How Many Guitars Do You Own?

[ozover50]

Crikey... I just did a stocktake!! Thirty five - including eleven Ricks.

Crazy!

[winston]

8 Rickenbackers..................I reckon the other 42 don't really count.

[paologregorio]

Crikey... I just did a stocktake!! Thirty five - including eleven Ricks.

Crazy!

Bwahaha, now I feel even better! Add Aitch's name to my earlier list of people. . .

Even as a gigging musician, I tend to use the same 2-3 guitars all the time.
I use Big Red as my main six string, with the Blue Boy as a backup, because those two have hotter bridge pickups, taller frets, and a Mastery bridge (it's addictive). Because they are similarly set up/equipped, if I need to switch from one guitar to the other due to string break or something like that, I can just set one down and pick the other up without adjusting my amp. My AZ blue WB also has a hotter bridge p/up and Accent, but no Mastery, and still has it's original old style, vantage-y frets, which work okay with its more radiused fretboard, but it's managed to catch a couple of beercans kicked about the stage by our lead vocalist (practicing his footballer moves), so I usually leave it home. Besides, I've never been that crazy about it's non-vintage-y headstock, and big Schaller tuners.

I almost always use the Ruby for my twelve string work, just because the case is slimmer than the 381's. The Vox Teardrop 12 stays home unless I'm doing a bunch of Echo and the Bunnymen 12 string stuff, because then I need a 12 strring with a whammy bar.

If I'm not using a Rick for six string work, I usually use my Gretsch Silver Jet, with my Duo Jet next in line. I like my TV Yellow LP Junior, but it doesn't have a whammy bar, and the guys in the band sometimes say "it's too loud." I may mount an Accent VB on the guitar, because it's completely reversible/needs no screw holes, and I'm used to an Accent.

[idealassets]

2011 Ric 360/12 Maple

2012 Guild F512
2010 Guild F512
1972 Guild F612
2007 Guild F50r
2007 Guild D55
1965 Guild F312

1968 Gibson EB-2 Bass
1966 Guild Starfire Bass

1978 TAMA Drums Mahogany
Zildjian cymbols

Is that a strange assortment of instruments?

Craig

[kiramdear]

2011 Ric 360/12 Maple

2012 Guild F512
2010 Guild F512
1972 Guild F612
2007 Guild F50r
2007 Guild D55
1965 Guild F312

1968 Gibson EB-2 Bass
1966 Guild Starfire Bass

1978 TAMA Drums Mahogany
Zildjian cymbols

Is that a strange assortment of instruments?

Craig

Looks reasonable to me. Guilds are worth repeating, especially the twelvers.

[Rickadelphia]

My present collection totals 4: 2013 Rickenbacker 620/6 in Ruby
2006 Gretsch 6116PTV Power Tenny
2012 Epiphone 50th Anniversary 1961 Casino Reissue
2011 Squier '62 CVC Telecaster

[sloop_john_b]

2007 Guild D55

Pics? Here's mine. It is an addicting guitar.

[BuddyDog]

Electric

2009 Ric 360/6 FG
2009 Ric 360/12C63 FG
2000 Heritage H-535 Natural (just picked it up used last month)
2008 Fender Roberto Cray Strat Inca Silver (on loan to my daughter)
1975 RIc 4001 WH/BT

Acoustic

Seagull SWS Folk (serial #1) also on loan to my daughter
Yamaha AC3R

The only time I play out is at the Confluences in So Cal and Nor Cal

[irishstratfan]

2001 Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster
1994 MIJ Fender Jazzmaster
2006 CIJ Fender Telecaster Custom 1962 Reissue
1980 Rickenbacker 360/12 Fireglo
2011 Rickenbacker 360/6 Fireglo
2006 Gibson SG Standard
1989 Takamine Ltd

[jps]

All your guitars are mine!

[barnsleyjohn]

Ricky 620/6 Midnight Blue
2012 Gibson Les Paul Classic Custom
Tanglewood Premier TW170 Accoustic

Small collection…………………………………………………….So Far

[fluffy]

ok, here goes Fluffy's guitars vol.heaven only knows
4 Strings : 2009 Rickenbacker 4003 FG
6 Strings: 2007 Rickenbacker 650C JG
196? Teisco CE 101 Sunburst (with I was bored gold customization)
2008 Fender Nashville Deluxe Telecaser Honey Blonde
2011 Gibson Melody Maker Ltd Ed. SG style Satin White
1968 Mosrite Celebrity 3 Cherry Red ( my newest acquisition)
2008 Martin DM
2006 Harmonia Lap Steel Black Sparkle
12 String: 2010 Rickenbacker 360/12 MG
I also have a 195? Rex Royal Archtop that I don't so much consider a "guitar" as much as an "introduction to luthierie. project". How hard could reattaching back and sides ,re-binding,re-fretting and a neck reset possibly be anyway???

[edski]

Well, I'm down one, as I sold my Jazz bass yesterday. First time I ever sold a guitar.

I lost one to a theft (of sorts) years ago, and lost one to a fireplace (it was the best use for that "guitar"), but never sold one. I'm not expecting to make it a habit...kind of like using a guitar as firewood.

[Ontario_RIC_fan]

The nine RICS are in my signature line... Lets count the rest to get a total shall we?

Electrics

76 JG 430
77 JG 620
77 JG 320
80 FG 620/12
81 BG 480
91 JG 610
02 BG 620
64 National Studio 66
68 Nutmeg Ovation Tornado
70s Epiphone ET 290
Italian Vox Teardrop copy

Basses
74 JG 4000
79 JG 4001
mid 70s Hofner 500/1

Acoustics

84 Ovation Custom Balladeer
82 Ovation Pacemaker 12 string
74 Ovation Pacemaker 12 string
76 Larivee L5 (when the company was still in Toronto)
73 Yamaha SG50
70s Guild D 40
50s Framus Queen Archtop

Gee that's only 21... I thought I had more!

[Ashgray]

I hope you don't end up regretting selling that Jazz Ed, as I've done with pretty much every guitar I've ever sold.

There have been 27 instruments that I've owned:

BASSES:

6 Ricks (3x4001 (2 fretless), 4001V63, 4002, 4008)
2 Fenders (both Precisions, 1 fretless)
1 Gibson (Thunderbird 4)
1 Ned Steinberger Designs CR5 Omni 5 string fretless
1 Chapman Stick
2 John Birch custom (1 short scale)
1 Jaydee Supernatural fretless (serial number 0001)
2 Rod Button 6-string custom (1 fretless)
1 Rod Button fretless acoustic round-back bass
1 Ashbory bass
2 Tanglewood (1 fretless)
1 Antoria P-Bass copy

GUITARS:

I Fender Strat
1 Fender Tele
1 Antoria SG
1 Paul Reid Smith
1 Washburn Tour (just superb!)
1 Rod Button acoustic

FAVOURITES:

The 4008 - for sheer fun and inspiration!
The V63 - my "go-to" bass
The 4002 - phenomenal sound, great looker!
The T-bird - the classiest Gibson bass by some distance.
The Washburn Tour - a real journeyman guitar that would do anything I needed of it.


Of all the above, I still have all the Ricks except my first, bought in 1974, the NSD, the 2 Button basses, the Ashbory and the PRS. The rest have been moved on to other homes, as I said above, mostly with regrets....

Ash