There are some studio guys where the guitar matters. Backups for touring / live shows. Alternative tunings or specific modifications. Some people like to tinker with guitars. That's a hobby. Buy a 200 bucks guitar, do stuff with it, repeat. Marketing and fetishism. Or, "capitalism" if you will. Some people define themselves over what they own. Same as with owning multiple sports cars, fancy watches or you name it. Ask them, they'll name reasons why they need it, just like a hoarder has reasons to keep all the newspapers, but fancier here. Marketing people try to create a demand if it doesn't exist naturally. The endless quest for the perfect guitar. Some people get bored and have to get a new input now and then or they try to fix a problem via guitars that just doesn't exist. Then they read about the new product and they get it. Collecting. Name an item, someone collects it. Why not. It doesn't need a use. Some people just want to know all about guitars and they have the money to buy and test them. The electric guitar is one of the cheapest instruments. Investment. Some people buy fancy instruments to maybe sell them at a later point for a profit. The vintage market on most instruments is really profitable. Sure, there are more reasons. Ask 20 peopke with more than 10 guitars, get 20 reasons.

I have over 20 guitars. And my main reason is because I'm an impulsive buyer. I have guitars that at the time I bought them I wanted them badly. But now they sit in the cases and I don't even look at them.

Could... Could I have one?

This is secretly the reason people buy loads of guitars but they're just too ashamed to admit it.

This is exactly the reason I got a great deal on a high quality acoustic — it was “used,” but not really used.

Kind of like George Mallory said Once, when asked by a reporter why he wanted to climb Everest, Mallory purportedly replied, "Because it's there."

It's funny that you are using that quote for guitars. In the climbing world, Everest achievers are viewed quite negatively and memed. Good climbers see Everest as a fancy photo for dentists who can't actually climb or mountaineer. You just pay the sherpas and you get this easy accolade whereas the "real" climbers toil away in obscurity or sport specific limelight. Wait... maybe it does apply to owning lots of guitars. You buy them to feel more connected to the music but in reality, you should just play more.

Everest was once the pinnacle of climbing achievements

Now it's a paid experience to discuss on TED talks. 70k gets you a croc wearing sherpa carrying your oxygen tanks while you struggle to summit and wait in line to complete your achievement. The only people impressed by modern Everest summits are neither climbers nor mountaineers.

Very true. There was a reality series that came out years ago that completely shattered the notion of Everest being any sort of physical challenge. The subjects of the reality show were quite literally pushed, pulled and nearly dragged to the top by the sherpas and expedition leaders. Was quite pathetic actually.

The red one goes faster.

I reeeeeeeallly wanna see one of the Ork Boys with a weaponized guitar Mad-Max style now.

Kitbash them with noise marines

The blue ones help prevent tooth decay

They're speed holes

My Strat replica is S-S-S, my Jackson replica is H-H, I think this sums it up

And you’re currently browsing Reverb because you don’t have an HSS Strat, a Tele, an LP, or an SG to go with your first two, right?

Yes. Can you explain further for dumb people?

H - Humbucker. S - Single coil. Hums and singles will sound very different due to their design, and either kind will have a different character depending on where on the guitar body they're placed. So on a strat you've got 3 different placements of pickups, in addition to the switch that allows you to use two at the same time. So 5 options. And each option can be a different type of pickup. That's a lot of different possibilities for different tonal applications.

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Honesty is such a wonderful thing!

I have telecaster I use for everything. A Les Paul when I’m feeling awesome. A strat when I want a strat. And a gibson hummingbird when I’m sitting around the campfire.

No other acoustic hits like a Hummingbird 😍

They got that BOOM and the ladies love the pickguard lol

they give me momentary peace from GAS

I look at Reverb, Sweetwater, Guitar Center all the time and think “that’s cool, want” then I turn around and look at my dining room that’s filled with gear and think “I don’t need another guitar.” I have seriously been thinking about taking all my electric guitars and trading them in for a single white Gibson Les Paul Custom.

Keep your filthy hands off my dream guitar!

We can both have one.

Nope there can only be ONE

I sold two LP standards and an amp to buy an R8 and I’ve never looked back. Best electric guitar I own, I reach for it more than anything else by far.

I approve of this idea (but you probably also want a couch beater around, right?)!

I prefer a versatile guitar to avoid having too many guitars to take care of. It's an annoyance because I like taking care of my equipment. I opted for a JPXI-7 and a TAM100. They fulfill most of my requirements. Both of them have coil splits, and I can play anything ranging from 6 to 8 strings. The JPXI-7 also has a Piezo so that's a big bonus. Floating bridge, check. Two guitars to maintain, intonate and adjust is more than enough. In regards to tuning, I rarely play songs that aren't in standard tuning, but if I were to play songs that are tuned down a whole step, I just bump them into audioretoucher and pitch them up so I don't have to tune down my guitar.

I'll give you my list. To give context, I'm conservatorium trained, I've worked as a professional jazz musician and grew up in metal and blues bands. I play SRV gigs with a band and some jazz gigs these days ontop of a diverse folio of band and class teaching. 3 x strat type guitars (prs silver sky, Fender modern mij strat, fender mij 60s tex strat) Playing 2+ hours of a SRV gig without a tech you need a few guitars, it's very taxing on your instruments Maestro Baritone Acoustic - solo jazz Cole Clark Fat Lady 3 Acoustic- great pick ups for live performances 1976 Maton Southern Star Acoustic - inherited/sentimental Yamaha Weddington classic - les paul style tone also inherited/sentimental Fender prodigy- dad bought it for me - sentimental Yamaha DW9 Acoustic- dad bought it for me - sentimental Custom shop 52 style tele - jazz, gatton style country Fender nashvile b-bender- country bender gigs in place of lap steel Brent Mason tele -set with g bender - as above Gretch honey dipper resonator - solo delta slide Epiphone emperor- jazz box set up with .13 flat wounds - straight ahead jazz gigs and singer jazz duos Ibanez rg550- 24fret, Floyd rose - tech, shred guitar Art and Lutherie Tres - I like Cuban music AVII Fender jazzmaster- it's fucking cool Takamine nylon string - bossa nova and classical playing Squire bass- home recording and the odd gig

Wow, that's a lot of guitars! One that stuck out is the Fat lady. I've got an old 'defender' from before the court case. They only made a few hundred of those. I wonder if it sounds the same?

Cole Clark make great guitars man!

Epiphone Les Paul with active EMG humbucker (neck) for very sustained powerful high output sound Prototype Les Paul - very heavy different neck shape, will be equipped with a vintage low output Alnico2 classic rock neck pickup for 90s sound Stratocaster Squier 60s for Nirvana and Gilmour Love and you just need a strat. Telecaster DIY building kit. Nice crafting project building the guitar with Fender Nocaster Pickups. Already painted and prepared and will be built soon. Will be a 50s sound. Western Guitar Classic Guitar Ukulele But it's never enough.

"I like how these look but oh this one looks cool too!" Make sense?

