Which is the "most metal" guitar brand?

[diablo175]

Tough call... I voted for Jackson (lumping Charvel in with Jackson clinches it) but BC Rich definitely has some serious contention for that spot. I am little surprised Ibanez didn't get more votes. Ever since Vai and Satch and the host of late 80's shredders who were endorsers for Ibanez came forth, I'd have expected a bigger response. In the end, I still think the archetypal metal axes belong to Jackson, though. BC Rich may have the more extreme-looking axes but Jackson has long been the name and the standard for metal music of all kinds.

[landon w]

Gotta go BC Rich on this one. Unless there's some starving Delta blues artist in rural Mississippi playing a Warlock I'm unaware of.

Super Chikan... (I learned about him here on the HFC)

("James Super Chikan Johnson is a Delta blues musician, guitar maker and artist based in Clarksdale, Mississippi.")

STILL, I voted Jackson - Jackson is "my" idea of the metal guitar company.

THIS HAS TO BE THE COOLEST PIC IVE SEEN IN A WHILE

[livewire]

kramer jackson dean

[DaveL]

I voted Dean. You never see anyone with a Dean that is NOT playing Metal. Can't say that about the other brands in the poll.

I had always though Elliot Easton playing a Dean ML on the back of "Candy O"

(or I think that was the album) was the COOLEST

My vote: Charvel and it's really not the same as Jackson, Charvel's

can be taken apart, put back together (although some people abuse this)

painted all crazy... just a boatload of fun if you ask me...

[BillW]

"I had always though Elliot Easton playing a Dean ML on the back of "Candy O"

(or I think that was the album) was the COOLEST "

yep - you're right forgot about that ... I suppose ZZtop counts as non metal, too...

[Submariner85]

The new Mustaine Bio has several pics of him playing a 10 string Bich years ago. Now I want one.

[Rodan]

You can call me a fogey, cause my awareness of B.C. Rich is split between the original, maple and koa, Eagles, Mockingbirds, Seagulls and Biches and the later, Ironbirds, Warlocks and superstrats... The older designs/shapes were just genius, IMHO. They always looked organic to me, though - not specifically metal. Later, they started spraying them pink, purple and fluorescent colors. You know, whatever.

The 'Rich guys I always think of are Derringer, Whitford, Perry, Wagner and Hunter.

[Brownsound]

I love BC Rich, I mean I really love BC Rich, but no way in hell they top Jackson as being the "Most Metal Guitar". Just not happenin'

[Steve Haynie]

Jackson or B.C. Rich-- Are you more into the hair or into the metal?

[Rocktuna]

When I think of BC Rich I think of

[Devnor]

Nothing is more metal than the Warlock

[LefThanDed]

Veleno

http://www.veleno.net/history2.html

Gittler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gittler_guitar

Trussart

http://www.jamestrussart.com/#/gallery/3469899