How many guitars do you have, and do you need them all?

[TedBPhx]

2 arches, 2 planks and a flattop. I'm good for now.

[eddy b.]

Fender Blacktop Strat, Fender Fat Tele, G&L Semi Hollow Bluesboy, Heritage H 575 Custom, D'Angelico XL1, Taylor 412e, Gibson ES137, Gitane D500, Rodriguez ModA Cut, Epiphone 5 String Banjo, so that's 10 guitars. Rivera Clubster 45, Ampeg Jet II, ZT Lunchbox and Randall RG80. That's four amps. Do I need them all??? Yes. Do I need more??? Yes a real 3 single coil Strat and a Fender Deluxe Reverb. Then I'm done buying gear... I promise....

[Cunamara]

8 guitars. I really only need one, my archtop. Half my guitars get played less than once a year. The archtop is the one that gets played every day. The others really should go to better homes.

[MarkRhodes]

One guitar, one amp. Wouldn't mind another guitar, one with more of a cutaway, but all in all, one is enough for me.

[lawson-stone]

Someone saw all my guitars and asked me, "How do you decide which one to play?"

Answer... I get a kind of deranged look and say "I play the one the Voices in My Head tell me to play..."

They kind of politely slipped away...

[tonedeaf]

Simple. I have too many guitars but I still need more.

[jovialspoon]

Are you folks familiar with the formula n+1? Used to calculate the ideal number of guitars (or other desirable items) you actually need. n represents the number you have now.

The variation is s-1, where s represents the number that would cause your spouse to leave you!

[anothersixstringer]

...more than 30 medium to high end have passed through these hands, but I have settled the stable at 11 now, four Gibsons, four Rickenbackers, two Gretschs and one Gitane. Need them all? Definitively yes! Need more? you bet!
Wishlist these days:
Gretsch Black or Champagne Penguin (masterbuilt)
Gretsch Black or White Falcon (the 1955 reissues)
Rickenbacker 381v69/6 any 'glo
Gibson ES-175 RI 1959 VOS
Gibson ES-355 w/Bigsby

Only explanation needed for the family, friends, co-workers: Because We like 'em, make us feel good. No logical reason required.



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[medblues]

Baker's dozen (not counting the travel guitars and the bass guitar). One strat, four tele-shaped partscasters, Godin LGX-SA, Soloway Gosling fingerstyle, Heritage Johnny Smith, Hofner New President, Two flattop acoustics, one Yairi classical, one Godin electric nylon-string. They all get played frequently, HJS, Hofner, and Soloway get played a little more frequently. I am curious how a 7-string fanned fret guitar would feel/sound. Otherwise I am covered on all the bases.

[pima1234]

Custom concert classical (2002, William H. Henderson)


Godin Multiac Nylon Duet Ambience (my crossover)

My dad's 1970 Guild F50


4 Forshage Orions:
One: a custom solidbody, swamp ash body/spalt maple top, with a smooth-as-silk maple neck, Throbak Peter Greens and a BK Mother's Milk in the middle, and a J Custom trem
Here's a vid of the builder playing it (I had just gotten into a car accident not long before it was finished...)

Two: the first one I picked up for a total steal off the Gear Page. Chambered two-piece mahogany body/walnut top. Lollar P90s. Awesome in every way. Here's a link: AUSTIN GUITAR HOUSE - Orion Walnut


Three: This monster! AUSTIN GUITAR HOUSE - Orion Spalted Flame Mpl
Solid mahogany body/incredible spalt top. Lollar High Wind Imperials.


And four: (the most applicable for a jazz forum, I suppose): My hollowbody Orion Deluxe. Quartersawn mahogany body/super highly figure maple top. Reilander RH-2 pickups (3rd control pot is a bass roll-off).
AUSTIN GUITAR HOUSE - Orion Deluxe


So, with these 4, I cover all the basic tonal ground. I'm good now.

I have a cheap Washburn bass and a Lanikai uke.

[Ken Olmstead]

I have the following:

Electric
2006 Gibson L5CES Wes (technically not till my birthday in August )
2009 Gibson Les Paul Standard Gold Top
2000 US Fender Strat (been playing this one for 15 years, I have one year on its first refret already!)
2008 US Fender Tele w/ Barden pups
2014 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins

Acoustic
Taylor 814CE

Bass
2000 US Fender Hot Rod P-Bass

Banjos
(2) Ome Tenor Banjos
Wildwood Plectrum Banjo

The only instrument I want to add at the point is the right Martin, probably a D35 or HD35.

I play them all. I am not a collector (wish I could be sometimes but my ADD shuts me down) and I don't do duplicates (of course there is a lot of sonic overlap in my collection but not 2 Les Pauls for instance.) I do have a duplicate banjo because they are not available when you want one so I have a spare. I estimate I have another 15 years to work and I view these as my retirement plan. These are instruments that I hope to play in my "golden years" as well as now. If I could just get completely happy with my amps, oh well, gotta leave something to do for the next 15 years!

