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I've got eight right now. Chronologically, in the order of when I got them, they are:
1. Framus Classical (a great little flea-market find from years ago).
2. A.X.L. Strat-style. I've owned several "real" Strats since I got this one nine years ago, and I still have this one.
3. Custom oval-hole archtop.
4. An old Dobro from the fifties that I inherited from my grandfather.
5. Yamaha AES-1500.
6. Bourgeois 00.
7. Yamaha AES-800.
8. Jaime Hernandez Torres-style classical.
While I don't really need them all, I enjoy them all for what they can do. I've owned so many guitars over the past thirty-four years of playing that these represent my arrival at what I really like in each respective style of guitar.
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06-06-2016 09:43 AM
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Definitely too many guitars, most of them overlapping sounds:
Gibson 175
Gibson 335 Cherry
Gibson 335 Natural
Gibson 347
Collings I35 LC
Collings Eastside LC
Ibanez GB10
Fender Telecaster '59 Custom Shop
Fender Stratocaster '63 Custom Shop
Prs Custom 22
Lakewood Acoustic
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I hesitated and it's been sold. I feel bad but my back is thanking my procrastination.
Originally Posted by Thumpalumpacus
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My main amp is a Stereo Chorus 212!
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I might as well feel bad for missing the boat: how is it as a clean jazz amp? Originally Posted by Marwin Moody
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Fab, goes great with my ES-139. Not as "clinical" as the JC, which is what I was looking for when I landed on the peavey. If you like one, they turn up all the time for what, $50?
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$50? Not in my neck of the woods. This Stereo Chorus 400 looked minty in its pics and was listed at about $190USD. I was mainly waffling on whether or not I really needed a 2x12. In an ideal world, I'd get a separate cab so that I could try out different amp heads. Originally Posted by Marwin Moody
Fab, goes great with my ES-139. Not as "clinical" as the JC, which is what I was looking for when I landed on the peavey. If you like one, they turn up all the time for what, $50?
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Hmm..
I've got;
Godin 5th Avenue
Gretsch Synchromatic G400
Hofner Senator 1958
Gitane DG300 John Jorgenson
Fender Telecaster '62 Custom MIJ
1977 Gibson L6-S
2011 Gibson L6-S
Squire Bass VI - this thing is seriously cool!
in reality I really only would need my '77 L6-S and my Gretsch G400 to get most of the sounds I'm after. Guitars are fun though. I'm at the point where I think if I buy something new/old/else, something has to be sold. I would like to get an archtop with a cutaway at some point, probably a Guild or something like that.
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Right at the moment, I have 6.
Late 90's Gibson Montana J-60 (LOVE it)
1974 Hagstrom Swede that I renovated
1982-ish Epiphone Sheraton (slightly modified)
1997 Custom Fender Strat
2000 Les Paul Standard
2015 Chinese Languedoc-ish knock off
Yes, I need them all, plus maybe a couple others. 😉
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That's surprising. My dad had tried to sell the aforementioned SC212 for very little with no response..! That's when I got it in stead Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
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I'm waiting for the Stereo Chorus I saw to reappear on a "hernia" sale. Originally Posted by Marwin Moody
That's surprising. My dad had tried to sell the aforementioned SC212 for very little with no response..! That's when I got it in stead
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Yeah, it's really heavy. I can handle it because I'm young and my job has literally been to carry heavy objects from point A to B, so I'll probably keep it for another 5-10 years until my back inevitably gives in
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I think I heard somewhere that you have too many guitars when it becomes physically impossible to build a house or storage facility to hold one more than you already have. That's a lot of guitars. At the height of my collecting, I had about 30 different guitars and electric basses including some vintage L5s, a D'A style A-1 and an Excel. I remember my aunt saying to me " 1. why do you need so many guitars? and 2. Isn't one enough? The answers were 1. because and 2. No. Each one had a different connection to jazz players and music. Now, I only have 5, i.e. my D'A Excel, Heritage made Gretsch, 2 NYL-2 D'As and a Guild AA. I can't sell the NYLs because I engraved a few frets and replaced the pickups and the Guild because I lost a piece of neck binding. I won't get decent prices for the guitars.
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Imagine a pianist with a basement filled with concert piano's.
I have two guitars and two amps. One for each house.
If you are (semi)professional musician, I understand you need more. Especially if you have a lot of gigs or if you really need to cover a lot of styles.
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I've been listening to A-go-go a lot lately. Really loving it.
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I have 3 guitars, and a banjo.
It is common knowledge that guitar need works on the following formula:
Guitars I have = x
Guitars I need = x+1
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Love this thread. Have owned about 30 guitars in my life. Plus 5 different electric basses, a 5-string upright bass, a banjo, a ukulele, various keyboards and pianos, 2 saxophones (those were a gift and didn't stay long)...
