The first picture I have sent is of my ESP H-1000 guitar. I picked this up
from my music store. Beautiful playing guitar. Very smooth. Seymour Duncan
pickups which sound brilliant with the wood they have used. Neck through
guitar, with a 3 piece maple neck. A very strong and solid guitar, but
surprisingly light. This guitar came with Sperzal locking tunners. I have made
no modifications to it, seeing as it simply doesn’t need them.
I mostly use this guitar for recording rhythm parts, seeing as it has a
fixed bridge.

The second and third photos are of me with my pride and joy, my Carvin.

I got this a couple of years back. I payed for half of it, the other half
was paid for by my Mum and some friends as a birthday present. It arrived
two days after my birthday.
It is a handbuilt DC-135 model made in the US, built to my specifications.
The neck is 5 piece laminated koa neck with two maple stripes and graphite
reinforced. The body is Mahogany with Emerald Green on Flame Maple finish.
It came standard with the Wilkinson Tremolo (which I still swear by its
smoothness).

This guitar plays brilliantly. Fastest neck and action I have ever played.
Words can not describe how well it plays. The action is about 1mm from the
12th fret, and 0 buzz. This also has sperzal locking tuners.

I came across carvin guitars after seeing Steve Vai play with Tony
Macalpine. Tony’s guitar looked amazing, and I wanted to look into it
further. He was playing a 7 string carvin. It was time I updated at that
stage anyway (at the time I was playing a low model Jackson Randy Rhoads).
So I went for it and ordered it online. A few months past and it arrived. It
is still my main guitar, and I have yet to play a guitar which can match up
to it.
I also love its versatility. It has the two singles and Humbucker, but no
selector switch. You have four switches, to simply turn the pick ups on or
off, so you can have hybrid sounds by turning on two pickups at a time. The
combinations open up a huge sound range. It also has a coil splitter on the
humbucker, making even more choices for sound.

This guitar has been through hell and back, from being in standard tuning
with 9-46 strings, to being in B with 13-56. I took it in for a service and
set up a month ago, and the tech at the store refused to do it saying “Man,
don’t touch it, its perfect, the intonation, action and everything else is
perfect…. hell the fret wear is minimal as well!”
Again, I have not modified this guitar in anyway. I don’t believe in buying a
guitar if you are going to modify it. Just buy the guitar you want to begin
with!

Anyway, sorry about my long descriptions, I love my guitars THAT much!

JoeJoe, from Melbourne Australia