Signature Series Guitars. When is it too cheesy?

[Pietjepieter]

I don't care. If you like the guitar, rock it! if you don't like the guitar leave it.

I mean there are a lot of sig guitars I really dig without liking the band, and the other way around. Personally I couldn't care less, if it works for the player than it's cool

 

[Emperoff]

Signature guitars with big ass inlays on the 12th fret that everybody hates?

Bitch please:

 

[ArtDecade]

Buy whatever you want.

 

[Dambo55]

I don't care. If you like the guitar, rock it! if you don't like the guitar leave it.

I mean there are a lot of sig guitars I really dig without liking the band, and the other way around. Personally I couldn't care less, if it works for the player than it's cool

Exactly.'

Who gives'AF what some clown on a forum says is "Cringe" or not.

Play what you like, and what works best for you.

 

[budda]

Don’t really care either way but I do like Bill Kelliher’s sigs mostly because I have the same taste in guitars. Haven’t really listened to mastodon since remission so I doubt I really qualify as a fan, dudes just got sick guitars. Wish I still had the Pelham blue sparrow hawk, actually.

Theres a halcyon (or whatever the lp is) for 4k cad somewhere around toronto. Iirc last time it was sold (most likely the same one) it was closer to 3k, but its been 4+ years so that’ll happen.

Lemme know if you want some investigation.

 

[wheresthefbomb]

I used to play in a post metal band with no shredding, no vocals, and lots of drone and noise. my rig was a PRS Mushok sig into a Vox Satch delay into a Vai Legacy 2. Like the Mushok so well I sold it when I moved and then bought another one.

On the topic of gatekeeping, I had a really cool Deafheaven shirt that a friend had given me. I wasn't a huge fan of the band and I loved telling people who talked to me about it "yeah I don't listen to them I just thought the shirt looked cool."

 

[budda]

@wheresthefbomb similar story. A good buddy in HS who wasnt really into heavy music came with me to see Every Time I Die and Cancer Bats (hot damn tour??) bought an ETID shirt because he dug the look. As a former travelling shirt salesman, a sale is a sale

 

[wiretap]

Theres a halcyon (or whatever the lp is) for 4k cad somewhere around toronto. Iirc last time it was sold (most likely the same one) it was closer to 3k, but its been 4+ years so that’ll happen.

Lemme know if you want some investigation.

I was actually more into his explorer from Gibson, it was cool. Like an LP Explorer or something. There’s also an ESP Custom Sparrowhawk in Pelham on reverb I’ve got on my watch list. Been on there for a while. Have debated shooting a lowball offer and seeing what happens

 

[wiretap]

@wheresthefbomb similar story. A good buddy in HS who wasnt really into heavy music came with me to see Every Time I Die and Cancer Bats (hot damn tour??) bought an ETID shirt because he dug the look. As a former travelling shirt salesman, a sale is a sale

My favorite joke on tour these days, being an old dude that’s touring again is any time there’s a shitty situation I’m like “All this to sell some T shirts, guys?”

 

[budda]

I was actually more into his explorer from Gibson, it was cool. Like an LP Explorer or something. There’s also an ESP Custom Sparrowhawk in Pelham on reverb I’ve got on my watch list. Been on there for a while. Have debated shooting a lowball offer and seeing what happens

What was his explorer, I only remember (this) halcyon as i wasnt really following the band or their gear when he had the sigs.

 

[wiretap]

What was his explorer, I only remember (this) halcyon as i wasnt really following the band or their gear when he had the sigs.

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[nightsprinter]

The definitive guide:

 

[technomancer]

Play what you want, let other people play what they want, don't be a dick.

 

[DarthV]

Play what you want, let other people play what they want, don't be a dick.

Don't be a dick should be how we all treat others.

Enjoy what you enjoy. Check out other people's kit, appreciate that they might do something different and maybe learn something cool in the process?

Guess most of my guitars are based on sigs one way or another. Bunch of RGs, a JP6, Axis, Peavey Wolfgang & EVH Wolfgang. Only ones that aren't are my 3 Ibanez S's, Eclipse and HM Strat.

 

[jco5055]

i tend to not be into signature guitars for the following reasons:

1) there's a very slight bit of me that is anti-sig guitar since it's not my own haha
2) the much bigger reason is knowing it's $X more because they have to pay the artist a little bit compared to a non-sig, so I can't help but think it's technically overpriced.

 

[budda]

Part of the reason a lot of “small spec change” sigs work is because they are changes that are popular. Yeah theres the upcharge but if it saves a neck swap/reshape a pickup swap and a bridge swap, then who cares kinda thing.

I think maybe people collectively forgot (a bit) that agile partially got popular by reading what sso specifically wanted in a 7 and then just making that. And now harley benton is the new version of that, kind of.

To attempt to quote and likely paraphrase @USMarine75 “love what you play, sell what you like”

 

[STRHelvete]

Shoutout to those with sig guitars who make it a point to make a guitar that people will like and can make their own. The artist's name isn't plastered all over it, or it's not designed to be a dead giveaway as that artist's guitar.

If I ever got a sig guitar I'd like to think I would do that....but then again who the fuck else would get a Dean ML with Les Paul specs?

I guess now that I think about it. Perhaps designing a signature guitar isn't as easy if you try to take that into consideration.

 

[tedtan]

who the fuck else would get a Dean ML

FTFY.

 

[tedtan]

who the fuck else would get a Dean

Correction.

 

[USMarine75]

Some of the best guitars I own and love are “signature” guitars…

Sometimes it’s because I’m a fanboy:

Peavey and EVH Wolfgangs
EVH Circles, 78, Frankie, Star, 5150, etc…
Peavey JR Special (Josh Rand)
Kramer Snake Sabo (Skid Row Dave Sabo)
Kramer RIP Alientech V (Mustaine)
Ibanez Bad Horsie JEM7RBMR
Ibanez JPM P4
Epiphone Lucille (BB King)
Schecter Nick Johnston USA and Import models
Charvel Danhage (Evergrey)
Charvel Rick Graham


But sometimes I didn’t even know who the person was when I bought it:

Peavey Cropper (Steve Cropper)
Peavey Omniac (Jerry Donohue)
PRS DGT (David Grissom)
ESP LTD WA600 (Will Adler)
Schecter Loomis 7VR (Jeff)
Fender Cory Wong

^ those led me to discovering bands like Nevermore and Lamb of God.

I also have a bunch of Bonamassa sigs and I didn’t even like his music before I bought them lol. But they’re legit great guitars at a great price point (ok well they were when they were $650-899 lol).

But I’d say the only ones that are obvious sigs are the EVH and JEM. Everything else you’d have to be a fan to know.

Anywho, my take is often Sigs are a way to get a guitar that’s usually had some mods that would usually benefit a gigging guitarist. For example whether you like Cory Wong’s music or not, you get a satin strat with a 7/8 body (no chonk) and a push/push that locks the pickups selector to the 4th funk position. That way when you’re whacking away with the funk styling you don’t accidentally knock it out of the 4th position.

Or you get cool color ways not available normally like a V in green flake like the Kramer Mustaine RIP. Or there Snake graphic on the Kramer Sabo. It looks more like an homage to Cobra Commander than Dave Sabo for one time he used one in a video lol.

And who doesn’t love a proper Randy or Alexi V?