IbanezDan51
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JPM models are extremely rare now and the limited edition models, well, exactly like you say..$$$
Here’s a bit more of the collection, I eventually got into Fenders... have a Gibson too, far left!
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JPM models are extremely rare now and the limited edition models, well, exactly like you say..$$$
Here’s a bit more of the collection, I eventually got into Fenders... have a Gibson too, far left!
uk66fastback
Club Member
Very impressive Dan! Great collection and very well displayed. I bought some of those guitar hooks a year or two ago to display my TWO. Haven't got around to it and they sit in a corner collecting dust. Criminal I know ...
If I ever took up the six-string I'd love to have had a Gretsch.
If I ever took up the six-string I'd love to have had a Gretsch.
Mr.G
Club Member
Some lovely guitar collections.
I have been playing for less then a year and I am pretty naff but I do enjoy it and have been improving.. slightly..
. I wish i took it up when I was younger though, something most guitarist who started late would agree with!
I've not ventured into electric guitars, I have an Epiphone EJ200 acoustic jumbo that I bought second hand, it was made in 1997 and looks and sounds great. Keeps in tune too pretty much.
I have been playing for less then a year and I am pretty naff but I do enjoy it and have been improving.. slightly..
. I wish i took it up when I was younger though, something most guitarist who started late would agree with!I've not ventured into electric guitars, I have an Epiphone EJ200 acoustic jumbo that I bought second hand, it was made in 1997 and looks and sounds great. Keeps in tune too pretty much.
richiep
Club Member
Okay Dan, you win by far! Excellent collection. Love the hot rod flame JS! Also, interesting to see the Maverick; they were a bit of a flash-in-the-pan brand with a spin on the Ibanez vibe and the original knob setup.
I’ve only got one more guitar that I’ve not shown yet, but haven’t got a photo. Will snap it tomorrow. I tend to be quite faithful to my guitars and don’t buy or keep tons. Also, the Zs keep hoovering up the guitar cash!
In the meantime, the noisy bit:
80s vibe again - original ADA MP-1 preamp (as used by Nuno Bettencourt, Paul Gilbert, and everyone else in the late-80s to Early-90s), Rocktron Multi Valve fx, and Rocktron power amp. Only recently put these in the rack box and need to properly program some patches. I’ve been distracted though by revisiting my teens. My first ‘proper’ amp was a Marshall Lead 100 Mosfet, which has basically a solid state version of a JCM800 2210. No valves but an excellent amp if eq’ed right. Just bought one on eBay and confirmed to myself how I really should’ve kept my original one as it was a great amp!
Don’t know why someone painted the head’s piping black but gradually scratching that off the reveal the original white! Takes pedal well, so have been enjoying messing about with my pedal collection ahead of a plan to assemble a new pedalboard.
I’ve only got one more guitar that I’ve not shown yet, but haven’t got a photo. Will snap it tomorrow. I tend to be quite faithful to my guitars and don’t buy or keep tons. Also, the Zs keep hoovering up the guitar cash!
In the meantime, the noisy bit:
80s vibe again - original ADA MP-1 preamp (as used by Nuno Bettencourt, Paul Gilbert, and everyone else in the late-80s to Early-90s), Rocktron Multi Valve fx, and Rocktron power amp. Only recently put these in the rack box and need to properly program some patches. I’ve been distracted though by revisiting my teens. My first ‘proper’ amp was a Marshall Lead 100 Mosfet, which has basically a solid state version of a JCM800 2210. No valves but an excellent amp if eq’ed right. Just bought one on eBay and confirmed to myself how I really should’ve kept my original one as it was a great amp!
Don’t know why someone painted the head’s piping black but gradually scratching that off the reveal the original white! Takes pedal well, so have been enjoying messing about with my pedal collection ahead of a plan to assemble a new pedalboard.
IbanezDan51
Well-Known Forum User
The flames JS has some signage and doodling on the back by the man himself, it was originally a burnt translucent blue guitar but the Hercules wall hanger didn’t manage to hold on the wall one night... costly! and it now means I put completely over kill fittings in for the others...
The maverick was my second ever guitar..! At the time I wanted an RG550 but the shop wouldn’t do a deal, I went down the road to see that and the neck was a corker, but too heavy for me now mind and the roller knobs look cool but are absolutely useless
Love that rack set up..! I’m down to a JSX and a Mesa Nomad 55 now which is my usual go too but the other year I saw a guy playing two Roland cubes in stereo and the sound was something else... also very cheap to maintain and purchase! So been debating going down that route soon.
The maverick was my second ever guitar..! At the time I wanted an RG550 but the shop wouldn’t do a deal, I went down the road to see that and the neck was a corker, but too heavy for me now mind and the roller knobs look cool but are absolutely useless
Love that rack set up..! I’m down to a JSX and a Mesa Nomad 55 now which is my usual go too but the other year I saw a guy playing two Roland cubes in stereo and the sound was something else... also very cheap to maintain and purchase! So been debating going down that route soon.
Rich,my guitarist has the JP sig model,I remember when he had it shipped over from Annie’s in New York,
He uses Ibanez guitars now and has a few nice looking ones,he normally has two in the same tuning when we are playing in case a string goes then at least when he picks up the other guitar it still sounds the same,doesn’t happen often though
He uses Ibanez guitars now and has a few nice looking ones,he normally has two in the same tuning when we are playing in case a string goes then at least when he picks up the other guitar it still sounds the same,doesn’t happen often though
IbanezDan51
Well-Known Forum User
Thanks Ali, everything is insured but I somehow doubt everything could be replaced. Something are sentimental and some damn near impossible to replace.
richiep
Club Member
I like the Musicman JP sigs too, although I prefer the earlier ones to the most recent Majesty model he uses mostly now. Especially the JP15 - gorgeous thing!
