Stratocaster, best guitar name ever, period.

You actually think that's better than "Springy Sound"?

 

I agree. Plus, when you shorten it to Strat, it sounds like Strad, as in Stradivarius. Seems like that too stood the test of time.

 

I happen to like "Electric Spanish". I think Gibson was stupid to shorten it.

 

Telecaster is pretty good.
So is the Explorer.
Strats are great guitars. Like Beck says, there's nothing that a Strat can't do. Nothing. Except what a Tele with a wiggle stick can do.

 

I...am rather fond of Lester.

 

I prefer telecaster name over Strat.

 

What, no love for the BC Rich Bich?

 

To me the Telecaster is a classic, simple, straight-forward tool. And it doesn't have that useless middle pickup. LOL

 

Firebird is stronger, but I think clunky and heavy.
When I think strat, it's 100% ergonomics. Not the sounds, the quack. I enjoy those things too, but the design rules all others, just crazy good.
Not designed by man, IMO. It was a gift...

 

To my ears Quack is a gimmicky ubiquitous sound. No personality. All plink and no thunk.

Part of it is that I was a Tele player before the Strat. I got my first Tele in '71. My first Strat in '79. My first keeper Strat in '83.

I've got four Strats and love them...one I'll never get rid of. But best guitar name period? Switchmaster is pretty damn cool. So is Broadcaster. Or Esquire. Or Firebird.

 

At least they were more creative than Gibson. Let’s name this model after this dude and then when he doesn’t want his name on it anymore, yeah let’s go with “Solid Guitar” that sounds good

 

My first guitar was a Strat. I think maybe we tend to lean toward what we learned on. When I need some grunt though, it’s a Tele. Tele straight into an amp, or Strat with a couple pedals. It’s easier to leave the pedalboard at home.

 

Teles can be so beautiful clean.

This is my wiggle stick Tele:





Bridge pickup on both tracks.

I learned on a 64 Teisco. In 1964. Getting that Tele seven years later was like...perfection.

 

Mustang, Jaguar and Jazzmaster, Country Gentleman. White Penguin, Falcon, Jet...

but Rickenbacker - that is just a cool name, period. Don't need to play the numbers game - otherwise we'd be saying 335, 355, 325, 360/12....

 

Eh.. steady on Fezz.. my whole image is based on a 'quack'..

 

TBH, I never thought about it, but now you mention it, yes, Stratocaster is undoubtedly the coolest guitar name ever, for a model of guitar. For an individual guitar, the best name is Lucille because of the story behind it.

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I've always been a fan of the Epiphone names. Casino, Riviera, Sheraton etc.