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BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 3:39 am

sbj wrote:Only one (a Parker) but it is great and I love it.

A Parker is on my wish list.
Also, a Taylor (my daughter's name) and a PRS.
And a Martin.

For now.

Cheers
-B

Aleatoriac · Post by **Aleatoriac** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 4:02 am

4
Hardtail and floyd 6 strings already in the arsenal. Love them.

Pending an 8 string and an acoustic.

But I can do plenty with what I already have.

Vectorman · Post by **Vectorman** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 4:11 am

I think the most basses I've owned at once was 6. Right now I have 5, and to be honest, 95% of the time I just use the Bongo 4HH.

werp · Post by **werp** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 4:44 am

19 or 20 although there's only two regularly abused. The Gibson BFG and the PRS NF3. The Fender american deluxe strat comes off the wall occasionally.
I've only ever sold one, the Line 6 JTV59. the modelling guitars seem to crank out a nasty frequency I just can't live with. It sounded best on its own magnetic pups.

someone called simon · Wed Mar 04, 2015 5:10 am

This seems so weird to me. I guess this forum is populated by a lot of people who make heaps of money in a good jobs and can buy heaps of guitars… no kids maybe? I make about half my very modest income from playing live as a guitarist, and I have 2 that I play live, one average quality Aria ES 335 copy and MIJ tele. Also a Yamaha electric at home, which theoretically belongs to my son (actually we went halves on the tele too!), and a seagull acoustic. And one amp, though it is a good one, a Swart AST…

lfm · Post by **lfm** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:27 am

I have 5 for very distinct different character of sound.

An acoustic, two semiacoustics(ES335 and ES175 style) and two solids(LP and Jazzmaster).

I was looking at maybe replacing them with a Line6 JTV Variax - and get the us version for best quality. But pricing is really silly, and since big part of guitar is electronics and that very soon become obsolete, kinf of, when a new version arrives - that makes it drop in value seriously. And Line6 could not give me any assurances that I could replace any new electronics to that very guitar. So I dropped that idea. There was also something about not being able to play while charging or something that make me feel it's not for me - hate stuff that are out of battery all the time.

macmurphy · Post by **macmurphy** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:11 am

i've got three and one is out of action

is it difficult to replace a truss rod nut on an ibanez AR325?

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:56 pm

The question isn't how many you currently own (though that's always nice to discuss) The question is how many you would own if... Price and Storage weren't an issue.

Simon,
A few of us have had and lost good jobs that won't come back. Including Yours truley. I had to give up the stage for the financial security of cooking five nights a week even though I had a full time day job. No I don't have kids. I knew exactly what type of life I would lead growing up and I didn't want to be a delinquent dad. So I choose not to be one. All my brothers and sisters had kids. Most of my friends through the years also had kids. Making and keeping the decision not to have kids was rough. We all have to live with our choices in life. Sometimes the secret is learning to enjoy the things you have rather then chasing the thing you don't. Even if you aren't actively chasing it doesn't mean you can't dream about it. Which is the point of the thread. "How many guitars would you own if you could"

Deep Purple · Post by **Deep Purple** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:27 pm

I'll reanswer the question then - I think I would probably not put a limit on it until I got to the point where I thought I had all the bases (and basses) covered.

A few bass guitars (4, 5 and 8 string) some more 6 string electrics, something with a Floyd Rose, a 7 string or two, a hollowbody or two, a couple of better 6 string acoustics, a couple of 12 string acoustics, a couple of nylon string. As for the 6 string electrics I'd get get a decent Les Paul, SG, strat, fat strat, tele, tele custom, a couple of decent PRS and Ibanez, a Casino, a 335, maybe a MIDI guitar and perhaps that Moog thingie.

I might stop there...

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 2:30 pm

Great answer.

I've had more then a few guitars with floyd rose and kahler. I didn't use them to the full potential when I had them. Oddly I didn't include my midi guitars in my count as some would argue that they aren't guitars. Of those I have a casio DG20, Two starr labs ztars, an older Z6 and a BabyZ as well as a Yamaha EZ-EG. Why I haven't thrown the yammy in the bins is beyond me.

