If you were to only have TWO Jazz guitars......

[christianm77]

It's a "frankentele," I've pieced it together over the years.

Yes, all I play is jazz. I need a steel string acoustic guitar (preferably a Selmer/Maccaferri style) for playing Django style music, and I need a nylon string because, well, I love nylon string guitars.

Good point. This is exactly why I can’t boil it down to two. I could do my job with four.

I get booked to play GJ. Nylon’s great for acoustic and world jazz. Need the 175 for bop and modern. Tele for fusion, modern.

Would like a carved top archtop for trio, duo and solo playing, but it’s not necessary.

[pcsanwald]

This is easy for me because I only have two guitars.

Sadowsky Jim Hall, violin burst: About 13 years ago, I wasn't in the market for a new guitar, and my friend asked me if I wanted to try his new Sadowsky. I bought one for myself for my 30th birthday.

About 3 years ago, I ordered an Aztec Gold, double bound "single cut" from Danocaster. Couldn't be happier with it:



Granted, I don't play guitar nearly as much anymore as my main instrument is upright bass. But I've never owned more than 3 guitars (have lived in tiny NYC apartments my entire adult life)

[coolvinny]

16" x 2.5" to 2 7/8" laminate archtop

Sub 2" body depth, smaller body 14" or 15" laminate archtop for when my back/body needs a break, and to be a bit more road trip friendly

Yeah, I'd forego a carved instrument. A good laminate can get you close IMO. My Collings Eastside Jazz LC Deluxe at 15" x 1.75" actually sounds great acoustically with 13 TI rounds so long as I let the back resonate freely rather than have it up against my body.

[Cunamara]

This is easy for me because I only have two guitars.

Sadowsky Jim Hall, violin burst: About 13 years ago, I wasn't in the market for a new guitar, and my friend asked me if I wanted to try his new Sadowsky. I bought one for myself for my 30th birthday.

About 3 years ago, I ordered an Aztec Gold, double bound "single cut" from Danocaster. Couldn't be happier with it:



Granted, I don't play guitar nearly as much anymore as my main instrument is upright bass. But I've never owned more than 3 guitars (have lived in tiny NYC apartments my entire adult life)

How do you get the bass in there and have room for anything else (like a bed)? ;-)

[pcsanwald]

How do you get the bass in there and have room for anything else (like a bed)? ;-)

I prop the upright in a corner, it's a large instrument, but not as crazy big as most people seem to think. It really doesn't take up that much floor space when upright.

[Bbmaj7#5#9]

Rather upright bass than Hammond organ and Leslie in a small apartment...

[ES125er]

Among the guitars I already own:

- Acoustic / home: Petite Bouche manouche by John LeVoi. Runner up: Andersen Streamline
- Electric: Gibson ES-275. Runner up: Gibson ES-125CD... more personality, but the 275 is more versatile.

[FourOnSix]

Since the question is "if you were to only have two jazz guitars," not "if you were to only keep two of your jazz guitars," my answer is:

Two D'Aquistos.

[SierraTango]

Content and gigging with two that I cherish-1990 Benedetto Cremona and 1953 Epiphone Triumph Regent.

[rio]

Just an L5 and then I guess a second one if I had to choose two guitars.


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[bohemian46]

Steel string flat-top (Martin) and my Flamenco (Carlos Pena cypress/spruce)

I am considering offing one of my Martins for the possibility of a 12 fret D hole Sel/Mac wide nut at least 1 7/8ths) and a 650mm scale length.

No matter what guitars have come and gone, I always have a classical/flamenco guitar.

[dazzaman]

Prescribing to the argument that I could also have other guitars, and jazz-type music might even come out of them (thankyou telecaster and Rickenbacker) and restricting it to instruments that are really for jazz and not (that) much else, I would chose an 18" New Yorker NC and a 16" NC.

[wengr]

Provided there are also non Jazz guitars - the Jazz guitars would be a Stroudsburg Bennedetto for fingerstyle, and for blues/bop/etc, either a Comins classic, or an L5 Wes.

[floatingpickup]

My father had two guitars for most of his life. One was an L5CES, which was the guitar he played on gigs. The other was an L7, which he used for practice and general acoustic playing around the house. I always thought that was the perfect pair, so I have the same two (one of them is actually his old L5CES). The only problem is that I seem to have accumulated some others that I can’t bring myself to let go. If I had to get rid of the rest, I would stick with the L5CES and L7, but I would definitely keep an ES-175 too (I have played a 175 for most of my life). I guess that means three would be the lowest number I could ever get to. Unfortunately, that would mean no nylon string, no Gypsy guitar, no boutique archtops, no solid bodies, etc. It’s a scary thought.
Keith

[child as audience]

Does this only count as one?

[rolijen]

I'd choose a Wes Montgomery L-5CES and an ES-175. If I were unable to afford these classics, I’d be happy with just the guitar in the center of this photo, an Ibanez AKJV95, a surprisingly good jazz guitar for a fraction of the cost of either of the Gibson’s.

[Greentone]

I'm gigging about once a week...occasionally twice. If I could only have two guitars, I would have an L-5CES and a Strat/Tele--right now, probably a Stratocaster. Next month, I might give you a different answer--Telecaster.

The point is, one big, carved archtop and one solid-body that I can get a good jazz tone from, but that also features a 25-1/5" scale.

[guavajelly]

I pick my ES 330 and an Ibanez GB10.

[Jimmy Mack]

I don't have to think about it, already own an L5CES and a '61 RI Casino, both hollow, and both fantastic.

[nick_wolf]

A small body hollow and my Strat that is equipped with Tom Anderson M Series pickups. It does everything from jazz to blues and fusion. Very thick sound

I am on this way too, but with a Telecaster and soon to get a semi hollow, probably a Sheraton.

[Midnight Blues]

An L-5 like my Wes Montgomery:



And an ES-355 (or 335), like my Alex Lifeson:



My '72/'54 LE would do in a pinch too:



Can you tell I like ebony boards?

[Average Joe]

I could probably get everything I needed to do on an electric done on something like this. This is not mine.

[Greentone]

Ooh...I had a 1965 Stratocaster that was that color. Or, approximately like that. Mine was called Sherwood Green Metallic. It was my favorite Fender, ever. With the Elliott Randall-approved neck humbucker, you are really in business.

[mr. beaumont]

I could probably get everything I needed to do on an electric done on something like this. This is not mine.

I'm so not a strat guy, but that guitar could convert me.

[Dhango]

Hmmm, a good Gibson Les Paul with Burstbuckers and a Heritage H550 with Di Marzio 36th Anniversaries and an ebony bridge instead of the ToM. And a Roland Jazz Chorus 120 or a Peavey Special Chorus 212...