POLL: One guitar or Five guitars?

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One G or Five G's?

  • $1000= quality is best.... f(*& the rest

    Votes: 30 73.2%

  • $1000= 5qty Variety of guitars!!

    Votes: 8 19.5%

  • Save up and Buy a $3948.99 Real Relic

    Votes: 3 7.3%
  • Total voters
    41
  • Poll closed .
CoolCat

CoolCat

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Would you buy 1qty. $1000 guitar or 5qty $200 guitars?

I was thinking, still having withdrawls of selling "my perfect" US Stratocaster Standard and looking around the web like a high tech gear addict....:D

1qty. US Standard Strat of perfection

or ???????

take your pick....and have a full assortment of tones?

$200 SG, a $200 Epi LP, $150 Tele, $ 200 Squire Strat..a $200 Ibanez, $200 Gretch semi-hollow....yadayadyayaydaa


yeah, yeah..I'm just goofying off and should be don' something productive...yeah, yeah:p
 

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The 1 nice fender will "stay" nice, with normal care. It'll even appreciate in value, where as the other 5 won't. The other 5 will also require more time/effort ($) to keep them set-up properly.
 
At these particular dollar ranges, I'd have to buy one $1K guitar. My reasoning: you can buy one guitar that will have a quality genuine tone, or you can have 5 guitars that sound like cheap reproductions of quality tones. Honestly, I haven't played all of the bargain guitars up there; but, I have played a number of squiers and I think most would agree that they don't do the strat justice. So, based on that, I'd rather do one thing well than half-ass five.
 
i have one 2k guitar. i would much rather have one really good one than 5 so so's.
 
I'd take the $1000 to Vegas, double it, and buy 1 really good guitar and 5 so-so guitars.
 
I remember the misery of the G-String that wouldn't stay in tune. With a quality guitar, you tune once a set at most.....:) Don't miss that misery.:)
 
Go to a music store. Play everthing that appeals to you. If you find one that really talks to you, get it, If it costs $1k so be it. If nothing speaks to you, head for another store.

Don't ignore the logo on the headstock, But don't give it too much importance. The bottom line is: "if it sounds good and it plays good, it is good. Period!"

If you find a guitar you LOVE and it costs less than you have to spend, great. Start the process over and take even more time deciding.

Remember that a great electric guitar is a great guitar AND a great amp. You can't separate 'em. Keep the amp in the equation.
 
remember, you can buy either 1 good guitar that will last you till your wife has to help you shit, or a trillion sh*tty ones that the strings break every 5 seconds and won't stay in tune to save it's damn life. I'd straight up go for the Strat. Depending on how serious you were, you could just save up and gig with what you have now and grab the one you REALLY want and know that you are extremely satisfied.
As for now, I say buy the Strat boss.
 
1 good guitar. Unless you are good at modding, and have the further dineri to do so. A friend of mine bought an Epi Les Paul Junior copy, and switched out/added electronics and says it plays and sounds great. The actual Gibson woud've cost him almost 10 times as much.

Personally, I'd look into two $500.00 guitars. MIM Strat, and possibly an Ibanez Artcore.
 
cheap vs quality

i bought a bunch of lower priced guitars ....... some of em are good quality ...... then i saved up and bought a expensive one ..... yes there is a difference
 
Depends what you called a so-so guitar. Some of those Schecter's are really nice for the money. They're not $200....but a $500 or $600 Schecter gets a pretty nice guitar.

I don't have one...just saying.

Personally, I have a PRS CU22, Gibson LP, and a Taylor 414ce.
 
I tried this once... I'm sure it involved some sort of illicit activity :)

When I was in Boston years back, I went to a place called Mr. Music in Brighton. At the time, he had a sale with these knock offs called Fane. I got about 6-7 guitars from him- 12 string electric, acoustic, all kinds of other shit. Thought I had a wall of guitars. After the mental masturbation was resolved and all the illicit activity wore off, I was left with a laughing stock, at it was hell to send them back to him...

Don't be a dummy like me.
 
I'd go for 5 $200 guitars any day of the week. In fact, play a different guitar every day. I bet at the end of the week you'd have the makings of 5 songs if you worked at it.

With one guitar, you might end up with two.

There's an old saying, every guitar has it's own song. If I had only one guitar, I don't think I'd still be playing guitar - it would get way to boring.

I've got about 12 different ones right now. The more expensive Martin D16 doesn't get played any more than my Squire affinity tele. And they're both a hoot to play.

Variety is the spice of life!
 
Possibly, but I can't stand a guitar that won't stay in tune, has terrible intonation, a touch a centimeter high, buzzes, or sounds like tin. Those things take all of the joy out of it for me. And I wrote plenty of songs when I had just one half-way decent acoustic.
 
Let's see....I got:

1 - G&L L2000. Retails for $1350. I paid $550 used, plus $130 for brand new case.

2 - Music Man SUB. Retails for $800. I paid $300 used with case. $27 for replacement pickguard.

3 - Samick Ultramatic. Retails for $580. $220 used. Needs a case.

So I got three pretty damn nice instruments, all USA made, two hard shell cases for $1200! ;)
 
I guess what I am saying is that buying a new guitar is ridiculous! There are KILLER deals on quality instruments which are more than half off retail prices!

I only bought one new instrument in my life, an old Ibanez Roadstar II back in about 1983. Worst deal I have ever made on a guitar.

I guess I have to count the custom made strat I had built for me. I only had about $850 into that beast. Once I refinish it, I will post picks! It is one of a kind!

Don't buy new instruments. It is so easy to find a killer used axe for cheap!
 
i'd have to go $250, 500, 400. my used epiphone sheraton, used martin j15, and my cordoba classical.

i get my instruments pretty cheap. 260 for a $1200 cello, $20 accordian, $20 bells, free piano, $50 bass...

i'm just a lucky/cheap man
 
how many carpenters do you know that only have one hammer?
At least thats what I tell the wife.
 
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