AGF influenced guitar purchases. - Page 4

Methos1979 · #46 07-30-2021, 08:05 AM

Almost all of them! Nearly 40 guitars going back 10 years. But I only keep a few at a time. I have a strict policy that if it doesn't get played, it doesn't stay. Early on it was only two, a keeper and a trader. Then as I actually got good enough to play out (gig) I found I needed a few for different types of playing or environments so that went up to three which is now my sweet spot. A gigging guitar, a backup/travel/all weather guitar and then a fine example of acoustic perfection that never leaves the house.

It's been the same with amps and other guitar-related accessories. But unlike it being a case that AGF has hurt me by exposing me to so much information, I feel like I've gotten a lifetime of exposure in just a few years that has allowed me to really distill down my exact wants and needs so I can acquire the very best equipment for me. Sure, I could get away with just about anything but instead I have gear that is perfect for what I do. Oh, and it's been a wicked blast taking this journey. I miss it some ways, and in others I don't.

Bob from Brooklyn · #47 07-30-2021, 08:06 AM

I'm sure I became aware of Eastmans thru the AGF

Kyle215 · #48 07-30-2021, 08:12 AM

Well technically I found this forum while shopping for a guitar online last summer, so I’m going to say that one doesn’t count. But since then… um, I plead the 5th amendment, lol.

zombywoof · #49 07-30-2021, 08:21 AM

Nada, zilch, nuttin'.

FrankHudson · #50 07-30-2021, 09:34 AM

Oddly, no acoustic guitars have been harmed via my reading about them here and then purchasing them.

I did purchase a big double-cutaway, full hollow-body Gretsch electric archtop (one of the Korean-sourced Electromatic line) and a electric bass amp (Fender Rumble 100) based significantly on Steve DeRosa's posts.

TBman · #51 07-30-2021, 09:37 AM

I have to add my Seagull folk to my earlier list. I had wanted an inexpensive smaller guitar to take on vacation and many here recommend Seagull so I ordered it online. I think that was back in 2007-8ish

Nymuso · #52 07-30-2021, 10:02 AM

Not AGF specifically but in the wild and wooly days of RMMGA I bought a couple of things that were touted there - armrests, pickups, etc.; and, as I mentioned in another thread, I even bought a “fingerstyle guitar” on the basis of what I read there.

That experience has given me a healthy skepticism of anything I’ve read here. So no, I do not own a forty dollar pick or hundred dollar capo.

rllink · #53 07-30-2021, 10:04 AM

Yes, absolutely. My only guitar for a long time was a Taylor GS Mini and I was doing fine with it. But then someone on here was looking for a guitar and someone else told him that the Mini had too short of a scale length for a beginner and that he would be better off with something that had a longer scale length, at least 25". So that planted the seed and it just took root. I kept wondering if my Mini was holding me back. Then one day in February I was in the music store and a Yamaha on the wall caught my attention. I was reading the specs and it said that the scale length was 25". I liked it well enough, it wasn't particularly expensive, and I was thinking that the guy on AGF said so, so I bought it. I took it home, played it a month and went back to the Mini. Since then I hardly play it at all, but occasionally I will be reading something here and grab it off the wall to give it another chance. It is usually short lived and then back to the Mini. Right now, this week, I've been giving it a chance. We will see where that goes. Also, just after I bought it someone here was talking about the same guitar and referring to it as a short scale length. I can't win.

SRL · #54 07-30-2021, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by rllink

Yes, absolutely. My only guitar for a long time was a Taylor GS Mini and I was doing fine with it. But then someone on here was looking for a guitar and someone else told him that the Mini had too short of a scale length for a beginner and that he would be better off with something that had a longer scale length, at least 25".

Oy vey... The best scale length is what works best for your body, arm, and hand.

For many beginners, short scale guitars like a GS Mini are great because they have lower string tension and don't make the fingers hurt as much. But that only applies for the first few weeks until calluses are built up, and you can make up for it on a long-scale guitar by putting on extra light strings.... so... yeah.

skypeace · #55 07-30-2021, 10:26 AM

I check reviews here before purchasing Archtops and Electrics, funny but for Acoustics I just follow my nose and heart. The prices that folks toss around here are car or motorcycle down payments or purchases, lol.

If I was young and an up and comer I would purchase a top of the line tool, but I am an old retired hobbyist that enjoys all types of affordable to me guitars.

Cool555 · #56 07-30-2021, 10:42 AM

Only my 00-15M is AGF-influenced. The rest of my other guitar purchases are because I follow a guitar reviewer, who was already not active in AGF when I joined AGF in 2018. I have since sold 5 guitars.

My interest in reading posts and hanging around here in AGF has dwindled because my interest in cycling has been revived. It has made me fitter and I feel healthier. I still enjoy playing my guitars but less than I used to.

bsman · #57 07-30-2021, 11:01 AM

Two for me:

My Rainsong Shorty SG. I bought it only after reading positive reviews here
My Waterloo WL-12MH. I read many positive reviews on Waterloo prior to shopping

bkepler · #58 07-30-2021, 06:35 PM

My Pono was entirely. Both learned about, and then purchased through the classifieds. I’m so sad I got in at the end of the Pono heyday.

jschmitz54 · #59 07-30-2021, 07:26 PM

5 of 7 guitars bought based on some information from the forum. There are others I didn’t buy for one reason or another from information I’ve learned on the forum.

geewhiz · #60 07-31-2021, 05:15 AM

To my surprise, this forum led me to take another look at the Martin SC-13e, which I've really been enjoying.

I initially dismissed this guitar as something that would NEVER interest me, and I was surprised to see some favorable reviews of it here which led me back to it - on a site where I assumed that a bunch of stodgy old acoustic guitar farts

would ridicule a funny shaped Mexican made guitar with a bolt on neck and "layered" back and sides (although there were a few commenters who validated that assumption too).