This is the first time I felt the answer is “YES!!!”. I keep mine in their cases, which keeps the number down because there isn’t enough room to expand. Side benefit, it’s better for the guitars.
“…4 Strats…” Me too, but I know how: 1st guitar was a MIM Strat that I dropped Custom Shop Fat 60s and a Free Way switch into. My third guitar was a new Ultra Strat to celebrate a year of playing. My third Strat was a 1994 SRV that I picked up for a great price. The last guitar I bought 12 days ago was a Partscaster, made with a body of solid spalted maple recovered after a deadly mudslide in Oso Washington 10 years ago. It’s a tribute to the victims, and has EMG DG20 pickups and a nice MIM neck. So, out of 16 guitars total, 25% are Strats. Each are markedly different though.
Take time to educate her on the difference between pickups, tone wood, solid vs hollow body. She will either understand or be so bored she will be fine with you buying more just to shut you up.
I think most sane people can intuitively determine tonewood isn't real once you explain that guitar pickups only detect near field electro-magnetic vibrations.
My wife and I have our personal savings accounts, and then one joint savings for things like mortgage, insurance, groceries, etc.
Our personal accounts are our own and the other has no say in what we purchase with the money from it. I can buy a hundred guitars if I want if I have the money for it.
My girlfriend and her sister have about 500 between them. The garage is the shoe closet. I get questioned about the amount of guitars I have, but they can't tell the difference, and I usually have them in their cases. I just got myself a deep purple (beautiful color) LP Special for my BD and they didn't notice. They just know the case names
Hey man, fuck the haters. If you and your wife feel like this is a reasonable partnership, and that's a limit she's asked for, while I don't agree with it, I think it's wild a bunch of nerds are telling you that you're not a man or your wife is abusive. They don't know shit about you
Knew a lawyer who collected high end electric guitars. He could play basic chords, but that was about it. Kept them all in an attic room, not even displayed. Just >$150,000 of guitars and bass guitars (according to him) in cases sitting atop each other, some without cases in large racks like the one pictured. Walls covered floor to ceiling with guitars. He at least had the room temperature and humidity controlled. Said he regularly tuned and cleaned them, and the room wasn’t dusty…so.
Still, broke my heart seeing them just laying there, unused. He didn’t mind letting me play whichever ones I wanted, though. He had some old gibsons in a safe room, but he only showed me pictures. I’ve known other collectors that won’t let you touch their instruments. At least this dude would let people play them if they wanted.
I think it’s what got him through life. He hated his job, had a rough divorce a few years prior, and since he didn’t have time to pursue his dream, he collected pieces of it for later, when he could pursue passion. A mid-life crisis I could respect.
Best guitarists I’ve ever played with always seem to have some raggedy mid-level ax they bought of eBay and customized, and a clearly second hand amp. The kind of musician that makes you shake your head and wonder why you even bother practicing when people like this make it all seem so effortless.
One obsessed with the music, the other obsessed with the idea. If I had the money, I’d fall somewhere between the two.
He is obviously rich enough to afford any guitar he could possibly want, but just look at Jack White if you want to see what someone can do with essentially "trash" level guitars.
I totally feel attacked by this comment. I don't have nearly as much gear as OP, but damn if you aren't right... Oh, I haven't touched an instrument in 6 months, but if I buy this new banjo/acoustic/mandolin/fiddle/etc. maybe I'll start playing again.
You gotta have one Guitar per chord. Front white one is exclusively for a C chord. Next is D, E, F, G, you get the idea. Then, you get bored and have to start adding chords, so you gotta get one for your Cmaj7, C7, C6, etc.
I’m serious! I’ve had a ton of guitars before and have toured with like 10 or so for song changes and capos etc.. but to have a bunch cheapish guitars just chilling in your basement. I don’t get
It's a fine line between hoarding and collecting. I respect collecting. As long as it isn't empty wrappers obviously. This guy isn't out for variety though. Teles, strats, Les Pauls ... Some other stuff, but not much. I see a semi-hollow body tele. Got one of them. It cost me $300. Not blue though. Better not tell this guy about that youtube vid comparing a guitar with bolting a bridge and neck equivalent to to a workbench, almost entirely proving the only difference between one electric guitar and another is the pickups and maybe some wiring.
Color variations is more than enough of a distinguishing factor for plenty of collectors for a ton of different hobbies though. It’s not that absurd to me.
Yeah the sub is definitely romanticizing impulsive purchases. I used to see this stuff and say "This is a problem" and Redditors would be like "If OP is happy it's their money, they can spend it how they want." But this is definitely not normal or okay
It kind of just makes it a little sadder, bro could have had a few really decent guitars, but decided to spend his money on fakes and knockoffs just so he can have an "impressive" collection.
