Does anyone stick to just one type of guitar?

SNAKEBITE

Mainly Strats, but anything Fender normally does it (I have a Tele and a Jagmaster).

Occasionally I bust out my Gretsch, but that's it.

I'm afraid I'm not that adventurous!

munckee

Nope for same reason I don't eat only cheese. 

57Deluxe

Is two sides to this Q:

You may only buy/own one style, or you may have a cross selection but only ever play one style.

In recent times, I navigated from a long time Strat, to a custom Tele to a PRS P90 and latterly a LP DC Jr and for less driven work a Hofner Archtop. This means that my 335 and Yam SG2000 and LP (and another Tele) don't get much of a look in.

I want one of these next though so shooting right out the box; I hope it would find a daily application though:

Grumpyrocker

Yup. I have five electric guitars, all dual humbuckers. Two are single cuts, one an SG copy. One a PRS SE which I'd put in the venn diagram closer to Gibson than anything Fender make. 

The only one that is a little further away is an Ibanez S521 - but that's still a two humbucker guitar.

I don't have a single thing with single coils.

Simon_M

Every electric guitar I own is a double cut. All but one has humbuckers and I don't like that one much.

Mark1960

I've always had a Strat (same guitar for 30 odd years), but recently bought a Tele to play slide. It's tuned to open E and has a raised action and heavier gauge strings, but that's the only reason I bought it.

skay

I have a few of the classics to ‘cover all the bases’, but after fiddling about with the guitar, amp and pedals trying to get it to sound like a Tele, I usually give in and just plug in my Nocaster. 

Might as well only have one guitar, but the others remind me just how much I love it!

kt66

I only played Rickenbackers for about 25 years, then started to sell my obscene record collection, had spare cash......11 more guitars later.....you know the story. 

ICBM

kt66 said:

I only played Rickenbackers for about 25 years, then started to sell my obscene record collection, had spare cash......11 more guitars later.....you know the story. 

My problem is that they would still all be Rickenbackers .

And CDs aren't worth much second hand these days...

merciful-evans

I stuck with a Strat for 23 years because it sounded great. Trouble was, it played like a pig. In 95 I swapped it for a Jackson Soloist with single coils. Sounded nearly as good, but played properly. Stuck with that for 17 years.

But now I have a collection of all sorts....

Logie

My HSS Strat is the one I always gravitate to even though I love Les Paul's and most of the music I like feature Les Paul players. I've got a cracking Lester but it sits under the bed most days while my Strat and tele get the luurve. I'm obviously a Fender guy at heart and Strats in particular.

Phil_aka_Pip

No. I keep a variety of guitars (many of them Gibsons or derivatives) but I also keep a Strat and a variety of acoustics.  get on best with the Gibbos and those that are very much like Gibbos.

TINMAN82

I’ve gone 6 months without a strat but caved today and ordered a CS at discount price. I find strats pretty unforgiving and that’s why they’ve come and gone, but nothing else is a substitute for that unique blues tone.

TTBZ

Generally anything Gibson style - 24.75" scale, TOM bridge, mahogany. If I didn't already have the SG I'd have a Les Paul or LTD/ESP Eclipse.

Schnozz

Les Pauls and Superstrats

grungebob

I’ve owned at one point most styles and brands but I tend to keep the more fender like guitars the longest. 

Currently  I only have a musicman Sub one with a single bridge humbucker and I don’t find I’m missing much. I play simple rhythm stuff and like to chug out riffs so horses for courses really. 

thegummy

I've thought before it might be nice to stick to one guitar and really get to know all the tiny subtleties of it etc. But I immediately miss the tones other guitars offer, I like to switch between guitars regularly like a golfer switching clubs.

fastonebaz

I tend to stick with right handed 6 string guitars. 

lasermonkey

Jazzmasters (and derivatives thereof).

Trude

Hick81 said:

I have a 335, Les Paul and a Tele but I always have this nagging feeling I’m missing a Strat. So I buy a Strat and then inevitably sell it 6 months later, only to repeat the cycle again every few years. I feel I’m trapped in this prison for life. 

I’m glad it’s not just me - this is almost my exact experience except I have a Guild M75 instead of a 335. I buy a Strat, use it for a while and later swear off Strats forever, only to start hankering after one again a few weeks later.