The best guitar I have was actually a 40th birthday present from my missus. A couple of years ago I dragged her into the Guitar Guitar store in Glasgow for a look around. While there, I had a go of a 2008 Gibson Les Paul Standard and it pretty much blow my socks off. Unfortunately, it was priced well out of my budget so I left the store having bought only a T-Rex Fuel Tank for my pedalboard. I spent the drive home telling her that the LP would be my dream guitar if I could afford it. Two months later, on my 40th birthday, she gave me a guitar shaped present. Inside was a 2008 Les Paul Standard in a light burst finish: Normally, I would have hated the idea of someone buying a guitar for me without having first played it to death in the store, but on this occasion she got it bang on: the look, feel, playability and tone I wanted is all there.