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Hi guys i am need of some help, i am gonna treat my self to a new guitar. I play a mix of blues, soul and funk and rock, i already have an epiphone les paul and a g and l tele type guitar which i love. I play alot of slide guitar and so i need a guitar that can handle slide and regular playing. I am lookingfor a guitar with 2 humbuckers my price range is about £600. What can you reccomend that will be a quility instrument that will suit my needs and price range.
Blues, soul and funk? sounds like strat territory to me mate. The middle and in between postiions on a strat will give you some spank and snap for those funk-outs, the neck is classic blues tone all the way.
If you're set on humbuckers then consider a HSS strat type of guitar, you'll be able to cover a lot of ground tonally and still have that juicy humbucker bridge aural assault on demand. In fact the American special HSS strat has a "Passing lane" Which means when you press it no matter where your switching and pots are at it will bypass everything and send all your signl to the bridge bucker, a very useful tool for going from clean to mean with minimum fuss. 
I second a strat. If you need 2 humbuckers you can get a double fat strat with a 5 way switch so you can get those in between sounds of a strat. http://proguitarshop.com/store/guitars- … tsb-p-2717 You can't beat the price plus you got some money left over to buy a pedal or a nice amp. For us Americans thats about $988!
As far as a good slide guitar, I really think an SG works very well. Neck is kinda wide, and it obviously does alright without a slide too. 2 Humbuckers also which you said you want. I don't know what 600pounds is in US dollars so I couldn't tell you if one is in your price range or not, but the epiphone versions would certainly be cheaper.
Fender Tele FMT HH, - mahogany body, maple top, twin HB's and coil tapped for versatility - a massively underrated guitar.
http://www.fender.com/en-GB/products/se … 0262000561
Earlier ones had Seymour Duncan p/ups.
Ian
I second a strat. If you need 2 humbuckers you can get a double fat strat with a 5 way switch so you can get those in between sounds of a strat. http://proguitarshop.com/store/guitars- … tsb-p-2717 You can't beat the price plus you got some money left over to buy a pedal or a nice amp. For us Americans thats about $988!
+1 on the double fat Strat.
I have a 2001 double fat with a Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates in the bridge and a Duncan 59 in the neck. With the 5 way, you can coil split so you still get the single coil Strat tones or switch over for the fatter tones of the humbuckers. I had swapped out necks with a custom neck that has a higher cut nut for raised action that made it simple for slide work. The original neck is back on it as I plan to sell it in the near future. I'm not real familiar with the newer HH Fenders so I won't comment on those.
+1 on the SG. Why put humbuckers on a Strat. Well maybe in the bridge. Over the years the SG has held its own no matter what you play. Just watched Gary Rossington on another forum play the slide parts on Freebird with one. JMO.
Just to throw something in from left field - I have a Grosh Electrajet that I really love. In my opinion, it crosses the boundaries with the feel and comfort of a Strat, and the thick sound and sustain of a Les Paul. Mine is a dual humbucker version but you can get them with all sorts of combinations of single coil, humbuckers and P-90's.
http://groshguitars.com/guitars/bolt-on … lectrajet/
I think the Electrajet Standards are around USD$1600 from memory. Best of luck with your search...
+1 on the SG. Why put humbuckers on a Strat. Well maybe in the bridge. Over the years the SG has held its own no matter what you play. Just watched Gary Rossington on another forum play the slide parts on Freebird with one. JMO.
Yeah a Strat just seems odd to me with a humbucker in it. I think the George Lynch model with a pearly gates in the bridge looks kinda neat though. But everybody has their own tastes. I'm not that great of a slide player, but I don't know what it is with an SG as it just seems to go hand in hand with a slide. I think the overall tone of an SG since it's kinda bitey, adds to the nastiness of that good old raunchy slide guitar tone. Sonny Landreth puts a hurtin' on his Strats though with his slide!
PRS McCarty with Coil Tapping. IMHO
$988 is what the conversion site said yesterday when I posted how much it was for american dollar.
As far as a good slide guitar, I really think an SG works very well. Neck is kinda wide, and it obviously does alright without a slide too. 2 Humbuckers also which you said you want. I don't know what 600pounds is in US dollars so I couldn't tell you if one is in your price range or not, but the epiphone versions would certainly be cheaper.
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