We get this question alot from beginners. You can break down your selection into 2 main guitar types. (1) Being the Gibson Les Paul and (2) Being the Fender Stratocaster. Of course there's more guitars out there like Paul Reed Smith, ESP, G&L,Hamer, Jackson, but they are second generation guitars as we could call them. When you think of a fat tone with crunch the first guitar that comes to mind is the Gibson Les Paul humbuckers. For them sparkly clean tones the Fender Stratocaster aka.. Strat, single coils come to mind.