I’ve trimmed my herd greatly in the last year but really want to get down to two electrics (and will keep an acoustic) - when you haven’t restrung a couple of your guitars for over a year and the top E has been missing off your Acoustic for 2 years then you know the guitar ownership to time available ratio has been broken. Want to give play time to fewer instruments.
Treated myself to a new Strat to spur me on (GAS needs little excuse), the others have been placed in their cases before I do anything drastic, but so far it feels like no hardship “only” having these two. Let’s see....
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Humbuckers.
Trem.
Hardtail.
Solid body.
Semi-acoustic.
You have all the important options covered there. No need for more guitars.
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I’m about to advertise the excess and get back to the two...
though I could use the proceeds to buy a Strat... I quite fancy a strat...
Cos, I’ll live with it for a good few months and see what Strat wins the day. This one solves a lot of the small niggles I have with my other Strat, but by the same token they’re both bloomin great guitars.
I don't really have much experience with semi-hollow body guitars so my ignorance there will show through - but I see having a "Strat" and a "Les Paul" (with the latter really meaning a hardtail with 2 humbuckers of any kind) as providing everything necessary.
The reason I have more than just that is as much to do with hating selling things as anything else lol.
Sometimes I might be holding a Strat and the part I'm doing just needs a humbucker tone so I'll swap but I can't really imagine holding a LP and thinking that it's just not going to work unless I have a slightly different flavour of Les Paul, as much as it's nice to have the variations.
1. HSH Superstrat with Hardtail
2. HSH Superstrat with Floyd Rose
What I have is this...
1. P90/P90 SG with Bigsby
2. HH Superstrat with Tremolo
I also have a Les Paul and a Stratocaster, but they don't cover as much as the above.
N.B. If the HH split well, you don't need the HSH and Bigsbys allow for alternate tuning too.
I use 2 others when I record.
I could easily live with an acoustic and an electric
So we’ll done me!
All this talk of R8’s had me wanting some mahogany chunk in my life without spending 2.5k.
Enter this - one piece thick mahogany body, one piece quartersawn mahogany neck (not even headstock “wings”), gloss top, satin back and sides, hardshell case. Little over £600 in a sale so couldn’t resist.
Had a GS1 years ago so have a soft spot, but also had a false start with the new Auden outfit, but hey ho, this is a proper bargain. Build is genuinely flawless (and I’m a fussy git), and it sounds fantastic and rings like a bell. I was ready to rip out the GS electrics straight away but not so sure, it works great.
As an occasional gibbo type itch scratcher for this fender man it’s the ticket.
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So I think I’m down to 4 as I also need to keep my Jag - I’m sure I can hide two under the bed!
Or even better, (not in the spirit of the thread really) just add Hollow to the list!
After an expanding and contracting collection over the years, I'm down to two electrics as well - a MIM Tele with SCN pickups, and a Vintage V72 semi-hollow Tele. But oh lord, that Ibanez goldtop I posted about is calling me, especially after trying one out. My excuse is that it would tonally help me cover all bases
I don’t really like overlap (I.e. owning two Strats or similar) but I like variety now and again almost as a palate cleanser or to trigger some inspiration when things get stale. The Jag and the Gordon Smith are both really quirky instruments that make you think and play differently, the sort that a lot of people would have as their 5th or 6th guitar or more, but I’m happy to justify as 3rd and 4th guitars. There’s no money tied up in them (Jag was a gift from the Wife and she got it at a bargain, and the GS is cheap as chips) yet neither feel like a compromise and are proper musical instruments to Sticky’s point. No sweat if they only come out once a month. My problem is losing the guitar room and having to squash into a corner of one of the bedrooms yet keep things neat and tidy.