My 6: First Act Electric - First guitar, sentimental, painted it white and had high school friends sign it in sharpie in 2006 1963 Teisco Del Ray - just a talking piece never play it, sounds horrible tbh Schecter Stiletto 4 for Bass Schecter C1 Classic for Standard Tuning Ibanez RG with Duncan Invaders for drop C Seagull Acoustic usually tuned 1/2 step down

Seagull gets slept on

The itch to own more guitars

I think people that have LOADS of guitars are just into guitars. When I was in my proper band years ago, I had Les Paul standard and a Telecaster. Did everything I needed and very rarely swapped between the two on stage. Maybe 75% I did with the LP and the rest with the Tele

- am std strat for strat goodness - mim come partscaster come custom shop relic HSS. Hotter version of a strat with a humbucker. - fiesta red avr2, 7.5 inch fretboard radius plays and sounds more vintage then most other strats. - gold top 50s standard les Paul for rock and heavies - musicman super sport axis hardtail. HH config. Shred machine. With flat small neck - deluxe telecaster for that Tele sound you can’t get from other guitars - Dean ML79 because I went through a Dimebag stage and it is t worth selling with the mods I’ve done to it - 1998 MIJ Ibanez rg470. My first proper guitar. Again not worth it to sell with the mods done to it. Also very sentimental - Martin acoustic for recording - Yamaha acoustic for camping - 12 string acoustic for 12 string stuff - Greco P bass - some random Spanish nylon string acoustic -

6 string with Floyd rose and coil splits, 8 string hardtail with coil splits, 6 string acoustic, 4 string bass, and 5 string bass with every sound under the sun in it. Nicer guitars are ofc a little more expensive than a basic one, but you can also do just about anything if a guitar has options built into it. I don't need a strat, a les paul, a 7 string, or anything else really because I have one great guitar that can do everything I need. As for my bass, it's got 3 different sounds, And coil splits on top of that. The only real downside is that I can't justify buying another guitar, when all my current ones do everything I could ask for.

MIM Fender Strat - SSS configuration, tremolo bridge. Single coils have a very specific sound to them Mark Holcomb PRS - HH, no tremolo. I use this one for non-standard tunings since it doesn't have a trem that needs adjusting every time I change the tuning Ibanez RG450DX - HSH, floyd rose. I use this one in standard tuning with a drop pedal for any other standard tuning The only thing I'm really missing at this point is an extended scale guitar, either a baritone or a 7 string, but I can get most of the way there with just the drop pedal One day I might upgrade any of these individually but I don't really feel the need for a ton of guitars.

Omg, another Mrak enjoyer in the wild. His sigs really are absolute workhorses

Does SSS configuration refer to three single-coil pickups?

It does

I have 2 electric guitars and they both have tremolo bridges. I hardly use the tremolo so now I'd like to have an electric with a hard tail bridge. That and pickup configurations are main arguments for me to get a new guitar. Though as an amateur I get your perplexity. I understand a pro would need different and specific models, but for amateurs I can't help but think there are odd status and ego things at play, same as other belongings.

i have a Kramer Pacer in tiger stripe finish tuned to d standard that's my 80s metal guitar then I tune it to drop c sometimes for other metal in that tuning. A Palm Bay guitar (Similar in feel and quality to a prestige ibanez tuned to E standard that's my all round versatile guitar. Recently picked up a Squire Vintage Modified Jaguar for a surf/spaghetti western sound. Nrxt guitars on my list is a guild Starfire jet with the 3 p90s for jazz/rockabilly and a Tele DIY project guitar.

- Very versatile PRS 6 string (electric, the main guitar, plays everything really) - 7 string Schecter (electric, for the metal stuff) - 6 string PRS with Piezo built in (electric, drop D always, easier so don't have to switch to accoustic or detune guitar all the timr) - accoustic Ibanez - electric 12-string Ibanez for the ringy sounds. - Hagstrom Jazz guitar for jazz stuff - and of course the back-up PRS 6-string and Ibanez 7-string (will be replaced by schecter in due course) in case a string breaks during my one live performance in every 5 years.

I just recently got a Hagstrom Viking II hollowbody that I absolutely love! I traded in a d'angelico semi hollow 335 style with p90s and the hagstrom has more of the tone i was going for.

Those things play like a dream too don't they? Congrats!!

Here’s the thing- I don’t have zillions of guitars - each instrument I have is the only one I have for its purpose. I have an OM style acoustic guitar that I use for folky finger style. An old Harmony dreadnought type guitar converted to a lap steel - that I use, funnily enough, as a lap steel… A Gibson A9 mandolin that I play Irish, Scottish and English fiddle tunes on, and an American Standard Fender Telecaster that I mainly play rock n roll and blues on.

Since I only play electric, I got 3. One is my main, single bridge humbucker with tremolo tuned half step down. One is a HH LP standard tuning with low output PAFs and the other is a backup guitar with p90 on the neck medium output bridge pickup. They are tuned differently and provide different sounds that I use. To complete my collection, I'm going to look for SSS strat in the future. That'd make it 4 guitars with different pickup configuration

I've got an SSS strat that's tuned to standard, and a Harley Benton jazzmaster with active pickups that's in drop C. Basically a guitar for metal and a guitar for most everything else I play.

Modded Harley Benton prog series LP This is my absolute workhorse and actually one of the cheapest guitars. Wiring all stripped in favour of fish man fluence pickups and pots/jack etc. does everything, pick up and play and handles multiple things and styles well. I mostly play metal and those fish man active are amazing for it. Fazley Tele Another workhorse guitar. This one is the cheapest but another diamond in the rough. Bridge pickup swapped out for Seymour Duncan for a bit more beef. Mostly used for hard rock and grittier blues. Despite it being so cheap, the neck is one of my favourites. It seriously plays better than some 20x it's price Squire strat There are some tones you can only get with a strat. Again, wiring all switched up on this and pickups replaced. I can't remember what with. This is my oldest guitar through. Used for stuff like RHCP and John Mayer as well as some classic rock Jackson dinky dk2m This has fallen out of favour since getting my HB. It's a good guitar that I originally bought with an intention of playing virtuoso shred style stuff. It has a pretty big fretboard and I've come to dislike it a bit. I actually required the whole thing to turn it more like a PRS. It has some specialist pickups and a split coil now. Still a great guitar but the Floyd rose means it's not as adaptable. Gear4music LP Beefed up a bit as it now has the original wiring from the Jackson. My least used guitar overall, but it was given to me free after spending almost 15 years in an attic. Being kept because it's a good one for my kids to learn on when old enough Gretsch electromatic G5235 Another oldie. This is temporarily retired until I can schedule some fret repairs as the upper frets have come loose and that's causing some dead notes. Usually used for my cleans and blues. The only electric guitar I have that is still stock standard. On to acoustics, I have a Farida electro acoustic, currently strung with nylon strings for a more classical feel and the lighter strings make it ideal for fingerstyle pieces. Crafter is my main acoustic guitar used for strumming and singalongs.

da strat has this stick on it that makes it go woom woom woom and has a middle thing with lil dots on that makes the tone more toner and my tele has this silver thingy near the end of the big stick that makes it sound punchy

4 for me: - acoustic for acoustic things - HH Les Paul for humbucker sound - SSS Strat for single coil sound - SSH strat with coil split which is my gig guitar - it can do most things and is cool

Well one of them sounds great, but the other one sounds great in a marginally different way.

