How Many Guitars do you own

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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 just picked up a strat body w/ GK electronics. I have ordered a neck and will soon install SCN noisless pups. That makes 8 not counting the partials hanging on the wall in my studio. (5)

....must have guitars....must have guitars...


chazba
 
It should be

must...have...more...guitars...



"Hi, I'm NotCardio, and I'm a guitaraholic."

group: Welcome, NotCardio...
 
I've added a couple so I thought I would post a 2nd time

7 -Electric (2 of which I got dirt cheap to tear apart and learn how to work on my own gear)
1 - Variax 300 (which in theory is several guitars)
7 -Acoustic (this includes a 12 string and a couple dedicated to open tuning)
3 - Basses

So I guess I'm up to 18 - given that I'm mainly a drummer followed by a keyboard player, this is waaaay too many, but I'm a gear slut - and proud of it.
 
I got a couple of new toys to add to my list:
1939/40 Oahu Lap steel, Grey MOTS with matching amp
1999 G&L ASAT Junior
Late '30s Gibson Cello
'64 Ampeg M-15

My old list:
1943 Gibson Southern Jumbo (Banner)
2001 Gibson Nick Lucas Re-issue
1954 Gibson LG-1
2001 Heritage H-555 Customized with Fralins/Nickel
1976 Kramer with Aluminum Slingshot Peghead KOA Body
1974 Martin/Vega
1963 Vega Jumbo Acoustic
1951 Vega E-300 Dou-Tron Cutaway
Recent Regal Tri-Cone W/Quarterman Cones
1970's Gibson Ripper Bass
1975 Les Paul Deluxe
1950s Alamo Lap Steel with Original P-90
2002 Northwood MJ with Macassar Ebony B/S
Olympia Flat Top Bass
1974 Guild F212
Various Low End Toys in Various states of disrepair
 
Dude!!!

Milnoque said:
I got a couple of new toys to add to my list:
1939/40 Oahu Lap steel, Grey MOTS with matching amp
1999 G&L ASAT Junior
Late '30s Gibson Cello
'64 Ampeg M-15

My old list:
1943 Gibson Southern Jumbo (Banner)
2001 Gibson Nick Lucas Re-issue
1954 Gibson LG-1
2001 Heritage H-555 Customized with Fralins/Nickel
1976 Kramer with Aluminum Slingshot Peghead KOA Body
1974 Martin/Vega
1963 Vega Jumbo Acoustic
1951 Vega E-300 Dou-Tron Cutaway
Recent Regal Tri-Cone W/Quarterman Cones
1970's Gibson Ripper Bass
1975 Les Paul Deluxe
1950s Alamo Lap Steel with Original P-90
2002 Northwood MJ with Macassar Ebony B/S
Olympia Flat Top Bass
1974 Guild F212
Various Low End Toys in Various states of disrepair
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Tell me about the '51 Vega!

I've got what I believe is an early '50s Vega LP style, and I can't ever find anything out about their electrics!
 
90 or so Japanese Strat
91 Les Paul Studio
70-something Vantage Japanese 335 knock off.
Acoustic- fender san luis rey nice piec of wood for a cheapo acoustic.
yamaha 12 string that barely functions
classical for $5 from a yard sale.

MIM jazz bass.

daav
 
The Vega E-300 is a standard 17" archtop with a venetian cutaway. It has a Gibson style tobacco sunburst finish, Laminated back and sides, And Brazillian fretboard and bridge.

There are a couple of interesting features:
Like most vege archtops of the time has a three piece top, which makes sense if you think about it.

It also has the first floating pickup system anybody ever installed. Vega held the patent for it. The controls are mounted on the tailpiece. The pickup cable is routed through the body and neck joint. The Pickup mounts to the end of the Fretboard. The pickup is very bright.

If I try to crank it up it'll feedback like crazy on the "B" in any octave, but if I turn up the amp just so it balances with the acoustic sound I get awestruck. It is one of the best guitar sounds I have ever heard. Like your soul has a soul.

I thought those Vega solidbodies didn't come out until the later '50s. I'll see if I can help you get some info. If its the one I'm thinking of it feels more like a Guild than a Gibson but it doesn't sound like either one. The one I played was really special, I'd love to find one for myself. Vega is a great American guitar maker that's almost forgotten.
 