[rabbit]

"Hello, my name is rabbit and I'm a guitaroholic..."

[Bambus123]

6 guitars and two amps:

Gibson ES175 1959 reissue
Gibson Les Paul Standard
Yamaha SA2200
Epiphone Casino Elitist
FGN J-Iliad (tele)
Martin 000-15m acoustic

Mambo 12" wedge
Blackstar ID260

I need them all...The Les Paul gets played the least, then the Martin. The others kind of circulates depending on my mood and what I want to play or practice, but after getting the FGN, I actually think I could live with only that one. Fantastic playability and tone

[Fred Archtop]

20 or so. Last acquisition is always supposed to be the final one, because finally I have more guitars I could have dreamt when I was 15, but wait...

Last year, I bought a Slaman DS 250. Showed her to my daughter, 20 years old, telling her "That's my last and final guitar". She stared at the guitar, then at me with a smile and then she said "Dad, why imposing yourself such boundaries ?".

I Love her.

Now there's a new one on the way.

Cheers.

[morroben]

Paul Reed Smith Mira Semi-hollow
Fender '69 Tele Thinline RI
Fender '72 Tele Custom RI
Fender Jimmie Vaughan Strat

Martin 000-15

1953 Fender Dual 8 Steel

65 Amps Tupelo
Fender Supersonic 22
Mission 5E3
Fender Pro Jr

Need an Archtop and an acoustic amp. And some Seth Lovers for the PRS. And a better recording interface. Some better studio monitors. Yada yada...

[rabbit]

Fred Archtop,

You certainly raised that young lady correctly. Congratulations on a job well done!

[helios]

I'm more of a visual guy:












This one's and internet image (same but not mine)

[Frank67]

I plead on the fifth amendment :-)

[339 in june]

I have ten :
Yamaha classical (my first guitar)
Squier Strat MIJ (my first electric)
Maison SA200 MIK (a 335 alike) (my first semi)
Gibson Les Paul Studio (my first Gibson)
Gibson ES-339 (my 50 yrs birthday present, arranged by my son and my mother together)
Gibson ES125T '59 (my first vintage, my first full hollow, but thin)
Hohner G3T (my first "travel guitar")
Epi Broadway (my first full depth 17")
Eastman AR503CE (my first carved top, ebony board)
Heritage Sweet 16 '95 (and this will be the last one ...)

No Tele, no flat top, but I don't feel the need for these (for now ...)

Sigh !......

[lawson-stone]

"hello, my name is rabbit and i'm a guitaroholic..."

"hi rabbit!!!"

[nopedals]

Three: 1947 ES-150, 1940 L7, and a frankenstein esquire. If I got fleeced in a divorce or something, and had to get down to one, the ES-150 would cover all of the bases.

Decades ago my friends and I owned guitars serially; we would sell a guitar when we bought a new one. Then one day in the early 90s someone showed me a copy of Vintage Guitar magazine, and the silliness began.

[vernon]

7 and no... probably not.

[jbucklin]

12. Do I need them? Of course!

[srlank]

One guitar, one amp. Wouldn't mind another guitar, one with more of a cutaway, but all in all, one is enough for me.

Amazing! I am not even a gear head, and I have way, way too much. Just for starters I have a couple of junker nylon strings. One was made by a friend who has now passed away. He gave it to me, but it had been made with his own large, arthritic hands in mind. I believe that he also had one defunct finger, and with all these issues he made the frets of larger sizes. Then there is a 3rd nylon string for classical lessons at Music Therapy school. Then the impulse buy from the NAMM show last year....also a nylon-string, but you can plug-in and it has strap buttons. The other acoustic is my sthin-line, steel-string Martin with a sun-damaged neck and a botched job from well-known luthier in the area. It's my favorite practice guitar at work, because it balances so well. Then there are 2 strats and a modified old epipiphone solid-body. Another solid-body is a Raines Ergo guitar that I got for free, because it arrived in such terrible shape. A good luthier was able to fix it for a couple of hundred. It has got a beautiful tone, but the neck is very long and not too comfortable. 2 hollowbodies are a small-bodied Eastman and a big, fat orange Ibanez Artcore. Last but not least are the semi-hollows, which are the main ones I use at home or with a band. One is a Forshage, and is the easiest to practice at home. If it weren't for this guitar, I would not be able to play near the amount that I do. It is a tremendous guitar in this regard. The other is a Gibson 335. The tone of this guitar truly has brought my playing up a notch, as it has a whole other dimension to it. I feel a sound, and don't have to struggle for it.

Anyways, I'm trying to give a couple of these to my brother who has been wanting to get more into guitar.

[srlank]

I feel like I just did some sort of spiritual purge.