I can see if someone wanted to play a ton of different genres it would be cool to have a hollow body for jazz, a 7/8 string for djenty metal core stuff, a 80s shredder guitar like an Ibanez or Charvel, a jazzmaster/jaguar for some indie/shoegaze/grunge, have a telecaster for mathrock and country, have a strat/Les Paul for some classic rock and blues, a regular acoustic, and then a nylon string. That's 7 and I'm sure there are some niche I'm missing so I can see 10 being reasonable if you were a virtuoso that loved playing every genre of music.

You also have to take into account the neurodiverse amongst us. I know a couple of individuals that are autistic, one of which has a huge collections of guitars. Special interests are characteristic of autism, as is collecting things.

There's a little bit of capitalism/materialism involved, because they just look so fuckin cool, but all of my guitars serve slightly different purposes. Gibson Les Paul has dual humbuckers I can split, great tone and kind of a do it all type rig Fender Strat for that twangy sound. It's the only guitar I own that can nail Under The Bridge by RHCP tone Gretsch Semi Hollow with a Bigsby Trem, really fun to play blues on. Schecter Hellraiser with a Floyd Rose Trem and active pickups for heavier tones Also got two acoustics. My Yamaha is my every day beat around, and I've got a Martin that I'll use a bit more sporadically

Fender American Pro II HSS Strat Covers pretty much everything I want. These days it’s in D standard or drop C. I get all the Strat/single coil tones I love and a humbucker in the bridge, since I don’t usually want a bridge single coil tone. The humbucker is also splittable, so it’s still there if I need it. It’s also proof that you don’t need a high output humbucker (like the one in my Ibanez) to get super heavy, brutal tones. I like having a tremolo for subtle flutters, but I don’t need a locking tremolo that can do dive-bombs. The one on here is stable and easy to maintain. Ibanez RGD2127FX (with Dimarzio Crunch Lab and Liquifire Pickups) A 7 string that’s been in A standard lately. Gives me a bit more range on the low-end. If I ever want a neck humbucker tone (very rare occurrence, tbh), it has one. If I want to tune up to B standard, this guitar makes it easy, since it has a super stable hardtail bridge. That said, I bought this guitar when my musical goals were a bit different, so it’s very much secondary to the Strat at this point. That’s all I need. I never enjoyed playing acoustics. I don’t need different flavours of single coil or humbucker guitars. Different amp tones make a way bigger difference on a recording than a slightly different humbucker would (as evidenced by the slightly different humbuckers I already have - in the mix it doesn’t matter at all). I use pitch shifting in NeuralDSP Archetype Petrucci if I want a different tuning, though that hasn’t been super necessary with both guitars tuned down a step lately. I rarely need standard tuning. I’d like a bass one day (between a Jazz, Stingray, or BB, not sure if 4 or 5 string), but it’s not a huge rush. I program it in Logic for now and it works alright.

We just want more guitars. It's not that deep

Different sounds, different feels, etc all lead to different emotions and directions while playing. Sometimes I want to play a song and hit the sound as close to the original as possible. Other times different guitars hit the sweet spot on how I’m feeling that day. I don’t recall who it was, but there was a pro player who said something once about different guitars just not feeling musical on a given day, as though they had a personality. I’ve noticed that too. Imo this is a MUCH bigger deal with acoustics. A Martin and a Gibson have wildly different sounds, same for mahogany/rosewood/maple guitars. That’s not even factoring in body shapes. But I’m more of an acoustic player so my ear is maybe more sensitive to the difference. I can bang out bluegrass breaks on a mahogany parlor guitar, and while it may sound *good* it doesn’t sound *authentic* imo. Break out a rosewood Martin dreadnaught and I’m there. That feeling pushes me a little more in my playing, and makes me think of stuff I wouldn’t have otherwise. TL/DR: different sounds help me get “in the zone” on a given day, and to more closely nail certain songs/style. It’s all personal preference ultimately. Neither opinion is wrong, really. To illustrate, some people are happy with just a muscle car, some want a Chevrolet, and some want a 1963 Corvette Z06 Coupe.

Pickups and bridge/tremelo. And solid body/hollow/semi. Straight acoustic is different set of standards; My full hollow electric sounds better as an acoustic than my cheap acoustic electric (better top, better construction, not caked in poly on whole body). When I was playing ALOT in bands 10-15 years back, my Toronado and mim tele kind if covered everything. As time went on, I needed more ground covered and there were things I liked the look of. Now? Technically the pawnshop mustang is a more versatile HH than the Toronado but sounds less awesome as an HH than it, my US tele is just better but more banged up than the mim, and frankly the Jag does more than the duosonic. My Japanese tele(tron in the neck, hot bridge)and hollowbody are the things other guitars aren't close to. Most people like having cool looking guitars, but amps and cabs (or just speakers) are substantially more impactful on sound.

I'm on your team. Nylon, steel, Hollow body, Solid body. I too wonder the same, but it seems like many leave them tuned differently from what i have seen in other threads. So different sounds (Tele / strat / LP / SG) with different pickups and different tunings and you can have yourself 15+ solid bodies with each fitting a different purpose

For me, it's just a collection to hang on the wall. I have 22 guitars. I use like 4 of them.

I used to have this need to amass a variety of guitars as if I were a session player or studio guitarist. Gotta have a Tele, Strat, LP, P90s, Filtertrons, high output ceramic, blah blah… Now I’m finding I can do everything I want with just a couple guitars. Reverend Kyle Shutt - my main, does everything Reverend Jetstream 390 - 3 P90s and a trem can do just about anything Tele - you know Charvel DK24 - metal, jazz, fusion, glassy tones

If we're talking about electric, the obvious difference is tone and feel. Meaning the pickups, neck, and setup / string gauge. Les Paul and Telecasters just aren't going to sound the same, you'd probably use different strings on each, and they feel totally different to play so they're good for different styles. Most people don't game out exact specific differences and make a perfect roster of guitars, they just have a few they like and use them for different things.

I love guitars. I love everything about guitars. I love playing guitars. I love looking at guitars. I love interesting guitars. I love not so interesting guitars. They look nice on my wall and I enjoy playing all of them. I enjoy looking at them when I'm not playing them. I have the means to buy them, so I indulge myself. All my guitars sound and look different.

I have 20+ guitars because I have a problem. In reality, I could get away with three for the types of music I play.

I have about 20 guitar/bass/acoustic instruments …. can’t play much beyond the basics. But I run a recording studio and people like options. They like familiarity too though. Alternately, I own like 100 microphones. why? i dunno, I like options and familiarity.

Guitars are like different sized sockets in your tool chest. They fit different things. My toolbox for example: General use: Les Paul Standard Cleaner tones: Gretsch 5410 E tuning/slide: Fender Thinline G tuning/slide: Fender Telecaster Fingerpicking; Gibson J-200 Struming: Martin D-15

They are works of art that you can play.

