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There was a lovely exchange of thoughts / sentiments in ksd's "Wouldn't it be funny..." thread which went as follows;

 

This little guitar...gives everyone a warm fuzzy. It is very much the musical equivalent of a toasted cheese sandwich and a bowl of tomato soup made with milk....
Everybody has that. Mine is my Tele. Yours is something else, and so on....

Much as I love my #1 LP (and I REALLY love my #1 LP) I find that there is still something inexplicably and infinitely comforting when I pick up my current Strat.

It's just a low-level MIM '60s Classic Series (Lake Placid Blue, Rosewood 'board, mint green 'guard, 6-screw trem-bridge) thing but it is so unbelievably identical to the 1964 Strat I bought in 1980 and played for the next 24 years that when I pick it up it's like I'm putting on a pair of broken-in sheepskin-lined slippers.

 

It really is like "Coming Home".

 

What guitar(s) give you this sort of 'warm fuzzy' whereby you simply know each other so very well it's like you've never been apart?

 

Pip.

 

..and I have a good(-ish) excuse for posting this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-FmsKz-fU

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I felt that way, when I bought (all) my SG's, after an 40 year hiatus from owning any.

Now, they are such a part of my playing, it's almost impossible to go a day, without

picking (at least) one of them up! And, I too, LOVE ALL my guitars, truly! But, there's just

something both "familiar" and comforting, in playing the SG's! [biggrin]

 

Of course, playing my '64 L series Strat, does that, as well. It was my first ever

electric guitar! So thankful, that I still have it!

 

 

CB

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I like all 5 of mine as well. The 3 I play most are the Eiph. the Jag. And the Fender Acoustic but it's always a special treat to get the Gold Top out. I tend to play it less once I found out it's worth but shouldn't be like that. At my age I should just enjoy it as much as I can. I'm actually just afraid of scratching or chipping it.

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The cheap (pawn-shop), basic old MIJ 1984 Aria RS Standard. The 'vintage' guitars mainly stay in their cases (though the Epi is quite beautifully made and the Gibson quite cool) but this old thing just feels immediately right every damned time - 90% of my playing is done right here - so that's gotta be 'coming home' right?

 

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The cheap (pawn-shop), basic old MIJ 1984 Aria RS Standard. The 'vintage' guitars mainly stay in their cases (though the Epi is quite beautifully made and the Gibson quite cool) but this old thing just feels immediately right every damned time - 90% of my playing is done right here - so that's gotta be 'coming home' right?

 

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Always like to see that pic. thats a well loved & well played guitar.

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The cheap (pawn-shop), basic old MIJ 1984 Aria RS Standard.........this old thing just feels immediately right every damned time - 90% of my playing is done right here - so that's gotta be 'coming home' right?
Mine would have to be right here...

A "Hitting the Nail on the Head" to both of you!

 

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Pip.

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I've never felt any affection for any guitar with the exception of an old Yamaha FG180 that my dad bought me when I was 13. A guitars just a guitar to me, there are good guitars and not so good guitars.

If a guitar was ever lost or stolen, I'd just go out and find a replacement. Having said that, I wouldn't sell any of mine, maybe I'm just a hoarder

 

 

Ian

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Nowadays, I only have two electrics and I love'em both equaly. [wub]

 

It depends on my mood. Somedays I wake up bluesy and go for the Les Paul, when I feel like a hardrocker I look for my Explorer! [biggrin]

 

And I love playing my Classical Guitar when I feel like a virtuose! [flapper]

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I've never felt any affection for any guitar with the exception of an old Yamaha FG180 that my dad bought me when I was 13.

Ian

 

My 1st decent acoustic was a Yamaha FG180; on my 21st birthday (June 1975) I was given just enough to go and buy one (£32 I think) and the 2 Johnny Smith books from from Maxwell's Music shop in Woking, which is long gone now.

Eventually I sold it to someone who had a FG160 and wanted the next model up. They were great instruments for the price! Should have kept it of course, but that's life....still have the books.

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Interesting mix of answers here, folks!

 

None at all...
I've never felt any affection for any guitar with the exception of an old Yamaha FG180......A guitar's just a guitar to me...

I must admit to a slight amount of surprise here. I don't think of any of my guitars as 'just a guitar'. Perhaps I'm odd that way?....

 

Funny thing is a friend and fellow snapper loves his cameras in much the same way as I love my guitars. He told me he sometimes, in the evenings, just sits holding them - enjoying how they look, feel and work whereas my view of my own 'work' cameras is exactly the same as m-e and Ian describe their guitars; I have absolutely no emotional attachment to any of them in the slightest. They are just tools.

My 'personal work' cameras - Leica M8.2 and Leica M9-P - are a different matter; but that's another story.

 

Pip.

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Same pic from my recent thread

 

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I saved up for a couple years to buy this when I was 15 :) Not sure if it's just the fact that I mostly learned to play on this guitar, or if it really is that nice.. but the neck on this guitar is so effortless to play. I've never played a guitar that felt better to me. The Bigsby was a recent addition

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I've never been totally comfortable with a guitar until I got my Parker. Granted, I haven't had that many.

 

My Gibson ES-330 I've had the longest (since the 1970s) and was my favorite until I got the Parker. It has limitations though, predominantly neck dive and while P90s are my very favorite pickup, if I'm gigging in a room that has electrical problems (and there is one that I play yearly) it hums.

 

My Epi Casino has neck dive and the same problems as the 330, but I took it to gigs for a while because the Gibson has become a collectors item, and I switch between guitar, sax, wind synth, flute and sometimes other instruments on the ig. A sure way to beat up a guitar.

 

So to defeat that I got an LTD faux LP. I rewired it for 2 GF Mean 90 pickups, one RW/RP and that cures the hum problem. I added a varitone just to see what that is all about, but although a fun experiment, I didn't use it much. It has no neck dive, and is fun to play, but the width of fretboard at the nut is rather thin for my hands.

 

Then I got my Parker Drangonfly (now Maxxfly). I liked it so much I got a second with different pickups. When I think about playing guitar now, it's what I think about and it's what I go to. The one with the Duncan P-Rails goes to the gig with me and the other with the strat S-S-H configuration is what I practice on.

 

So I guess it's "home".

 

Since I got them a few years ago, I've even lost my GAS for guitars. I'm sure one guitar isn't right for everybody, but this one is perfect for me.

 

Insights and incites by Notes.

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