All the guitars you've ever owned

[plopswagon]

Rob

[Thomas]

That is gorgeous!!

[Rox]

Hmmmmmmmm.....
Year was 1993..
1980s Dean Z Strat . Black with chrome guard HSS , white fretboard .
1980s Epiphone Flying V Korina
1980s Charvel Dinky HSS Active MIJ (wish I still had)
Got out of guitars from 1996-2006
2006-2016
Squier VM Tele Deluxe
(2) Squier 51s
Squier Mike Dirnt bass
Fender Toronado black and tort
Fender Mustang 69ri vintage white
Fender Mustang bass vintage white
Gretsch 5120 orange
Eastwood HI Flyer burst
Eastwood HI Flyer bass burst
Schecter Corsair Porl (I guess Pearl now)Thompson
Alden Quadrastar
Schecter Ultracure
Schecter RS1000
Schecter Ultra 2006 white
Fender Jaguar Special black
Gibson SG Special TV Yellow
Epiphone ET270 red
Fender Stratocaster Billy Corgan vintage white nitro
Fender Jaguar MG62 Daphne blue
Rutters Telemaster vintage white
Fender Mustang Cobain Placid blue w/race stripe
Fender Mustang MG69 blue w/ stripe
Fender Mustang MG73 Fiesta w/stripe
Yamaha EGV103 red
Yamaha SGV300 red
Yamaha SGV800 black
Yamaha rs502 billet green
Yamaha rs820cr rusty rat

[benecol]

Reposted from here, which was a great thread.

Edit: holy moses, this is a long, dull post. Go out and do something less boring instead.

Ooh, good thread Mr Lamp. I was inspired to play the guitar by the twin pillars of watching Hendrix at Monterey, and the episode of The Wonder Years where they form a band (and I swear it's a Jazzmaster his dad gives him). So, my first guitar was a red Marlin Sidewinder (terrible strat copy) that I bought off a friend for £60, plus the loan of his Little Giant amp, soon to be replaced by one of those terrible Gorilla amps from my mum's Kays catalogue. The Christmas gift of a Frontline distortion pedal sealed my future financial fate. Had real trouble getting the strat to sound how I wanted (JAMC and Pixies were favourites at the time) so I used to jack the pickups right up so they were almost touching the strings.

Promptly flogged all the above to my little brother (who didn't really want it) in order to buy a Fender Bullet, ProCo Rat, Pearl Fender twin copy and a WEM vertical 4x10 that a local metaller was selling in the paper for £120. I have detailed at length in the past how I sold this stuff for stupidly low money, but just to open an old wound, I sold the amp and the cab to my mate Jon to raise the £115 necessary to buy a Park G10R practice amp from Tandy. Ho-lee fuck.

Throughout all this, I wasn't happy with my singlecoil noises, and never gelled with the Bullet at all. Our frame of reference then (turn of the 90's), guitar-wise, was pretty fucked: no internet, so had to rely on guitar shop knowledge, pics and posters of bands we liked, and The Guitar Handbook; now, ace as this book is, at the time it was still the 70's edition floating around, so "current" thinking was humbuckers are best, guitars must be heavy as fuck, and preferably have a brass nut because sustain is all. I set my cap at a 335 - almost bought a beautiful white Epi Sheraton, but they refused me credit as I was a student. Instead, I traded the Bullet in for an Antoria 330 copy, with bolt on B+B maple neck, no centre block (so it fed back like fuck), and a useless switchomatic, BB King style. I loved it, and wished I still had it.

However, in the neverending search for a guitar that would make me good at the guitar, I traded this in for my Cimar tele custom (customs were rare as hen's teeth in the UK back then), a guitar I still have. Lost interest in playing much for a few years when I realised how much easier it was to mix records.

Then I played a Burns Marquee in 2000, and my guitar-love was re-ignited. Really good guitar, wish I knew then how to set up a trem, I might have kept it. Also discovered eBay around this time, and while sat messing around at work, bought a MIJ tele '69 thinline. It was lovely, and went some way to satisfying the Spiriualized wannabe within me. Still, my buy and sell cravings couldn't be quelled: I swapped the Marquee for a DeArmond 335-style bass, then sold the thinline and the bass together on eBAy.

With this money, I then made my most ill-considered gear purchase EVER. A brand new Epiphone Elitist 335 Dot. Totally fell for the guitar mag hype. Paid £750 a fortnight before Coda started selling them off for £399. Oof. Had always wanted a 335, but was disappointed by the reality of having one. Back to eBAy we go. Then followed, in pretty quick succession, the awful Tele Deluxe, a MIJ 52 tele (amazing!), then bought the Jaguar I'd always wanted! It was lovely, shortscale, ice blue metallic made in America, had to sell it just before Benecol Jr was born. Also secretly wished it was a Jazzmaster. Sorry.