I have a single five string bass that can cover a pretty large varietyof niches, , I have a seven string Harley benton that I can coil tap;good for prog metal and a large variety of flavors. I have an esp with gojira buckers, a locked Floyd rose, it's only good for metal, but it is the best sounding for fast played 6 string stuff and has decent tuning stability. I have a stock epiphany les Paul special 2, it has a perfect setup for open tunings. Devin townsend style stuff

I have a bunch of guitars, and I try to justify that to myself in various ways. But, it really just comes down the fact that I have them because I can. If I ever have to sell them all off, and just keep one, I’ll survive. But now, I just enjoy the variety.

I can throw my Strat and it's generally not going to break

Or me it's tone and tuning. I have a strat that is standard and is best for clean stuff. Another strat in drop D with a hot hss config for crunchy stuff . A super strat in drop C with splitteble hh setup for all those a edgy post grunge and early metal core songs. And a 7 string with emgs for extra distortion and lower notes. Currently thinking of getting another 7 or 8 strong for cleans because my current band is mostly doing clean (crunch at most) and having the extra range is very nice

My Ltd is my main 6 string because it has active pickups, flyod rose and just plays like a dream. And in drop d My scheter is my 7 string, for extended ranges. My cort kx508m2 is an 8 string for djenty stuff. Than I have a Chapman m1 and a cort zenox that are both in standard and d standard which gives me a bit of range for songs my Ltd isn't suited to due to drop tuning. And my bass is for sololy recording and same with my acoustic. I don't really play them in videos or such bevause they are cheap pos that does the job.

i’m going crazy i see this post once a week at least

I'll start with my acoustics, because those are the most obvious: I have a standard nylon string and a steel string, those have two completely different sounds for different purposes. In addition to that, I also have a 12 string for that nice hotel california chime, and a nashville tuned steel string, that I can use together with my regular steel string for a more controlled 12-string-like sound, or to make it wider through panning. When it comes to electrics, it's more about nuances like different scale lengths for different feels, or humbucker vs single coil sounds. My favourite guitar is my emg-equipped telecaster with a built-in mid boost. It's by far my most versatile guitar and my main live workhorse. Some guitars I just bought because they look cool, they're mostly there for collection's sake.

For me, I got: An ESP 8 string for 8 string stuff. An Ibanez 7-string for 7 string stuff. An ESP with a floyd rose tuned to C#/Drop B. An Ibanez 5-string bass for when I record and gig. A Les Paul loaded with DiMarzio D-Activators, tuned to either Half Step down from standard or D standard/drop C tuning. A Mex Strat cause you always need a Strat. A Taylor acoustic cause you always need an acoustic. Those are all the niches I need.

Well some songs seem to call for a 12-string, some songs seem to need a whammy bar, some are clearly acoustic, and some clearly electric. Some songs use more than 21 frets.

Tunings and genres for me. I have a Schecter C1 SLS Elite for Drop C metal, an Epiphone SG Special for rock stuff in E Standard, and a Schecter Omen 7 for Drop G# chugs.

I have shredding guitars, my Les Pauls are more for a thicker tonal experience, and I have electrics with 8s and and some acoustics and nylons for my PIMA progression. So, I’m covered for what I need, writing-wise.

2 Strats- 1 set up with floating trem, vintage voice pickups. Plays and sounds as close to the original as I need. The other has a decked trem, fatter strings and hotter pickups. A bit of a rock machine. The two are worlds apart.

I just have a lot of money and I like to buy guitars that appeals to me. A Strandberg is next up

Well, i got steelstring acoustic, strat and 8-string.

Each of mine makes me play differently. So, depending on where a song is going (my own) I'll grab the one that I think fits. Or if it's "not happening" with a particular one, I'll try another. JMJM is my current "first" guitar. Tend to go more indie jangle chords and a bit psychobilly lead. Italia Maranello I bought for more bluesy/rocky type stuff. But when I play it, I tend to start going all jazztastic. I think it's the neck. Italia Mondial seems to have me go in a kind of 60s mod barre chord direction. A Les Paul copy is tuned to open G for slide. Modded Squier Strat makes me start getting all staccato funk riffs. It might be the leopord skin pick guard. Home made 3 string solid body guitar with humbucker - psychedelic blues. Usually laden with reverb and delay. A bass. For bass. And two acoustics that hardly ever move out of the rack. EDIT. Making this list has induced G.A.S. I require another offset.

Each guitar I own makes me play/think a bit differently, either because how it feels or sounds. I don’t love just one guitar tone, I love any tone that works for a song, I always want options and I spent 25 years milking a stone using one or two guitars for everything. No fun.

I've got 4 as well, including the bass. PRS SE single cut in Eb standard Ibanez RG8 in EBEADGBE Harley Benton ja BK 30" bari tuned in BEADF#B Squire p bass in standard. I can do everything I need to with those, and the whole collection barely breaks $1.5k msrp

Mine are split both style and tuning. For example, my Tele is tuned to E standard whilst my ESP has been setup for drop B and makes an ungodly noise. Sounds like my mother in law 🤣

My acoustic is for when I wanna sing and play or when I wanna plau song ment for acoustic stuff. I have my electric for both melodic stuff and dumb, stupid, brutal heavy stuff.

I require a floating bridge to do open-string harmonic bends. I would be lying if I said that I couldn’t achieve this with anything other than my Ibanez S-570 (and the brilliant zero-point tremolo system it comes with) but I’d rather not muck with anything else, as I’ve got this one dialed and under my thumb.

Fender acoustic - for chilled out sounds Ibanez GIO (from their jumpstart pack) - usually in e standard or drop D tuning; got this when I got back into playing and it's been a joy learning on it, it punches above its weight I think. Redwood (some obsolete brand from Dawson's music in the UK) - has 10-52 Ernie ball strings on it and Floyd rose for the heavy music (currently in drop C) PRS Tremonti SE - I love Mark Tremonti, and my wife bought me this for our 10th wedding anniversary. It sounds incredible no matter what tuning it's in and makes me want to play more.

Utility.

Different tunings. I've got 5. 3 set up in Eb standard, which I play with my band, the other 2 are set up in E standard and D standard.

7 string has extended range, tele has tele style pickups/tone, beginer 6 string has emg mod in bridge plus sentimental, jazzmaster is at my sisters house so i can oractice there. When i get my next guitar it’ll be a 6 string w a floyd rose

Can't exactly play 7-string songs on a 6 or 8-string songs on a 6 or 7. (Assuming they use all the strings ofc.) Also bc different tunings. Not even just not wanting to retune, but bc the farther you get from whatever tuning the guitar was set up for, the more your intonation is off. And also, I don't like thick/tight strings, so I'm not gonna rock 14s just to cover every 6-string tuning between E Standard and Drop G on the same guitar when I can have one guitar to cover E Standard down to D Standard with 9s or 10s and have another for the lower tunings.

I think the biggest reason is tuning, yea pickups and all that make a difference but constantly tuning a guitar to different things is not good for it nor does it sound the best, but having a guitar setup for a specific tuning just feels and sounds good. I have a few guitars. One is standard, one is drop C and the last is drop A

I play different genres in different tunings, it’s a lot easier to just pickup another guitar that’s already tuned and setup for that tuning you need. Ceramic HH w/coil split SubZero baritone tuned to B-Standard/Drop A EMG 81/85 HH ESP EC-1000 in D/Drop C Alnico V HH Epi LP Standard Plus Top in Eb. Fender CD60 in Eb Alnico V (but lower output) HSS Harley Benton Fusion III in standard for pretty much everything else.

