miroslav what got you the first one of those? or did you buy a few at the same time in one order?
do you know the luthier?
I think the preference happens, I ended up being a strat body shape but sometimes wish it had been a SG that became my axe. Jumping from body styles is really strange for me.
Wondering how many people have a Jackson metal guitar and a Jazz beauty then a Strat and LesPaul etc...
dont most players migrate to one eventually?
this Starbucks Pikes is double bean strong..my brain is feeling fuzzy now in that awake fuzzy-zippy way.
its like im chewing on beans... i might have to go jogging soon.
I definitely don't gravitate to one body style. Here's my collection of electrics right now:
Strat
Tele
Hagstrom Swede (reissue)
Peavey JF-1 (semi-hollow 335 style)
Agile Les Paul copy with p90s
Tele 12-string (in the process of building)
None of these are very expensive guitars, but I need a variety of styles for the work I do (recording lots of styles of music). The big category I'm missing is the super-strat type with a floating bar. Whenever I need one of those, I've had to borrow one. It's not often, though, so I'm reluctant to buy one because I probably wouldn't play it too much otherwise.
Regarding the poll, I had a hard time finding one answer that fit, but I chose "Dented and Played..." (Although I certainly do care if it tunes.)
I don't have anything against relic guitars. It's kind of a funny trend, but it's no funnier than relic'ed jeans, and those were all the rage for a while.
I do hate to see display-only guitars, though. The idea that it's just sitting up there never getting played doesn't sit well with me at all. This is especially because it perpetuates this idea that vintage guitars are some lost treasure that need to be stored in a museum. I just don't buy into that. The fact that one of my heroes had owned/played a guitar would
maybe justify a 5-10% increase of the guitar's value to me, but even that's really stretching it. If I don't like the sound/look/feel of the guitar, I don't really care who played it.
Like ... I'm trying to imagine an iconic instrument (to me) that I would like to own. Paul McCartney's Epiphone Texan (used on "Yesterday") would probably be a good one. But I wouldn't be willing to pay anymore for it than for any other Epiphone Texan, which would be around .... actually scratch that. It looks as though they're going for minimum $2K. I wouldn't pay that.
If I'm going to pay nearly 2K for a guitar, it's likely going to be for a Gibson Jumbo acoustic, such as the J-185 sunburst.
Gibson J185 2013 Sunburst | Reverb
I don't think I'll ever buy a vintage guitar of high pedigree simply because I don't buy into that hype. Something like this:
1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard "Burst" | Reverb
Is so utterly ridiculous to me that it's laughable. I mean, if someone wants to spend their money on that, then more power to 'em. But I would bet $50 of my own money that they wouldn't be able to pick it out in a blind listening test against 4 other Les Pauls. But
even if they could, is it really a difference that's worth $392,000? I mean ... some people need to get out more!
Go take a walk, smell a flower, let a bee land on your hand and look at it up close. Geez!