How many acoustics do you own

paulnb57

Two
A Gretsch Jim Dandy and a Messer Resonator, both liberally covered in dust!

hoptonmills

Two
A Gibson Jackson Browne model
A Buscarino nylon string

artiebear

hoptonmills said:

Two
A Gibson Jackson Browne model
A Buscarino nylon string

Always liked the look of the Jackson Browne. How do you find it ?

earwighoney

thermionic said:

Somehow I have crept up to four. I’ve had a Taylor 310 (dreadnought) for over 20 years. A Loar LH-200 which cost me all of £200 a few years ago. It’s somewhat limited in terms of sound but it’s nice to play and very well made for such a cheap guitar. Last year the Loar was usurped as a sofa guitar by a Taylor GS Mini. I’m also “looking after” my uncle’s flamenco guitar, which my grandfather bought in Mexico City in the early sixties. I saved it when I saw my cousin trying to give it away on facebook one Sunday afternoon!

Do you know anything about the flamenco guitar? Mexican flamenco guitars can have an interesting history. 

Andy79 said:

Loads. I love acoustic guitars therefore I’ve got all shapes n sizes, wood types and bracing patterns. I have a thing for ladder braced 0s so there’s at least 6 of them 

Sorry to ask but could you share some more info about your ladder braced 0's?
I bought a cheap Recording King 12 fret 0, and I really enjoy playing it with a pick. I love ladder braced guitars as well, didn't know there are many ladder braced 0's out there! 

****
I have 4 steel strings and 2 flamenco guitars. 

Andy79

earwighoney said:

thermionic said:

Somehow I have crept up to four. I’ve had a Taylor 310 (dreadnought) for over 20 years. A Loar LH-200 which cost me all of £200 a few years ago. It’s somewhat limited in terms of sound but it’s nice to play and very well made for such a cheap guitar. Last year the Loar was usurped as a sofa guitar by a Taylor GS Mini. I’m also “looking after” my uncle’s flamenco guitar, which my grandfather bought in Mexico City in the early sixties. I saved it when I saw my cousin trying to give it away on facebook one Sunday afternoon!

Do you know anything about the flamenco guitar? Mexican flamenco guitars can have an interesting history. 

Andy79 said:

Loads. I love acoustic guitars therefore I’ve got all shapes n sizes, wood types and bracing patterns. I have a thing for ladder braced 0s so there’s at least 6 of them 

Sorry to ask but could you share some more info about your ladder braced 0's?
I bought a cheap Recording King 12 fret 0, and I really enjoy playing it with a pick. I love ladder braced guitars as well, didn't know there are many ladder braced 0's out there! 

****
I have 4 steel strings and 2 flamenco guitars. 

This kinda thing 
They are most peoples idea of a guitar nightmare, small bodies. wide, flat huge necks, usually need a ton of rebuilding and set up but they sound really good when done. Also great with a magnetic pickup and a drive pedal, the small body lets you really crank the go knob without too much feedback. 

Sassafras

Four, one of which is a 12 string.
Over a dozen banjos. Yes, they count as instruments.

ICBM

Sassafras said:

Over a dozen banjos. Yes, they count as instruments of torture.

FTFY














Just kidding . A well-played banjo is actually a thing of wonder. I once worked with someone who really could... I can't get the hang of it at all.

earwighoney

Andy79 said:

earwighoney said:

thermionic said:

Somehow I have crept up to four. I’ve had a Taylor 310 (dreadnought) for over 20 years. A Loar LH-200 which cost me all of £200 a few years ago. It’s somewhat limited in terms of sound but it’s nice to play and very well made for such a cheap guitar. Last year the Loar was usurped as a sofa guitar by a Taylor GS Mini. I’m also “looking after” my uncle’s flamenco guitar, which my grandfather bought in Mexico City in the early sixties. I saved it when I saw my cousin trying to give it away on facebook one Sunday afternoon!

