Anyone else “losing interest” in guitars?

[ewalling]

I think I must have it bad! I check out GC Used Online and Dave's Guitar Shop for tasty morsels every day. I like thinking about purchases, and I like making them - I've been this way since I took up the guitar again after an 8-year hiatus in 2006. I don't see myself changing anytime soon ...

[b1j]

Now with the HD-28 in the room, my cup runneth over. I’ll need to up my playing considerably before I’ll feel as though I deserve another guitar. And I’m OK with that.

[Steve DeRosa]

As they say on the other side o0f the pond, not bloody likely...

[beatcomber]

As my sig file indicates, electric guitar is my main focus. In recent months I have decided to whittle down my electric guitar collection to maybe the two or three that I cover all of my needs, and just sell the rest.

I'm thinking of folding them into one really special vintage piece and calling it a day.

[caperrob]

Mark, you hit a chord with me. I was a Martin fanatic until I bought the guitar in my signature and it really changed my outlook. I realized that the guitar is a tool to be used and it really doesn't matter what it says on the headstock. Now, I am of the same mind as you - I just want to play the thing

[6L6]

To the OP's question:

Nope

[TBman]

No, I'm just taking a breather.

I'm also glancing at all solid wood classicals too from time to time.

[Pura Vida]

I tend to immerse myself into things for some time, but then another interest may take over. For about 8-10 years, I was really interested in wine (different kinds, how it's made, etc.), but found it an expensive hobby and ultimately shifted into guitars. Previous to that, it was live and recorded music, building a sizable collection of music and seeing hundreds of artists.

For the last 7-8 years, it's been guitars, specifically acoustic guitars. I've enjoyed learning about how they're built, the different types of woods, body sizes... all the things we talk about here and on other forums. But my playing has changed from trying to get better and learning more songs into a form of stress relief from a long work day, where I simply play what I know and enjoy getting unplugged from the connected world for a while. This is a big reason why my electric guitars have sat unplayed for the last few years.

But I'm considering another life shift, where I will be focusing more on family and health (and hopefully less on work), so I'm curious where these changes will take my guitar playing (and general interest). I'm getting more involved with health and fitness, so I could see that taking over some of my passions. But I may also have more time to devote to my guitars, so maybe I'll work to improve my playing and even get into recording, performing with a loop pedal, and different things I haven't had the time to dedicate myself to previously.

Life is about the journey, not the destination.

[garthjmoore]

I want to say yes, but there’s nothing like walking into a good guitar/music store and trying things out. Just seeing them all lined up gers me excited.

but hear you: they are means to an end. You still have to play them and make
music.

[gerhardp]

Always been there.
I enjoy the playing and that's it.

Just like any car that drives me to the groceriestore and back, is fine.
Couldn't care less about brand and hp etc...

[EZYPIKINS]

Losing interest? Not a chance. Guitar has always been in my life. And always been the way I deal with life.

Today is no different. Guitar, for me is kind of likened to a Teddy Bear.

A source of comfort and relaxation, throughout the trials and turmoil's of life.

When I REALLY need some comfort. Out comes the J-185, I played on stage for so long.

I can lose myself in the tone and ease of play.

Good for the BP too.

[mawmow]

I am not losing interest but… I became lazy… more than depressed.

I bought my first solid wood on my very fiftieth birthday as I was to move away from
any big city… and big music stores.

I had collected a bunch of fakebooks I used to play over the years, but I then decided
it was time to learn at least some basic music theory to understand chords.
So, I learned about major, minor and relative minor scales as well as pentatonics and
modes as I fell in the fingerpicking world that came with the quest for THE guitar !
I learned about setup and discovered many things about guitars such as how
nut width was important. I chased, found and bought many acoustics on my journey.
Fifteen years later, I know what I need as well as the sound that I like.

I had never stopped to play and I got better and better, but as age acts on my body,
I feel it becomes much harder to get better.

And my quest about music theory and THE guitar is reasonably done, so that
my only interest is now in playing : I cannot play eight hours a day man !
So, I am almost out of fuel. ALMOST.
I sometimes reopen songbooks I had left aside after I bought them because
reading made me realize the content was well over my ability then.
I can now attack some of those pieces or more complex arrangements, but
most still appear over my present ability since progressive osteoarthritis of
finger joints makes it harder to fret complex barred chords.

I am not actually losing interest, but aging force me to face my limitations.
I am not depressed, but become quite lazy though I still play for short bouts,
one to three times a day.

[Proclaimer888]

Hell no, ....in fact, quite the opposite..Fascination with what the instrument was and is to come. I love the old and new...I worry about supply but trust in what we can do as users.

[Jim Comeaux]

I can identify with this posting about 25 or 30 years ago I got bitten by the bluegrass bug. I was in a pretty unique situation. It was a very, very small community, but just about everyone either played a bluegrass instrument or sang. So, not knowing any better I took up the banjo and later the mandolin. I was pretty successful with both. However, I got a bit too ambitious with it and just burned myself out. I took a pastime that I loved and made work out of it. A bad mistake. Life then really got in the way. I had a job that required a lot of international travel and dragging that banjo around all those foreign customs inspectors just didn’t work for me. The mandolin was a bit better, but still, a Russian customs man that has never seen an F style mandolin not to mention the banjo in his life can be quite a handful. The end result of all of this is that for more than 20 years I never touched a string. It is was the crushing boredom of the pandemic, the thought of several years of virtual house arrest and associated isolation that inspired me to buy a guitar. I’m glad I did. So, in answer to the OP’s original question, no, quite the opposite. I am recovering from one of those episodes.

[soups]

I gain interest in them daily, unfortunately