Bought an Eastwood Johnny Ramone Hi Flyer that was so shit I sent it straight back, then a Tokai SG. This was an ace guitar, too; HEEEEUGE neck, which I learned from the tele I like a lot, and had always fancied an SG - they strike me as the guitar that the evil robot in The Black Hole would play:



realised I was never going to be satisfied 'til I bought a JAzzmaster, so sold my SG and bought a strat. A 60's classic player. Was fooled into thinking it had a big neck, which it didn't, and just hated the trem as compared to a Jag. Sold it quick, and bought a Danelectro Longhorn and an Edwards LP Jr (nice big neck again). Now Benecolette was on her way, and I realised if I didn't buy the Jazzmaster now, I'd never have any money ever, so sold everything and bought my Jazzmaster, and lived happily ever after.

So, to precis, lessons learned:
1) I like Jazzmasters.
2) I've made some bad gear decisions.
3) Fuck I've had a lot of guitars.
4) I used to think humbuckers were better.
5) This whole affair would have been cheaper for me to build a time machine, travel back to 1959, and buy a Jazzmaster.

ANOTHER EDIT: I'd like a Samick 335 with a resonator cone (just wasn't keen) and my current Dano baritone to be taken into consideration as well please.

... just to update further, I'd like an additional Danelectro (Prog's old one, now gone) and another Tokai SG to be taken into consideration, m'lud.

Been avoiding this thread, mainly because after re-reading it after the necro-bump, I've realised that my old-man-memory is starting to fade, and I'm slightly alarmed that I can't remember all of the guitars I've had the last few years. But here goes. I'll put in bold the ones I've still got, regular type assumes they've been flipped along the way. So for a start, I still have my...

• - Surf Green AVRI JAzzmaster
  - Tokai Springy Sound (which I SO REGRET SELLING).
  - Mosrite Bass copy
  - Gordon Smith GS1.5
  - Tele Thinline baritone homebrew
  - 73 Walnut Mustang
  - MJT Tele build
  - Edwards 335
  - Tokai SG jr
  - MJT strat build
  - Gibson Firebird V
  - Tokai LP Jr. doublecut
  - Gibson SG Classic (another WHY DID I SELL THIS?)
  - Squier Bass VI

[BearBoy]

- Squier Bass VI

Did you offload this? I've watched in mild dismay as the price of these has shot up whilst I sat on my hands umming and ahhing about getting one. Think I might just be (finally) about to the pull the trigger though as I've got a friend coming over from the US at Christmas and so can get my hands on some Circle K/Kalium baritone strings without paying £400 P&P.

[benecol]

Last thing I flogged old son. It went towards a lovely bicycle.

[stewart]

chronologically:

2002 gretsch syncromatic
1978 fender musicmaster
1982 fender bullet
1976 fender mustang
'70s top twenty/teisco abomination
1962 silvertone 1448
1978 fender musicmaster bass
1964 fender duo-sonic II
1967 hagstrom II
1972 fender mustang
'60s framus strato deluxe
1967 fender coronado II

apart from the two in bold these are all gone ^

have since added:

Squier Classic Vibe P Bass
1966 Fender Jaguar
1983/4 Yamaha SG200
Fender Baja Telecaster
Squier VM Bass VI
Squier VM Jaguar
Danelectro baritone (the 1449 style)
'90s Epiphone SG (freebie from a friend who moved to Australia).

also a shoutout to the two (early 50s + 1966) duo-sonic projects i started but have never finished because i can't be bothered painting them.

[taylornutt]

Acoustics
Airline Jumbo Flat 7032 (Harmony through Montgomery Ward) - First guitar....recently "stole" back from my dad --needs a neck reset but not worth the money.
Fender Acoustic Sunburst (Brother is borrowing)
2000 Blue Taylor 614ce - (My favorite guitar of all time)
2001 Taylor 315ce Jumbo (sold)
2001 Baby Taylor (Rosewood)
Black Washburn acoustic/electric (sold to friend)-actually my wife's guitar

Electrics
Paul Reed Smith Black McCarty Standard
Peavey Black strat copy (friend loaned to me in college)
2008 Jagmaster Sunburst (upgrade to Fender Dragster pups) (sold)
2002 Candy Apple Red Jagmaster Custom
2008 Squier Duo Sonic

Bolded the guitars I still own above. Amazing amount of turnover in the last 7 years.

