What Kind Of Guitar Owner Are You?

**Texsunburst59** · 02-08-2013

I consider myself a guitar and bass pawnshop whore.If it's in a pawnshop and their giving it away, then it's going home with me.

54% of all my guitars,basses,acoustics,and classical guitars that I own, came from pawnshops.

**notCardio** · 02-09-2013

You, sir, are my idol.

The difference between you and me is that you hoard quality pieces, and I just hoard.

**Sky Blue Lou** · 02-09-2013

Some of those don't look all that pawn-shoppy.

**Greg_L** · 02-09-2013

Nice collection. I never see anything but pure shit in pawn shops. My father-in-law is a big pawn shop guy. He's always scouring pawn shops for guns and fishing stuff. He swears he's gonna find me a Mosrite one day. I'm like, dude, it aint gonna happen.

**Sky Blue Lou** · 02-09-2013

Originally Posted by Greg_L

Nice collection. I never see anything but pure shit in pawn shops. My father-in-law is a big pawn shop guy. He's always scouring pawn shops for guns and fishing stuff. He swears he's gonna find me a Mosrite one day. I'm like, dude, it aint gonna happen.

Yeah. I'm gonna find a '59 Burst at a yard sale. If I find a Mosrite first I'll snag it for ya'.

**Greg_L** · 02-09-2013

Originally Posted by Sky Blue Lou

Yeah. I'm gonna find a '59 Burst at a yard sale. If I find a Mosrite first I'll snag it for ya'.

Lol. I tell him, maybe in California you might get lucky and stumble upon a Mosrite in a pawn shop, but down here in Tx, no way.

**2infamouz** · 02-09-2013

Originally Posted by Illsidgus

Throughout my years of hanging around musicians I have noticed that guitar owners come in different types. What type are you? This includes all types of guitars.

-There is the loyal collector. This is the person who collects one particular brand of guitars.

-The general collector. This person just likes to collect guitars, brand doesn't matter.

-Then there is the "New car trade in" type. They buy and sell guitars every year like some people get a new car every year.

-Next is the "it's not me so it must be the guitar" type. Just like bad golfers that think the problem with their game is the equipment these guitar owners just know the problems with their playing can't be them therefore it must be the guitar so they get rid of the one they have and buy a different one, over and over again.

-Lastly there are those who carefully chose the guitars they want for a particular purpose and stay with those guitars for the rest of their lives or the life of the guitar whichever comes first.

I thought about making this a poll but decided that they have been done to death lately.

general collector 4sure.

**mbrusko** · 02-16-2013

The only two guitars I've ever owned (I'll be 60 this July) are my 1974 Gibson Firebird Medallion (#118) and 1969 Guild D40 acoustic.* I've played lots of others -- Les Pauls, Strats, Martin and Taylor acoustics. Just never found anything I liked as much the ones I have. If I did, I'd buy it. Did play a PRS a year or so ago and loved the neck and sound, so that might be my first "affair."

*Oops. Forgot. I bought a Martin Backpacker several years ago at a charity auction. Piece of s&it. Sold it after a year or two.