After 5 years not buying any guitars last week I got a Strat, since then I have been getting more itchy.
First Gav got his wicked black Rickenbacker 620 that i have immediately fallen in love with, tonight there was that Novo Serus T....
What is odd that I never liked Rickenbacker or offset style guitars before but something about a smaller size 620 in black and the Serus T in TV yellow that i really like. I don't even like Novo that much, watching Rhett Shull and his 2 or 3 Novo that he has don't interest me, not a fan of their glitter finishes of the ones that he has but damn....in TV yellow it works much better.
Good thing I have decided to save up for a house instead....got the Strat just in time!
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You may be shocked to realise that guitars generally never sound or play as well in person as they do in your head before you buy them... hence they get moved on loads.
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Then just before lockdown I was suddenly compelled to buy a Gibson.. having never owned or even played one before. They never appealed to me at all.
I have now promised it to myself when I finish my current work project, which should be by the end of the month.
Then a couple of other acoustics. And I have a decent bass on the way...
Yep - I'm up to 8 at the moment...
After my last band ended and I went through some life changes I wanted to draw a line under everything so I got rid of all my guitars (LTD EC1000s, Jackson Kellys and Vs) and ended up with a Modern Player Plus Tele. I upgraded the pickups which improved the sound a lot but then I decided that I didn’t really like the neck, and for the stuff I play it felt like I was fighting it rather than just playing, so I bought a dirt cheap Jackson, something like a JS32 Dinky hardtail. Pickups weren’t great, but it had a really nice neck so I was happy with that.
Then I decided that I needed a Floyd Rose, after literally decades of being 100% a hardtail guy... I ended up swapping the Tele for the Performance (the one that’s now sparkly orange).
I sold the Jackson, genuinely can’t remember why now... then decided that I needed a hardtail superstrat to go with my Floyded one (genuine wtf moment as I’m typing this). So I bought a Dinky from someone on here. I liked it, but didn’t bond with it for some reason and when I went to Peach Guitars to try out a Katana I also had a go on a Squier Contemporary Active Strat, which I really liked: my wife remarking that it sounded nicer than the Jackson was the trigger I needed to buy it.
So now I had 2 Floyd guitars and one hardtail... I sold the Jackson, and bought a Charvel Pro Mod Style 2 (Tele shape - in my defence though, with a *much* nicer neck than the Modern Player I’d had before).
I put new pickups in the Charvel, then after spotting an advert on facebook I ended up swapping it for a GJ2 Shredder, which was a really nice guitar. Hipshot everything, great condition, lovely neck...
Now I needed a hardtail again! So I ended up trying a few more guitars in Peach, then buying a Schecter Reaper. I really liked that, but it ended up going back as it had a dead spot on the neck that I just couldn’t live with. While I was at Peach I had an email from Guitar Guitar offering X series Jackson Soloists at £399, so I bought one. It needed a truss rod tweak but other than that played fantastically, and I’d literally never played a guitar with such good top fret access before.
Somewhere around this point I needed to clear some space and also get some money in to pay off the credit card from the recent purchases, so I sold the Squier and the GJ2. At this point I was back down to two guitars: the Performance and the Jackson... so now I needed a hardtail again! I bought a PRS SE Mark Holcomb from a guy on eBay. It’s great: usual excellent PRS build, absolutely amazing pickups that blow me away every time I play it... now I have Floyd and hardtail.
I’ve recently made a few upgrades to the Jackson, so now it has a great pickup in it, the trem springs don’t ring out any more: it’s pretty much my #1 now, and there’s nothing else I need.
And yet... I keep looking at the Jackson HT6 Juggernaut...
tl;dr - my name is Kerry and I’m a GASoholic
I’ve been lucky enough to own lots of guitars after selling a couple of nice ones a few years ago.
I literally went through 25 guitars in a 12 month period (One or two in as one or two went out - not quite the level of some of the esteemed GAS addicts on here, eh @DB1), but more than I had owned in total for the previous 25 years. There was a Les Paul, a few PRS, core and SE models, strats-a-plenty, couple of oddballs including two great Cabronitas and probably the nicest of all, a Musicman Albert Lee.
I came out the far side gigging the same two I started the journey with - tele and strat.
I’ve currently got GAS for a PRS McCarty in McCarty burst - wanted one since the launch. Unfortunately the alignment of availability and me having the cash has never quite aligned.
Strangely, the one that keeps popping it’s head over the wall and waving is an Ibanez PGM301. I’ve loved the look of these since I saw Mr Big back on their first tour. I know it would make me happy, I know I’d find a way to deal with the fact that my comfy zone is a fat neck and these have necks that are slimmer than Twiggy after a crash diet. I also know that I’ve never been a particularly fast or technical player. But ultimately I keep asking - would I keep it?
If we pictured ourselves playing the guitar/amp when we're uninspired, or playing badly, or simply just picking the same stale riffs we trot out everytime we pick up our guitars, then I'm sure the "this guitar/amp will change everything " dreams will come crashing back to reality...
With so many comparison web sites out there, how do I choose the best one?