Rotating stock aka owning too many guitars

Funkfingers

Keefy said:

1. No.
2. No.
3. No.

Rehab, schmehab.

Neil

I have five electrics, possibly more than I need but when the Grandsons come round they have to have something to play don't they?

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Yorkie said:

I don’t rotate them consciously, all my guitars are voiced differently and serve a purpose. 

This perfectly sums up my approach as well. 

I have 4 guitars:

• an ash-bodied, maple board Strat 
• an alder-bodied, rosewood board Tele 
• a flame maple semi-hollow 335 style 
• an offset with mini-humbuckers and a Bigsby

I like to think I've got all bases covered for the styles I play. (I don't do/need high gain, shreddy stuff).

NelsonP

Do you regularly play all of your guitars?
Mostly (8 electrics and 2 acoustics). I play electric much more frequently than acoustic.

Do you rotate?
Yes

Are some specialist?
No, but they are all different enough to justify their place. They all play differently, sound different and lead me in different directions musically.

Overall, it is too easy to buy guitars and takes some effort to sell them, so that's how I ended up here ;-)

guitarjack66

6 Guitars. 4 acoustics and 2 electrics.

I rotate them regularly except that I am probably going to get rid of my Jet Telecaster soon as the neck just isnt for me. Way too thin. I love the Jet strat and play it regularly. I also rotate my acoustics regularly too.

daisie_guitar

owning too many guitars

Alex2678

I have a Strat and a lap steel that I can’t play for the life of me 

InactiveX

Do you regularly play all of your guitars?

No, usually just one at a time.

Do you rotate?

It's just the way my trousers are rucked up.

Are some specialist?

Are "Friends" Acoustic?

darthed1981

Do I own too many guitars?

Yes...

slacker

No

slacker

Played my lp for a first time in ages at a rehearsal/jam. Owning multiple guitars is a privilisge.

guitarjack66

slacker said:

Played my lp for a first time in ages at a rehearsal/jam. Owning multiple guitars is a privilisge.

I think you spilt your beer on the keyboard at the end there.

NCo

I have one guitar.

rze99

NCo said:

I have one guitar.

it must be a 54 Goldtop! I have never had one guitar. Ever. Even when I was 12. I had two then.

NCo

rze99 said:

NCo said:

I have one guitar.

it must be a 54 Goldtop! I have never had one guitar. Ever. Even when I was 12. I had two then.

Modded and refinished mexican strat. 

I never owned more than one guitar at a time until 15 months ago, and all of a sudden I owned 3. It didn't make me happier nor make me more creative. I sold 2 guitars over the last couple of months and I'm enjoying having just one. This may very well change soon as I am building a partcaster, so we'll see

neil_d

Five guitars. One is out on a stand at a time, rotating every few weeks or so (some more often than others).

BGG

1. Yes, play them all. 

2. Yes, have seven in the rack stand and one on a single stand. Rotate them with the ones upstairs in cases. 

3. I have a baritone guitar if that counts, and an Ed O’Brien strat. 

slacker

guitarjack66 said:

slacker said:

Played my lp for a first time in ages at a rehearsal/jam. Owning multiple guitars is a privilisge.

I think you spilt your beer on the keyboard at the end there.

How dare you. It was a single malt.

OilCityPickups

slacker said:

So the background to this is owning 5 guitars and playing 1. This year tele last year les paul. So for the semi collectors like my self...

Do you regularly play all of your guitars?
Do you rotate?
Are some specialist?

I have around 18 guitars split between home and work the ones at home are my 'me' guitars, generally the ones at work are pickup mules and test beds.

Mostly I play all my guitars ... my Jazz Bass only really for recording, and my Kawai Rock and Roll Star gets noodled a lot at work during coffee breaks. 

I don't consciously rotate guitars - I rotate pickup configurations though. 

Well my Ibanez 7 string is specialist at brain creaming metal ... as is my Jackson V - my Gretsch and Dynasonic Tele are Jump blues and rockabilly instruments ... I had a resonator ... but sold it on. 

 

Offset

Do you regularly play all of your guitars?

More or less, although it depends what you mean by 'regularly' :-)   I have nine electrics and whilst I (currently) have a couple of favourites, they all get a run. 

Do you rotate?

Not deliberately.  I pick up whichever happens to suit my mood at the time.

Are some specialist?

I suppose you could call a Steinberger Synapse Transcale 'specialist' - by default it's a baritone fitted with heavy gauge strings  and the active EMGs limit what I want to play on it.