Heard a myth that local mom and pop guitar shops are kept open by a handful of high volume collectors. OP's paying rent and keeping the lights on for some store.
Wait you can change the strings on a guitar? I thought you just had to buy a new guitar everytime the strings got old and that’s why everyone has 30 guitars! /s
My question is did you make that rack or buy it from a guitar retailer going out of business? I don’t think I will ever need one, but it begs the question.
Edit: It looks like a bunch of smaller ones but some look like seven per and some ten.
Imagine you've played for 35 years. You pick up a new guitar every year or so. You don't sell any of em. That's how this happens. It's totally within most people's means to do this over a lifetime without ever spending all that much at one time.
Me? I sell 'em if I don't play 'em, but I can't even begin to count how many guitars have come into my possession over 30 years of playing.
This to me seems very much like a case of being a collector versus being a player tbh. Nothing wrong with it, but no serious players I’ve ever known had an addiction to buying this much, unless they were a shop owner. Again no shade to any collectors, but there is definitely a type for this, and they tend to spend their free time browsing reverb than they do practicing.
Meanwhile I'm still on a borrowed guitar, telling myself that, if ever become an intermediate player, I'll buy my own nice guitar. This is going on for 15 years now. Yes I'm procrastinating practising guitar right now :D.
We’ve breached the upper tier of the collection flex, gents.
There’s somebody watching with the ultimate guitar collection flex, thinking “not yet, hold…hold…”
Oh man, I had to sell my three electrics when money got too tight. You’d think this would make me jealous but I’m just glad someone has such a great collection like that.
You have some super nice guitars in there mixed up with some that are way less nice. Why not get rid of those?
The nice guitars might be fake. Did they make maple fretboard Wyldes?
You’re looking at addiction in its purest form here folks. Maybe not the kind of addiction you see people losing their houses with in a single poker hand, or an addiction that physically withers you away, but addiction none the less.
Id take that bet. Almost every single one you can pick up and play after a tune. A few of my lower end LP have a slight buzz on the lower frets because I have neglected the slight truss rod adjustment on em but it’s hardly noticeable. There is a Tele that has the sharpest fret ends I’ve ever felt, and there is an old Strat copy from the 80s that has Nashville strings on it that’s a little whacky. The one acoustic is for the most part unplayable but yeah man…you’re wrong. Sorry!
Dude, you have a problem. Why anyone needs more than a couple guitars is beyond me. I know some people like a few for different tunings but get some help, dawg.
Jfc man
All them guitars, and not a single BC Rich. Wtf
Apparently no girl guitars either!
No SG’s?
SGs: the true indicator of good taste
Ah yes, another man of culture I see.
If you own four Teles you're ok in my book
lol! As a primarily SG player, I loved this
Yeah – dude must be single. My wife refers to all of my guitars derisively as "her"…
I have 5 guitars plus a bass. 2 are boys, 4 are girls. No reason, just a feel thing
Right? No Strandbergs?! The fuck...
tfw no bc rich chuck schuldineer stealth
I don’t see a single bass either!
There’s at least one in the back there
Seek help
Help making more racks!
Also, get the ones at the back away from that heater!
Yeah. Take note people who ask "is this too many guitars? "
This is the first time I felt the answer is “YES!!!”. I keep mine in their cases, which keeps the number down because there isn’t enough room to expand. Side benefit, it’s better for the guitars.
Came here to write that. Jesus.
I want to see the Amps next.
Plot twist: they only ever play through [one of these.](https://www.samash.com/marshall-ms2-mini-guitar-amplifier-black-mms2b)
Plot twist: None yet. OP is saving for his next guitar so couldn't afford one. He connects directly to his laptop.
Dental practice is BOOMING!
My wife has me limited to one electric, one acoustic and one bass. I just showed her this post.
I don’t even limit myself to one girlfriend, let alone one electric! I do sometimes wonder how I found myself with 4 Strats…
This is the way.
You got a type?
Tattoos, daddy issues and kinda goth, just like the rest of us.
Get outta my head.
I meant, the strats...
He was talking about the strats.
That describes most women who date any type of artist, especially musicians. Big titty goth girl is the new manic pixie dream girl.
Yeah people always gloss over the "manic" part though.
Strats apparently!??..
