Looking for Mr. Goodbar?

[Bill McDowell]

How do you keep from buying a guitar, "just to buy a guitar?"

Every time I look for a guitar, I want to aspire to something better than I currently play - better ergonomics, feel, playability and tone. I'm not looking for a "complementary guitar" to what I have - I'm looking for something to blow them out of the water so that I never play them again.

Am I wrong?

[mbpatsfan]

Well, that's how I've always looked at it. I just have one guitar now, my PS, and I chose the features that I knew I had to have. It replaced a BRW SC that was all I wanted up until that point, and it replaced another PRS.

Maybe if I were independently wealthy I would look at it differently, though.

[barrysrq]

I try to steer my purchases toward as many different playing and sound choices as possible. Admitted, none so pleasant to the hands and ears as my CU22 and ATS, the PRS widefat neck suits me perfectly.

Then there's the Gibson 335-12, I put up with its skinny, too-narrow neck because nothing else sounds like it. It isn't going away even when the PRS 12 arrives. Then there's the Epi Dot 335 on my bench, waiting for me to install Gibson pups and Grover lockers, aiming for bluesier sound. The Epi Les Paul with PRS 7s that I tinker with, experiment with tunings and learning slide on. A pile of Jazzmaster parts waiting for Warmoth neck and body to go surfing.

In all, enough invested to put me on the same page as one decent Private Stock, but I'm having more fun this way.

If I did get that Private Stock, I would play it. A lot. The one choice I won't go for is the investment piece that lives in a closet and doesn't get played.

[Ripcom]

My only thing about guitars is they have to be played.

Have as many as you want but play them.

If you don't play them send them round to me.:D