Your favorite "do it all" guitar

[Leonc]

Some guitar seem really well suited for certain purposes. Others seem well suited for a wide variety of purposes.

Lots of guitars--maybe any guitar, in the right hands--can do it all. That is--can be a great guitar for many styles and many purposes (live performance, recording, etc). But those of us that play a wide variety of music, probably have a favorite or two. What are your favorites and what makes it your favorite?

[Kmaz]

Telecaster. Will get the job done for everything I play.

[rabbuhl]

The best all-around guitar I have found is a Stratocaster Deluxe HSS since it is good for blues, rock, funk, and raggae. It also stay in tune because of the locking tuners.

[franksguitar]

My modded 73 strat

[chrisr777]

My Gibson ES-137 Classic. It can be a clean jazz box, it can play smokey blues and it can play screaming Les Paul hard rock tones.

[5E3]

That would be my American Fender Strat

[Frankee]

Originally Posted by chrisr777

My Gibson ES-137 Classic. It can be a clean jazz box, it can play smokey blues and it can play screaming Les Paul hard rock tones.

Similar here.....135 with P90's.

[HeeHaw]

My strat does it all for me.

[shredtrash]

My Gretsch Spectra Sonic.

[Roe]

LP special (tokai lss195 w/lollars)
strat is good but not real ac/dc friendly
gretsch is great but does not have the woman tone
tele is good but its distinct and clear tone may not work for everything

[Tuberoast]

I have Tele's, a Strat, and a Les Paul. The Tele has the most stage time of all three. However, the guys in the band smile when I put on the LP.

[Leonc]

I love regular old strats. My first guitar was a strat and I've always owned strats of one kind or another. Great at lots of rock, blues, funk, r&b, some country...never been truly great jazz guitars IMO, and not great for certain kinds of real hard rock. I think you need humbuckers and a fixed bridge to do certain kinds of rock and jazz really well. Just MHO.

I've heard Ted Greene do incredible stuff with a Tele, though the single coils, again, don't lend themselves that well to certain harder rock stuff.

I have a Thorn (#009) with an H-S-H configuration (w/splittable humbuckers) that is ultra-versatile. But with its solid body and floating bridge...it doesn't quite get certain tones that you can only get with a hollow or semi-hollow body.

I'm developing new-found respect for Gibson ES-type guitars (and variants, like some Guilds) for being able to cover a whooooooooole lotta ground.

[Pa'ani]

Hey Leon, How are you doing?

For me I have a few favorite "Do it all" guitars:
'64 Fender Strat and '66 Fender Strat
Tyler Studio Elite HD
'76 Gibson ES-345 TD and '92 ES-335
'08 Lentz Croyden
PRS Modern Eagle and Navarro Model

[Jim S]

Sadowsky and for versatility probably the green HSH over the strat with 3 singles:

[Leonc]

Jim - that's a killer lookin rig and some beautiful guitars...and don't take this wrong...but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I bet you're not getting asked to bring that rig on a lot of your jazz and country gigs...