how many guitars have you owned since you started playing?

[RUExp?]

i had a little problem with G.A.S last year! the only two remaining are my original '82 charvel and my '86 blue jackson. aside from those, i've owned another blue jackson h-h kahler, a white jackson h-h kahler, an ibanez 3 tite in black, a no name brand as my very first guitar, a bc rich mockingbird, a mini-les paul and i think that's it.

Looks like your infested. It's better than cockroaches though.

I love the blue ones.

[Fendercaster]

28, I think. I still have 19 of them.

[toomuchgeardave]

Over 90 since 1990, of course I only have 3 now. Wasted an ass-load of money over the years. To think of all the constructive things I could have done with the money just makes me sick.

[Bbreaker]

I have over 100 now..........I've gone through a lot of guitars since 1966.

[PR_Tom]

My father had me choose between 2 or 3 piece of junk guitars when I was a kid in about 1974 or so. No idea what brand it was, but it had a worthless whammy bar on it and was black to yellow sunburst.

 

Then I had a '63 Epiphone, double cutaway, 2 tone tobacco burst. It had been setup by a local luthier with a modern double humbucker but all else original and was a beauty. Total killer feel and sound from such a humble thing.

 

Then an Ibanez Roadstar like one Mazi Bee has pictured, blue quilted maple top, maple neck, fairly poor whammy. Didnt care for the maple neck too much, body was great though.

 

Now my Ibanez lp custom.

 

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[jdjonsson]

Sixteen.

[Hush]

Been playing since 1979 and I've only owned 7 electrics and 2 acoustics. It's only in the past year that 5-7 have been added. I had only one electic from 1980- 1995 and that was the S-100. I then built a strat body from a solid piece of mahogany bought a Warmoth neck and liked the result so much I pretty much stopped using the Guild. Can't remember exaclty when I picked up the Carvin must be some time in the 90s.

1. $35 used Sears Silvertone (sold to get the Guild)
2. Used Guild S-100 (Sold to get a New Tweed Blues Jr.)
3. Used Carvin DC-127 (Still have :-)
4. Home made Strat (Still Have)
5. Warmoth Strat (Still Have)
6. Used Washburn Maverick to keep at work (recently sold)
7. Used Dean Sarasota (about to be sold)
8. Once the Dean is sold a Reverend Gil Parris.

[favata5]

Lots!! some real vintage.

[Motorcycle]

Since I started lessons in 1964. Not a clue. There's a few I'd like back.

 

The easier question for me is: How many have you hung onto thru the years: 2

[4WDPT]

Still have:
7 solid body electrics
1 electric bass
1 acoustic electric

Sold/dearly departed:
2 solid bodies
1 semi-hollow
1 acoustic (first guitar)

total of a lucky 13!

4W

[slide13]

Not that many really.

 

First: Lotus Strat copy

 

Second: Used Charvel

 

Third: Homemade oddity...mustang-esque body, couple of humbuckers, etc.

 

Fourth: 1996 Fender Strat Plus (bought it new and still my main guitar...just put in Texas Specials last night)

 

Fifth: Alvarez acoustic (still have it and still my main acoustic)

 

Sixth: Carvin DC127. Great guitar, got rid of it but not because I didn't like it.

 

That is it....six guitars over 14 years. I really should expand my horizons. I think a Tele and a LP or SG are in order one of these days.

[Jkater]

I don't think I'll remember them all but here we go:

Plastic ukulele at seven (40 years ago)
Cheap beginner guitar at nine years old
Then starting at around fifteen up to present day:
Martin OM copy
Aria 335 copy
Hagstrom Impala
Yamaha classic
Epiphone acoustic
Gibson J-45 acoustic
Gibson SG custom
Fender telecaster (totally beaten up. must have been really old)
Norman B-20 12 strings
Norman B-30
Norman B-50
Norman B-68
Tama 12 strings
Ibanez lawsuit era copy of an L-5 (the guitar I most regret having sold)
Resonator guitar (sort of a no name copy)
Ovation nylon string
A cool nylon string f-hole jazz guitar
Hand made Yamaha acoustic L-9 (as good as any acoustics I've ever owned)
Guild D-55 (I bought it because I was a fan of John Renbourn who played that one...)
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[genesis3]

25 to 30...2 or 3 only hung around for a month or so...wheelin', dealin' etc...

[odo]

7 now I just have 4

[handen]

I've been playing for three or four years and have nine guitars, six electrics and three acoustics.

[GASSER]

Since I started playing in 1970, I've owned 18 total (11 electrics, 6 acoustics, 1 bass).

Now I own 9 (8 electric, 1 acoustic).

[Buddy Lembeck]

1st -3/4 size classical (still have it at my dad's house)
2nd - JC Penny Harmony with one pickup (got it from next door neighbor for washing her car when I was 10 or 11..long gone)
3rd - Sears stratesque guitar (sold it to pay for another guitar)
4th - Yamaha cg-10 classical (traded)
5th - Peavey Pacer (Mom got mad that I bought it and made me take it back...but dammit it was mine for about 48 hours)
6th - Hohner Acoustic (given to me by my Godmother - still have it at dad's house)
7th - Ovation Celebrity Deluxe (traded)
8th - Ovation Celebrity Deluxe (traded)
9th - Some Takamine A/E (traded)
10th - Hondo Les Paul copy (traded)
11th - Squire Stratocaster (traded)
12th - Alvarez Yairi DY77N (my baby...used to record almost everything I've ever recorded ...as a side note, my commercial jazz theory instructor barrowed it in college for some session work in Nashville - so that guitar is on some Randy Travis record or something like that)
13th - Yamaha Pacifica 912J (traded)
14th - Rodriguez Classical (traded)
15th - Fender Nashville telecaster (now heavily modded and my other baby)
16th - Fender USA Strat(sold)
17th - Squier Std Telecaster (modded and then traded)
18th - Yamaha Compass A/E (sold to make room for son)
19th - Fender Telecaster all rosewood (traded)
20th - Godin Radiator (Sold to make room for son)
21st - Epiphone Sheriton (Sold to make room for son)
22nd - SquierII std strat (now my sons)
23rd - Fender Telecaster Deluxe (traded)
24th - Fender Highway 1