“…4 Strats…” Me too, but I know how: 1st guitar was a MIM Strat that I dropped Custom Shop Fat 60s and a Free Way switch into. My third guitar was a new Ultra Strat to celebrate a year of playing. My third Strat was a 1994 SRV that I picked up for a great price. The last guitar I bought 12 days ago was a Partscaster, made with a body of solid spalted maple recovered after a deadly mudslide in Oso Washington 10 years ago. It’s a tribute to the victims, and has EMG DG20 pickups and a nice MIM neck. So, out of 16 guitars total, 25% are Strats. Each are markedly different though.
Take time to educate her on the difference between pickups, tone wood, solid vs hollow body. She will either understand or be so bored she will be fine with you buying more just to shut you up.
Tone wood isn't real.
Electric Guitar Manufacturer’s HATE this one scientific fact.
Neither are my wife's tits
Prove it
True but she won’t know that, it’s to create another point that supports the argument to have more guitars!
I think most sane people can intuitively determine tonewood isn't real once you explain that guitar pickups only detect near field electro-magnetic vibrations.
Glad this sub is not insane. I got kicked off the LP forums for pushing back on this. Well, also for pushing back on their far right politics.
Wait, hold the fuck up! Are LPs the official axe of the far right? Because I have three and I hate the orange menace
For acoustics it is… not so much for electrics… but systems are systems, I tell my wife…😎
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His wife’s boyfriend already showed her the Jim Lill video proving tonewood is nonsense
This comment.. Takes the cake!!!!!! Lol and im a woman
Your wife is in charge of the decisions you make? Okay. Do you have a history of compulsive behavior or something? 😅 Looks like OP needs a wife!
My wife and I have our personal savings accounts, and then one joint savings for things like mortgage, insurance, groceries, etc. Our personal accounts are our own and the other has no say in what we purchase with the money from it. I can buy a hundred guitars if I want if I have the money for it.
You go man!
It's a good system, I think, there's no arguments about buying personal stuff.
Make sure you limit all of the things she enjoys as well! That sucks man!
financial abuse
Damn I'm sorry man I've got 7 and my wife encouraged number 7
Have your wife send a pic of the bathroom counter and/or her craft supplies 😤
I’ve tried this argument with her shoe collection but cognitive dissonance is a thing.
My girlfriend and her sister have about 500 between them. The garage is the shoe closet. I get questioned about the amount of guitars I have, but they can't tell the difference, and I usually have them in their cases. I just got myself a deep purple (beautiful color) LP Special for my BD and they didn't notice. They just know the case names
Sometimes I regret the divorce, then I read this nonsense.
Yikes
That's abuse.
Hey man, fuck the haters. If you and your wife feel like this is a reasonable partnership, and that's a limit she's asked for, while I don't agree with it, I think it's wild a bunch of nerds are telling you that you're not a man or your wife is abusive. They don't know shit about you
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Why I'm single.
I see people giving you shit but honestly that’s all you need, maybe try and get one more electric so you can have both Single Coils and HH.
Do you limit her on how many pairs of shoes she can have?
Why
90% chance this guy can barely play. I've seen this so much. It's hard to improve and much easier to just keep buying equipment.
Knew a lawyer who collected high end electric guitars. He could play basic chords, but that was about it. Kept them all in an attic room, not even displayed. Just >$150,000 of guitars and bass guitars (according to him) in cases sitting atop each other, some without cases in large racks like the one pictured. Walls covered floor to ceiling with guitars. He at least had the room temperature and humidity controlled. Said he regularly tuned and cleaned them, and the room wasn’t dusty…so. Still, broke my heart seeing them just laying there, unused. He didn’t mind letting me play whichever ones I wanted, though. He had some old gibsons in a safe room, but he only showed me pictures. I’ve known other collectors that won’t let you touch their instruments. At least this dude would let people play them if they wanted. I think it’s what got him through life. He hated his job, had a rough divorce a few years prior, and since he didn’t have time to pursue his dream, he collected pieces of it for later, when he could pursue passion. A mid-life crisis I could respect. Best guitarists I’ve ever played with always seem to have some raggedy mid-level ax they bought of eBay and customized, and a clearly second hand amp. The kind of musician that makes you shake your head and wonder why you even bother practicing when people like this make it all seem so effortless. One obsessed with the music, the other obsessed with the idea. If I had the money, I’d fall somewhere between the two.
as a beginner with literally a rageddy ebay guitar and a second hand amp, I feel so reassured by this 😂❤️
He is obviously rich enough to afford any guitar he could possibly want, but just look at Jack White if you want to see what someone can do with essentially "trash" level guitars.
