Naming Guitars...

olafgarten

drippycat said:

To the OP, could you possibly un delete the joke? I'm curious & I don't mind being offended in the comfort and privacy of my own home.

I didn't see the joke but going from the previous comments it was something about Mary Spender, most likely some sort of innuendo. 

darthed1981

olafgarten said:

drippycat said:

To the OP, could you possibly un delete the joke? I'm curious & I don't mind being offended in the comfort and privacy of my own home.

I didn't see the joke but going from the previous comments it was something about Mary Spender, most likely some sort of innuendo. 

Yup, I'm like a walking carry on film I'm afraid

pintspiller

Like my cars, I think I named the first few. And ran out of inspiration after

sgosden

Naming a guitar or car for the hells sake of it seems quite self involved. Like giving yourself a nickname when you introduced to new people.

It needs to either be earned or be part of a need. Like if you're a big touring artist, playing in 3 tunings with a back up, on the same style guitar. Even then from a lot of rig rundowns they seem to get an 'A' or 'B' name.

That being said my first car was named 'pleb' by my dad, due to the number plate ending PLB, and the fact that it was a beat up piece of shit.

proggy

pintspiller said:

Like my cars, I think I named the first few. And ran out of inspiration after

I named my car Bonnie Tyler, because every now and then it falls apart.

Twinfan

I think some folk are taking this waaaaaaay too seriously - it's just a bit of fun to name things 

guitars4you

proggy said:

pintspiller said:

Like my cars, I think I named the first few. And ran out of inspiration after

I named my car Bonnie Tyler, because every now and then it falls apart.

thought you were going to say that you got lost in France

proggy

guitars4you said:

proggy said:

pintspiller said:

Like my cars, I think I named the first few. And ran out of inspiration after

I named my car Bonnie Tyler, because every now and then it falls apart.

thought you were going to say that you got lost in France

That was on my motorbike.

axisus

Curiously, my guitars named me. I'm the Master. Mrs A is the screaming banshee.

AlexC

Notice how everyone's avoiding the other 'man toy' that we name. Or do we have to 'earn the right' to do that too? Ha!

57Deluxe

Er- like NO!  - I don't even think of my car as a him or her...

DaevidJ

I don't particularly understand this concept of earning the right to name your main guitars as I am happy in naming mine once I have had them for a time, and have gigged with them. Oddly enough the car has no name, not do any other of my musical instruments. I can understand though that some do not see the need to name their "weapon"  

crunchman

I'm not into naming things - not even animals.  I normally just refer to our cat as Cat.

axisus

Actually, all the guitars that I build have names - Angel, Chi Rho, Mateus so far

I need reference names for the folder of computer files (there's usually a lot!) and numbers don't work. Guitar build 1 was only half mine, so guitar 2 was first really, guitar 3 got abandoned, guitar 4 I think of as guitar 2, guitar 3 failed but parts are going onto the original guitar 1 so that is either 1 or 4 now. 

DLM

When we do this old chestnut, someone's already normally mentioned @Clarky by now:

"I have 6 "stage guitars" - all named after the deadly sins. The current babe that yields the greatest shwing is Avarice - 7-string Morgan Custom."

aord43

AlexC said:

Funnily enough I named my guitars about a month ago. This is partly because I have 2 Pacificas, so saying 'hand me the Pacifica, please' didn't work any more. My names are very unoriginal - 
Natural Wood Pacifica - Woody
Silver Pacifica - Silver
Squier Bullet - Bullet
Danelectro - Dan
Epiphone LP Standard  - The 45. (Because it cost me £45 at an auction)
It's just a useful way of defining what's what really, rather than some romantic notion. I haven't even started on the acoustics.

What's wrong with the first column?  "Hand me the Silver Pacifica"!

Handsome_Chris

DLM said:

When we do this old chestnut, someone's already normally mentioned @Clarky by now:

"I have 6 "stage guitars" - all named after the deadly sins. The current babe that yields the greatest shwing is Avarice - 7-string Morgan Custom."

Also there are the two Morgan Vs named after the Celt tribes, Ordovices and Silures.

Clarky

Handsome_Chris said:

DLM said:

When we do this old chestnut, someone's already normally mentioned @Clarky by now:

"I have 6 "stage guitars" - all named after the deadly sins. The current babe that yields the greatest shwing is Avarice - 7-string Morgan Custom."

Also there are the two Morgan Vs named after the Celt tribes, Ordovices and Silures.

haaa.. yes.. all my guitars are named.. and they belong to families [Sins, Celts, Sisters]

there's nothing wrong with naming guitars..
it's completely harmless and nothing more than a bit of fun..

I don't see why some folks get all bent out of shape about this..

AlexC

@aord43 I see your point, but I'm impatient. 

Handsome_Chris

Clarky said:

haaa.. yes.. all my guitars are named.. and they belong to families [Sins, Celts, Sisters]

My favourites of your guitars are in the following order, Scissors, Pointer and Seven.