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They’re all Partscasters,
L-R:
Oiled Ash body, maple neck, Eldred Esquire with Oil City Alligator 90, custom pickguard cut from an old 12” Springsteen Single.
Guitarbuild cabronita body (painted, reliced and oiled) Baja neck & Filtertron pickup
Guitarbuild Deluxe body (stained & oiled), chunky RW neck, Blues Engine/Dirty Torque pickups- my take on a Shiflett tele.
Firebirds cosying up, there'll be another along later but the sunburst has to go
http://alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/misc/2fbs.jpg
My Fender and my boy's Crafter, which he stripped when he was 11, repainted, did the pickups, wiring, the lot. We had a job sorting out a paint mask cos he was way small for most of 'em
http://alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/misc/2strats.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/kBzUc5L.jpg
Moreover, recently in a discussion with a close friend who is not a musician but loves music, I was told that they regarded Bowie, Queen, Neil Young and ACDC as exactly the same artists, with no difference between them to their ears. There was no artistic difference between them at all to them. I was shocked.
Back on topic, ulnar nerve problems mean that a very specific neck profile is all I can really play regularly in order to avoid imminent surgery. Those guitars mean I can play guitar, and over time I've come to really appreciate their differences. I'm down to three now, but if I'm honest I shouldn't have got rid of one of them. They are all unique.
I'd think a lot of people who are deeply in to music will hear that, say, a Strat does sound quite different to a Les Paul for example, maybe they wouldn't know which was which.
When it gets to different types of the same pickup (e.g.different single coil strat ones) that's an even smaller niche and the differences are quite subtle even to the guitar geek playing them, never mind an audience.
But having loads of guitars that are the same model - is there any discernible difference really between them?
Or is it not even about tonal options for a sound pallette and you just like to be able to change each time?
Appreciate you replying and glad you didn't take the question the wrong way. I think I'm just so much in the mindset of buying multiple guitars for the sole reason of having another tone to choose from.
I kind of go through phases of sometimes embracing that my guitars all feel different and might inspire me differently, then sometimes wishing they would all feel exactly the same while just being able to change sounds (like the world of MIDI keyboards where you play a single master keyboard that controls various different synths for sound options). A number of times I've came up with the idea of getting another Strat with the same specs as my current one but installing humbuckers on it but then always decide against it.
Jazzmasters. The red one is a '94/'95 CIJ and the white one is an '86 MIJ (with Mojo pickups).
Then there's the Rickenbackers. The 330/6 is from 1990, the 4001 from 1973 and the 330/12 from 1989.
I said maybe.....
I've since sold the other 2
I cant imagine owning 5 that are pretty much the same guitar and the same colour. Medical condition or not, if you have the money for 5 R model gibsons you can get something else with a custom neck profile to match those les Pauls. My opinion of course