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Let's say all your instruments and amps disappear - doesn't matter how - but you get $12K from your insurance company to replace them. What would you buy? Here's what I came up with:
Sadowsky Semi-Hollow
Martin-0028
Blackbird Farallon (Tenor Uke)
Henriksen Bud 10
That comes to $11K, leaving $1K for accessories.
How about you?
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03-24-2020 04:00 PM
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What an interesting question.
It would take me awhile to spend that money. I love my current guitar (Squier Affinity Tele), which is only $200 new. I might opt for a better model but I doubt I'd spent more than a thousand on one. (I've always wanted a Herb Ellis ES 165 but since switching back to a solid body, I think my archtop days may be over. Might try a 335 clone, but I don't have a particular one in mind.)
A '65 Princeton practice amp, which runs about a thousand.
Then recording gear and accessories, I guess.
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it’d take a LOT more than 12Zk
But if I came into 12k I’d stock waaay up on vintage Cuban cigars
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Custom Ibanez AZ series HSS guitar.
Bunch of 1x8" guitar combos.
4-5 pedals.
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The best Benedetto I could find for $11700.
300 left for a DVMark little jazz.
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12,000 rolls of toilet paper, that should tide me over.
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Alcohol worth 12 000$ XD
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I would look for a nice, jazzy sounding Les Paul. I have had a hankering for a white Custom. I would also go for a ToneMaster Deluxe and a Helix LT.
That should leave me with about $6k that I would use with the wife to travel to see concerts once the virus restrictions end.
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That Benedetto would sound great through the cheapie LJ!
Originally Posted by wengr
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I'd probably want Craig Bumgarner to build me a really nice Petite Bouche, and that Limoncello Benedetto Bravo they just posted up for sale. I'd use the rest to pay for lessons so I can actually put those guitars to good use!
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I'd buy back the guitars I had to sell when times were hard.
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A strat - Fender made in mexico add a suhr hum cancelling system $1000
A tele - Fender made in mexico add a suhr hum cancelling system $1000
PRS SE Hollowbody $1,000
A nylon acoustic - Taylor $2000
A dreadnaught - Taylor $2000
A bass - Fender Jazz made in mexico, swap out for EMG pickups $1000
An amp - Fender Deluxe tonemaster - $900
A madolin - Kentucky $400
A piano/keyboard $1000
$1700 left for pedals. mics, and accesories
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Tough call...
- Martin D-18
- L5CES
- Ibanez Artist 2619 Prestige*
- early Ibanez AS200*
- Custom shop 1961 strat*
- Tonemaster Deluxe Reverb*
- Höfner beatle bass*
- Accessories/pedals
In essence I'd stay with the same gear (*) and upgrade my 175 for an L5C, and my Martin JM to a D-18. But I'd still be 4 or 5 guitars down, including no 12 string, no Gretsch, and a couple of vintage Ibbies.
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Gibson L5ces or L5 WesMo
Gibson ES175
Fender Tone Master Deluxe Reverb Amp
DV Mark Little Jazz Amp
Line 6 Wireless rig
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A better Home Security system.
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A better insurance policy for starters....
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Ibanez AS200, Heritage H575, Gibson SG Standard, all used. Rivera-era Fender SuperChamp and an Egnater Tweaker 40, again, used. Save what's left.
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"I'd buy back the guitars I had to sell when times were hard."
I'll echo Rob's sentiments.
Thus would include my
1969 Martin D 35S
1979 AS200
Epiphone Elitisit Byrdland
1961 Ramirez Flamenco w/pegs made by Contreras
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I'd get a great Trenier.
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Hookers 'n' blow.
....and some kind of guitar.
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A blond vintage 60's L5-CES, if there were any change leftover I'd... nah, who am I kidding? there would not be any change leftover :-)
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Y'know, after thinking about it I don't have room for 12,000 rolls of tp. Originally Posted by wintermoon
12,000 rolls of toilet paper, that should tide me over.
I'm just going to have a bidet installed instead, problem sol-ved
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Go with one of these and you will have money left over for a guitar Originally Posted by wintermoon
Y'know, after thinking about it I don't have room for 12,000 rolls of tp.
I'm just going to have a bidet installed instead, problem sol-ved
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I'd go for a Jim Soloway semi-hollow or solid. ($2000?)
Maybe try to record an album with the rest (pay the other musicians really good).
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I'd be interested in trying a Benedetto. Or the P90 175 that Jim Hall played. For an amp, I'd like to try the Bud and a Twin. But that's just chasing somebody else's sound.
Or, talk to Bill Comins about a custom guitar. Small body semihollow with a really skinny neck (around the house I play a Yamaha Pacifica 012) -- if Mr. Comins thinks a skinny neck can sound thick in the upper register. That's for arthritic hands.
All that said, I'm pretty happy with the rig I've been using. Comins GCS-1, Boss ME80 and Little Jazz. That's about $2200 new.
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