My wife won’t allow a Gibson Explorer or Flying V in the house…

Stratavarious

So it will have to be a Firebird… I’ll show her! 

axisus

Strange relationship. I buy what I want with the money that I earn and the Mrs does likewise.

Mrs A's rare commenting on guitars would be along the lines of "I used to like the blue one" (that I sold). That's about as interested as she gets.

Wazmeister

Your wife has taste.

Reverend

Wazmeister said:

Your wife bad has taste.

ftfy

Teyeplayer

Mid-life crisis starting? 

Ossyrocks

My wife is very dubious of me having a V too. She says they look like toy guitars.

She also dislike SGs, she calls them “earwigs”. 

Grumpyrocker

My wife isn't a fan of Explorer or V shaped guitars. Our son is keen to get an Explorer as he's become a big Metallica fan recently. She's got nothing against having these guitars in the house though - she just thinks they look shite. 

Stratavarious

I think it is because she lets me hang them everywhere..  and there will be more in her library next.  

She is actually pretty engaged with it all… knows all the gibsons, fenders and eggles by model type and has two guitars of her own.

I suspect her taste and insights are better than mine.  

Stratavarious

Teyeplayer said:

Mid-life crisis starting? 

Oh… certainly

fob

Stratavarious said:

I think it is because she lets me hang them everywhere..  and there will be more in her library next.  

Can't you just keep them all in your wing of the house?

Snags

Ossyrocks said:

My wife is very dubious of me having a V too. She says they look like toy guitars.

She also dislike SGs, she calls them “earwigs”. 

When I came home with an SG in a case Mrs Snags took one look, before I opened it, and said "Oh, it's a baby guitar", and thus has it been known ever since, the baby guitar, despite all protestations to the contrary.

Stratavarious

fob said:

Stratavarious said:

I think it is because she lets me hang them everywhere..  and there will be more in her library next.  

Can't you just keep them all in your wing of the house?

I do.. and the staircases and the clock tower and the orangery

tone1

My wife won’t allow a Gibson Explorer or Flying V in the house…

She’s definitely a keeper…..

munckee

Reverend said:

Wazmeister said:

Your wife bad has taste.

ftfy

have you?  : )

She definitely has taste, in guitars at least you might be a munter.

Sassafras

My wife couldn't play guitar so she had no say in what I bought.
She'd have been hard pushed to tell a guitar from a drum kit.

Cirrus

As always, lumping Flying Vs and Explorers together is insanity. Explorers are a beautiful '50s American angular design, sadly hijacked by metal players.

Flying Vs are disgusting, like a gardening implement gone awry or a massive fly with two bums instead of a head.

JezWynd

You could freak her out completely and bring home a reverse V.

crunchman

How about some pointy BC Rich (in neon pink)?

Dominic

My wife wouldn't know the difference between any guitar acoustic or electric ,
" why do they all make a noise ? "

chillidoggy

My Gibson Flying V has been the guitar of choice for 12 years now. I’m not sure what it says about me, but frankly, I don’t really care. Les Pauls and Strats are so passé.

Stratavarious

I think the Explorer is a great, iconic shape.   I loved the Ibanez Destroyer as a kid too.