My Fav is always the one I don't have yet.

I love Strats. There I said it.
Some of my Favorite Guitarist from many genres played strats ,as did alot of my most un-favorite.

I really dig the Jazzmaster, even though I don't own one (I'm working on fixing that.) the JM pickups just have that big huge sound I dig the most.

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Ran,
I know I've finally got you to break down this wall and addmit this in person. Now to see it in print in the forum is cool.
That someone may be a good guitar player but not your cup of tea, (or rum). Where before you would just say oh that's CRAP!!
Made it very frustrating to talk music with you, in the past.
Jeff(bigtikidude)

kickthe_reverb_
Hey hey, never take my posts regarding to personal taste too seriously...and I'm far from being very concerned about "vintage incorrect". You can re-read the long post I had a few pages ago about how I admit that you proved that many of the (or my) guitar heroes used strats.
You might have a much broader tastse then me, as does my good friend BigTikiDude (as does my wife ). I tend to be more narrow minded, and I'm aware of it.
I'm the first to admit someone is a good player. In fact, most musicians I see are good players, but that doesn't mean I like what they write or their style. Even if they are influenced by someone I like (e.g. The Shadows).

Jeff(bigtikidude)

I only have experience with an AVRI Jag and a Strat, and I'm hardly qualified to answer such a question. My favorite surf guitar varies wildly depending on what I am listening to at the time. Right now, I am totally digging the raw Mosrite sound of Mike on the new Nebulas disc.

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I only have experience with an AVRI Jag and a Strat, and I'm hardly qualified to answer such a question. My favorite surf guitar varies wildly depending on what I am listening to at the time. Right now, I am totally digging the raw Mosrite sound of Mike on the new Nebulas disc.

I'm surprised there aren't more votes for the Mosrite. It does sound sweet paired up with a Showman. I also dig the tone on the Ghastly Ones Haunting we will Go Go.

Too bad they're so friggin' expensive though.

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I am tring to think of a guitarist that DOESN'T use an effect. Reverb, echo, tremelo are all effects. Hmmm... maybe Richie Podolar who reportedly plugged his guitar into the sound board
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The only guitarist I can think of who I've seen live not using any effects would be Deke Dickerson - last I saw him, he plugged his guitar (alternating between the doubleneck Mosrite and a P-90-loaded Les Paul) into what looked like an old Silvertone amp, bone dry.

I was too young to catch any of the Untamed Youth stuff, but I think Deke sounded pretty good on his Jaguar. I think he gets asked a lot of gear questions, but he did tell me that the first album was all the Jaguar, which sounded good to me.

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Yeah the first piggyback Standels look alot like the Silvertone twins, or I guess I should say the Silvertones look like the Standels.
I wish I could find a pic of one for ya.
I'm sure it was the Standel, he was in Austin not too long ago with it.
But then Dekes such a greahead, theres no telling what he's gonna show up with!

cavefishbutchdelux
Nope, Deke definitely wasn't playing through an echo unit of any kind when I saw him...the tone was bone dry. It may have been a Standel piggback Standel, but, cosmetically speaking, it looked like an old Silvertone twin-12. Still sounded great though - in addition to the rockabilly/country stuff he also did "Bumble Twist," El Cumbanchero," and "Diamond Head," so there was surf to be heard (of sorts).

I came onto the UY wagon too late myself, but the Jaguar tone is killer. Even the 335 he played later on sounded great - I read somewhere that the pups were rewound as single-coils (?) to make it sound more Gretschy but "with balls" (his words, that much I remember).

Super cool guy, I wish he would post on here...well, that and come back to F-L-A.

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unlunf
If you gots to have a Mosrite, save up your shekels, because this is what you want: '63 Mosrite - Ventures Model

I saw this today, and I didn't dare play it! New 'Verb member Mike B. works at this store, he says it's a dream to play, and that it's a good thing it's outta his price range too. I spent the whole drive home totalling up in my mind what I could part with to gather up some coin..... "nope, not enough yet..... nope, still not enough.....". You get the idea.

unlunf

If I had the money to get that guitar I would play it every gig, put stickers all over it, and carry it in a gig bag.

i'd cream my shorts over that Mosrite.

being a dd fan longer than most of yall have been alive and listening to the surf music longer than most of yall has been alive i am just a strat guy at heart. there are wonderful things about the jag, the jm the mosriteand a couple of dozen other guitars. all have their bad points and good points. and a few are crap but that is why they get used. the perfect surf guitar does not exist---it is a dream--an ideal--a i wish it was but that is what we all strive for. follow your path you might discover something cool or new or retro. ok? but for me the strat is the one. and i really cannot afford multiple guitars. too much ignored by the money gods.....yes money sucks.

Yamaha SGV's rule!

Awesome trem, boss looks ( I like mine offset the opposite way, ala mosrite vs jag), good PUs.

I like the fact that nobody else seems to have them too.

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