Do you name your guitars?

[kvotchin]

Can’t see any reason to do that, except well, I guess the kind of blatant marketing bullshit that some “stars” have indulged in / weaponised, presumably to their profit and/or other benefit.

[Seafire Mk2]

BB King, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards did (and countless others I forget now)

I don't though I do think about it every ten years or so.
I should they all spend time in my lap and I think of them as having distinct personalities which form the decisions I make on what style of music to play on them.

I'm surprised they did, given they own tons of guitars...unless of course they only actually played a few, and gave them pet names (which seems a bit sad. On the same level as ppl who give their cars names)

[pekbro]

Maybe if I made the guitar myself or it was made from some special wood. For instance, my friend Dale, often makes sculptures from trees that burnt down for whatever reason and had some long history in the community. Like he made this mermaid sculpture from an old tree that stood over a spot where old folks played chess everyday forever. Of course the statues are titled, not really named. Dale has a statue at the Vatican, his name will be remembered for a thousand yrs prob. He's got no worries

[surreal]

Yes my Guitar is named, but not by me, but by the Children that I sing to. They call him "Bambelela" which loosly translates in and African Language as " To hold Tight or to Hold something Close"

Very Cute and Apt Name!!

[digitalboytn]

My archtop and acoustic guitars have names because they are all elegant ladies...

But my electric guitars are nameless because they are the workhorses and not in the same noble class as the ladies...

Even though they do the bulk of the work these days

[lfm]

The Tele named "tele", Strata name "strata", LP as "LP", Modern Lite as "lite", RecordingKing as "rp1" and Taylor as "614", bass as "tm5".

And this also on the bags with adjustment tools, mostly Allen Keys, so I know which ones fit what instrument. Don't have to look around so much making adjustments.

[tapper mike]

I'm surprised they did, given they own tons of guitars...unless of course they only actually played a few, and gave them pet names (which seems a bit sad. On the same level as ppl who give their cars names)
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I knew a gal who was quite the outdoors camper type She had this compact crossover back in the 80's and named it Stanley. She loved that car and would take it everywhere. If she had two or three days off in a row she'd be camping in a state or national park. She had a guy forge a metal badging with Stanley proudly displayed.

Also it doesn't make you gay if you name your guitar a male name.



The story of BB Kings guitar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_%28guitar%29

[tapper mike]

SRV had numerous strats and strat copies and he played them all the same until he reached a level of popularity. Afterwards he would focus on one guitar for live performance yet kept the others.



All guitars shown in above video where part of his collection