Do you know anything about the flamenco guitar? Mexican flamenco guitars can have an interesting history. 

Andy79 said:

Loads. I love acoustic guitars therefore I’ve got all shapes n sizes, wood types and bracing patterns. I have a thing for ladder braced 0s so there’s at least 6 of them 

Sorry to ask but could you share some more info about your ladder braced 0's?
I bought a cheap Recording King 12 fret 0, and I really enjoy playing it with a pick. I love ladder braced guitars as well, didn't know there are many ladder braced 0's out there! 

****
I have 4 steel strings and 2 flamenco guitars. 

This kinda thing 
They are most peoples idea of a guitar nightmare, small bodies. wide, flat huge necks, usually need a ton of rebuilding and set up but they sound really good when done. Also great with a magnetic pickup and a drive pedal, the small body lets you really crank the go knob without too much feedback. 

Thanks for the info, they are stunners. I love the artwork on the one on the left.

Sorry to ask again but who made them? Regal or Harmony? That's about as much as I know about 'other' guitar makers from that kind of era.

The more I play my O sized RK, the more I am pleased with the comfort and sound of the body size. I'd love a proper short scale 12 fret Martin 0-18/28 or style guitar but they seem to be quite thin on the ground (mine is long scale)

Andy79

earwighoney said:

Andy79 said:

earwighoney said:

thermionic said:

Somehow I have crept up to four. I’ve had a Taylor 310 (dreadnought) for over 20 years. A Loar LH-200 which cost me all of £200 a few years ago. It’s somewhat limited in terms of sound but it’s nice to play and very well made for such a cheap guitar. Last year the Loar was usurped as a sofa guitar by a Taylor GS Mini. I’m also “looking after” my uncle’s flamenco guitar, which my grandfather bought in Mexico City in the early sixties. I saved it when I saw my cousin trying to give it away on facebook one Sunday afternoon!

Do you know anything about the flamenco guitar? Mexican flamenco guitars can have an interesting history. 

Andy79 said:

Loads. I love acoustic guitars therefore I’ve got all shapes n sizes, wood types and bracing patterns. I have a thing for ladder braced 0s so there’s at least 6 of them 

Sorry to ask but could you share some more info about your ladder braced 0's?
I bought a cheap Recording King 12 fret 0, and I really enjoy playing it with a pick. I love ladder braced guitars as well, didn't know there are many ladder braced 0's out there! 

****
I have 4 steel strings and 2 flamenco guitars. 

This kinda thing 
They are most peoples idea of a guitar nightmare, small bodies. wide, flat huge necks, usually need a ton of rebuilding and set up but they sound really good when done. Also great with a magnetic pickup and a drive pedal, the small body lets you really crank the go knob without too much feedback. 

Thanks for the info, they are stunners. I love the artwork on the one on the left.

Sorry to ask again but who made them? Regal or Harmony? That's about as much as I know about 'other' guitar makers from that kind of era.

The more I play my O sized RK, the more I am pleased with the comfort and sound of the body size. I'd love a proper short scale 12 fret Martin 0-18/28 or style guitar but they seem to be quite thin on the ground (mine is long scale)

One on the left is an all birch Harmony Supertone (the sears catalog house brand). On the right is a Mahogany/Spruce Regal with genuine mother of toilet seat board
Both around 24” scale. Solid one-piece woods with hide glue. You know it’s hide glue as you can see the squeeze-out in all the joints.... 

thermionic

earwighoney said:

thermionic said:

Somehow I have crept up to four. I’ve had a Taylor 310 (dreadnought) for over 20 years. A Loar LH-200 which cost me all of £200 a few years ago. It’s somewhat limited in terms of sound but it’s nice to play and very well made for such a cheap guitar. Last year the Loar was usurped as a sofa guitar by a Taylor GS Mini. I’m also “looking after” my uncle’s flamenco guitar, which my grandfather bought in Mexico City in the early sixties. I saved it when I saw my cousin trying to give it away on facebook one Sunday afternoon!

