So, as per the title - I’m interested if anyone just settled on one guitar type/model and that’s enough for them?
I have 2 Les Paul’s (an ebony Custom and 60s Standard) as well as an Am Pro 2 Strat and Tele.
These cover all core tonal bases but seldom do I pick up the Fenders. They play well, sound good, and have their respective characteristics, but they’ve never felt like ‘home’ to me.
I am a Les Paul player at heart and often think of selling the Fenders and picking up another LP with P90s. It wouldn’t cover the same tones or evoke the same styles of play, but the Fenders could go tomorrow and for my needs I don’t think I’d miss them too much.
It wouldn’t be selling for financial sake, more for simplicity with a focus on mastering the one type, rather than multiple.
Although I doubt I actually would, the one-guitar-for-me idea is quite romantic and it got me thinking. Could be said for a lot of the all-time greats too I suppose, at least for the most part?
So, anyone out there a one-and-done type, or is variety the spice of life?!
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I know it's a bit narrow minded but all the players I aspired to earlier in life played them and the music I enjoy is all Les Paul based. I have four in various guises.
I keep it fresh with a Midtown, but that is basically a hollow body Les Paul...
https://i.imgur.com/KXraDtg.jpg
Does everything I need it to do.
This would pretty much sum it up for me.
I've been through far too many, but honestly within about twenty minutes of playing this one I knew it was the last guitar I'd ever buy. All the others have gone now.
https://www.creamtcustomshop.com/collections/aurora-bfgt-1