Thanks

Like I said, with all the books and magazines I've got on guitar history, about the most detail I've come across is 'they made some electrics for awhile'.

So any reference material you could point me to would be greatly appreciated.

Before I stripped it (I know, I know) it was a gold top single cutaway solid body, solid mahogany, with dual pickups that were surface mounted. White plastic covers (dog-ear p90-looking) that had matching oval trim rings around them. the neck isn't flush with the body, it sits way up like a jazzbox does. Trapeze tailpiece.
 
I've seen the Gibsons that these were obviously copies of.

I'll see if I can find a pic of one of those.
 
NotCardio,

Nothing I have has any specific info on Vega Solidbodied models.

Have you got a serial number or a model number? It would probably be stamped into the end of the peghead. Also, is the peghead shaped roughly like a gibson? Vega used several peghead designs during the fifties.

I'd love to see a picture.
 
I believe the model number is SG-99 for the one pickup version and SG-99-2 for two pickups

I believe the pickups were made by Kent Armstrong

I found a reference for it in the 1959 catalog. I haven't figured out when it was first introduced.

Found this amusing.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Boston-Vega-SG-...emZ300093774778QQcategoryZ2384QQcmdZViewItem\

VintAxe.com has a copy of the 1954 catalog but it would cost $10 bucks to have a look.

Somebody has a 1959 print ad listed on e-bay that has a picture of the one pickup version.

I'll keep looking
 
I emailed you

I took a couple of quick pics today, but I'll have to wait to be able to load 'em up & email 'em.

If anybody here wants to see some of my stuff, I might need someone to resize them to post. I haven't had time to download & learn the software yet.

I guess I need to get one of those photobucket or similar accounts.

That ebay link is dead. I need to see that ad. What catagory was it listed under?
 
Some of you people are ridiculous.

I own one guitar a Kramer 1984 focus 2. I am as poor as a shercropper though right now.

Within 2 years I want.
1. A Gibson 335, or good copy
2. A strat
3. A nice acoustic
4. A guitar I build from warmoth parts.
 
i've increased.

ok, ive got my 2 cheapies still, value =$2.00 for both, but worth the world to me :) one of them, i scalloped frets 12- down and its pretty cool, but still just a cheap shitty guitar :D

i've got my knock around stienberger spirit, paid like $300 or so for, small headless guitar is the ultimate throw-in-the-car and drag around guitar, currently in pieces awaiting a new volume pot and possibly pickups while i'm at it.

i got my knock off double neck, a jay turser, very pretty 6-12 jimmy copy, for half the price of the epiphone. too heavy to play often, but a nice addition to the collection, and a hell of a conversation piece.

i've got my love, my mexi strat, the 'splatter strat' limited edition that was released for a few months about 2 or 3 years ago. i love this guitar, i just installed an LSR roller nut on it, and its uber cool.

my latest addition; my second love, a martin 000X1 acoustic. currently on my second one, first one arrived with buzzing at the 10th fret and i'm expecting the replacement any day, but its a nice guitar nnevertheless.

my next; a yamaha flamenco nylon acoustic.

also needed, a new bass, im in dire need of a mexi jazz bass atm, i've got a cheapo chinese 5 string that i absolutely hate.

after that, who knows :) prolly a high end electric, like a gibson SG or an american strat.
 
I've really been wanting to add a Jerry Jones sitar guitar to my arsenal...how much are they paying for blood these days? :confused:
 
acidrock said:
I've really been wanting to add a Jerry Jones sitar guitar to my arsenal...how much are they paying for blood these days? :confused:
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I keep thinking about buying one of those Rogues. Not a JJ, but it's as close as I'll ever get.

That's my real problem. I keep buying more 6 string electrics, but all my life I've been wanting a sitar(guitar, well, a real one would be nice too, but), a 12 string acoustic, a 12 string electric, a 6 string banjo (look, I'm never going to learn to play a regular f'ing banjo, OK?), a dobro (OK two, one spider, one biscuit), etc., etc., etc..
 
That's my real problem. I keep buying more 6 string electrics,
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I feel you there. To be even more specific, I keep getting more 6 string solidbody electrics. About 2 years ago I finally got an ES-335 knockoff, and then a few months ago I got an acoustic 12-string. It was kinda hard though, part of the internal dialog all "Yeah, I know an acoustic 12-string would bring entirely new sounds to my repertoire, but that one's V-shaped!"
 
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