Your Guitar aspirations 2015.

dilbert

Get gigging again. It's been too long.

Nunogilberto

Gru;436417" said:

I would really like an Fender Eric Clapton Signature Strat, but I don't know if for the money I will end up disappointed?

Currently have a Sunburst Affinity Strat and it is so comfortable and easy to play, I am having trouble justifying £1k for an EC. It's the cheapest guitar I have owned from new. The neck feels amazing (no satin/gloss) like bare wood.

Agreed that Affinity Strats are great guitars. The only thing I struggle with on them is the narrow 40mm nut, especially with my long fingers.

I would also add that I wanted a Gibson SG Standard for years. I had the Epi SG for a good while (and still do) and although I bought the Gibbo eventually, I never took to it in the same way as the Epi - the binding, the wider neck etc. Ended up selling the Gibbo as it wasn't played.

I'd advise playing the Clapton version when you get a chance - if it doesn't feel great within 5 mins, spending a grand won't necessarily get you used to it...

jd0272

dilbert said:

Get gigging again. It's been too long.

I've Wis'd you, but you've no excuse not to be doing it in any event.

Deadman

Just to have one guitar. A Telecaster. That's all.

Phil_aka_Pip

Deadman said:

Just to have one guitar. A Telecaster. That's all.

Nah. The delights of various guitars is that they are different. There's no such thing as one guitar can do everything..

ThePrettyDamned

A fan fret 7 string.

Maybe an unfinished one so I can get an oil city custom pickup. Not sure if I want a bright yellow one or something with a posh top to make Suhr weep, but I'll see what comes up.

nickb_boy

I'm just hoping after months of waiting 2015 brings me my custom Esquire style build by Palir guitars. Roasted flame maple neck, chambered body, Porter t90 in the bridge with some tasteful distressing and lacquer checking.

Philly_Q

The aspiration:

To buy nothing, to sell things I never play and to finally put together some guitars from the vast array of parts I've had lying around for years. 

The reality:

I'll buy 7 or 8 guitars, sell almost that many (always at a loss) and the mountain of parts will remain untouched as we head on into 2016....

Bucket

I shouldn't be buying anything new, I've got enough and I don't have any more space.

I'll be modifying stuff though - the Flying V is in the process of being mini-humbuckerized, the Tokai will be seeing a new set of pickups, the Ibanez should get a new scratchplate and pickups too. The 7 will hopefully be less neglected, and may gain a new neck pickup.

I would like a decent bass though. Been wanting a good 5-string for a while. Not sure if that means selling my current 4-string.

lasermonkey

I'd like to get a Jaguar. I've wanted one for ages, but keep buying Jazzmasters instead. Oh, and an SG with P90s.

GavRichList

Pretty happy with my lot to be honest. If I came into some unexpected money I'd love a Bilt Relevator, but I can happily file that under "it'd be nice to own one one day".

racefaceec90

try and sort out the issues with my new squier vm jaguar.then learn to play it (want to learn lots of johnny marr stuff ;-)

PolarityMan

I aspirre to write more riffs and make less mistakes live.

tone1

I hope Santa brings me an Angry Angus Tele to go with my Angry Angus Strat I bought this year!
I love the Strat so much I even sold my 50's Roadworn Strat

Flink_Poyd

I'd like to get into a shop and try a few out that I'm interested in as at the moment it's just "I like the look of that" . G and L Jerry Cantrell Superhawk, something Les Paul ish and get started on modding a cheap ESP I picked up.
There's probably an equation for hopes and dreams of guitar related stuff like time divided by need to the power of money equals plausible reason to wife. I was never that good at maths

Deadman

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Deadman said:

Just to have one guitar. A Telecaster. That's all.

Nah. The delights of various guitars is that they are different. There's no such thing as one guitar can do everything..

I don't dispute it Phil.

fretfinder

P90s. There's a gaping hole in my collection where one or more P90s need to be.

Jalapeno

jd0272 said:

FX_Munkee;436146" said:

Finish building the ones I said I was going to finish this year?

Me too.

Sort of me too.  Only in my case - START building the 50s Tele I have most of the bits for.

Then build/mod a 62 Custom Tele with Lollar Charlie Christian neck p/u

On the GAS side - A PRS on the 1 in/out rule - I have a PRS SE Korina for the out - but nothing grabs me (that I can afford).

Jalapeno

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Deadman said:

Just to have one guitar. A Telecaster. That's all.

Nah. The delights of various guitars is that they are different. There's no such thing as one guitar can do everything..

Wisdom awarded !

RMJ

Play instead of looking at gear vids!

Still have a hankering for a Jag and an SG. And a nice strat with a vintage vibe. But maybe my goal will be to not buy any gear and force myself to use what I have, which I feel very lucky to have...