Members nuke_diver Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 You have a guitar, it's old but not expensive. It was giving to you as a gift from someone you respect greatly but has since passed away. It is your one forever guitar due to sentimental reasons. Then you play another guitar that would be used for exactly the same purposes and it is amazing, plays much better and sounds much better than your forever guitar. But you can only have 1. So what do you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members photon9 Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 Keep the sentimental one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elessar [Sly] Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 I'd keep the sentimental one. At the end of the day you will really regret getting rid of it because it has meaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elessar [Sly] Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 I'd keep the sentimental one. At the end of the day you will really regret getting rid of it because it has meaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knotty Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 Go with what you want. Your departed friend/relative would want you to be happy. You will never forget them anyway, guitar or no guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PrawnHeed Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 Replace it. It's a thing. Things happen to things. They break, get stolen, spontaneously combust, ... Attach your sentiments to your memories of the person that gave it to you, not the thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chad Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 I know you stipulated, "only one", but I'd say to ditch that requirement, keep the sentimental one, and save money to buy the other one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MahaloVision Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 First thing I'd do is a proper setup on the sentimental guitar, then look for minor mods to help with playability. Then again, I'm cheap and can do this myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 I dont accept the premice that you can only have one guitar. One woman, yes, one guitar no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jerry_L Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 Why can you only have one? Work on relaxing that limitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nuke_diver Posted November 30, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 I dont accept the premice that you can only have one guitar. One woman, yes, one guitar no. Hypothetically what if your one woman said you could only have one guitar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mistersully Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 Hypothetically what if your one woman said you could only have one guitar i'd tell her my guitar said i can have two women it's a tricky one mate... but to be honest i see no logic behind only having one guitar if one was a gift... you have no money invested in it so that would be my justification (if i needed one) for getting the one i want as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chad Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 Show her this flowchart: http://www.guitarsquid.com/Latest/flow-chart-do-you-have-too-many-guitars.html?idevd=812738A2D57911E0862495D84824019B&idevm=f9fd8d7165774d77a8afd105142f5b68&idevmid=374196 If that doesn't work, it's time to hypothetically think about a new woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tedmich Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 play the one you like? The dead have no feelings, by definition...did he want you to stick with inferior things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bsman Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 Show her this flowchart: http://www.guitarsquid.com/Latest/flow-chart-do-you-have-too-many-guitars.html?idevd=812738A2D57911E0862495D84824019B&idevm=f9fd8d7165774d77a8afd105142f5b68&idevmid=374196 If that doesn't work, it's time to hypothetically think about a new woman. According to this, I definitely have too many! I have a sneaking suspicion that this flowchart was written by a wife!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chad Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 According to this, I definitely have too many! I have a sneaking suspicion that this flowchart was written by a wife!!!! Look closer. The chances of reaching the "you have too many guitars" part at the bottom is next to impossible. This HAD to be put together by a man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Patuney Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 Why would anyone here have only one guitar? I don't even understand that concept? Who is this joker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JTEES4 Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 It really depends on who the dead person is...you said someone I respected....well respect is one thing and I'd probably sell the guitar. If it was my Mom/Dad or other person who actually loved me, I'd keep the sentimental one for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 Easy. Keep it. If you needed another, a decent guitar can had so cheaply these days. If the one you have is playing that poorly it probably just needs some TLC. A fret dress/polish, maybe a level, and a full setup can do wonders for just about any guitar unless it has serious issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cratz2 Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 On the off change that I was physically limited to carrying only one guitar with me on a permanent move/flight, I'd keep the sentimental guitar... then I'd buy whatever I wanted once I landed. If I was being literally dropped off on a desert island where there are no music stores and no internet, I'd take whatever guitar I thought would give me the most joy. Other than those two scenarios, I don't understand the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guitar Heel Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 Even though I'm overly sentimental most of the time, I suggest that you get the one you want. IMO, that would in no way mean anything other than you want a different guitar. As an example, my Dad has a handful of guitars. When he passes, there's one I'll keep and never sell, because that's the one I associate with him, but all the rest I'll help Mom sell to help her, financially. I know he doesn't have an issue with that at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor Morbius Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 Unless a person's finances won't allow it or unless they are young and live with controlling parents who make the rules, there is no reason to have just a single guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mnhhngbfs Posted November 30, 2011 Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 take the pickups out of the new guitar and put 'em in the old one, give the old one a set up afterwards than kick the new one to the curb. easy decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted December 1, 2011 Members Share Posted December 1, 2011 i'd tell her my guitar said i can have two women This. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Flatspotter Posted December 1, 2011 Members Share Posted December 1, 2011 I'd take money I made from the well-paying job I got by paying attention in school and buy another guitar in addition to keeping the first one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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