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Personally I read the OP and thought well, they all sound fully justified, now buy some more.
Personally, I sold my collection of six for one stupidly high-end PRS. No regrets. I love it, it re-energised playing for me. I've still gone out and bought an electro acoustic and cheap PRS since though...
My band, Red For Dissent
went to to last nights gig with the goldtop and PRS, and played the goldtop all night. I actually grabbed a Les Paul case to put it in and found an Edwards Les Paul in there, so make that 16
Cheers for all the input
Having read back through my post again, I would maybe even go further - definitely sell both the Charvel and the RG unless you prefer the Charvel to the Van Halen bitsa. You only need one of these three at most. If you prefer the VH to the Tele, sell the Tele too, or vice versa.
That would give you...
Tokai (favourite guitar)
Gretsch (present from wife)
PRS (working guitar)
VH or Tele (for any gig you don't want to take the other three)
That's all you need.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Washburn. Lovely but The RG is my nicest super Strat
VH bitsa. As above
Charvel. And again
Edwards LP. Doesn't get a look in with my Tokai
Black Gretsch. Silver one should get out more
Squer Jag. Don't even know why I bought it
Which ones would you grab first if there was a fire?
Which ones have meaning to you (eg. gift from wife)?
Which ones are easy to replace?
Which ones, if you sold, would you likely buy another (eg. the Tele)?
Which ones, if you sold, could you easily buy another (eg. the LP Special)?
Which ones don't you use and can't even be bothered to set up?
My thoughts are:
KEEP: 80s Tokai goldtop, my favourite guitar
KEEP: Bacchus Strat, had it for years and was #1 whenI played strtats
KEEP: Fender highway one Strat. Nicest Strat I've played
LOSE: bitsa van Helen copy. Sounds and plays great and I would get next to nowt for it
LOSE: bitsa strat. Put it together myself, looks and sounds great
LOSE: Ibanez destroyer II doesn't get much use but it's cool
LOSE: LP special. Whelk you need some P90s dont you?
LOSE: hamer special, needs a set up, but would probably be better than the LP special if it had one
LOSE: charvel socal well you need a shredder don't you?
LOSE: RG1550 better that the Charvel, but I like the Charvel better
LOSE: wasburn MG. lovely high spec, but would fetch peanuts
KEEP: gretsch silver jet. Bough by my wife and I love it and it's pristine
KEEP: gretsch jet electromatic with filtertrons, play it case I don't gig the silver jet cause its pristine
KEEP: PRS CE. Most used cause it does everything well and has my GK pickup on
KEEP: bita telecaster. Got to have a tele, and I really like it
So that about halves the number!
Keepers for now
PRS
Bacchus
Tokai LP
Ibanez
Gretsch
Telecaster
Sold the Charvel & the Jag and no regrets, got a few on ebay and the VH on here. If anyone's interested in anything drop me a PM, or I'll get round to listing stuff soon
That does sound like a pretty good range of the most useful types. Just try not to think about what you might be 'missing' .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Sounds good - I guess you can get all of these on a single guitar stand. I find I don't tend to bother opening up cases to play things, so I keep to what I can fit on a single 7 way multi stand (I have guitars and basses on it).