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?

[varmonter]

Yes just like lays potato chips.

[Rockysdad]

Your new mantra: “I must resist”, repeat every day for the month following a new purchase.

Actually, I keep wanting other L-body Larrivees.

[Lillis]

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

[MHC]

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.

[Goodallboy]

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.

[Tnfiddler]

YES!!! I love my Bourgeois Slope D, but I want a Bourgeois dread so bad I can't stand it!!

[vintageom]

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.

[raysachs]

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.

[RP]

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...

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by varmonter

Yes just like lays potato chips.

Can't have just one!

[Mycroft]

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.

[DCCougar]

Originally Posted by Willie Voltaire

How about you -- does one purchase beget another?

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!

[Jim Owen]

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.

[aknow]

It's the law of attraction. It can apply to a company named Yamaha.