How Many Guitars do you own

How many guitars do you own

  • 0-1 Who would ever need more?

    Votes: 84 4.8%

  • 2-4 A person needs options!

    Votes: 707 40.2%

  • 5-8 Variety is the spice of life.

    Votes: 628 35.7%

  • 9-12 I'm a serious collector.

    Votes: 160 9.1%

  • Over 13 Maybe I should open a store.

    Votes: 180 10.2%
  • Total voters
    1,759
I feel guilty...I'm such a slut. All those poor honeys hanging on the wall at the GC and pawn shops. Night after night I walk through the music stores looking at those lonely orphans knowing that each of them will spend another lonely night without feeling the snap of a phono cable plugging in or hearing the hum a recto-amp warming up or feeling the bark of its humbuckers coming alive. It's my calling to set them free I tell you! They must be allowed to sing...free I say free!

Do you think I'm crazy...no...really?! I'm a tax payer dammit! You can't do that to me! :D
 
The current batting order:
82 Carvin Koa doubleneck
71 LP Custom
60 Danelectro
01 American Tele
Kramer American
Dean V (Korean)
Ibanez Lawsuit SG
Martin D1
68/69 Gibson 12 string acoustic
Modulus Q5 Bass
Godin A8 mandolin
Raven LP (for sale)
Cheap Fender acoustic for open tunings

I have sold/passed on quite a few that I regret- like a 62 Jaguar (sold in mid 80's for about $100- and snickered as if I got the best of the deal)- or the 1930's Epiphone Deluxe that I passed on and saw in George Gruhn's rarebird column 6 months later
 
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My geetars and basses:

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Some I got after that photo was taken:

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And one I got last week (along with a 15 watt Marshall practice amp for $100.00 total):

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I'm proud of my "welfare gear". Its taken most of my adolescance to aquire it.
  • Fernandes Les Paul style, very versatile
  • Telecaster, custom-built from an old Fender neck, Warmouth body, and Texas Specials
  • Maxtone SG copy, great for a raunchier sound once in a while
  • 25 year-old Martin, made in Japan under the name Sigma. This guitar was given to me but I really couldn't replace it for under 1000 bucks as far as sound goes.
  • Alvarez acoustic-electric, slight crack in the top. Gonna give it to a kid who needs a guitar when I find one.
  • Ibanez 4-string bass, nothing fancy
 
Accumulated over the years, some average guitars but with a few mods and pickup changes some nice workhorses.

Ibanez Roadster II Series x 2 (one maple neck,with Dimarzio Tone Zone Humbucker and one rosewood neck with original Humbucker)
Ibanez Blazer
Fender 12 String
Fender Stratocaster Deluxe USA (1989) rosewood neck, roller nut, with Lace sensor pickups.
Ibanez RG (Seymour Duncan Distortion)
Alambra Handmade Spanish Classical (Solid Top)
Aria Pro with Floyd Rose
Jackson Bass guitar
 
hmm...

UnOrthodox Guitars Melody Maker (w00!)
Agile AL-2000/2500? (natural-ish)
Takamine eg540sc
Alvarez AD-60SBK
Ibanez Cimar (20+ year old junker)
Traveler Guitar (pro series)

Washburn T-34 Bass (wrong thread? :^)

And some descriptions: http://onehalf.net/?page_id=35

I'm thinking about selling all of my acoustics/agile/traveler, and just buying one good acoustic (I'm already fleabaying the Takamine).

Anybody else own an UnOrthodox Guitar?
 
guitars that I used to own, and how I lost them to a drug and alcohol habit:

Kay 6 string circa 1973 (first guitar) - Sands of Time
Alvarez 6 String circa 1984 - Pawn Shop in '91
Ovation Balladeer Sunburst 12 String - Traded for a Ford Mustang in '89
Washburn Electric (ca. 1987) - Pawn Shop in '92
Gibson Les Paul Copy (ca. 1985)- Pawn Shop in '93
Fender Stratoscaster - Drug trade in '93
All amplifiers (6 x ea) - traded for 4 pounds of pot in 1993

Don't do drugs.

Today:
Takamine EF381 6 String
Montana 12 String Acoustic

Eyeing:
Martin D-15 Mahagony
Epiphone Hummingbird
 
Fender Jazzmaster
Korean Squier Strat (loaded with Fender Vintage, Fender Lace & Seymour Hot Rails - plays & sounds equal to any modern USA Strat I've experienced)
Gordon Smith GS1
Takamine EG520s
Yamaha SG1300T
Line 6 Variax 500
Rickenbacker 330-12
Hippybacker Handmade Electric 12
Gretsch Elliot Easton
Fender Precision
Fender Musicmaster Bass
Rickenbacker 4001
Shergold Marathon 6

And I love 'em all.
 
I personally only have two. My epi les paul that seems to be remarkably good for an epi and an ugly tele that has intonation issues but I'm too lazy to have it fixed. But those are just my guitars. My dad has a bunch more and I have my basses, my violins, and my mandolin.
 
My wife says that I have at least 6 too many. Guess she wouldn't say that but every time she goes out I say, "Hon, would you pick me up a new set of strings while you're out."
 
My wife has admitted that she can't tell how many I have. Fatal error.

1969 Martin 0-16NY (set up with Thomastik-Infeld Plectrum strings)
1965 Martin D-28
1961 Martin 0-18 (an absolutely great recording guitar)
1930's Martin 2-17 (Martin's first guitar built for steel strings - twangy)
1966 Gibson J-45 (PUTW in this one)
1966 Gibson B-25 (essentially a small bodied J-45 - records real well - I have a Sunrise in this one)
1983 Les Paul Standard (paid $300 for this one out of the newspaper - red metal flake)
1993 Paul Reed Smith Custom 24
1967 Gibson Byrdland (short scale neck which is great since I have small hands - set up with flatwounds, but I still can't play jazz worth a damn)
2003 Leach Cremona (OM size)
1991 Godin Acousticaster (a complete impulse buy after seeing Roseanne Cash's band)
Rick Turner RB-4 Bass (I'm deluding myself that I can actually play this effectively - but it's fun)
Yamaha FG-450S (D-28 knockoff)
LaSiDo parlor size guitar (campfire beater)
Gibson 1917 Style A mandolin
Gibson 1959 F-12 mandolin
Lots of ukes

Looking at a Larivee parlor. I seem to be buying smaller guitars.
 
Just added "Whitie" to the family. Olymic White Fender Strat

So

American Fender Strat
Epiphone Les Paul Deluxe (with new pick ups and tuners)
Charvel Model 2
Epiphone Special II (with new pickups and tuners)
Ovation Celebrity Acoustic
Cort Bass
Ukulele from Hawaii
 
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