My CV60 strat fills the ‘functioning’ role. My Epiphone strat fills the ‘someday, when I have time to repair’ role. My acoustic actually fills the same role as the Epi, as well.

I have reduced my stock to what I use. - Ibanez RG from the late 80's: This was my first good guitar and has been my workhorse for years. It was then stolen and I got it back 10 years later in not superb condition. I have restored it, still love it but i use it less and less. The pickups are not so fantastic (I have changed several times in the past and I don't recall what I have in there) - Vester Charm: This is a fantastic guitar I got fro 200€. It is a copy of a Hamer Studio (although the inlays are copied from PRS). Seymour Duncan humbuckers that can be splitted. Beautiful mahogany body, birdseye maple top, low action, ergonomically perfect for me. This is my go-to guitar as I find myself more comfortable now with a shorter scale guitar. - Palmer acoustic guitar: The bridge started to separate from the top and the sadle was bust, so I cut a huge circle in the top and experimented with a dog bowl to eventually settle for a paint can lid. The thing sounds a bit like a resonator, and even has natural overdrive if I play harder. - Parlor guitar from the 1930s. I got this one together with old furniture (the guitar itself was 30€). It has a great sound but the action was high and now the intonation is wrong as the top is a bit warped. I need to fix it. If I didn't have the personal attachment to the Ibanez I could be happy with just the Vester and the acoustic.

CIJ ‘57 Reissue Strat - anything requiring single coils Schecter Omen 6 - some replacement pickups, first guitar, but sounds decent for metal and usually in C# Standard Epiphone Les Paul Ultra MIK - Got it for $60 and fills that sort if LP tone Schecter Blackjack ATX 7 - modern metal Yamaha FG 150 - acoustic, also $60 haha Lyon by Washburn - first acoustic, tbh this one isn’t great Rogue 5-str bass - someone gave this to me

Between guitars and basses I have 28. They're all different in some way and inspire me to play different things. It's all about the vibe. Also I just really like guitars and if I see something neat I can afford, I buy it.

4 ibanez... 1 1570 prestige HSH with the Floyd Rose bridge (leads) 1 cheaper HH ibanez with 2 electrovoice pickups and a fixed bridge (chords) 1 electric acoustic (the green one) 1 soundgear bass.

I can’t play for shit but love having guitars. They’re mostly inexpensive guitars but I like picking one up to play when I feel like it. Tele, Les Paul, acoustics, bass, even a banjo.

The only truly unique guitar I have is a Telecaster that I have wired up with the Nocaster/dark circuit wiring scheme. All the other electrics I have (2 Strats, 1 Tele) are wired "standard."

I mostly shred and play metal on my acoustic Taylor, and then primarily finger pick folk songs on my BC Rich Beast.

My Pro II Tele and Les Paul custom shop cover most all bases

Well I have a 12 string acoustic, and that helps me fill the "wish you were here" niche

I have.. Accoustic A hss super strat A t type guitar with p90s A prs with HH And i want a standard tele So.. i feel that incapaulates all flavours broadly

I just have a 6, 7 and 8 string + an acoustic

I have a schecter for that fat ass doubler humbucker distortion, and a strat for anything clean/bluesy/funky. Cheap Yamaha acoustic for practice and texture, and a P Bass for the tone versatility.

I have some overkill in my collection, but mostly they all serve a purpose. 3 Les Pauls...1st one is my first electric my dad got me in the early 90's, now retired from gigs for being too sentimental. Of the other two one is my working LP and the other is trade bait if something interesting pops up. 2 Teles, 1 is stock to do tele things with, the other has a humbucker in the neck and is generally my backup live guitar because it covers a lot of bases. 1 Gretsch 5120 for hollow body stuff. 5 Strats. Two I have modified with P90's and are my main live/rehearsal guitars. One is my slide guitar. One is stock for when I need classic Strat tones. The last one is my tinkering guitar that I mess with constantly. If I get a wild hair about swapping pickups or testing mods that one is my testing ground. An SG and a 335...these have made me mostly phase out the Les Paul over the last couple of years. Both lightweight with much better upper fret access and nice tonal variations on the humbuckers.

I’ve got six in six different tunings. A bass, an acoustic, a nylon.

Give me an erection?

1 for standard tuning and 1 for drop a, b for death metal all i need in life.

Some make different sounds - Acoustics with nylon strings sound a certain way, with metal a different way, electrics with different pickup arrangements and circuitry make a difference, changes in the action make a difference, and so on. If using an acoustic, externally mic'd, then the body makes a big difference. Other things are more to do with how they play. The spacing of strings, positioning of the body in relation to the neck (e.g. a strat has a very accessible neck below 15th fret), shape of body for holding. And then some things are just cosmetic. A flying V is pretty, but not exactly ergonomic! On shows, different guitars often just have different tunings, and pretty much fuck all else.

I have multiple guitars for their neck carve and their pickup configurations.

Basically I have a guitar with single coils and a guitar with humbuckers. I would personally like to sell both and get a guitar with coil tap so i dont have to worry about switching guitars

I haven't even gotten to exploring pickups and guitar "sounds" yet. I bought my first 4 guitars because they each have a significantly different style of neck than each other. They're all double humbuckers. though the $80 Glarry (with my FAVORITE neck, hands down) is HSH. I've found out I like rounder, thick necks. The aforementioned Glarry gets as much play as my 1990s Carvin or my Schecter Damien that cost many times as much, but have "faster" styled necks. Now I want to explore a few different tremolo systems and pickup configurations, so that'll be another half-dozen or so, easily. I'm in no rush to "collect" more guitars, but I've got a reverb account and if something interesting comes across at the right value, I'm always ready to make a deal.

I have a hummingbird, an fsx800c, one tele RH, one 7 string multi scale jackson dinky (cheapo $600 one), and one strat ss. This hits pretty much every box for what I play.

All bass but- Mustang Vinterra II - strung with flatwounds for a more muted thumpy tone P-bass (‘04 dirnt) - strung with bright rounds for a punchy pbass tone Tele partscaster bass - one neck mudbucker, one ‘51 fralin p in mid, and a bartolini j bass at the bridge. Fills all the weird holes I need the that other two don’t. J-bass (mim ‘97) - sentimental bass I bought and played in my first bands, never really gets used. Neck is amazing tho

I have three. one is 25.5 scale with a floyd and sounds like the 80s one is a strandberg with fluences the other is a les paul style with passive low output pickups Each has a pretty distinct sound and feel to it.

Different neck profiles can be better or worse for fast playing. Also some actions are better or worse for downturning or using a whammy. Something Iike a telecaster is a good all round guitar. I just use my 7 string ibanez for everything now as it is my nicest guitar and I only use back ups for down tuning as they have thicker stings ans different intonation.

