how many guitars have you owned?

Paul_C

as mentioned in another thread, I have owned many basses (66) though now I only have 2.

my guitar list (which will be edited as I add ones I've currently forgotten) stands at 38, though I currently only own one electric and one acoustic

Kay "Telecaster"
Hondo 1 LP
Fender Telecaster (US)
Encore acoustic
Applause acoustic
Rickenbacker 330
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Fender Telecaster (Mex)
Squier Telecaster (3)
Squier Strat (2)
Levinson Blade
Fender Lead II
Charvel 475 Deluxe
Jackson PS2
Epiphone SG
Gibson Les Paul (2)
Fender Jazzmaster (2)
Fender Jaguar
Gibson Explorer
Gibson Non-Reverse Firebird
Ibanez Jem 77FP
Daisy Rock Heart
Yamaha APX700 acoustic
Lag acoustic (4)
Taylor 310 acoustic
Samick 12 string acoustic
Fender Lite Ash Telecaster
Westone Thunder 1-A (2)
Charvette

Lew

Fucking hundreds! Couldn't remember them if I wanted to.

GuitarMonkey

Same here. too many to count.

ICBM

And here. Probably a couple of hundred.

Paul_C

well that spoils that game ! 

I don't feel so bad about my meagre haul now though, so it's not all bad (though I have just remembered another 3).

usedtobe

I can't remember. Too many, probably...!

viz

I've had 10 and I've got 9.

Phil_aka_Pip

What I have now, less 2 acoustics and 2 electrics

GavRichList

1. Burns marquee
2. Mex fender tele
3. Mex tele custom
4. USA tele standard
5. Rickenbacker 330
6. Rickenbacker 620
7. 1965 fender mustang
8. 1967 fender coronado II
9. Gibson SG standard
10. Fender jaguar classic player
11. 1974 fender jaguar
12. Squier j mascis jazzmaster
13. 1962 fender jaguar (as of Tuesday)
14. Some kind of jag / jazz partsmaster
15. Takemine acoustic

Only 11-13 remain in my possession.

zenzeypher

Too many and they've all practically exceeded my skill level.

Mostly LPs.

monofin

I honestly couldn't remember and probably wouldn't want to admit to it anyway

I await @jookychap 's response with interest - may take him quite some time to type it though

xSkarloey

The cheap spanish classical I 'learned' on

Yamaha Pacifica

Epiphone SG

Gordon Smith GS2

Crafter Dreadnought 

All of which I've got shot of and I now have six, including electrics,m acoustics and a bass that are all better than the above and that all get used. 11 in total. Rather restrained by some standards! 

I suppose one thing I have in common with some others though is that I've bought better as I've got older, which involves buying less but spending more in order to get what I want. I regard all those guitars I bought and sold as false economies. My chops were up to it, so why I didn't just buy a Strat or whatever from the off was sheer silliness and stinginess on my part. 

Roland

11, and I now have 9, one of which is unplayable, and kept for sentimental reasons. The other two I gave to my children. I have a similar approach to @Skarloey. I don't often buy a guitar, when I do it's a "good" one, and so far I haven't sold one.

JookyChap

monofin said:

I honestly couldn't remember and probably wouldn't want to admit to it anyway

I await @jookychap 's response with interest - may take him quite some time to type it though

I think it would be quicker to list the ones I haven't owned tbh

DiscoStu

Axe strat copy

BC Rich Warlock

BC Rich Ironbird

Ibanez PS10 Paul Stanley

Fender DG16 acoustic

Godin Radiator

PRS CE22

Gibson Les Paul Firebrand

Adam Black electro acoustic

PRS McCarty

Godin Exit-22

SM Mirrortop (self build)

Samick Fairlane bass

Fender Baja Telecaster

Gibson / Arrowhead Explorer

Manuel Rodriguez Caballero 11 Bubinga classical 

Chapman ML-1

Line 6 Variax 500

Stonebridge DS23CR acoustic

Yamaha SA503 TVL

20!

I'm pretty sure that's it. I still have the ones in bold.

Skipped

I am really shocked at some of the responses. I have had about 15 over a long period.
Why don't you just buy keepers?

No - scrub that. I am wrong. I have sold 6 or 7 "keepers" in the past 5 years and it is an absolute freaking nightmare.
:-S

ICBM

Skipped said:

I am really shocked at some of the responses. I have had about 15 over a long period.
Why don't you just buy keepers?

Because you don't know what's a keeper and what isn't until after you've owned it .

To be fair, at one time I would buy almost any guitar that came my way if I liked it and it was cheap - just to try out different things. Some I knew I wasn't going to keep for long, some I genuinely believed would be keepers but turned out not to be, a couple of others I just seem to have accidentally kept even though I didn't expect to… and might not forever.

The ones that seem to be the keepers now are the 12-string I've had since 1989, purely because I've never played a better one, the electric I bought as a functional solution to a problem but turned out to fit me better than almost anything... except for the electric I swapped on a whim for something I wasn't using, and the electric I bought to replace my first one, but which I don't even play much even though I would feel bad about selling.

I never expected to sell one which was my main gigging guitar for five years, but after my band and music style changed I didn't play it at all for two years and eventually just sold it.

Skipped said:

I have sold 6 or 7 "keepers" in the past 5 years and it is an absolute freaking nightmare.

The hardest thing for me is making myself part with guitars I don't need but have become attached to. I currently have five electrics, but really only "need" two, three at most.

drwiddly

Can't remember exactly but around 40 I think. That's less than one a year since I started playing so that's good, right?

DiscoStu

I really didn't want to sell my Ibanez PS10 Paul Stanley, I still wish I had it.

I had debts and rent to pay and the Ibanez was the only thing of real value I had, so it had to go.

Sad face.

GavRichList

I'm confident that my incoming guitar will stay with me til I kark it, at which point it'll become my boys inheritance.

Bucket

Fifteen, I think?

That's in the space of about six-and-a-half years. And I still own ten of them