How many guitars?

badjazz

Please help me settle a dispute. How many guitars do you personally own? What do you think the average number is among guitar players?

Stackabones

There are times when I wish I only had one, and then there are times I wish I had them all ... so I guess somewhere in-between would work.

So, what dispute are we putting to bed?

Jack

badjazz wrote:

Please help me settle a dispute. How many guitars do you personally own? What do you think the average number is among guitar players?

So how long have you been married?

best,
Jack.

Bob Holo

11 years, 14 guitars - vast majority of which are GJ & archtop.

I've decided to trim it to 6 if I can... which actually is a tall order. Realistically I'm pretty much exclusively playing two of them at this point - head over heels with both of them and the only thing that's tough is deciding which one of the two to play. For my first four years playing guitars I had a good corporate job & the most raging case of guitar acquisition syndrome you've ever imagined... a truly dangerous combination.

badjazz

ok, I guess this won't settle the dispute -- my wife has informed me that this poll is like asking an addict how much crack it is ok to smoke each day. Myself, I currently own a mere two guitars, one of them a made-in-mexico stratocaster that barely qualifies. I guess I've become a minimalist, but I have guitar-acquisition-bipolar-disorder: buy buy buy, sell sell sell.

frater

Last time I checked out they were 21 not including a banjo guitar. Then there are the mandolins, the fiddles, the bouzouki, the fretless bass and stuff. No wife, of course: I got no room for that...

Elliot

"That's okay...I still got my guitar..." - Jimi Hendrix

Klezmorim

"That's awright...I still got my guit-steel..." - Junior Brown

Bohemian

Over the last 12 months I have rid myself of about 15 instruments

I am down to one 1959 Guild M-20

Over the next 12 months I will add another

Sel Mac clone

An archtop

A cavaquinho

Perhaps a Gretsch

and a classical/flamenco

and that will be all I will need

If I had to choose 1 it would be the classical/flamenco

Campusfive

I had 10 at one point, but got rid of a few things. Realistically I could be happy with 7:
(that I already have)
1. A selmac (my short-scale petite bouche LeVoi)
2. An acoustic archtop (my 16" Eastman non-cut)
3. A solid body electric (my '96 Les Paul Std.)

(that I really want)
4. An electric archtop (either an ES-150, or something to put my CC pickup in)
5. A Tricone
6. A Tele (a '52 RI or a '51 Nocaster)
7. An OM or OOO (probably some kind of Martin, although a Santa Cruz or Collings would be great too)

The LP and the OM/OOO are/would be the least necessary to me. I have two archtops w/pickups - an Eastman 810 w/a DeArmond, and an Ibanez Pat Metheny. The neck on the 810 went haywire after some serious climate issues, so it needs a complete refretting, and the Metheny is great, but mostly kept for sentimental and backup reasons. I have a CC pickup but haven't had much finding something to put it in. Off topic but, any suggestions?

badjazz

Campusfive wrote:

I have a CC pickup but haven't had much finding something to put it in. Off topic but, any suggestions?

I've thought about buying an old L-50 and putting a CC pickup on it. That's all the es-150 were, basically. I've seen people do it carefully and actually have a guitar that is hard to distinguish from a real es-150. What about one of those 'the loar' archtops? My friend who goes to NAMM says that they sound like crap, but maybe with a pickup they'd be worthwhile?

The catch is that you need an X-braced guitar to fit the pickup in, right?