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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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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by wengr
    The best Benedetto I could find for $11700.
    300 left for a DVMark little jazz.
    That Benedetto would sound great through the cheapie LJ!

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by wintermoon
    12,000 rolls of toilet paper, that should tide me over.
    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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    Quote 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
    Go with one of these and you will have money left over for a guitar

    Fun Hypothetical - What would you buy with K?-redneckbidet-jpg

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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.