Do you name your guitars?

[Chas007]

What are some of the pet names you have for your guitars?

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I am surprised. I figured some of you with the more expensive guitars would have been more sentimental. To be honest I have never even thought about naming mine, but I am sentimental about it. It's the first one I ever bought and that makes it special to me even if it's not the most expensive or best guitar out there.

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I did a search and you are right a lot of post like this. My bad! Let's kill this one then.

[llew]

I've never "named" a guitar? I have, on occasion, called them some names!

[Rev Roy]

Nope. I don’t name guitars...but over the years a few have named themselves. Out of the dozens I’ve owned, two to be exact. A J-45 with two little spots on the top that looked like a snake bite got called “Snake.” And a Songwriter with elaborate fretboard inlays was, at the time, the most blinged out guitar I’d owned. It got called “Lucy” as in “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”...and also because it was bought the year. BB. King died.

Hmmmm. Just realized the only guitars with names were Gibsons. Weird...

[rllink]

I call them by their given name, Les Paul, Taylor, and Yammie. No names of endearment. I don't want to get that close to them.

[RXMoore]

No. That has always seemed a little odd to me.

[YamahaGuy]

Never have. Never will.

[JayBee1404]

Nope. No need - the builders gave them perfectly good names. No other names wanted or needed. And I don’t endow them with the female gender either.

[CoryB]

Surprisingly, no. I (we, my wife and I) name pretty much everything else but not my guitars.

[Dru Edwards]

I never have. I do like it when someone can talk about a guitar's name and you know exactly what they're taking about. Like SRV's Number One, Clapton's Blackie, or Willie Nelson's Trigger.

[warfrat73]

Most of my guitars have names right on the headstock. I refer to them in my head and otherwise as "the Bourgeois" "the D-18," "the Northwood," etc.

[Fatfinger McGee]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

I never have. I do like it when someone can talk about a guitar's name and you know exactly what they're taking about. Like SRV's Number One, Clapton's Blackie, or Willie Nelson's Trigger.

Right. Iconic guitars earn iconic names. My guitars have only earned ironic names, like 'sounded better at the store' and 'reverb remorse'.

[catdaddy]

All of my guitars are named Mycroft.

[Btlcat]

Only one of my guitars has a name. It is a 1917 Eugene Howard and it is in excellent condition. The original owner was a young woman named Alice Clark Dixon and she died from the Spanish Flu in January of 1919. I always refer to the guitar as Alice and treat it with reverence. It hangs in a climate controlled cabinet and her portrait hangs beside it. The other four don’t have names and none of my previous guitars had names, which is a good thing because I would have run out of good names by now.

[Rosewood99]

This question seems to come up every couple of months, so I'll give the same answer. I only name people and pets. Guitars are tools, not living things. Or, if you prefer, they are like paint brushes that create art. I don't remember Rembrandt or Van Gogh naming their paintbrushes.

[Fatfinger McGee]

Originally Posted by Btlcat

..none of my previous guitars had names, which is a good thing because I would have run out of good names by now.

Well there’s a challenge. Thread hijack: what are GOOD names for guitars?

How about Sitar. Sitar the guitar has a nice ring to it, especially if it’s rosewood.