A Mark In Time
General Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: 2manyguitars on January 04, 2014, 02:19:19 AM
-
Hi ladies and gents, new to the forum so a big hello to you all out there.
Just wanted to talk about that awful habit of guitar collecting!
I've worked in various fields over the last 25 years, spent 6 years as a professional musician, and currently teach music to autistic children and young adults.
No matter how hard I try the collection keeps growing, something in excess of 35 now although I lost count a long time ago, and now I've even built a few (or tried depending on your opinion!)
So tell me your 'guitar stories', is there a cure for this disease, and why is there something so intoxicating about the smell of a new instrument......ok maybe I'm going a bit to far there, yes I am the guy down the local music shop sniffing the fenders......
Thoughts, comments, prescriptions all welcome!!
-
Dear 2manyguitars,
Welcome on board. I really don't think there's a problem. You have a passion. Great! Keep it this way and enjoy it. I visited too many concerts, no no no. I had a great time. An incredible time. It's worth everything if you enjoy it.
-
I know you're right, it was a little 'tongue in cheek'! Nevertheless it does get a bit ridiculous when you need a spare room to maintain your hobby! Oh and the wife is forever complaining!
Great about your concert attendance, I've seen MK/DS so many times I've lost count (and a huge chunk of my bank balance!) but it was worth every penny.
So what was the highlight then Ingrid, the one concert you would like to bottle and keep forever?
-
So what was the highlight then Ingrid, the one concert you would like to bottle and keep forever?
Ingrid... Las Vegas! :D
-
Maybe you can start listing your guitars, models, year, serial numbers etc
-
I will gladly get round to doing that jbaent, just may take a while! Post a few pics as well of the more unusual ones. Do you play?
-
I will gladly get round to doing that jbaent, just may take a while! Post a few pics as well of the more unusual ones. Do you play?
I ocasionally bang the bongoes like a chimpanzee :lol
-
I think indeed Vegas was the one and only Lis. MK came to the front of the stage at the end of the show and shook the hands of Lis and me (and no one else :P)
For the music I don't know. There were a lot of highlights
-
Jbaent, the bongo player, a rare breed and in high demand, payment made in bananas? Want to join a band!
Ingrid - Sounds like an amazing gig, for me I would be torn between NYC Radio City 2006, my run of 5 nights in a row at the RAH in 2010, DS at earls court in 92 when I should have been studying for exams! To many to pick.
It was truly unique to see several shows in a row at the same venue, and I just love the atmosphere at the RAH.
-
Although like many on here I have attended numerous Concerts the 'Humble' Bridport show has to be my highlight for obvious reasons!! ;)
-
Guitar's wise, I have been playing some 30 years now and was bought up initially on a classical guitar from which I learnt the basics, I then bought a cheapie Strat lookalike (Certainly not soundalike!) from my mothers friends catalogue. I always remember my first proper Strat and that was a Fender Squire Hank Marvin Signature Strat which I bought with my first wage packet from gaining work at the age of 16 (Still employed at same employer!) Wish I had ket it now >:(
Many years passed and I ventured on with various Squier Strats until I had the opportunity to purchase the three MK Strats I have now...... And personally I am more than happy with them now although I do have an acoustic....
-
I had a HM sig strat for a while as well....great guitar for the price.
-
Squier HM Strats were certainly good for the money and at the time, well before the MK's came along!!
you have been added to the Honourable MK Strat Owners list by the way! ;)
-
By the way 2manyguitars I've been thinking- it is certainly not a Dreadful Habit!!!!! :wave
-
I know, but I need a semi detached house to keep them all in..... ;)
-
Not as bad as my huge parts of diesel locomotives in my garage!! ;D
-
Sounds like we have similar issues!
-
Not as bad as my huge parts of diesel locomotives in my garage!! ;D
Maybe you can flog some to Scotrail; the old train my Mum was on a couple of days ago broke down at Linlithgow with only 5 miles to go! ;)
-
Or maybe we could power the train via steam created from the burning of 35 guitars ;) ......I'd be devastated but the wife would have her spare room back and be very happy!!
-
Not as bad as my huge parts of diesel locomotives in my garage!! ;D
Maybe you can flog some to Scotrail; the old train my Mum was on a couple of days ago broke down at Linlithgow with only 5 miles to go! ;)
Funnily enough a couple of the loco's I have numberpanels from in the garage worked in and around Scotland!
-
Hi 2manyguitars
you wanted "guitar stories" ;D
I haven't played in public since my teens, when I was rhythm guitar & occasional vocals in a very ropey covers band that lasted 2 gigs.
In those days ( late 60's/early 70's) my gear consisted of a "Jedson" slimline semi acoustic, a Bird "Golden Eagle" combo amp, and a
-
Nice collection, that green guitar, which guitar is it?
-
That's an original design by the luthier who made my Pensa copy. it started out as a 3 single coil pickup (Strat) style but I had a new scratchplate fitted with a Broadcaster (tele) bridge, lipstick middle & humbucker neck pick ups.
