I have few guitars. Well more than few but I tend to play only few of them. Some of those I try from time to time and return to even smaller number of guitars. Over half of the time it is the guitar next to amp. Not the one in picture. It is also Stratocaster style guitar. Nowadays I rarely play anything else than Stratocasters or Telecasters. It is easier to pick one of those because amp and pedals are already set to that sort of guitar. Picking anything else would require changing settings. SG tend to sound quite good with same settings though. Don’t know why. It has quite different sound.
I remembered this video.
Video mentions guy with six guitars. As a guy having more that six guitars I have the say six is good number of guitars. Even having more than six guitars at any time I tend to play only six guitars. Those guitars change when I get better ones. At the moment I could sell every guitar except six guitars I use most and not miss anything. That set up would be two SGs, two Stratocasters, one Telecaster and guitar next to my amp. To go even further guitar next to my amp can do close to what other five guitars can do. That is the reason it is next to my amp.
After having all these guitars and having played them I think I have found what kind of guitar is the one guitar for me. It is something you can’t find easily. It is basically Stratocaster with hard tail and HSS pick ups. Stratocaster meaning bolt-on maple neck and alder Stratocaster like body. I remember seeing only one of those. Almost bought it then. It is not available at the moment. Hard tail Stratocaster is hardest to come by. Guitar next to my amp is quite close to this. In a way it could be better than this if it did one more thing.
I don’t remember the guitar’s model. It is combination of letters and numbers. It is hard tail Jackson Stratocaster with two Seymour Duncan humbuckers. I assume those are JB and Jazz but I am not sure. It has five way switch giving humbucker and coil split sounds of both pick ups and both pickups as humbuckers in middle position. Only thing it doesn’t do is giving coil split sounds of both pick ups same time. If it had three way switch and coil split was behind push/pull knob it would be perfect. Jackson gets played most because it can give everything I need. It gives humbucker and single-coil sounds. It would be easy to make it the one guitar I always play.
Other guitars can do some things better but I could do almost everything with that one guitar. If you wonder why my six guitars have two SGs and two Stratocasters there is good explanation for them. Another Stratocaster is Ed O’Brian signature (guitar in picture above). It has sustainer but only one single coil. Other Stratocaster is one with three single coils for traditional Stratocaster sounds. With SGs one has faded finish and other normal SG finish. Those finishes make guitars sound different.