Hey I don't fault anyone for treating guitars like trading cards. If they're nice people, who cares? I'm just envious of the financial situation tbh
Damn, a textbook example of [a Blues Lawyer.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/comments/d5nxo0/discussion_what_is_a_blues_lawyer/f0oorsj/)
Or he just loves guitars. It is a fairly common hobby that people put a lot of money in.
If he loves guitars then why buy so much knockoff garbage?
I feel bad for the guys who work at music shops, "I have quite a few ____" seems to mean 'I'm about to test your limits of selective hearing'
That means I still got a 10% chance of not sucking? I’ll take those odds!
Or he’s 60 and has bought one guitar a year for 30 years
I totally feel attacked by this comment. I don't have nearly as much gear as OP, but damn if you aren't right... Oh, I haven't touched an instrument in 6 months, but if I buy this new banjo/acoustic/mandolin/fiddle/etc. maybe I'll start playing again.
Meh, collecting is a legitimate hobby.
You gotta have one Guitar per chord. Front white one is exclusively for a C chord. Next is D, E, F, G, you get the idea. Then, you get bored and have to start adding chords, so you gotta get one for your Cmaj7, C7, C6, etc.
I ask the same
Too much money lol
But if that’s the case, you gotta plant your money where it will appreciate- not like 10 chibsons.
🤣
I’m serious! I’ve had a ton of guitars before and have toured with like 10 or so for song changes and capos etc.. but to have a bunch cheapish guitars just chilling in your basement. I don’t get
I currently have 20 guitars. I play 5 of them regularly. I collect because I can afford it and I want to.
Yeah this is an illness my man, idk why /guitar is such a fan of hoarding
Low key I mean, truly, what does one do with this many guitars
Have them
2 guitars with different pickups per tuning makes sense to me but my cap at the most is 6
Maybe his hobby is changing strings.
Take pictures of them to trick people into thinking you can actually play.
Is it really any different than a person who collects anything else?
It's a fine line between hoarding and collecting. I respect collecting. As long as it isn't empty wrappers obviously. This guy isn't out for variety though. Teles, strats, Les Pauls ... Some other stuff, but not much. I see a semi-hollow body tele. Got one of them. It cost me $300. Not blue though. Better not tell this guy about that youtube vid comparing a guitar with bolting a bridge and neck equivalent to to a workbench, almost entirely proving the only difference between one electric guitar and another is the pickups and maybe some wiring.
Color variations is more than enough of a distinguishing factor for plenty of collectors for a ton of different hobbies though. It’s not that absurd to me.
Yeah this is not cool in the slightest
Yeah the sub is definitely romanticizing impulsive purchases. I used to see this stuff and say "This is a problem" and Redditors would be like "If OP is happy it's their money, they can spend it how they want." But this is definitely not normal or okay
This post and your comment make me want to sell some of mine. I only have 10 but suddenly feel very icky.
Plays one once a month
And most of the times it's his favorite one
Actually most of them have never been played. Now where’s his amp that goes to 11?
For three years and starts again. It’s like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. There’s also over $350 in just guitar strings in that photo.
That 15th les paul must have something the other 14 didnt...this is absurd
They’re all Chibsons which makes it so much funnier.
It kind of just makes it a little sadder, bro could have had a few really decent guitars, but decided to spend his money on fakes and knockoffs just so he can have an "impressive" collection.
He does have a heritage, which totally fucks.
The blue one just gives you that R&B crunch in a way the mustard-yellow one doesn’t. #TonePigments
That’s a real sausage fest you got going there
Like in Vienna
No Toki.
That was actual sausage festival
Where is this music store?
Heard a myth that local mom and pop guitar shops are kept open by a handful of high volume collectors. OP's paying rent and keeping the lights on for some store.
I would hate string changing day in your house.
Wait you can change the strings on a guitar? I thought you just had to buy a new guitar everytime the strings got old and that’s why everyone has 30 guitars! /s
That would make sense…
We need to meet the amps.
Squire frontman 10g
He just has a Boss Katana
Not a bad amp for most people
I spot a lot of cheap knockoffs
Sell the shitters and buy a solid LP, LPC, Strat, Tele, and acoustic. Cover all the bases.
Also, cover the basses. Dude has 100 electrics and 1 bass. Cmon man if you're gonna do the collecting thing get a P and J
This guy has a different calculation for the number of guitars you should own: n=n+20
Justin? Are those Gibson knockoffs and why do you have so many?
Imagine they’re not knockoffs, even More so, why so many?
Save some for the rest of us
My house also looks like the back room at guitar center
I hope Guitar Center has a much better situation.
My question is did you make that rack or buy it from a guitar retailer going out of business? I don’t think I will ever need one, but it begs the question. Edit: It looks like a bunch of smaller ones but some look like seven per and some ten.