Do you know anything about the flamenco guitar? Mexican flamenco guitars can have an interesting history. 
 

I don’t know much, except my grandfather and my uncle (who was about 15 at the time) made a road trip to Mexico City from Washington DC in, I think, 1962. They lived in Washington but my grandfather often visited Mexico City with work. Someone from his office recommended a guitar shop there so they went there and bought it. I think my uncle fancied himself as a Bob Dylan figure and that guitar went everywhere with him when he was a student a few years later. He got a split in the side and heel fixed at Andy’s in Denmark Street, I’m guessing late 80s/early 90s. I still have an album up on imgur: https://imgur.com/a/rZGpZ

TheOtherDennis

Five of mine -
An Avalon A200CE that I've had since 2005
An Avalon L2-20 that I bought from the classifieds
A l'Arrivee OM-02 that I bought last autumn
A Martin jumbo from one of their kits that I made in 2008
A StewMac dreadnought that I made from one of their kits in 2012

Plus -
MrsTheOtherDennis has a classical acoustic that her dad bought her when she was a teenager, which she can no longer play because of her disability.

And I bought my lad a Crafter back in 2006 or 2007, sometime when he was at school, that he promised to learn to play on but never did. It's still hanging in his old bedroom, gathering dust.

Snags

Two. Well, three. Maybe four.

Takamine EG332c which really needs a refret (had it for 20+ years and I tend to grip like a gorilla with anger issues) but isn't worth the money. Still sounds and plays OK though.

Furch G21CRC which is effectively the "only" acoustic now (the Tak lives elsewhere).

Yamaha 12-string just because it was very affordable and seemed like a good idea at the time.

Oh, and the wife has an old Epiphone starter jobbie with an action like a cheese grater that was an 18th birthday present, but that doesn't count.

I do have residual horn for either a decent dread or (actual) jumbo/super jumbo for proper thumpy madness, but can't really justify it. One day it's bound to happen though.

BingMan

My wife will tell you I have at least 1000000000000000 with another 1000000000000000 cases all cluttering up the house, but I actually own 7

bourgeois vintage D (adi/madi)
bourgeois countryboy D (adi/hog)
collings CJ35
collings 0002H
Santa Cruz 00-1929 (all hog)
National style 0 resonator (if that counts)
and lastly some old tanglewood which was my first ‘good acoustic’ when I was a teenager. It’s all solid wood and surprisingly good for its price... but it now resides under a bed at my parents house, occasionally coming out for some campfire duty

jellyroll

Five for me:

Martin D Custom
Martin OM Custom
Martin OM21
Gibson J-185
Atkin Essential O

meltedbuzzbox

One acoustic 
One classical 

richman6100

Not as exotic as some in this thread, but...

Auden Marlow - cedar/rosewood parlour (gets played the most)
Auden Colton - spruce/rosewood dreadnought
Furch G23-CRC - cedar/rosewood grand auditorium
Faith Venus - spruce/rosewood OM (passed to my son)
Baby Taylor - mahogany (my son's first guitar, which gets taken on holidays for fun)

p90fool

I have a Faith Venus for gigging and a Gibson J-35 for recording.

I do occasionally vaguely hanker after a resonator or gypsy jazz guitar, but being honest with myself I'd rarely play them. 

Wazmeister

Just one now, and its a belter for the money...

The Guild on the left here.

Stuckfast

Five, unless I'm forgetting something:

Larrivee OM-3

Washburn D33S (a surprisingly great guitar)

an old Lyon & Healy / Washburn parlour guitar from the 1880s

a 19th century French guitar which is even smaller

and an unplayable nylon-string guitar my mother had made for her in Spain in the early 60s.

rogd

My two. A Martin D-41 from 1972, gigged and battle scarred. Its been all over the world with me. I've had it nearly 50 years, and my Larrivee P-09 from 2008. A cracking little thing.