Fave Guitar from your past or current....

Those are sweet!

Thanks, we don't have typical artwork....just guitars everywhere. Then we have the wall of "weird instruments" and the postcard wall. I like the fact that guitars are everywhere it makes it easy to practice.

i just want one guitar that i can learn to play on so that when i go to a guitar pull i can join in.

Try this site:
http://www.chordie.com

They have a beginners section I think. Also, get a guitar that you feel like you connect with and then start with easy chords. Try typing in "easy guitar lessons with videos." Don't pay unless you know what the site is about---lots of free stuff out there. Have you ever played before?

i wanted guitar lessons when i was a kid. my mom got me piano lessons instead.

i had a guitar for about a month when my mom's second husband gave it to his nephew cause i pissed him off or something like that.

i wanted my stepmother's when they moved, but she sold it before i could say i wanted it.

maybe it's fate's way of saying i just need to stick with art.

I inherited some money a few years ago, not enough to retire on, and bought my dream guitar, a Collings 0002H. It's a slotted head 000 sized 12 fret to the body flat top. It is the sweetest sounding guitar I've ever played. It cost way too much. I look at it as the guitar my dad would never have bought for me when he was alive. :)

I have a special place in my heart for my 1963 Guild F-30 because it's the first good quality guitar I ever had. Bought it new when I was 17. It needs a neck reset, a new bridge, and extensive refinishing. As is it's a very good sounding guitar with action that's a little too high.

I also have a Valco made National "Resophonic, " a 3/4 sized reso that looks like a solid body electric. In fact Valco made electrics from the same body without the resonator and sold them under the Airline and National names. I love it because it's buck odd looking, like all Valco guitars, and it cost me $10 back in 1971. Mine says National on it. The same guitar was also sold under the Supro name too. The Supros had the coveted mother of toilet seat finish. Mine is fire engine red.

ARGHH! not the Collings 0002H!! Do you realize it's a 12-fret design with slotted head? (just kidding, obviously, you do). That is a great guitar! I do not own one. Anyway, can't fit any more guitars in the house... two our for every one in, and that's IF we have money, which seems to be a thing of the past (which maybe why my house is full of guitars...)

I think anyone should pick up playing guitar at any point :) Let me know if I can help CC?

I love the Collings 0002H. How's the action on the neck? We went to the vintage guitar show and I swear everything has tripled in price! It's like "Hey want to play this guitar that is 1/2 your mortgage?" Funny how they were not that expensive to begin with.

The action on the Collings is high. I like that. I think they did it by design since their stuff is modeled after pre-WWII Martins. I play ragtime and country blues so there's no shredding involved, not that I could do it if I wanted to. After years of playing the Guild in need of a neck reset, anything else is low action to me. :)

OK, Blind Blake could shred and he did it on what sounds like relatively cheap ladder braced guitars. He was also probably not human. :)

That sounds like a great guitar! I learned on a cheap acoustic so that I could quickly build up strength and everything after that felt great. I don't shred either--I am sort of learning some easy solos but it's not my gig. I prefer rhythm and not lead, although I am amazed by a great solo. Bobby does a bunch of solos while I play and that makes me feel happy. I'm back up pure and simple.

I have a 1971 Guild F-112 (12-string) that has plenty of nicks and scratches, but a voice like an angel: when I'm finished playing the song, she's still singing. *sigh*

I love my Taylor, with a lovely low voice of her own, but she's got a ways to go to catch up with the Guild for mellow, ringing tones. The good news is, the Taylor is beautifully built and there's no question it will one day sound as lovely.

Ahhhh, the Guild. Taylor's are great guitars and it'll settle in time. Nothing beats a great guitar that is 10+ years :)

Fun topic! My favorite guitar that got away...a '57 LP Junior. I took it to England and all over the place. Traded it away in 1991.

My current favorite is a Guild Mark I I found on craigslist...a sweet, all-mahogany classical from 1966.

I recently found a bass I'd had made for me in the '70s and sold when I was a young & broke new father in the early '80's. There it was in a guitar shop, 25 years later. I bought it back!! Even paid less than I did in 1978, and it was still in good shape.

OH man, the '57 LP Junior is a great guitar! You traded it--I hope you got a great guitar for the trade.

I like the Guild Mark and I bet it sounds sweet.