Fender MusicMaster
Fender Jaguar HH
Fender Compstang
Fender American Jaguar
J. Mascis Jazzmaster (purple Sparkle)
Daphne Blue Telecaster (complete scratch build with Baja Tele electronics)
1972 Red Bronco
Mustang Project Guitar
1967 Fender Coronado II

Jazzmaster Project (unfinished)

[Mo Law-ka]

Can't believe that 18-year old Mo didn't do this in '09.
Here's the current list:
Squier Strat (red/flames/blue/white)
Squier Strat (red)
Squier P-bass (black/blue)
Squier Bass VI (sunburst)
Fender dreadnought acoustic (natural)
Fender '72 Tele Custom (sunburst)
TR set-neck custom (natural)
Godin 5th Avenue (sunburst)
No-name Japanese bass (sunburst)
Self-made (with Robert_og) Bronco (comp. black)
Self-made (with Robert_og) hollow Strat w/ Jazzmaster trem (sonic blue)
Xaviere offset Tele (sunburst)
Galiano nylon string acoustic (natural)
Kala baritone uke (natural)
Rogue soprano uke (natural)
Goldtone banjo uke (natural)
No-name Irish tenor banjo (natural)
Gretsch 5-string banjo (natural)
No-name violin (natural)
No-name oval hole mandolin (natural)
No-name oval hole mandolin (natural)
Fender A-style mandolin (sunburst)
Self-made (with Robert_og and Cooterfinger) Mandocaster (unfinished)
Oscar Schmidt autoharp (sunburst)

Sold/gone:
Magnatone Typhoon (sunburst)
Squier SG-thing (black)
Harmony archtop (sunburst)

[Mike]

UPDATE

[quote="2009 Mike"]In order:

1xSquier Stratocaster (now JD's)
1xHondo Les Paul (now Shad's)
1xEpiphone Riviera (ebay)
1xSquier Jazz Bass (now Sell Crazy J's)
1xSimon & Patrick Acoustic (half broken, at folks place)
1xFender MIJ Jag-Stang (ebay)
1xFender CIJ Jazzmaster (ebay)
1xJim Harley SG (now Donk's via James)
1xFender '72 Telecaster Deluxe (now NickD's)
1xFreshman Electro-Acoustic (-present)
1xFender Classic Player Baja Telecaster (now Progrockabuse's)
1xNoName Flying V (now BacchusPaul's)
1xFender CIJ '65 RI Mustang (ebay)
1xRobert(original) Duo-Sonic II Custom (-present)
1xFender MIM Classic Player Jaguar (-present)
1xSquier Classic Vibe P-Bass (-present)
1xSquier Classic Vibe Duo Sonic (-present -incoming)
1x1966 Fender Jaguar (-present) /quote]

OK, so this never arrived as we had some issue with mickie getting them:
1xSquier Classic Vibe Duo Sonic (-present -incoming)


This was sold:
1xFender MIM Classic Player Jaguar shortly after I got the old Jaguar. I think to NickD? Can't remember. Was years ago

Since then I've bought:

Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar (surf green)
1972 Fender Competition Mustang (blue) - from Stewart

which I still own.

The Jaguars and Mustang, and my bass are in my office, while the acoustic is in the sitting room.

the DuoSonic is hank's guitar.

[NickS]

Is this thread still going?

1970: '60s Eko Cobra 1 pu, rosewood/3-colour sunburst, cracked neck = unplayable
1970: '60s Unknown Japanese 1 pu mahogany solid thing, mahogany/black.
1971: '60s Höfner ? solid, left for refret with friend who then moved house & left it behind
1973: '73 Fender Stratocaster, rosewood/3-colour sunburst/trem
1976: '69 Fender Swinger, rosewood/CAR, stripped & sealed
1977: '60s Baldwin/Burns Double Six 12-string electric, rosewood/black
2000: '00 Gibson Flying V LE, rosewood, dark cherry
2006: '06 Tanglewood TW28NS acoustic, added piezo pickup
2008: '08 "Texas" Chinese J-bass, rosewood/cream
2008: '08 Fender USA Standard Stratocaster, maple/Sienna sunburst/trem
2009: '70s Hondo II Les Paul ex NickD, rosewood/natural, non-original pickups.

2011: No-name mini strat ex The Burbz, rosewood/sunburst
2012: Fender MP Marauder, rosewood/blue
2014: '00 Squier Strat, rosewood/black (really my son's but he's thrown it out...)
2016: Epiphone EB0 bass, rosewood/cherry

[singlepup]

In chronological order... not that many if you consider I've been playing for 23 years.

Oscar Schmidt Acoustic
Fender Standard Stratocaster 1994 MIM
Washburn Lyon Series Bass 1990s
Gibson Les Paul Standard 2003
Ibanez unknown "shredder style"
Fender Musicmaster 1976
Fender Victor Bailey Signature Acoustic-Electric Bass
Unknown classical guitar
Fender Musicmaster Bass 1978
Kay unknown rebuilt 3/4 guitar 1950s
Fender Jaguar 62 AVRI
Squier VM Jaguar 2012
Squier VM Jazzmaster 2012
Tokai SX series 1980s MIJ
Dillion Ric 325 copy
Fender Jag-Stang 2002
Squier Jagmaster Vista Series 1996
Epiphone Les Paul Studio MIK