Just discovered a version of the Ibanez JPM that I didn’t know existed - the Desert Storm:
Apparently a prototype one-off, used for the song Home on the Scenes from a Memory album. Love the desert camp colour scheme.
Gratuitous name drop - I actually know John Petrucci (and the other DT guys). We got to hang out a bit last weekend when they were in London and we saw them the week before in Prague too. I’ve chatted with him in the past about the old Ibanezs. He still has them all but they’ve not been touched in many years. They are all in the warehouse where DT store their gear. Now I need intel on the Desert Storm though!
peter_s
Club Member
Stunning gear, all of you!
I have too much to list, having played music since my teens. I started out playing drums, but these days I play a lot of guitar.
Here is my PRS ME1, with a Brazilian rosewood neck.
CU24 and Sig Ltd
Private Stock McCarty 245
Workstation
All outboard gear is build by myself.
I'm a huge amp fan, but we can separate that in another post.
I have too much to list, having played music since my teens. I started out playing drums, but these days I play a lot of guitar.
Here is my PRS ME1, with a Brazilian rosewood neck.
CU24 and Sig Ltd
Private Stock McCarty 245
Workstation
All outboard gear is build by myself.
I'm a huge amp fan, but we can separate that in another post.
Wow!!!! So much talent and beyond restoring rusty old Japanese steel. [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
peter_s
Club Member
What is it? Never seen one
peter_s
Club Member
Love the walls!!
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peter_s
Club Member
Very cool! Never seen one before like thatIt's a combination xbox controller / real guitar for Rock Band 3
richiep
Club Member
Peter, that private stock McCarty is pure guitar p@@n!!
Last guitar. This is another special one to me. 1993 Washburn N4 Paduak. I was a Nuno Bettencourt since I first discovered Extreme in about 90/91 and coveted the original alder N4s. However, when I saw Nuno with the first paduak one, I was determined to get hold of one. This one was the second one in the U.K. - I owned the first, but it developed a crack in the neck joint within a few months and thus this one got flown in from the Chicago Custom Shop as a replacement. And it’s been my #1 since, particularly from 2001 onwards, when I went to the Guitar Institute in London.
As can be seen, I got Nuno to sign the backplate about 2008/9-ish when Extreme got back together and out DT connections led to us getting on the guest list for that Extreme tour!
Needs a fret recrown now and a new volume pot after years of playing but will sort that this year. Hadn’t played it for a while before snapping the photos. Neck is quite a bit more chunky than the LTD I’ve been playing a lot. Reminded me how much I love it.
Last guitar. This is another special one to me. 1993 Washburn N4 Paduak. I was a Nuno Bettencourt since I first discovered Extreme in about 90/91 and coveted the original alder N4s. However, when I saw Nuno with the first paduak one, I was determined to get hold of one. This one was the second one in the U.K. - I owned the first, but it developed a crack in the neck joint within a few months and thus this one got flown in from the Chicago Custom Shop as a replacement. And it’s been my #1 since, particularly from 2001 onwards, when I went to the Guitar Institute in London.
As can be seen, I got Nuno to sign the backplate about 2008/9-ish when Extreme got back together and out DT connections led to us getting on the guest list for that Extreme tour!
Needs a fret recrown now and a new volume pot after years of playing but will sort that this year. Hadn’t played it for a while before snapping the photos. Neck is quite a bit more chunky than the LTD I’ve been playing a lot. Reminded me how much I love it.
Guys this is amazing to me. I'd never have thought that there would be such a collection of guitars in the Club.
I know 'status' plays in a band but who else does (I've seen the old pic of Chris).
Are these guitars collected as a piece of engineering art, an investment, something to play or just a hobby?
I remember seeing Dave Gilmore on tv talking about the sale of his guitars - would they be any better than your's or more valuable because he has played them.
I know 'status' plays in a band but who else does (I've seen the old pic of Chris).
Are these guitars collected as a piece of engineering art, an investment, something to play or just a hobby?
I remember seeing Dave Gilmore on tv talking about the sale of his guitars - would they be any better than your's or more valuable because he has played them.
richiep
Club Member
Guitars can be collected or viewed as an investment- and are - but I guess most people here actually PLAY them. Guitars and related gear can be addictive. They are also tools that allow you execute music in different ways; different designs can have radically different sounds, making them suited to different styles, or help bring out different ideas and inspirations in the player. Same with amplifiers, fx pedals, rack systems etc. Creative tools, as well as great things to look at.
Guitars belonging to people like Gilmour are, in reality, often no better or worse than other guitars of their type, age - the value comes from the owner and what was recorded with it. Gilmour’s famous black Stratocaster is just another mass produced Strat from the Fender factory. However, certain guitars can have “mojo” (e.g. Peter Green’s 59’ Les Paul) and that adds to their special quality.
Most of the guitars in this thread are expensive professional quality instruments, identical to ones proved on the road by pro players (some are signature models like Dan’s Chromeboy and other JS and Universe Ibanezs, my N4, etc., other are top tier boutique pieces like Peter’s PRSs).
Me personally, these days - they are a hobby. I always have one guitar or another on a stand in the lounge and sit playing while watching TV of an evening. Working from home means my lunch breaks can often get rather loud too...