I still want another ztar maybe a clipper or maybe even a "GoTar" Or maybe even the new mini-z12 DX

The Z6 is just too heavy to play and the babyz is limited to 16 frets.
Of non guitars guitarish type things I'd also want a linnstrument.

I'd have to get a few of my old guitars back if nothing more then for novelty. Such as..

I also wouldn't mind a new Dangelico EX-SS

And a Robert Conti

Vectorman · Post by **Vectorman** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 2:55 pm

someone called simon wrote:This seems so weird to me. I guess this forum is populated by a lot of people who make heaps of money in a good jobs and can buy heaps of guitars… no kids maybe? I make about half my very modest income from playing live as a guitarist, and I have 2 that I play live, one average quality Aria ES 335 copy and MIJ tele. Also a Yamaha electric at home, which theoretically belongs to my son (actually we went halves on the tele too!), and a seagull acoustic. And one amp, though it is a good one, a Swart AST…

Well, to elaborate, none of the basses I currently own were all that expensive. I usually buy used. I'm happy to put up with a few dings in order to get a bass for 1/2 what it would cost new. And nope, no kids. But I always knew there wouldn't be - I knew as early as my teens that I just wasn't cut out to be a parent and really didn't want to be one. (I'm sure we've all met parents who really should have been that honest with themselves.)

If it's a "money no object" thing, I could probably still get all the variety I could need out of half a dozen basses. Two or three Bongos (one of them fretless), maybe a Big Al, maybe a Steinberger XL2 and a Wal MKII.

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 3:10 pm

someone called simon wrote:This seems so weird to me. I guess this forum is populated by a lot of people who make heaps of money in a good jobs and can buy heaps of guitars… no kids maybe?

Well, over the years, like anything else, you accumulate things. Personally, for me, I can't bring myself to part with any musical instrument. I still have the cheap nylon dreadnaught that I "borrowed" from my college roommate 30 years ago. I learned to play on that thing, and I didn't mind that it was festooned with duct tape and travel stickers like he did.

I have yet to spend more than $200 on a guitar. All have been previously owned, and some are quite interesting, like the Floyd Rose (with full set up) I picked up for $89 at Daddy's just before they went belly up. [Maybe that's part of the reason they went belly up?]

I won't buy stuff off the internet because I just can't bring myself to buy anthing that I can't play first. But there are many others here that I'm sure don't have that quirk, and probably accumulate a ton of bargains as a result.

Cheers
-B

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 3:21 pm

We may not be able to fully recognize Simon's predicament. As hard as it may seem now to believe... Twice in my life I was homeless and busking out a hand to mouth existence. I was hoping to be arrested on vagrancy charges just for food and shelter.

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 3:31 pm

tapper mike wrote:We may not be able to fully recognize Simon's predicament. As hard as it may seem now to believe... Twice in my life I was homeless and busking out a hand to mouth existence. I was hoping to be arrested on vagrancy charges just for food and shelter.

I've been fortunate in my life to never suffer that level of insecurity. However, I was merely trying to illustrate that accumulating guitars (and other artifacts) doesn't necessarily require "heaps" of money.

In the world of musicians, perhaps the saddest thing (to me at least) is to hear of musicians who are forced to sell or pawn their instrument simply to survive. This is doubly cruel as it deprives the musician of his raison d'etre--arguably his last source of solice and comfort. That is merely surviving, not living.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 3:32 pm

I've managed to keep numbers down quite well. With every guitar on my wish list or looking at me with begging eyes from the shop window I ask myself: what does it really add to the collection? Sometimes a certain sound comes from a certain guitar/amp, but in most cases it's just fine to play with what you have. Whatever guitar I use, it will always sound like "me" playing.

So I have 2 acoustics (classic Spanish nylon & "western" with steel strings) 2 electrics (LAG strat copy & SG inspired hand-built) and a bass. The last addition was an Ovation. An acoustic I could plug in was on my wish list for years, but never had an urgent enough need to justify its cost. But this one came on my path just as I had an "unplugged" gig coming up! Talk about coincidence...

You know the joke...
Q: how many guitars do you need?
A: just one more...

What's your guitar limit?