What guitar is in your sights?

[TRose]

Originally Posted by raysachs

Tom,

Just to be clear, my comment about having too many nice guitars was not about being stressed out by owning a more expensive guitar. The Pre-War will cost me between $4500 and $5000, still more than I’ve ever spent, but still well south of $8-12 thousand… My comment was more about having too many choices of which guitar to grab each time I sit down to play. I’m really good at binary choices, but beyond that, the choice / options become too much of a thing and get in the way of the playing.

My first binary choice is acoustic or electric - a pretty easy one because I’m always gonna be in the mood for one or the other. And assuming I choose acoustic, I’m fine choosing between mahogany (CEO-7) or rosewood (000-28EC) because they sound quite different and I’ll usually have a feeling one way or another about what I feel like playing. But let’s say I kept both of my current wooden acoustics and then added a Pre-War mahogany to the mix - now I’ve got finer gradations of tonal variety that are gonna require some comparative playing to see just which slightly different tone I prefer today. I’ll spend more timing thinking about sound than just grabbing a guitar and playing it. I’ve been there before, with electrics more than acoustics, and beyond a very small number of choices (basically two), the choice becomes paralyzing rather than liberating.

If I buy a Pre-War and like it enough to keep it and sell the CEO-7, I won’t sweat about the value of the Pre-War - I’ll play it hard and often and add my own nicks and scratches to the ones it’ll come with. Once I’ve spent the money, it’s mine and I’ll treat it like my other stuff, decently but I won’t baby it or worry about it. No, my mental stressor is choices / options, not cost / value.

-Ray

Thanks, Ray.
“Overchoice” is a well known and common stressor. I completely understand what you are saying. I didn’t mean to project my potential stressors upon you. I apologize.
Your post got me thinking about potential stressors in general and how it could apply to me. Though I don’t find multiple 4k$ guitars stressful I may find having all/most my guitar resources tied up in one instrument stressful. But that’s just me. And it’s all hypothetical for me at this point.

Nothing, I'm giving up buying gear for Lent.

[jricc]

I would like a Gibson LG-2, or another LG-2 type of body, small and deep.
Next would be a cedar or mahogany topped small body, maybe an Eastman E2OM.

The Eastman is more likely finance wise.

[KenL]

Originally Posted by janinep7

It's purely a fantasy because I know it's too big for me, but I really like the Guild D-50 (or similar) from the 70s. My neighbor has one and it just sounds so good.

He never plays it, which triggers the "use it or lose it" clause in the Guitar Lovers of America Membership Agreement. The clause states that any active member in good standing who possesses an amazing vintage guitar that sits unplayed in a music room, living room, storage locker or garage, for a period of 12 months or longer, must immediately surrender said instrument to any other active member in good standing who requests a transfer of ownership to the former.

I think that's very clear... He has to give it to me. Right?

Sounds about right to me, Janine. Sad to hear about that nice guitar going unplayed.

I've owned 2 D-50s. Both were outstanding guitars, especially the one in Antique Sunburst. But I let both go because they both sounded and played almost exactly like my D-46. Exceptional guitars, for sure!

[mawmow]

Well, actually none...
I recently got two great acoustics...
Maybe my GAS is cured, at last !

[TBman]

Originally Posted by KevWind

I forget, which model Pellerin did you get ?

Pellerin SJ CW (cedar over rosewood)

It's still on the Brickhouse website. Why I don't know
Their prices are in CA$.

https://brickhouseguitars.com/produc...cedar-2240921/

[Dru Edwards]

Barry, you bought a McIlroy? I see in your sig it's 'in transit'. Exciting! I've never seen one before but would love to try one and probably own.

Yamaha FG5, that's the one that is in my sights now. Made in Japan but always out of stock at Long & McQuade, and from what I read here on the AGF, in the US too.

[Lkristians]

Collings CJ 35 &/or Taylor 814ce

[rgregg48]

What guitar are you thinking about buying/trading for and why?[/QUOTE]

What guitars are in my sights?
Only yours Barry!

[TBman]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

Barry, you bought a McIlroy? I see in your sig it's 'in transit'. Exciting! I've never seen one before but would love to try one and probably own.

Yamaha FG5, that's the one that is in my sights now. Made in Japan but always out of stock at Long & McQuade, and from what I read here on the AGF, in the US too.

FG5 - what about this one?

[Jeremy]

I'm waiting for my local shop to get the 000-16 StreetMaster in so I can check it out.

[RP]

At the risk of being called a thread spoiler or a liar, I'm not remotely interested in another guitar. The combination of my three Emeralds and Fender Strat is way more than I need (or want)...

[brencat]

Pretty excited to try the new Martin D-18A 1937 VTS. But it's going to have to be a rich/lush sounding D-18 for me to want to buy it. I don't do dry sounding guitars and am more of a Rosewood person generally.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by TBman

FG5 - what about this one?

I don't want to order from the US. I see an FG5 at Long & McQuade that's 4 hours away though. It's the only one in the province.

[foxo]

Nothing, I’m very content with my guitars for the time being, although I only very recently acquired a D-18.