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I used to use a Gibson MII as my main guitar & a MusicMan JP-7 for the peizo & drop-D stuff. If I'd bought it new in the UK it would have cost ~£2k7. But it did encourage me to take out insurance
Now I have a MM JP-6 as well - but that hasn't been gigged yet
I shall take the Strat. So c. £12-15k.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
The stupidity of that decision still annoys me twenty years later...
"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
Just choose the guitars that suit the gig and you feel like playing. If you can afford to buy it then you can afford to enjoy it.
The jazz ones - the Sadowsky Jim Hall cost me less than an ES175 (£2.2k with an exchange rate of $2.5=£1)), now costs considerably more (£4k). And LeVoi Maccaferri style (about £2.7k) for the Django stuff. Don't take a spare for the Sadowsky as the strings are thick (12s, wound 3rd) and don't get bent or what have you (only change them once a year - if that often). For the Django stuff I take a Breedlove OM/MMe I got for a couple of hundred quid in case I break a string. The Breedlove is a great little guitar.
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Personally I can't justify the heartache of having my nicer guitars damaged at a gig, even though they are insured. The only two expensive guitars I own are a custom build and a rare ESP so replacing them would be near impossible.
Reading peoples comments here, my guitars are nowhere near the price level of some of yours! There is not a chance in hell that I would play a gig with a guitar worth £2k or more haha.