Quick somebody give me a guitar I need to make it to 25!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ej]

I started on an ancient fender acoustic, lent it too a friend, never saw it or the friend again...

next was my ovation, which i still own, then i got my first electric, i chinese strat knockoff which i upgraded beginning of this summer.

Then i was given a Peavey T20 bass from '84

Then was my ESP F-250, and while i owned that i bought a Fender Showmaster, which i loved but i bought i used and the guy had upgraded to active electronics, and when he sold it to Dave Philips (where i bought it from) he changed it back to the stock pups but not stock wiring. It sounds really weird because of it, so i returned it. Wish i hadnt and just had bought new electronics for it, oh the regrets lol.

Then i sold my F250, was given an Ibanez S470dx, then i sold that and bought my SZ520.

So i've owned (bold ones i still have)
Fender Acoustic
Ovation Celebrity
My (now) Partsocaster
Peavey T20
LTD F250
Fender Showmaster
Ibanez S470
Ibanez SZ520

[fuzztone]

When I was 12 in 1965 I got a Harmony archtop with an electric pickup and later that year a cheapo electric which broke the 1st time I played it.I 1966 I got a Teisco Del Ray which I gave away when I went to college.In 1978 Inspired by The Sex Pistols I bought a Les Paul Custom(copy)but I gave that one away also.In 2004 I found a Crate CR112 amp at a thrift store for $50 and bought a cheap strat copy to go with it. That is when I had the misfortune to discover the band of enablers here at HCEGF. Since then I have bought and sold over 50 guitars Right now I only have 4 of them left but it was fun playing them while I could.

[KoaFreak]

Started playing in '89.

1. '87 Kramer Super Strat style, red with one EMG Select, red, looked like a super low quality version of the Jack Butler guitar from Crossroads but with a old Strat style non locking trem. Cost $200, quality reminded me of $20.

2. '85 Gibson V, black---500T/PAF

3. '90 Charvel 375 Deluxe

Side note: First 4-track in 1991, followed by bass and drum machine.

4. '91 Charvel 475 Deluxe

5. '94 Carvin DC127 all koa, tung oil finish

6. '91 Gibson '76 Reissue Explorer w/Dirty Fingers

7. '90 Ibanez Universe UV7BK

Bought the UV7 in 1994, didn't buy another guitar for 9 years, the Carvin C780!

8. '03 Carvin C780

9. '04 Fender Tele

10. '05 B.C. Rich Eagle

11. '04? PRS Custom 22

[GreaserMatt]

Hofner strat, red w/ white p/g
arbor stiletto (headless) bass, black (ick!)
fender copy no-name pawn shop bass, red
ibanez explorer copy
mim fender tele, white
gibson sg, cherry
'88 gibson les paul custom, black
vantage sg style bass, wood tone
80's washburn "stage" bass, white
80's kramer striker 700 st bass, black (modded)
70's hagstrom 3 strat, black
'74 rickenbacker 4001 bass, wood tone
90's fender j body/70's fender p neck (frankenbass)
fender california special p/j bass, black w/ gold p/g
XS jazz bass, blue
80's fender mij p bass, black w/ white p/g
80's fender mij jazz bass, black w/ white p/g
90's fernandes surf guitar, green w/ perloid p/g
70's matao strat, black w/ white p/g

...thats all I can think of for now! Matt

[Holy War]

too many. I have my 5 now, 1 on the way, and I plan on buying 2 more, then I am done

[jacobhf]

1. Squire strat - baltic blue
2. Fernandes native x - blue sparkle
3. Fender tom delonge - surf green
4. Fender nashville tele - C.A. Red
5. Fender comp. Mustang - L.P. Blue
6. Gibson explorer - ebony
7. Fender 72 custom tele - black
8. Gibson Standard SG - ebony
9. Esp/ltd hybrid 400 - black
10. Gibson Standard SG - classic white
11. Fender 52ri tele - butterscotch blonde
12. Fender 69 thinline tele - natural
13. Fender TC-90 - white
14. Fender custom shop nos esquire - white
15. Epiphone casino - natural

I'm not sure, there was probabley some here or there. But hey! Not too bad for 7 years.

[myway]

I would say about twenty.

[clay sails]

Been playing off and on for 17 years.

 

4 acoustics, unknown brands.

 

9 basses: Fender deluxe jazz, Fender P-bass, 2 Ibanezes, Ric clone, Galveston 5 string, Yamaha fretless, Squier Vintage Modified...currently have only a good, cheap Yamaha

 

11 electrics:

Sebring electric [vanished into the ether]

Peavey Series-10 [gave away]

LP Studio [sold for peanuts ]

California Series strat [traded]

PRS Santana SE [gave away...then took it back!]

Musicman SUB1 [traded]

Fender Highway 1 strat [traded]

Fender Fotoflame Strat [still have...but trying to trade]

Yamaha Pacifica [traded]

LP no-name copy [gave away]

Squier II strat [still have]