Are you satisfied with the guitars you have or still searching?

The reflex to look is still there, but quite honestly I have more guitars and availability of sounds than I need. I've become a bit infatuated with Telecasters lately, perhaps reverting to my first passion. I have 3, all partscasters but have a hankering to build another. I wish I had kept my first Tele, a blonde early 70s. I'm pretty meat and potatoes with guitar lust. For me a Tele, Strat, Les Paul and 335 is what should hang from my wall.

I am very happy with the guitars I have. I definitely have way more than I need at this point but that doesn't stop the GAS pains. I have at least one of each of most of the common guitars and manufacturers, but don't have a baritone or any Gretsch models. I wouldn't mind adding to my acoustic selection but I have 4 already so I don't really NEED one. I don't have anything with P90's on it and would like to scratch that itch. I would also like a pedal steel but that's another learning curve and expense I don't need.

I forgot.  I don't have a PRS either.

At last count I had 17 guitars. They are stashed all over the house in closets and under beds. I used to consider myself a recording guitarist so I needed to have access to a bunch of different sounds. I don't do that much recording anymore but still do occasionally and it's nice to be able just got get whatever I need and use it on a track. I just have to remember where I put it. I play most of them on rotation. I play one until the strings are dead then put it away and go get a different one and do the same. Once every two or three years I spend all day cleaning, restringing, and adjusting guitars to get them all back up to recording condition. It's that time again and I'm not looking forward to it. The last two that had good strings on them are out now and they need attention.

At least my amp selection is manageable. 2 combo amps and 4 small cabinets. No more stacks for me.  The Ox Box has many different IR speaker cabinet emulations so I can get close enough to that sound for me.  Then there's the Eleven Rack modeler.  It has far more amp and cabinet combination possibilities than I will ever use.

Oh what the hell, I'm sitting here and am bored. I have:

Epiphone ES-335 Pro (rarely play, neck way too skinny)
Yamaha parlor acoustic
Mary Kaye type Strat partscaster
Highly modified Jazz Bass
Harley Benton 51 style P bass
Tele thinline partscaster
Greenburst Strat partscaster
2 TSB Strat partscaster (my fave)
50s Trib Goldtop LP w/P90s
Danelectro 12 string
Highly modified Squire Strat strung B-B for pseudo baritone
Strat partscaster with 2 HB's and Warmoth Gibson scale 3+3 headstock
Gretsch 5420 in Caddy green
Relic partscaster Tele now sorta/kinda configd as a 66 replica
Sonic Blue Strat partscaster strung half step down
Tele partscaster with Catalpa body done in shellac and flamed roasted maple neck
Martin D17M acoustic

Somewhere in the closet is a cheap mandolin and lap steel
Amps are:

Early 80's Princeton Reverb II with a Emi Legend G128 that I got from a cool guy here😎
Fender Pro Jr that I modified with a new transformer and GWS Veteran
VHT Special 6 head
Egnater cab that I loaded with a Celestion Blue

Plus a pedalboard with a ton of pedals I almost never use.

If I had the motivation I'd off all the amps and cab and get a Vintage Sound 15.

I concur with Leftee

I have somewhere over a dozen. I play two with regularity (95% or more of my playing time), and then another 2 that get 3% or so, and the other dozen get < 2%)

I have three basses, I only really play my Bass VI any more (99.9% of the time)

When I got my "perfect for me" 2016 Les Paul HP (With the wide fretboard and Axcess joint and all sorts of non-vintage appointments), I loved it so much I got a second as expensive as it was.

Since then I've only bought a LP Jr DC (a bucket list guitar that came in a bucketlist color, a happy dark blue) - but haven't bought another in...almost seven years.

I look at new ones occasionally, but go "why?"

Mostly it's recording gear and occasional effects boxes these days.

SRV strat, Gibson ThePaul II, Aria Pro II TA60 (335 copy), 1966 Harmony BobKat.

Gibson J35, Martin Backpacker, Yamaha 12-string (A/E)

Gretsch short-scale bass.  Am I missing a dobro?  Maybe....

I always told myself that when my fingers no longer cooperated due to age and arthritis I would learn to play pedal steel. I could sell 2 or 3 guitars and buy a real nice pedal steel. I have a couple lap steels but am not all that inspired to learn how to play them well. If I need them for something I can muster a track together but I am by no means good on them. I am much better at slide guitar having done that occasionally my whole life.

Yes, acoustic-electric. I think I would have to have a small body like the Gibson Blues King but I've never played one and I don't have the dough right now.

And now I must add...thinking about searching for a strat. I've had several in the past but only bonded with an 83 American toploader many years ago. It is long since gone.
I'm mainly a Tele player and I love my Vintera II Nocaster Tele. I'm wondering if I would like a Vintera II Strat...50's, 60's or 70's. Too many choices.

Ditto the hardtail Strat recommendation. I’ve a couple and they are my faves.

Yes, very satisfied.

In 1963 we were putting a band together and our guitar player had this nice sunburst 345 Gibson. I picked it up and strummed a couple of chords on it and thought it had the greatest neck (for my hands) of any guitar I’d played. A few weeks later he showed up with a new cherry finished 345 and said he had traded the old one in.

Move ahead to around 1988 and I’m playing a Holiday Inn gig and a customer starts telling me about this guitar he owns and, by his description, I recognize it to be that sunburst 345. He was a salesman at a local car dealer and, a few weeks later, I was buying a pickup truck with him as my sales person and he offers to sell the guitar to me. After owning a couple of 335’s, always looking for the neck of that original Gibson, there was no way I could pass up owning the guitar that started me on my quest.

I’ve owned this 1959 ES345 ever since.

With the following;

One ash-body, maple-neck Stratocaster

One ash-body, maple-neck Telecaster

One ES-335 clone (Yamaha SA2200)

One sunburst 2014 Gibson Les Paul Traditional

One Gibson SG Classic with P-90’s

One Gretsch 6120 Brian Setzer Smoke

And a mid-depth bowl electric-acoustic Ovation Balladeer

These pretty much cover what I like.

Since I’ve been afflicted with Dupuytren's contracture it’s been lap steel for me, electric and resonator along with instruments with GDAE tuning and a capo - chords only.

Once treated I’ll be happy to play any of my guitars - 11 in cases in cupboards/closets. No need to replace any of them.

Also looking forward to playing my violins and play tunes on the GDAE instruments.

I envy anyone who can play the most basic cowboy chords at the moment - ring finger is permanently at a 90 degree angle.

Enjoy your guitars.

Very Satisfied! I have more than I really need. I have been through so many in the last 5 years that I have sold. Kept the ones that mean something to me. I no longer even look. Don’t want the temptation if that were even posible.

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