View Poll Results: Are you currently in Buyer, Seller or Holder mode these days ?
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Buyer: I'm on the lookout for the next "One" or maybe two...or three....
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Seller: got too many and it's time to make room for that Barca lounger I always wanted.
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Holder: like Little Red Riding Hood's Portage, their collection is "just right".
56 49.56% -
Changes Daily: plan or attitude is always in a state of flux.
27 23.89%
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I've got one archtop I'd like to sell (Schaefer hollow body Fred Hamilton model - LET ME KNOW IF INTERESTED) and one solid body I might sell due to lack of use, but otherwise I like my other 4 archtops (3 at home, 1 at the office) even though I mostly play just 1 of them. They are all quite different, which I like. No plans to add more guitars.
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09-08-2021 03:48 PM
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ask for an unfair price and then let them bargain you down to the fair price.
Originally Posted by GNAPPI
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I did that recently, for some contract work. They gave me the unfair price.
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Technically a seller, but I can't bring myself to list any of the guitars I "should" sell, namely a Hofner Verythin John Stowell and an American Standard Strat.
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Player.
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I can't think of much of anything I bought thinking I'd sell it. Like, why buy it in the first place???
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I used to be a player, not to any real accomplished level. I studied and was on my way, so to speak but in the end I didn't enjoy going through, what it would take to be a world class player.
That and I was always more interest in composition. I learnt what I needed to and then moved on to other things.
Mostly working to buy property so I didn't grow old and poor.
That being said my passion for jazz guitars has never abated so I buy, sell, admire, learn, seek out, hunt down, meet people, hang out on this forum. It's a wonderful lifestyle that doesn't involve 8 hours a day of practice.
I've currently got 9 guitars. All of which I've wanted to own. My goal is to own all the greatest jazz guitars ever made.
I just need a few boomers to pass away so I can get my hands on their collections
Kidding guys. You stay healthy.
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The OP is being sympathetic and has, in the poll, called hoarders buyers!! Originally Posted by Litterick
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Just enjoying what I have. Could care less about the rest.
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Yeah, put me down as either an "All 3" or a "None Of The Above" Originally Posted by Gilpy
I have enough guitars. Arguably too many. But if I came a cross one of a small handful of instruments I've lusted after for years, I would almost certainly add it to the collection
...and make room for it by selling off one of the instruments I already own.
So I'm not on the hunt, and not looking to downsize, but also not content enough to say This Is It.
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I just bought a great 1966 Fender Super Reverb. OK, not a guitar, but same principle. Anybody want to buy a Tele and a Strat?
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I don’t need anything else. Every guitar I own fills a niche in my playing interests and all are really fine instruments. I will be retired in a year and a half so my buying days are coming to an end. All that said, there are a few that I would add even though they are not necessary:
1. Ramirez 1a cedar/cypress flamenco guitar
2. A flamenca blanca from one of a small handful of Granada builders
3. A Martin 0000-18 Sinker Mahogany.
4. A National Resophonic M1.
Maybe I’ll add one from this list to my collection.
There are a couple more niches I’d like to fill as well:
1. A nice Arabic Oud
2. a nice but inexpensive A Style mandolin.
We’ll see what I come across at a good price. I’m done buying for the remainder of 2025 at least.
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I've commissioned the build of more acoustic archtop, hopefully this will be my last guitar,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, until the next one.
Last edited by GuyBoden; 07-15-2025 at 05:47 AM.
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I'm a holder.
In the last five years, as I got back into jazz seriously, I bought two arch tops. One laminate and one carved.
Before that, of my entire group of guitars, the most recent purchase was in 1994. Except for an electric baritone, which I got for a specific composing project.
I have kept guitars I picked up in the '70, '80's and 'early '90's. I have only sold (large, loud) amps for the most part. That may change as I get older however.
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I go back and forth. Over the last several years the guitars I've acquired have all had relatively chunky/round neck profiles, and I've discovered that I do prefer this to slimmer/D-shaped ones (which one of my guitars has). That has planted the seed of thinking about buying/trading/selling my way toward neck-profile uniformity, but I also don't actually want to go through the hassle for what's only a slight preference and not a major issue. We shall see ...
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After 40 years as a Luthier I retired and started collecting examples of my favorite luthiers' instruments .
They are all an absolute joy to play and admire the craftsmanship.
I'd love to thin the herd a bit which sits at 51 , but every time I think of selling one , I play it for a bit and fall in love again .. Additional instruments are few and far between as each one has to fill a gap I don't have .
It has to be rare, beautiful and within budget ...the last two have been from Matt Artinger
My current object of desire is a 120th anni Les Paul Supreme in carribean blue
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Excellent buy Originally Posted by Phil59
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The thing that makes me think about new guitars is a sound that I like but I can't produce with my current instruments.
I have experienced getting the exact right gear and still not getting the same sound as a favorite player, so I'm cautious about going down that path.
Right now I'm thinking about the sound of gypsy jazz guitar for playing rhythm guitar. Every gypsy jazz rhythm player seems to have that sound.
Also about an archtop, for the same reason, although I don't hear the sound I want in every archtop.
In both cases there's a certain richness that I can't get with a semi.
None of that means I'll buy a new guitar because I don't think I can get my lead sound out of gypsy jazz style or archtop guitars.
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What is your lead sound that you would want from a Gypsy or archtop guitar? Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
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I’m none of the above. I’m an “optimizer” - I want exactly one of each type, but that one has to be exactly right. I’m almost there. As soon as I replace my bluegrass mandolin with a ~1920 A4, I’m done.
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How many types do you think there are? Originally Posted by stevo58
Last edited by garybaldy; 09-25-2025 at 07:41 PM.
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Flattop acoustic. Originally Posted by garybaldy
Carved top acoustic.
solid electric
hollow electric
5-string banjo
tenor banjo
plectrum banjo
mandolin
mandola
granted, not everything is a guitar, but from my point of view, a fretted instrument is a fretted instrument.
To be honest, I don’t play much 5-string banjo, but all the rest are in regular rotation, both at home and on stage. At the moment tenor and mandola are in heavy use, but they are basically the same instrument.
So, that’s:
Martin OM-21
1950 Epiphone Devon
1958 ES-125
custom telecaster style with mahogany body and CC pickup
custom 5-string with 1920s Weymann pot
1925 Weymann plectrum
Custom Silver Bell style 5 tenor
Silverangel mandolin
1921 Gibson H-2 mandola
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I would have to divide some of those categories into several more. Originally Posted by stevo58
Also, for instance, would you class a 335 as a hollow electric as well as a 175?
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No, but as much as I like 335s, I like 330s more. A 335 is its own thing, and I wouldn’t mind having one, but it would be a purely “gotta have it” thing. I don’t play much electric anymore, and when I do, it’s the Epiphone with a Rhythm Chief. My days in loud bands are long behind me. Originally Posted by garybaldy
So I guess I lied about the regular rotation. I don’t think much about electrics anymore. But I still have them, and a bunch of amps I built when I went through that phase, but the only ones I use are a 5-watt vibro champ reverb and a tweed pro.
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