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Does Buying One Guitar Make You Want To Buy Another One?
It always seems that when I buy a new guitar, I immediately want to buy another one -- usually some variation of the the one I just bought.
When I bought my LG2, I wanted to complement it with the all-mahogany version. When I bought my Waterloo WL12, I wanted to add a WL-S. When I bought my wood-bodied National, I suddenly wanted a metal-body, too. I guess there's just something intoxicating about discovering something new and great that makes me want to prolong and repeat the experience, but you'd think I'd be content for at least a week or two! How about you -- does one purchase beget another? |
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Yes just like lays potato chips.
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Your new mantra: “I must resist”, repeat every day for the month following a new purchase.
Actually, I keep wanting other L-body Larrivees.
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Yes,I just bought a wonderful Breedlove USA concert. If I had the money I would definetely buy the smaller 12 fret concertina to pair with it! Then,of course,I’d be done
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Taylor 322,512ce 12 fret cedar/hog & 362ce Martin 00015SM Guild 1966 F20 Larrivee P03 sitka/hog,simple 6 OM & OM 09 Eastman E100ss-sb Gibson J185 & 2016 J35 Fender player plus telecaster & Mustang P90 Gretsch MIK 5622T |
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Yes, absolutely. This feeling happens whenever I buy a guitar I really like. I suddenly get the urge to get the same guitar with a different wood combo.
When I got my Huss & Dalton TOM-M (hog b&s) I suddenly wanted a TOM-R. And with my Martin CS-00-21, I’m still GASing for a 00-18 to accompany it. It’s a good thing I run up against the reality of my bank account... sorta keeps my foolish impulses in check. |
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I was so inclined with the recent purchase of a Collings electric guitar. I immediately wanted to buy another one. Then my rational brain took over and focused on the cost of those fine instruments.
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YES!!! I love my Bourgeois Slope D, but I want a Bourgeois dread so bad I can't stand it!!
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Education is important! Guitar is importanter!! 2019 Bourgeois “Banjo Killer” Aged Tone Vintage Deluxe D 2018 Martin D41 Ambertone (2018 Reimagined) 2016 Taylor GS Mini Koa ES2 |
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I enjoy many flavors of ice cream too. I would not want to eat only vanilla for the rest of my life, but I would, if that is all there was.
I like having a 4-door sedan and a sports car as well. Two different ways of getting over the same miles on a road. One can enjoy different sounds produced by different guitars and not have one favorite. I always have unmet "wants" with guitars, even a day after buying a new one. I have owned about 65 guitars, I still own more than a few. Yet as I type this, I ponder others... A blissful indulgence. |
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Only until I find the "right" one. Then I tend to want to sell other stuff. When I was upgrading stuff last summer / fall, I bought three guitars in fairly rapid succession. I liked the first two but I knew they weren't "the one". But they'd helped me figure out what I really wanted, and the third one nailed it. So each of the first two made me want another, but the third one was THE one, so I gave it a couple months to be sure, and this winter I sold the other two.
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When mail order sales and marketing was in its infancy, LL Bean (the person, not the company) realized that the best predictor of a customer making a future mail order purchase was having made a previous mail order purchase. That's why you keep getting their catalogs after you've made a purchase.
Maybe it works the same with guitar purchases...
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Emerald X20 Emerald X20-12 Fender Robert Cray Stratocaster Martin D18 Ambertone Martin 000-15sm |
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People get a certain amount of an adrenaline-related "high" when they buy something. Which they then want to repeat. That is the basis of shopping addiction.
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Well, it did early on. Researching and hunting down a good deal on a great guitar can certainly become addicting! I had a dozen guitars at one point, and I'm actually a keyboardist who plays a little guitar!
But then I started selling my lower to mid-level guitars as funding for higher-end guitars. I gotta tell ya, my Guild F50R is a holy grail 6-string for me - I'm no longer in the market for a 6-string! And my Guild burst JF30-12 out of Corona is the same with respect to 12-strings. Can't be beat! My blue JF30-12 out of Westerly is comparable, but honestly, I might have to let that one go - no need for it! My Gibson Songwriter 12 is precious, but I could probably even part with that one. The Corona Guild burst JF30-12 is just too good!
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Hi W. Voltaire,
Yes. I’m not an impulse buyer any more, so I spend time hunting. It becomes part of my daily habits to scan the classifieds. Then, I buy. But I’ve built that habit into my life. After a few months, it’ll settle down.
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Peace, Jimmy Optima dies, prima fugit |
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It's the law of attraction. It can apply to a company named Yamaha.
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