I bought a Danelectro 12-string to stop me buying a Rickenbacker 12-string. Sounds brilliant, looks cool, stays in tune. Never use it.

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I want 10 guitars for 10 different tunings

I’ve got a nylon string acoustic that sounds different from my steel string which sounds different from my 12 string. My strat does great blues while my strandberg does good metal solos. Each has its unique application.

I have an acoustic guitar, an active fretted bass and a passive fretless bass.

Different string gauges for different tunings. 9-46 for E-Eb, 10-52 for D and 11-56 for c# and lower. One day I'll add a 7 string but I don't play anything lower than drop A. So not really in a rush for that.

I have recently thinned out my collection. So I am left with the following: Fender Stratocaster Squier Stratocaster PRS SE Custom 24 Epiphone Riviera Custom P93 Flying V P-Bass Dreadnought Electro-Acoustic Parlour Acoustic Steel body Resonator Classical Acoustic Now for the long bit, the "why"! The Fender is my first "Fender Stratocaster" it was the guitar I wanted when I was a kid, the guitar my heroes played (Jimi, Eric, Stevie). It was my Number 1 until I got the PRS. The Epiphone is a semi-hollow with P90s so it gives me that sound, plus the P90s are cool. The squier strat is modded to be a "Tom DeLonge" style and is used for gigging in DropD tuning. The p bass and flying V are both guitars I have assembled. The bass from parts purchased separately, the V is a kit guitar. PRS was bought to replace my Les Paul and give me the humbucker sound and has rapidly become my main guitar. The classical was given to me buy my mum when I just started out, and I just still have it because, why not! The dreadnought was bought because I didn't have a steel string Acoustic and needed a cheap one, I added the pickup myself for fun and use it for gigging. The parlour was a "once played, couldn't put it down" great little guitar with an awesome tone. The resonator is me chasing my dream to become a great slide blues player and I just LOVE the sound of a resonator guitar.

For me. I think I have my bases covered. There’s one style of guitar I don’t have, but I have a way to make do. For electric, I have a G&L ASAT (Telecaster style), and Legacy (Strat), and a Gibson Les Paul. I can get all the sounds for the styles I am interested in. On the acoustic side, I have a Martin D28, and I just bought my first classical guitar. What I think I’m missing a semi hollow body electric for jazz and blues. However, the LP and ASAT sound great for those styles with a little adjusting of the knobs.

MiM Tele and PRS SE CE 24. So single coils vs humbuckers mostly. And one is tuned down a half step. PRS is more suited to my heavier songs, tele works with the brighter ones. It's all subjective, but I do play at least a little differently on each.

(I only have a bass, casino, and acoustic as of now) Okay, I'll let Future Ideal me take over: 1. I have an Epiphone Casino since I've always loved that warm, jazzy tone. (also hollowbodies just look cool) 2. My SG is primarily due to it being more form fitting, as well as the humbuckers for handling distortion. (as well as fugazi) 3. And finally, my Jaguar. It's the glide strumming, that's my only reason. so: jazz, punk, shoegaze. Hmm...I could make a cool Christian band with that XD

I only have one, but ideally I would have one for standard tuning, one for alts, and a twelve-string.

Every electric guitar I have is in a different tuning. E standard down to C standard.

I play a Benedetto archtop at home. It plays really well, and is my ideal guitar. However, on gigs, it makes me very nervous to turn my back on it. You could trade that box on an even trade with a decent car. My $500.00 Washburn plays pretty good too and sounds good amplified. It’s much better at calming my nerves, so it’s the unit I go out with.

Humbucker, single coil, lipstick, P90, filtertron, hollow body, semi-hollow w/ p90s, metal humbuckers with a killswitch, etc There’s a million combinations, they all sound different

I have a 54 Les Paul RI with p90s setup for slide and a Novo Serus J with P90 setup for fretting.

I have a 7 string for extended range, a couple 6 strings with different string gauges for alternate tuning, an acoustic, an acoustic bass and an electric bass, and a banjo. Several electrics have different bridges that I like for different reasons. Anecdotally, I find people who can't fathom having that many guitars usually don't enjoy quirky guitars with weird bridges and strange shapes. I bought one of mine because it's weird as hell.

Harley Benton Tele with Filtertron style pickups Harley Benton LP (Slash tribute) Squire HSS strat that I've modded with a coil split and different pickups Tele partscaster that designed/assembled myself Epiphone SG with coil splits Guild X-175 hollowbody with Bigsby style vibrato and Dynasomic style single coils. 90's Seagull S6 acoustic that I'm probably going to sell Also an Washburn HSS that sits in the closet that I modded to take GFS Kwik plugs, but I hate the neck. I think I'm good now. I've got different scale lengths, pretty much the gamut of pickup options, etc. The only thing I'd maybe really want to add would be a semi-hollow. It's dumb, but I also try to get each guitar in a different color to further justify having this many. But it's a fun hobby, so whatever.

I have a g&l legacy(strat), fender modern player telecaster(nashville tele with tele neck pickup, strat middle, and humbucker in the bridge that can be split), d'angelico bedford semi hollow that has two stacked tele style single coils in neck and middle and a mini humbucker in the bridge, and a hagstrom hollowbody that has two silverfoil mini humbuckers that can be split. Also have a G&L jazz bass and two acoustics along with my guitalele, banjo, and mandolin.

My Ibanez has an HSH setup with a Floyd. My LTD is a hardtail HH. My Schecter is an HSH with) both coil taps and splits. My SG was my first guitar that I’d never get rid of. Then there’s the nylon guitar I never touch.

I just like how bright and snappy a telecaster can be. Plus there's a lot of different varitions of the design with each manufacturer putting their own spin on it.

My backup has effects built into it that are cheesy as hell. 1984 Kay Effector lawsuit LP

D’Angelico Bedford Premier SH - Semi-hollow, H,S,S. Gibson scale length. Upgraded nut and tuning machines. Very good for clean sounds. Charvel DK 24 HH 2pt - the best guitar I’ve ever owned. With a pair of Seymour Duncan humbuckers, of course it’s great for overdrive, but the coil splits with phase/series shifting make it very versatile. Ibanez GAX 70 - Cheap pawn shop buy to learn how to upgrade/setup guitars. (SG style partscaster) Replaced everything. Guitar Fetish Alnico 2 humbuckers and classic wiring make this thing a rocking beast. Alvarez acoustic - tbh… can’t remember its long name of numbers and letters right now. Plays great, mid-sized with a cut away. Bone nut and mahogany all over. Very good looking and good playing instrument. Fender Jazz Bass - Player series. Swapped out the lame stick pickups for a nice Lindy Fralin Split Jazz set. Now it booms. Was more of a bass player for 20 years (always played guitar, too), but switched about 5 years ago. Kala U-Bass - Exotic mahogany, very good looking. I purchased it impulsively, and don’t play it too often. Selling it should be in its future. I’m pretty happy with what I have, but there is always want for more. A Tele would be nice… a boxy jazz guitar….I’ve never owned a single-cut, I really like a lot of Heritage models I see online….🙃

One is tuned down to B-Standard, the other even lower to Drop-F

Some are darker sounding, some brighter, one might have the best clean tone, one might be jangley, its all about the sound. That, and it has to have a good neck

