Simmons SDS 800. Only from my cold hands!
My aluminium necked partcaster:
It originally looked like this when I was given it for free by a work colleague.
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Is there any benefit of that aluminium ?
Besides tone, not particularly, especially without a truss rod. I was interested in a few strange guitars at one point but never got any. Probably difficult to keep in tune due to expansion/contraction and warping of the material.
There was one unique guitar I was interested in about a year ago but lost the name and can never remember it. It was pretty expensive of courseā¦
Edit : Randomly found it in Google after trying the most obscure searches : Gittler Guitars
Costs run from $8,000 - $9,000 ā¦
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Travis Bean a-like
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Ha, cool! I used to study building handpans but Iām currently having a break and focusing on making music with them instead. This beauty is a Meridian. It has a built in pickup, which is cool for playing with an amp. Next week Iām traveling to Japan with my OT and this to play some shows. 
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The alu neck gives it a different tone and feel. More sustain. The feel is the main thing for me - the material combined with the thin profile is just really nice to hold. Thereās no truss rod to think about - the neck is dead straight, and even the heaviest strings arenāt going to change that. No worries about fret buzz. Itāll never warp or suffer from fret sprout.
Staying in tune isnāt an issue. While aluminium will react to temperature a little more than wood, so you will notice it going a bit more out of tune if you take it from a warm room to a cold one (or visa versa) than a conventional neck, tuning stability isnāt an issue. Itās not like it will suddenly go out of tune if someone open a window. I keep that in my living room with a couple of other guitars, and it sufferers from losing tune no worse than the rest of them.
That neck was made by Alef Guitars in Israel. Thereās a few other people about the place making them too.
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My 1997 Fender USA Telecaster. There are no better guitars if you ask me.
YOWZA. Yeah thatād be my beautifullest as well.
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Love the idea of having a handpan, then I jump on Google and are reminded of the cost !
I donāt have anything too unique but Iād say my Moog Matriarch and Grandmother (multi-colored versions) are my favorite pieces to just stare at. OP-1 Field is also quite a sexy synth and has somehow made the original OP-1 not look as good, especially when next to each other.
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I wouldnāt call gear beautiful , but nord A4 is nicely made , high quality bits n stuff.
I donāt have one by that UDO gear seems to come close too
Zebras!
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