Wow, you are lucky to get that bass back. I hope it was still in great condition. You are a very lucky person to find it again :)

Shawn Phillips played a Gibson Dove, it is a beautiful guitar and another friend of mine had a classic D35, but my favorite is my magical Guild F-212- sn 444 and it is because how she sings with me that lets me know their is something special coming from her and she is mine.
So what ever instrument you share your spirit with it becomes embued with it's own unique sound.
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I agree with you Joel, it is the bond between the musician and the guitar. Call me crazy, but I felt a moment that I knew that the Ovation was meant to be mine. It just feels perfect in my hands and the voice is so wonderful that no matter how I feel, I always feel better when I play it. Speaking of that---it's the day to wax and polish her :)

My favorite is a beat up ol Washburn HOB special issue. Bought it as a floor model for less than $100. It was my first and I bought it with the few dollars my grandmother left me on her death. I wanted to do something with the money that would always remind me of her, so I took up the guitar. It may not be the greatest guitar in the world, but it sounds good and it will always have a special place in my heart.

I agree. My grandparents had a very cheap knockoff of the Gibson Hummingbird. They would sit and play the guitar (they learned to play after retirement.) My grandfather passed away and even though that guitar is very hard to play, it still reminds me of my grandparents playing. It's amazing how we can hold on to great memories through music and a guitar that would not mean much to someone else...but it becomes special to us. Man, I love guitar.

Thanks Sierra :) I love your work too! Pick up the guitar and I'll help you if I can find the time because it is never too late.

Ooops, I meant if you could find the time ;) I'm always available through email and such.

I'm a big fan of Ibanez but i love les pauls too!!

I want an Epi Les Paul Standard Plain top Sunburst. It is AWESOME and it plays great!

I've been switching back and forth between my black American Standard Telecaster (maple fretboard) and a Tobacco SUnburst LP Standard. I have a Strat Plus Deluxe and a late 70's LP Deluxe too but they don't get played much. I'm going to sell them and get an SG.

I have a Kenny Hill nylon string, two Tacoma acoustics and a Selmer copy by Gitane.

I still miss an off white LP Custom that I let get away. I'm interested in the PRS Mira and Music Man Steve Morse models too.

I had an Ovation back in the 80's. Al Dimeola had one so I figured that must be his secret. ;)

Don't sell your Les Paul man. I own an SG and the Les Paul is a lot better than it. But you know, whatever you want.

For my main guitar, it's a strat styled guitar all the way. The single coil pickup by the neck is my favorite sound in all of guitardom. The vibrato bar that I like to set in the "trem lock" position to keep the guitar in tune is another nice feature. But, the first time I picked up a strat, what sold me was the volume control right next to the strings, very handy. I currently have a made in Mexico strat that has some extra switches I put in, and I recently got a Yamaha Pacifica 012 "fat strat," which I haven't modified, yet, but I like it a lot.

I also have a Kramer D-5000 (I believe) aluminum neck bass. The neck is one of the best necks I have ever played on for any guitar. The pickups are super hot, if only I could find strat pickups that hot. And I have a Washburn Bantam copy of a headless bass. In my mind, I like the Kramer better, but I end up playing both basses equally, and would have a hard time getting rid of the Washburn.

I used to own a 1971 wood grained strat, but it got stolen. I wish I had that one back.

What I would like to get? Luguna has a very nice strat copy. It would be hard to do the modifications I like to do because it doesn't have a pick guard. But it plays and sounds nice. A guitarist for a band called The Amino Acids has a baritone Danelectro with an interesting alternate sound (it's used on the first song on their MySpace page). I would die for an old Mosrite like the Ventures used to play. Some kind of 5 string bass that sounds as good as my Kramer would be cool, too.

I have an Epiphone acoustic guitar that used to be a favorite, but I just haven't been into acoustic music, lately.

1) Fave Guitar that I want to own: I've given up coveting, buuuut, a Gary Moore Les Paul might suit me
2) Fave Electric Guitar: this is a three-way tie: my white strat plus with rosewood neck and lace sensors, my Fender made in Japan (not for export) tele with brass bridge and neck humbucker (a la Keith Richards)- sustain like you wouldn't believe from a Fender, and my Parker Midi fly (even though I don't use the midi). OOps, I forgot my Godin Acousicaster. I just love 'em all on this list.
3) Fave Guitar: Taylor 12-string, Kottke signature model
4) Fave Travel Guitar: Baby Taylor (or buying one wherever I arrive, but that takes $$$).
5) Wish guitar: I'd like that Collings 12 fret you'all 'r' talkin' about, Nippy and Sherri (but I've given up coveting) or a Parker Adrian Belew model (but I've given up..., and anyway we have no room)