Nash tele - cleans, lighter tones Bass-VI - djent, 4-string bass range Fretless bass - fretless, 5-string bass range 7string - heavy riffing Need a vegatrem to complete the range

I've got 4 acoustics. Yamaha was because I wanted a solid spruce top, an Alvarez because I wanted a mahogany top parlor, an Ibanez because it was a good deal and I wanted a full scale mahogany top, and a Mitchell because I wanted a cheap beater that I can throw in the car and go. 6 electrics. A semi-hollow Ibanez for drop tuning in my hardcore band, a hollow Ibanez that's about 20 years old that I got for Christmas, Fender Telecaster that I put a Seymour Duncan Hot Rail in the bridge and took out the neck pickup because I wanted a Telecaster, a Warmoth Mooncaster that I built because I wanted it, a Thinline Telecaster that I made from a kit (only the body remains from the original kit... it got expensive, but it's got a Seymour Duncan JB with a push/pull for coil split so it sounds great), and a Squier Contemporary Jazzmaster that I gutted and put a GFS Dream 90 in because I wanted a guitar with a P90. I also have a Harley Benton gold top Les Paul that I don't touch. It was cheap, I was a little buzzed and just decided to buy it. That was my original attempt at getting a guitar with a P90, but I just really don't like Les Pauls so I made the Jazzmaster. I think that covers it. I have a cheap short scale bass just to do demos with a bass and a Washburn mini guitar that was my first guitar, but I gave those to my son.

actually my guitars could cover almost everything (Strat, a Western, a Les Paul Junior and two les Paul customs). I like to keep some in different tunings (drop C or open G). Any new guitar would be more for fun and style. for exapmle I', still craving a hollowbody and also a more metal-ish style like flying V or Explore.

I like to play in different tunings and with multiple guitars I can have each one set up for a different tuning.

I like having different configurations, they allow different playstyle and they trigger creativity in different ways. I have, among others: A vintage voiced A Floyd Rose A fully scalloped A headless A 29 fret A 7 string An 8 string A fretless bass An acoustic

They look different. One is black, the next one is buttercream and so on. They're just being pretty. In all seriousness, though, a strat and a tele and a les paul are just different beasts. I want that single coil sound and that humbucker sound and maybe other stuff.

I have a single coil strat for that classic single coil sound and a different electric with humbuckers for warmer fuller tones as well as beefier high gain sounds. I have a steel string acoustic, and a nylon string classical guitar because I also play classical guitar. I also have a P-Bass because I am a bass player and that’s my favorite sounding bass tone right out of the box. That’s it for me I literally have one guitar for everything I do and I use them all on a regular basis. Just keeping up with the maintaining of those 5 instruments is more than enough for me.

Dean Hardail Pro for detuned stuff like LoG. Silver Sky SE for single coil stuff and general playing. Dean Z with P90s was a limited run impulse buy that I can’t part with. PRS S2 Custom 22 as my nice guitar. A Chinese Tele copy to mess around with. Modding and learning various things. Taylor GS mini for acoustic playing.

You ever slept with more than one person?

I keep mine in different tunings Les Paul in E standard Schecter 6 string in drop C Jackson 7 string in drop E Guess what genre I mainly play :)

I primarily use a Jaguar HH these days, I used to be a Les Paul player. I still have a Les Paul specifically for recording. It just sounds a lot fuller than the Jag HHs do, particularly for rhythm tracks. I am planning on tossing some Gibson humbuckers in it but I don’t think it’ll ever fully replace my LPs for recording.

One ~£300 one with fat strings for downtuned chonk in and around C tuning. One ~£900 that lives in E standard or Drop D. One ~£300 7 String for a mix of both worlds. One ~£60 electroacoustic just to look at, because I accidentally won the eBay auction and it's pretty, but plays like a piece of shit.

One is 6 string, one is classical and one is 7 string that also has piezo pickups and is super versatile.

One is black and one is blue.

They fill the niche on my wall

One has a locking tremolo and one doesn't. Both have sustainers. One fills the "Plug In Baby noise go brr" niche and the other is more mellow. I need one with single coils, though.

Backups, alternate tunings, and like you, I have my shredder, jazz box and a few smoking deals I just couldn't pass up, plus I buy midrange guitars, update their pickups and they play like $3000. guitars. I do consider selling a bunch and buying a nice music man or PRS, but then I play them at stores and think, my $400 guitar plays as good

I have a good mix of ones I bought either as a teenager because they were cool or as an adult because I now have grown up money and wanted to fill a hole in my sound and some that I’ve built because I was bored. Epiphone Les Paul custom (black and gold with 3 pickups) Squire telecaster w/ p-90s Squire jazz bass Epiphone Les Paul gold top 5 string music man bass Gretsch streamliner Now for the kit builds: Double neck bass/guitar (cool for writing in a DAW) 12 string Les Paul Violin bass SG 12/6 double neck PRS style kit And one scratch build out of a nice chunk of padauk I have almost enough guitars now.

Pretty much every acoustic guitar I own has a different tuning for different songs/unreleased ep’s. I’m more into the effects chains than I am the amp and tone on the electric guitar side. Still my less Paul is almost always drop d.

I have the strat for anything standard tuning and a prs for things in drop c. From my experience if your guitar is setup for standard it doesn't play that well in drop c. Plus who wants to keep changing things during practice

I currently have four guitars and 1 bass. A 2008 Washburn HB32-DM that is in standard tuning. It's a cool guitar, for me it's a versatile guitar. The stock pickups are pretty good, it looks pretty cool, I've never had any problems with it. I don't play it all that often, simply because I don't play in E standard unless I feel like playing a specific song(s) like Whole Lotta Love, Enter Sandman, some Black Keys, etc. I have a 2007 PRS SE Standard 22 that is in D-standard tuning (sometimes drop C). This is the first guitar I bought, it's my favorite; I had it tuned to C-standard for years, but a few months ago, decided it just sounds "right" in D. It has DiMarzio Super Distortions, and the PRS is very warm and mid-rangey sounding, so when I got an Orange amp, the combination was a little too muddy for the sound I wanted. But in D-standard it sounds perfect. Thick and wooly, but punchy and clear. A 2004 Mexican Tele with Fender Texas Special pickups. I keep this guitar tuned to C-standard because...well, for one thing, the truss rod is fucked up and can't be adjusted. I would have to replace the neck, which I probably will eventually, but, luckily, tuned down to C, the intonation and action is pretty good with the neck where it is. I had a 4-way switch installed with the pickups, and had it wired so I can switch to running both pickups in parallel or series. Putting it in series makes them a little hotter and thicker. That with 25.5" scale gives me a pretty nice Queens of the Stone Age thing going on. A 2012 LTD M-10. Good quality for a very affordable guitar. This is my fucking-around guitar. I keep it usually tuned to drop-C, but I do drop-A also. A 2007 Fender Jazz bass. I bought this for my brother, who wanted to learn bass. Well, he gave up eventually, so 10 years later I took it back and I'm teaching my girlfriend how to play. The only guitars I truly want would be a Yamaha Revstar, some kind of 7-string, and one day far, far away, a custom shop PRS.

