I may have bought too many!

[Johnnyg123]

I never set out to own all these guitars I have. My problem is that I can't part with them once I have them. I have a 40-year old Fender Bullet that my Dad bought me when I got in my first band. I can't part with it! It sits in its dusty old case and holds a lot of memories. Every time I buy one it's because of some awesome new feature, or my tastes have changed. I guess I'm not really a guitar collector, more of a guitar hoarder at this point. I have 15 guitars.

Ha. I have a Bullet that i bought new in June 81. Same. Rarely play it but can't face selling it.

I also had 15 guitars last year. But I went to work on them and now I have 8. Including the bullet, an acoustic and a baritone.

You can do it!

 

[AntStrat]

 

[Della Street]

 

[Mr Jagsquire]

I never set out to own all these guitars I have. My problem is that I can't part with them once I have them. I have a 40-year old Fender Bullet that my Dad bought me when I got in my first band. I can't part with it! It sits in its dusty old case and holds a lot of memories. Every time I buy one it's because of some awesome new feature, or my tastes have changed. I guess I'm not really a guitar collector, more of a guitar hoarder at this point. I have 15 guitars.

Similar with my old '82 Squier Strat as it was a 17th birthday present. I hadn't played it much recently due to it needing some wiring repairs, but I sorted that and restrung it/set it up and I've been enjoying playing it the past few weeks. Just feels a bit odd now because it's vintage spec; small frets and 7.25" radius and I'm more use to taller frets and 9.5" radius on my 'Fenders' now.

I'll never sell it though. Even if I can't play it one day, I'll have it on the wall in my care home.

Often wondered what Della Street looks like...not what I imagined at all, but so many shoes...

 

[Guitarista]

 

[SquidVicious]

Everyone here knows of my recent shopping spree. I think I may have bought too many too many guitars. Not that I want to get rid of any of them because I don’t but I only seem to be playing two mostly. The new Martin D28 and the Gretsch 6120 Vintage Select 55 Chet Atkins. The rest just set there lonely as can be. I have every type of guitar I have ever wanted at this moment in time. 2 Strats, 1 Tele, 2 Gretsch hollowbodies, 3 Dreadnoughts, and 1 jumbo acoustic. I can’t think of any other guitars I want except another Tele. A Squier Classic Vibe butterscotch blonde. These are the guitars I have always wanted but I need to figure out how to get around to playing them all. I use the different guitars for different styles of music. For blues I grab a Strat, for Memphis Soul or Bakersfield country I grab my Tele or the Gretsch VS 55 also for the Bakersfield stuff. It works really well for that but lately all I’ve been concentrating on is trying to learn bluegrass and occasionally playing some country on the Gretsch. Let me restate that I am not selling any of my guitars. Just how do any of you with lots of guitars decide which ones to play? I don’t have a lot compared to some on this and other forums. One guy on another forum has 40 guitars. I would be forever confused. Just doing some rambling tonight.

I have quite a few (my wife may have infiltrated this forum so I won't say how many).

I tend to start with a few favorites- almost always my black strat for practice, then shift to "noodling" or songs. I literally try to play them all once a week, but I practice/play every day - unless I flew to my destination for business or vacation.

My suggestion. Start with you go-tos then shift to one or two others. Some evenings ill look for the one i haven't played and deliberately pick it up. If you practice / play even a couple of days a week, you'll give them the love the deserve.

 

[Robins]

Each guitar is different exactly as human beings. If you know one you don´t know them all.

Take care,
Robin

 

[PawFurro]

I technically own 9 electrics but 2 are up for sale on consignment.

The latest one I'm divesting is an LP style Tokai upgraded with Gibson '57 Classics - I had it for 18 months and it sounded great and looked lovely but I just never had an urge to play it over my strats and teles. But that's fine, I got it to see if I liked LP's and the answer was no.

The others I do love to play, even if I go periods without playing them - I go through phases from the Beatles, Stones, Led Zep to Blink-182, Nirvana and Green Day so I'll grab what inspires me at the time.

 

[Shred13]

It's not really about too many guitars, because I have over 40. It is probably too many, but they get played.

The only problem has been what Memphis is experiencing and that comes from too many in a short amount of time.

Every new guitar deserves its own get to know you period.

When I've purchased them too close together or more than 1 at a time, something is going to miss out. And it might even be you, by missing out on a great guitar if you gave it some time.

And my advice to everyone is to play everything on anything, they're not as specialized as people want you to believe.