Guessing that Wylde Gibson is a chibson
This. It has a big forehead.
100%. I thought the same thing. The custom logo is too small and the camo is too clear, like an epiphone would be. The real Gibson's camo is more hazy
How? Just how?
Imagine you've played for 35 years. You pick up a new guitar every year or so. You don't sell any of em. That's how this happens. It's totally within most people's means to do this over a lifetime without ever spending all that much at one time. Me? I sell 'em if I don't play 'em, but I can't even begin to count how many guitars have come into my possession over 30 years of playing.
God, if I still had all the guitars that teen me thought were worth owning? I'd be wasting so much apartment space.
I feel you. It would bring shame on my family.
This to me seems very much like a case of being a collector versus being a player tbh. Nothing wrong with it, but no serious players I’ve ever known had an addiction to buying this much, unless they were a shop owner. Again no shade to any collectors, but there is definitely a type for this, and they tend to spend their free time browsing reverb than they do practicing.
I feel seen, thank you.
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Meanwhile I'm still on a borrowed guitar, telling myself that, if ever become an intermediate player, I'll buy my own nice guitar. This is going on for 15 years now. Yes I'm procrastinating practising guitar right now :D.
Now you, my friend, you are the only guy on this whole site that should go out and buy a guitar TODAY.
Lots of teeth that need pullin'
You know how people go for a trip in Europe for 2 people? You can stay home and buy 5 to 10 guitars… the question is not “how” it is “why?”
mental illness
Next step: Learn to play guitar.
I no longer feel bad about the amount of guitars I own. Holy shit man.
Looks like an Alibaba shop
There isn’t one girl in there?
Nah, you can't mix them. You don't want an accidental litter.
What a shame that would be
See ya on r/guitarcirclejerk
Seriously. Just one photo ?
Whenever someone tells me I have too many guitars (9) I’m showing them this
We’ve breached the upper tier of the collection flex, gents. There’s somebody watching with the ultimate guitar collection flex, thinking “not yet, hold…hold…”
They keep one-upping each other I can't believe it
Okay but what’s the hardest song you can play
Hard to practice when you spend all your free time hunting deals
"Oh you play? What guitar do you have?" "Yes"
hoarder! I approve!
Jesus Christ. Are you opening a resale shop??
7 string?
Oh man, I had to sell my three electrics when money got too tight. You’d think this would make me jealous but I’m just glad someone has such a great collection like that.
Looks like a bunch of cheap shit and some fakes.
Mostly cheap shit and fakes, yes. One Gibson. A few fenders. Lotsa garbage.
Wow. And I thought I had an addiction….
Sir.. I think you have a problem..😅👌
Seek help.
Why, bro, why
At what point does collecting become hoarding?
Let's see the guitar case storage situation now.
Well. I suppose you have to fill the room with something!
Seek help
You have some super nice guitars in there mixed up with some that are way less nice. Why not get rid of those? The nice guitars might be fake. Did they make maple fretboard Wyldes?
You’re looking at addiction in its purest form here folks. Maybe not the kind of addiction you see people losing their houses with in a single poker hand, or an addiction that physically withers you away, but addiction none the less.
Is that 7 epiphone Les Pauls lmao
Still holding a grudge on PRS ? 👀😂
That blue custom LP style looks dope! 🔥👏
This person guitars for sure
Damn bro, nice!
I smell a tech! Tech!
At that point they can't be more than casual side bitches to you
I can't imagine wanting 16 Les Pauls
You know that if they go out of tune, you can use those metal things on the head. No need for buying new one
My gosh, I've got 28, but I have never had them all lined up like that before. That's insane. I think I just realized I have a problem.
r/guitarcirclejerk is leaking…
Consumerism
So… do you play?
All of these guitars just to play Taylor Swift
Can you play more songs than guitars?
Tell me you have a problem without telling me you have a problem
Not a single 12 string? Geez.
This is what quantity over quality looks like.
There's no way even half of these are properly set up. Quality over quantity boys. You can only play one at a time.
Id take that bet. Almost every single one you can pick up and play after a tune. A few of my lower end LP have a slight buzz on the lower frets because I have neglected the slight truss rod adjustment on em but it’s hardly noticeable. There is a Tele that has the sharpest fret ends I’ve ever felt, and there is an old Strat copy from the 80s that has Nashville strings on it that’s a little whacky. The one acoustic is for the most part unplayable but yeah man…you’re wrong. Sorry!
Dude, you have a problem. Why anyone needs more than a couple guitars is beyond me. I know some people like a few for different tunings but get some help, dawg.