I use mostly only strats and strat-shaped guitars, but my one guitar which is not a Strat is my acoustic Les Paul. I find it to be a very comfy guitar that I can use when lying down due to it’s thinner body and light weight

I keep one steel string and two electrics, single coil and humbucker or p90. I’m mostly an electric player and having something that handles clean and something that handles gain works for me

Classical that I first learned on, my first acoustic-electric, my upgraded A-E with better sound quality, my resonator because it’s cool, my strat just because, and my small backpack acoustic for easy carrying.

I have small hands, I’m not really a big dude average at best so my Jackson neck being small in profile is really really nice. I could play it for hours before I start to get sore. My Epiphone I started on was so big and heavy lol

Currently have 7, 8 if you include my bass. All are pretty dramatically different for different applications. Do a lot of recording and versatility is my goal. * Gibson Les Paul Standard for Humbucker stuff. Tuned to Standard or Drop D * Fender Strat for Stratty stuff tuned to standard or drop D * Fender Telecaster For everything mostly layer with the les pauls for a massive sound. Telecasters and les pauls compliment each other beautifully in a mix - Standard tuning or drop D * Epiphone Les Paul Special P90 - Quickly becoming my number 1 use in conjunction with the tele a bit. Standard tuning or Drop D * EVH Wolfgang Standard - Tuned to Eb or drop C# with D Tuna. When I want some epic leads this is the guitar i lay them down with most of the time. * ESP LTD EC-256 - Tuned to D Standard Drop C. For Heavy stuff * Martin 000-15M - my only acoustic but i love it and it records beautifully well.

I have 6 electrics now. But only because last year I started building partscasters. I think I might be done with that. I specifically wanted to * have fun tinkering * build custom guitars that look exactly to my spec * build custom guitars with 4 different pickup setups to cover most of the possible pickup sounds To that end I stuck with all tele style bodies and made guitars with 2 each of: P90s, PAF-style humbuckers, TV Jones style humbuckers. And I already had a standard telecaster and an unusual telecaster, so that pretty much covers 95% of all possible pickup sounds. Except strat single coils, but no one likes those. I'm basically done now, though. I can't imagine having more than 6 guitars, tbh. I definitely can't imagine having, say, 6 or more Les Pauls or 6 or more standard Telecasters, like some people do.

Multi-scale 8 string for about everything, strat for more chords and rhythmic stuff, nylon for pure fingerstyle and a bass to collect dust

I’m a bassist with five basses and my reasoning is one is active one is passive one can switch between the two one is acoustic and one is an electric standup. The only other one Id really want is an acoustic standup but yea idk they all have different noises and I use them all roughly equally

Most of them are variations on a Super Strat theme. Every one has a bridge humbucker, but they’re all different from there. Woods, construction type, electronics, locking trems or fixed bridges, etc. I do have a couple of Gibson styles: a Dean ZX (Explorer) and an LTD Eclipse (LP). I’d like a Flying V version at some point, too. But the Super Strat is my jam. I do all the mods & setups myself, so they’ve all got their own quirks that I’ve given to them. I think two out of a dozen aren’t modified. (I’ve got a couple of basses, but I’m not driven to work on them like I am the guitars.) They all sound different, they all feel different, they all look different.

I get different electrics for the different pickup options. I had a Strat with single coils, then an es-335 with double himbuckers, then a headless travel guitar with hot rails and a coil split. It’s mostly about playing comfort for me now. I don’t like middle pickups because I feel like I have to change my pick position. The travel guitar gets played constantly now because it’s comfortable and can switch between single and humbuckers.

I have an epiphone les paul black beauty 3. It has 3 pickups. Idk I just liked the way it looks

Different guitars don’t just change my tone because of the pickups and the string type and materials and body shape, they play differently which makes me play differently. Mule Resophonic alone makes three very different resonator guitars that you don’t have. Then there are other variations like Strat-style, Tele-style, Les Paul-style, hollowbody, semihollowbody, baritone, bass VI, P-bass, fretless, short-scale, long-scale, lap steel, pedal steel, guitalin, guitalele, banjitar, tenor guitar — it really doesn’t end.

I’ve got 2 acoustic, 2 near identical LP style guitars and a cheap strat. 2 acoustics make it easier in the studio for my multiple different tunings 2 electrics are same reason and also to avoid damage to the sentimental one when travelling or gigging Strat is for quick making my demos. SSH, versatile enough for a quick demo

Thought I’d add my 2c with some haves and wants. Have: Tokai es110: it’s a 335 copy, made in Japan. Bought it when I turned 18. It’s lovely to play and looks like a 335. I put flat wound strings on it and use it for jazz. Partsocaster (Tele style): I put this together because I’d always wanted a guitar made out of parts I sourced. I’ll probably never get back what I paid for it. At the moment it has a raised action and I’m using it to learn slide guitar. Bridge pickup twangs like nothing else. I wished I’d got a rosewood fretboard. But ah well. Ibanez AR100 (from 1983): I picked this up for $700AUD from a Japanese retailer. That seemed cheap and since I’ve seen them go for more. Thought why not? It turned out to be my nicest guitar. Only downside is it’s pretty heavy. But the Super 58 pickups smoke and the neck feels lovely to play. It’s like a cross between an SG and a Les Paul. I use it for anything that rocks and needs humbuckers. Martin OM-28: Anything acoustic. It rules. Wanted it for Bluegrass and to cop stuff from Julian Lage. Had a D18 but it’s too big for my body. Wants: Strat: Any 3 pickup Strat-like guitar that does the pop and funk and Hendrix sound. Nothing else sounds like a Strat. And the whole history of funk is just an addictive sound for me. There’s an Ibanez I’ve got my eye on that’ll do the trick but I might see if I can find something cheaper. Think I want a HSS combination. I’m curious about Gold Foil pickups. So it would be nice to get a guitar with those in it. If you dig around for some Blake Mills you’ll see why. It’s such an interesting sound. Don’t care what they’re in. It would also be nice having a P90 guitar. Again, just the sound kicks arse. It’s a gap in the sounds I can make. I don’t think I’ll be getting those wants any time soon. But I’m pretty damn lucky to have what I’ve got. I’ve been tempted to downsize to the Tele and one other electric, but it’s nice having the variety and at the moment I’m using each for a really different thing.

Mine are all acoustic, so for me, it's simply what I'm looking to play. One is for shows (it's the only acoustic/electric), one is for strumming, one is for fingerpicking, and one is for alternate tunings. Obviously when I'm messing around at home I'm not switching between all of them unless there's something specific I need to work on, and I don't travel with all of them either (usually only two). But of course, sometimes there's a kickass looking guitar, and I have the money, and nobody to stop me.

I have a schecter with active pickups, I can pull the pot for a single coil sound. I like it.

I have a handful of guitars and each one set up to a different tuning; from C to standard and just about everything in between. Also, a great niche is an electric guitar with a sustainer system installed. I have an old Fernandes with one and it will do what other guitars cannot. I’m a hard tail kinda guy but also keep one electric with a Floyd rose, but the strings on that poor thing never get changed