Current line-up:
1997 Axtra 7-sring tele-style (acquired in 1997)
1998 Comins archtop (acquired in 2005)
2002 Kenny Hill Barcelona classical (acquired in 2011)
2003 Oskar Graf 7-string acoustic (acquired in 2013)
2012 Eastman E10P parlor guitar (acquired in 2014)
2006 Larrivee SD-50 slop-shoulder dreadnaught (acquired in 2015)
1994 Taylor 555 12-string acoustic (acquired in 2016)
In the past I've owned as many as 10 instruments at a time, with too much overlap (three 7-string archtops at once, for example). That drove me crazy. Now, the Eastman gets used just for teaching and could find a new home if I was comfortable taking the Larrivee instead. Everything else has its own 'sonic space' (nice phrase, that). I don't play them all everyday, but I do play them all regularly.
Own just 2 amps, a Fender Harvard Reverb II that I bought a year ago, and a Henriksen Bud that I bought two months ago. Have owned a fair number of amps, but never been a serious electric/amplified band kind of player. I may or may not buy another guitar in this lifetime. I don't expect to ever buy another amp unless something happens to the Bud.
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I don't really feel like any of my guitars are superfluous, although I do play the Ibby and the Tele way more than the Strat or the Joe Pass.
I don't really have any GAS for guitars at the moment, but I do have a hankering to build a Tele. If I do, I'll probably put P-90s in it. Maybe buckers, or a combo. (I wouldn't mind a nice Ibby bass, though).
Like I said in another thread, I really want a Princeton, but I can't justify it. I've got 6 amps already and the Dr.Z covers most of the sonic territory that a Princeton would.
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Just three guitars and three amps:-
1995 ES165
1965 ES345 cherry stoptail.
1980 Martin 000-18
Polytone Mega-brute
Music Man RP112 65 and Trace Elliot Speedtwin C30 both in need of repair.
I don't play the Martin anymore since I decided that fingerpicking is too much like hard work but I won't sell it as it has matured into a great instrument and my sons like to play it. I bought it to learn ragtime guitar but by the time I had managed to learn a new tune I was fed up of it.
The two Gibsons compliment each other. The 165 has the perfect jazz tone to my ears but I often use the 345 in live situations with other instruments when the extra sustain seems to help. I could really manage with just one of the Gibsons. No GAS at all anymore, I haven't bought a guitar for 21 years but I am trying to get the valve amps fixed to provide a little tonal variety. The Megabrute is great if all you want is a classic jazz tone but the Music Man had beautiful clean tones. The Trace Elliot was also a good amp, especially for more overdriven sounds but it was horribly heavy to carry around.
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5 archtops
4 telecasters
2 dreadnoughts
1 gypsy
4 mandolins
2 dobros
2 upright basses
1 P-bass
1 mexican strat
there are worse obsessions.
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I LOVED your comment..!
it's like this T-Shirt I once saw..
Mrs. Smith-
"How many guitars do you need Honey!?"
Mr. Smith-
"Just one more Baby.."
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Group portrait L to R on wall: Eastman E6OM-LTD (#61/100); 2006 Gibson L5CES (Hutch inspected/signed); 2015 Gibson ES 175 '59 VOS Reissue; Partscaster (nitro finish, birdseye neck, Biltoft Vintge Vibe P/U's); 2017 Eastman T486. On the floor: 1964 Gibson C1 nylon string; Godin Multiac Nylon Encore. And, I am always just one guitar from the number I need. But, I have tried to follow 2 rules: get at least 1 guitar for every playing situation, and in order to afford nice archtops I have pursued "best bang for the buck" for everything else. It has worked out great. I enjoy each of these guitars and wouldn't part with any of them.
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Nice. All bases covered. I did something similar but dumped my acoustic steel string. Just didn't use it. And now... wouldn't mind having it back, hehe
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Sadowsky Hall, Kirn Tele, Gibson 339, two inexpensive Strats.
I might CL the 339, maybe in of the Strats.
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I love that pic, but -- needs more Strat! Originally Posted by Mark M.
Group portrait L to R on wall: Eastman E6OM-LTD (#61/100); 2006 Gibson L5CES (Hutch inspected/signed); 2015 Gibson ES 175 '59 VOS Reissue; Partscaster (nitro finish, birdseye neck, Biltoft Vintge Vibe P/U's); 2017 Eastman T486. On the floor: 1964 Gibson C1 nylon string; Godin Multiac Nylon Encore. And, I am always just one guitar from the number I need. But, I have tried to follow 2 rules: get at least 1 guitar for every playing situation, and in order to afford nice archtops I have pursued "best bang for the buck" for everything else. It has worked out great. I enjoy each of these guitars and wouldn't part with any of them.
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