Dual Humbucker Solidbody Guitars

[Tremster]

Only dual Humbucker solid body I ever had is a 1980 Washburn Hawk. Or maybe it's a Falcon, but I think it's a Hawk.
http://www.matsumoku.org/models/washburn/wing/wing.html
http://g3h.be/wings/
Still have it. Bought it used for next to nothing in the mid 90s. It was my second electric, my first decent one. Swapped the pickups for Duncans and the brass nut for bone. It sounds good, plays well, I played it for years, but hardly do anymore. Anything in the Les Paul camp is just not for me.

[drolo]

What I have been doing to HH guitars with 4 knobs is leave the individual Volume pots as they are but rewire the 2 tone pots to become a treble cut and a bass cut pot. The latter is incredibly handy especially for humbuckers. You get a huge variety of tones when using a fuzz face for example. I even have it on my 2 strats.
Another idea would be to use the unwanted pots as coil tap pots, if you have humbuckers with 4 wires.
That said, humbuckers are not my favorite and I rarely use them, favoring single coils.

[Cortexturizer]

Strange - I have two guitars and I chose em specifically for having 4 knobs, love getting those in-between toanz.

Have you considered tele deluxes with wide range humbuckers? Those are very versatile, they do have 4 knobs, but they are awesome.

I am surprised that nobody mentioned SGs.

I recently tried a one-knob cabronita in the shop that had two fender-tron pickups, a maple neck, and it was killer.

[raulduke]

For me it has to be the Les Paul by a mile.

Anything else I have tried just doesn't do it for me (visually and sonically).

I've tried quite a few but I've only ever owned one (my LP studio I got when I was fifteen), but it is 'the one'.

I also have an SG that I got from Thomann in a sale, but it is currently being fitted with HB size P90's.

It is a really nice guitar for the money. As Rej says it must not be a 'friday afternoon' model 

[raulduke]

I also think Kauer guitars look really nice.

They also fit in with your requirements IMO.

[Cortexturizer]

 

WOW, that is AWESOME! I am impressed by the look of that one.

[Muadzin]

I usually prefer a bridge humbucker and neck single coil combo, but if it has to be dual humbucker I would want an Explorer.

[Govmnt_Lacky]

My go-to is actually an Ibanez Artist. V/V/T setup but the kicker are the Dave Mustaine SD pickups that I installed. I can fret a note.... drink a cup of coffee, eat some breakfast, and watch an episode of Seinfeld and the thing would still be ringing true. Sustain for DAYS!

Love, love, love it! 

[bcalla]

My go-to is actually an Ibanez Artist. V/V/T setup but the kicker are the Dave Mustaine SD pickups that I installed. I can fret a note.... drink a cup of coffee, eat some breakfast, and watch an episode of Seinfeld and the thing would still be ringing true. Sustain for DAYS!

Love, love, love it! 

Which Artist?  They used the name pretty liberally over the years.

I have a couple solid dual HBs, both by Ibanez.  My favorite is a 1979 Musician MC300.  Neck-thru, sometimes called the 'hippie sandwich" because of the layers of wood in the body wings.  Not only does it have 2 volumes & 2 tones, it has coil split/phase toggles for each pickup.  It's a very versatile instrument.  The one on the right below is my MC300.  The middle one is a 1978 MC500 that I sold about 10 years ago.  I still own the SB70 on the left.

[Cortexturizer]

very interesting ibanez guitars, if I would ever own an Iby again, it would be one of those, awesome.

[Govmnt_Lacky]

Which Artist?  They used the name pretty liberally over the years.

Looks like this one. Its an Artist 100. Not their most "expensive" offering but for the price it is a pretty damn good instrument. The craftsmanship is on par with other mid-range guitars. Only thing lacking was the electronics and when I installed the active Mustaine's and associated pots, switches, etc..... turned it into a BEAST!.... Rocks for me! Never owned a guitar that could sustain like this one.



Of course it is in black as well... Left-handed and all 

[culturejam]

My good buddy has one of these and loves it:

[GermanCdn]

Yeah, the EC-1000s are sexy beasts.  Kinda wish they made a 22 fret model though (not that there's anything wrong with the 24, but the EC-400s are 22 fret models and the "look" is correct").  If they offered the quilt purple one with SDs/Dimarzios instead of EMGs, that would be a killer.

There are three used MIJ Eclipses at my favourite store right now (Black, White, and Tiger Eye Quilt), all with EMGs, all tonally dead.  Not saying a good setup/new set of strings wouldn't go a long way to fixing that, but when you're looking at $900+ used, I expect to strum it and be impressed.  They've also been sitting there for three months, so I'm not the only one who thinks they're not great.

On the same note, saw the "Less" Les Paul in person at one of the GC's in Denver last week.  So wrong, so very, very, very wrong.  Thin body (thinner than my H140, pretty sure overall thickness was less than a strat).  They're marketing it for Les Paul lovers with back problems.  Think the price on it was $2100.  Crazy.

[GermanCdn]

What I never see for sale is hardtail strats. I blocked the trem on mine and love it that way. I would really like a hardtail that's not a $3k signature model or some weirdo small luthier build for $4k that I could likely get $500 for if I resold it.

You can usually pick up an EBMM Silouhette HT (special  (22 fret HSS) or standard (24 fret HSH)) for around $7-800 used, and you can always unload them for that price as well if you really want a hardtail.  You can also get SSS pickguards for them from Pickguard Heaven if you want to go true strat.  I sold my last EBMM HSS hardtail three months ago.

If I ever need to make several hundred dollars disappear, I'll pay one of you guys here to make me one. 

I had one a while back that I picked up with a loaded Holy Grail pickguard and Schaller locking tuners for $399.  Was nice, but in the end it didn't make one of the "need more room" cuts, so I put stock MIM hardware and sold it.

Moral of the story - if you're looking for something, let me know.  There's always a chance I have it in stock (gawd I sound like I work for GC, only I have better gear).

[lars]

There's always a chance I have it in stock (gawd I sound like I work for GC, only I have better gear).

, hey man nice shot.

I'm really liking that Reverend Warhawk that "mjcyates" recommended early on. It has a unique look to it, and that bass contour control sounds like the perfect way to tame the muddiness.