zombywoof Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 I am now well into my third year of having no interest in snagging anything new to me. During that time, I have turned my back on instruments such as a 1947 Gibson-made National 1155 which just popped up on my doorstep and did not even take the 1957 J50 off the wall of a shop I had gone into to drop a guitar off for repairs. Still not feeling even the slightest twinge of longing or regret. The supreme test though came last weekend when I sold a guitar which I never would have parted with a few years earlier. Not only have I not had second thoughts about parting with the instrument but the fact that I could have made a lot more on the guitar had I not sold it somebody I knew at a deep "friend's discount" also does not matter. If anything, it is fairly liberating in that all the emotion is out of the equation. I can say one thing though which is that if I should break my self-imposed exile whether it be something old or new it is going to be one doozy of a guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhanners623 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 I haven’t bought any since 2019…. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Started my”fast” last week. It’s going pretty good, so far.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMELEYE Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 I'm 77. I've owned literally 100s of guitars since the early '60s. Have a dozen now. Just not hungry these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, CAMELEYE said: I'm 77. I've owned literally 100s of guitars since the early '60s. Have a dozen now. Just not hungry these days. I am also in my 70s which I think has something to do with it. Even though I have not owned hundreds of guitars I have owned and still own a couple which are now considered legendry or at least darn near. But I have always been one lucky S.O.B. when it comes to guitars and in particular Gibsons in that for a very long time now I never had to go and seek one out. They just showed up when I was not even thinking about buying anything. So, I always figured they were meant to be, Edited February 14, 2023 by zombywoof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 (edited) Zombi, you probably saw it but here is a 5 odd page thread on AGF entitled 'How did you know when you finally had enough guitars?' https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=665081 A large percentage say they have given up buying guitars as they have got old and lost their marbles! 😁 I can feel a big buy coming along here for Zombi, and ME! ....Before the dam busts, so to speak! Some big custom....or a big vintage number....hmmm....there is a vintage 00 Martin for sale close by...hmm....No, stop. NO. BluesKing777. Edited February 14, 2023 by BluesKing777 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsongs Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 I’m probably crazy but I love all kinds of Guitars.. I really love my Gibsons! I’ve added some new ones I’ve been wanting for some time. I just bought a new Gretsch G-6136T-59GE Vintage Select White Falcon… With great Sounding TV Jones Classic Filtertrons! Almost to pretty to play.. Beautiful! About a year ago bought a new USA Epiphone Casino in Royal Tan.. Love those USA P90’s sound.. Custom Shop level Guitar! Most versatile Guitar there is IMO…. A year before that I bought a new Gretsch G-6128T-GH Signature George Harrison Duo Jet.. One of the finest Guitars I’ve ever seen, heard or played! I hope I never quit playing & wanting Guitars! I am thinking of selling some of my duplicate Guitars that I’ve got my enjoyment out of & replacing them pwith a couple different Guitars on my dream list… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Haven't purchased anything acoustic since the ceramic saddled plastic bridge cherry 1963 J-45 that flew in in August 2017. A guitar I adore. But bought a cheap black hollow Höfner bass between X-mas & New Year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 My 2017 J-15 is my newest guitar. I am still lusting for a round neck resonator, but I refuse to buy a Chinese one, so will have to wait until I "come across" one that I like. I might yet buy a little 12 fretter as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 I think it’s like giving up smoking. Once you’ve Really Decided, it’s easier. And gets easier every day. I haven’t had a ciggybutt in 22 years or bought a guitar in 10. Now, BEER ….. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsongs Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 (edited) I quit smoking 35 years ago.. I get that.. But, I still buy Guitars. Nothing Unhealthy about that. I like discovering something new.. I like being inspired by the different sounds coming out of different Guitars.. I admire Guitars & love all the different & unique, makes & models! I think if I give up a desire for Guitars I’ll give up a desire to play.. I don’t want to do that.. I’ve seen a few Old Timers do that already.. They just sit around, don’t do much & are grumpy.. Edited February 15, 2023 by Larsongs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 nothing yet this year.. nothing planned either. but hey, these are things we have little control over 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 8 hours ago, Larsongs said: I quit smoking 35 years ago.. I get that.. But, I still buy Guitars. Nothing Unhealthy about that. I like discovering something new.. I like being inspired by the different sounds coming out of different Guitars.. I admire Guitars & love all the different & unique, makes & models! I think if I give up a desire for Guitars I’ll give up a desire to play.. I don’t want to do that.. I’ve seen a few Old Timers do that already.. They just sit around, don’t do much & are grumpy.. I get the being driven by curiosity and wanting to see just what you can pull out of this and that guitar. That is why I have played everything from parlors to jumbos built with every kind of lumber imaginable and sporting bracing carves ranging from ladder to H to X. But love of playing has nothing to do with it. I still play a lot. Lots of noodlin' around for enjoyment though more than to hone skills. And I will play out when the mood hits me. But I am also just as happy when playing a Harmony Sovereign as I am with any Gibson on the planet. And the day that changes is the day I will stop playing music because I will have forgotten why I had started to play back when I did not know a good guitar from a can of tuna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsongs Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 I love old Harmony Sovereign’s.. That’s what I played in the beginning.. They are great Guitars! Wish I still had one.. But, it wouldn’t check all my boxes.. No Guitar does.. I’ve literally played, not owned, about a 1,000 over 50+ years…. Many are better than others.. The Sovereign is one.. I do own a few different types…. I write & record different genres of music.. I’m the same player.. But, the different Sounds of different Guitars has inspired me to write different sounding Songs of different genre's.. From Country & Western, Pop, Rock, Country Rock, Blues & some Smooth