitar he plays on the down to Mexico intro at the beginning of intense rock ii, but at this point he altered it - blocked out where he had a trem, put on the plastic f holes, different pickups etc. Originally he had a kahler on it and Duncan mini in the neck but there is a bit of a controversy about what exact bridge pickup was in it. Likely doesn’t matter though. Most of the sound he has in that video is from the MP-1. Those just sound like that no matter what you put into it.
