Playing Your Collection - Use It Or Lose It

After 30 years of telling my wife I really need this guitar it's the last one I'll ever buy....38 guitars later I think she's catching on to me! Hoping everyone has the best day ever! Keep making music!

It’s lose, not loose😄👊

The conversation twists toward the end are way better than the guitar talk!

My friend buys guitars one after another. He obsesses over them for weeks then buys it and plays it once then starts looking again. He said to him it’s like buying paintings he loves looking at them. I don’t care I go to his all the time and play his guitars for him. I have promoted him to the position of my…. best friend 🎸 👍🏻

I obsess over this too. I have 11 guitars and 5 amps. I feel everything should get played and gigged. I keep a detailed rotation log documenting every time I take a guitar to a rehearsal or a gig (I don’t document when I pick them up at home). I also document every string change/setup and amp tube change. If I notice something isn’t being played often enough, I consider selling it off. I love the variety and practically limitless combinations of guitar/amp permutations.

Lose not loose

I topped out at 3 amps and 3 guitars at once, and no matter what, I always had a favorite. Clearly a number 1 guitar that would only get subbed out when I was too lazy to change a broken string. Amps were a closer call, but even then it was switching between two and having a clear 3rd wheel. Now I’m happily a one-amp-one-guitar guy; we’ll see how long that lasts.

I have 15 guitars and I do some "cycling rotation" so I can play them all😄, Use them and not lose them. For example this week I'm playing my Suhr Modern only, next week my Fender Custom Shop, 3rd week the Gibson Les Paul 1959, 4th Week Ibanez Jem, 5th Week ESP Kirk signature and so on and so forth.....If you have a collection, you should USE and Play them all instead of gathering dust. Even for just 1 hour a day, you will get to know your instrument more.👌💯

I have about 20 guitars and I have them all hung or in stands in my man cave. I worked very hard to acquire them so they are always on display and I play at least one a day.

One of the best things I ever did was to install a guitar wall hanger in the half bathroom. The acoustics. The silence. Serenity now.

I love the smell of guitars when you open the case have since i was a teen would walk miles to a music store own thirty guitars amps seem to come and go have owned many over the years i'm 65 hope to buy many more ! Peace out later,!😊😊😊😊😊❤

I’m really proud of the fact that I play all the guitars all the time! What helps, most of all is they’re all* out so I can grab them easily, and then second that I play different ones in different situations. I’ve got my best acoustic, a cutaway, upstairs in my work from home office so I’m playing that all the time - quick little break, or watching lessons or reading a score on my desktop computer. The rest are all* out in a rack so it’s easy to pick the one that suits my inspiration. One is a bass, for bass things; I got a 12-string for certain songs; my first ever guitar, an acoustic, is for when I want an acoustic sound; and then I have a semi-hollow body which I prefer for songs with bluesy solos and a telecaster which I prefer for strummy or biting songs. For me I just have one good amp and one cheap one I keep for the bass or if a second player visited. I would love to upgrade that second one, get a proper bass amp, and then buy three others just for the beauty of them, but I haven’t. Cost is a factor but the bigger one is space - I live in a duplex so can’t crank them up and don’t have the room to have a bunch of amps out. A third factor is I always played on an acoustic until quite recently so I am more used to doing without amps and pedals - they aren’t as much a factor in my sound, at least not yet. I’m still just trying to play the right notes! Okay last of all, the * is because actually my tele now lives in its case because I bring it to lessons. Being in the case, it doesn’t get played as much at home, but I do play it every week at the lesson. And there’s my little novel for you all!

You guys are crazy! And I love it...never stop!

I remember the good old days, but I only had a couple guitars. I could keep track of when I change the strings and had the main one I used for gigs and one for back up now too many guitars can’t remember when I change the strings which one I used in the last gig. But it sure is fun having so many guitars

I remember when I could first unhook those snaps with one hand.

12.5 guitars and counting (one is an in-process project build lol) and 1 amp. My Genz Benz El Diablo combo gives me the gain I want and solid cleans, so I don't really need another amp. I could see adding a smaller Fender amp like a Princeton, but more focused on finishing up any upgrades and that project build and then a pedal board build.

I'm down to about 6 amps, 21 guitars and 3 pedal boards. But my stuff now are mostly custom shops and high end amp. I swore off balsa wood import guitars and solid state amps. Except for a Katana😂 Ymmv...but i'm kind of a gear snob now. I do rotate and play them all.

It's such a cool thing is Music, specially when you get to a point of learning by listening, though the stringed instrument is a gift from the Gods!!!.....every guitar is different and every player is unique!!!...:face-blue-smiling:🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

20 guitars, a bass, and 6 amps, 1 6space boat in the family room....I have no GAS for the first time in a LONG time, but like was mentioned in the vid, I rotate thru ALL of them, and enjoy the uniqueness of all of them, thru any/all amp/pedal configurations. Usually rotate 6 guitars out per week. Amps a couple times a month, I even have 2 different boards built for clean and dirty amps. It's a sickness, but I'm at my limit space-wise. The toy box is FULL! 😇 (for now)...... no brand loyalty, just tone and playability loyalty......

For electric, 4 amps and 4 guitars - 2 low watt for home use, two higher wattage for stage, what I have can cover all the flavors I need, a Vox, a Marshall, a Fender Brown face style custom build and an Orange. Guitars the same deal, a single coil, a humbucker, a P90 and a hollow body. I keep them out on stands at home and can grab one quick all the time. If a guitar would stay in it's case in a closet for more than a week, I would just sell it. I never looked at them as a collection - they are tools and a good craftsman always has his tools at hand.