Jazz.. I could never have done that with just one or two Guitars.. Plus, it’s a lot of Fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWG4927 Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 On 2/13/2023 at 3:24 PM, zombywoof said: I am now well into my third year of having no interest in snagging anything new to me. During that time, I have turned my back on instruments such as a 1947 Gibson-made National 1155 which just popped up on my doorstep and did not even take the 1957 J50 off the wall of a shop I had gone into to drop a guitar off for repairs. Still not feeling even the slightest twinge of longing or regret. The supreme test though came last weekend when I sold a guitar which I never would have parted with a few years earlier. Not only have I not had second thoughts about parting with the instrument but the fact that I could have made a lot more on the guitar had I not sold it somebody I knew at a deep "friend's discount" also does not matter. If anything, it is fairly liberating in that all the emotion is out of the equation. I can say one thing though which is that if I should break my self-imposed exile whether it be something old or new it is going to be one doozy of a guitar. Why shouldn't your guitar fast still be holding? You've said "no matter what guitar I play, I still sound like me". At least you haven't drank from the tone Kool-Aid that says only an old guitar will sound good to me. Right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 (edited) On 2/13/2023 at 4:24 PM, zombywoof said: I am now well into my third year of having no interest in snagging anything new to me. During that time, I have turned my back on instruments such as a 1947 Gibson-made National 1155 which just popped up on my doorstep and did not even take the 1957 J50 off the wall of a shop I had gone into to drop a guitar off for repairs. Still not feeling even the slightest twinge of longing or regret. The supreme test though came last weekend when I sold a guitar which I never would have parted with a few years earlier. Not only have I not had second thoughts about parting with the instrument but the fact that I could have made a lot more on the guitar had I not sold it somebody I knew at a deep "friend's discount" also does not matter. If anything, it is fairly liberating in that all the emotion is out of the equation. I can say one thing though which is that if I should break my self-imposed exile whether it be something old or new it is going to be one doozy of a guitar. Okay, hope that happens - would be a sign of life, not the opposite. The Monk here of course understands the "If anything, it is fairly liberating in that all the emotion is out of the equation", but also knows it can be a dangerous path. Why, how !? It leads to the forever dry well. . . Edited February 16, 2023 by E-minor7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 Thanks Monk... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted February 16, 2023 Author Share Posted February 16, 2023 12 hours ago, JWG4927 said: Why shouldn't your guitar fast still be holding? You've said "no matter what guitar I play, I still sound like me". At least you haven't drank from the tone Kool-Aid that says only an old guitar will sound good to me. Right. What drinking from the Tone Wood Kool Aid has to do with the age of a guitar is beyond me. If it were you would see a whole lot more discussions about the use of birch as a body wood. According to the Laws of Psychoacoustics though the higher the quality of your tonewood the better the sound will be. And you can boost that evaluation if you know where the wood was harvested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted February 16, 2023 Author Share Posted February 16, 2023 (edited) 13 hours ago, E-minor7 said: Okay, hope that happens - would be a sign of life, not the opposite. The Monk here of course understands the "If anything, it is fairly liberating in that all the emotion is out of the equation", but also knows it can be a dangerous path. Why, how !? It leads to the forever dry well. . . I do not see it as being on a path to oblivion or something. The proof that my curiosity towards those guitars I own has not been doused is the last two nights I have been playing my 1961 B45-12 and have decided to try stringing it Big Joe Williams style with only the D, G, and high E doubled up to see what I get. Edited February 16, 2023 by zombywoof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 1 hour ago, zombywoof said: I do not see it as being on a path to oblivion or something. The proof that my curiosity towards those guitars I own has not been doused is the last two nights I have been playing my 1961 B45-12 and have decided to try stringing it Big Joe Williams style with only the D, G, and high E doubled up to see what I get. Sounds good. As an involved forumite 😎 I just wouldn't want anyacousticbody to fade. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBSinTo Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 (edited) Zombywoof, When I read the thread title, I assumed you had gone on a hunger strike because Mrs. Zombywoof wouldn't let you buy another guitar, a tactic I'm sure that has been tried before by other Gibsonians. RBSinTo Edited February 17, 2023 by RBSinTo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 1 hour ago, RBSinTo said: Zombywoof, When I read the thread title, I assumed you had gone on a hunger strike because Mrs. Zombywoof wouldn't let you buy another guitar, a tactic I'm sure that has been tried before by other Gibsonians. RBSinTo Might have taken a more predictable turn. "Is Quiche real food?" "Does Beer count?" Is a 12 pack better than a 6 pack for some songs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northcntryblues Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 I've had my 2011 BK L00 since 2015. It's my only guitar, and I don't see myself ever playing another acoustic. I decided that I'm not taking it with me so I play it everywhere and not worried about accumulating the 'mojo' that goes with it. I feel pretty lucky to own a guitar I have such a strong bond with. I do, however, find myself thinking about an electric counterpart, most likely a strat or possibly a tele. The thought usually passes because in my heart of hearts, I'm an acoustic guitar guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted February 17, 2023 Author Share Posted February 17, 2023 (edited) 9 hours ago, RBSinTo said: Zombywoof, When I read the thread title, I assumed you had gone on a hunger strike because Mrs. Zombywoof wouldn't let you buy another guitar, a tactic I'm sure that has been tried before by other Gibsonians. RBSinTo Nah, Mrs. Woof has never had a problem with me buying guitars. But she also plays and occasionally gigs with two bands. I figure if another guitar enters our life it will most likely be a Huss & Dalton as she has been very impressed by those she has played over the past six or so years. Edited February 17, 2023 by zombywoof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livemusic Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 I haven't bought anything in a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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