Getting To Know The Top 10 Most Famous Guitars

A couple of weeks ago, Ultimate-Guitar.com conducted a survey on one of their forums to name the top 10 most iconic guitars ever.

Now the results are in, and I have to say that the set is truly impressive. Just to give you the shortened version, here is the complete lineup (feel free to visit the original thread for a complete description of each guitar):

1. Jimmy Page’s EDS-1275 Double Neck Gibson

EDS-1275-Double-Neck-Gibson

2. Brian May’s Red Special

Red-Special

3. Edward Van Halen’s Frankenstrat

Frankenstrat

4. Jimi Hendrix’s Backwards Stratocaster

Backwards-Stratocaster

5. B.B. King’s ES-355 ‘Lucille’

ES-355-Lucille

6. Randy Rhoads’ Polka Dot V

Polka-Dot-V

7. David Gilmour’s Black Stratocaster

Black-Stratocaster

8. James Hetfield’s ‘EET FUK’ Explorer

'EET-FUK'-Explorer

9. Tony Iommi’s Gibson SG Special ‘Monkey’

Gibson-SG-Special-Monkey

10. Steve Vai’s Ibanez JEM

Ibanez-JEM

The only surprise for me is that Steve Vai’s guitar has come this late on the list. I’m sure it deserves a better place.

What’s your favorite guitar from the list above? Or maybe the survey has missed some iconic instruments that deserve to be placed on the list?

(All images come from ultimate-guitar.com.)

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