It's found it's way onto quite a few of my recordings as it's so versatile. It's currently tuned to open G for slide guitar.
I'm currently considering having a new scratchplate made & fitted with 2 P90 pickups rather than buying a new guitar with those pickups.
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6168/6202649475_353899a6ce_z.jpg)
-
That combination of pickups looks very clever, you have three choices of different guitar sounds in just one...
if you have some time it would be very nice a short description of the guitars in your oicture :)
-
The green guitar is also similar to some Telecasters that have a middle pickup or a neck humbucker, instead of the usual neck single coil. It's best tone is with "both ends on" (Bridge & neck) but the mini toggle switches mean I can have all 3 at once if I want. I had this done before I had a Telecaster or Les Paul, but it is still different enough to be useful.
Guitar rack ( L- R)
1) Errington Pensa Suhr MK1 copy (string gauge 9's)
2) Mexican Fender Classic 50's Stratocaster (strung with 10's & tremolo operational, Bridge/Trem block replaced with a steel one as found in 50's strats)
3) late 80's Japanese Fender Standard Stratocaster. Tremolo screwed down (9's) (still one of my favourites to play).
4) Fender USA Mark Knopfler sig Stratocaster. Tremolo screwed down (9's).
5) PRS SE Custom 24 (9's) A great guitar for the money !
6) Gibson Les Paul Studio. (9.5s or 10's) Upgraded with Seymour Duncan Antiquity pick ups
7) Squier CV 50's Telecaster (9's) The best value guitar I own & easily as good as Fender Mexico equivalents !
8 ) Errington Herald Custom. (10's & tuned to open G at present)
9) Sigma 00018
10) Tanglewood TSJ XFM (maple body)
11) "Vintage" (brand name) Resonator
12) Cheap beginners classical guitar (a gift)
13) No name 12 string (marked "foreign" inside body & bought for
-
3Strats, I have that same model vintage resonator, great guitar! I also have a self made 'suhr copy' which I finished quite recently, I wasn't looking to directly copy marks but just get somewhere near, I was very pleased with the results. Will post some pics when I get the chance.
-
3Strats, very nice description, thank you very much, its really interesting!
PRS guitars are often decribed as the most versatile guitars one can have, Santana and Mike Oldfield plays lots of those guitars, but as long as I know, MK doesn
-
PRS guitars are often decribed as the most versatile guitars one can have, Santana and Mike Oldfield plays lots of those guitars, but as long as I know, MK doesn
-
I specially like that PRS archtop guitars, I dont know how they sound, but are really beautiful guitars...
-
Wow... that PRS is a beauty!!!
-
3Strats, I have that same model vintage resonator, great guitar! I also have a self made 'suhr copy' which I finished quite recently, I wasn't looking to directly copy marks but just get somewhere near, I was very pleased with the results. Will post some pics when I get the chance.
its been over a week now, desperately waiting for pics.....
:-\ ::)
-
On their way shortly1
-
On their way shortly1
come on..... hurry up !!
youre nearly as slow as Guy, hehehehe
;D ;D
-
Wow... that PRS is a beauty!!!
Thanks Lis, It sounds good too, And for
-
Ok ok...will take a 'family photo' over the weekend as soon as work allows.... Don't want to be compared to guy and our everlasting wait for a diary entry!
-
Drumroll please.....
At last
after much anticipation......
A Picture!!
(http://s3.postimg.org/tnzpyzi5v/100_0820.jpg)
Jeez this is going to be a long post....
From left to right, back row.
A Shine Sil something or other, I picked it up dirt cheap, nice Blue flamed maple cap, nato body, I installed modified EMG HZs and a coil tap.
My first self built strat, mirrored pickguard, A mixture of Entwistle pickups, 2 single coils one mini humbucker, set up with heavy strings and a brilliant Wilkinson knife edge trem (best I've ever come across on a Strat, never ever goes out of tune no matter how much grief you dish out on it)
My lovely self built superstrat built from scratch, carved alder body, maple cap, neck flame maple nicked from an old adagio strat (but its great), walnut scratchplate, wooden hardware, HSH Entwistle and Wilkinson pickups, Floyd trem. Really proud of it and often gets mistaken for something worth several grand.
Samik Marie - Unusual hybrid strat/tele cross, stock guitar
Ashton 12 string - Kept for the odd 12 string part on recordings, does the job.
Coban Bowlback - Bought from ebay badly damaged for
-
Wow !
That's a great collection & it covers a lot of sonic ground. I'm impressed with your home builds. I haven't got the facilities to even dream of building a guitar, and that's before I consider my lack of woodworking skills. (although I had a block of wood that was going to be the basis of a Tele' at one time). Personally, I think I'd rather have a number of guitars than one or two really expensive ones that I was frightened to take out of their cases. I'm probably fortunate in that my ears are not discerning enough to tell the difference between a good
-
A green one....that made me chuckle.....
I do know what you mean though. To me value is really in the worth of the instrument to you personally. Out of all the guitars pictured the one I treasure the most is the suhr copy. Its like you say 'the one I'm afraid to get out of the case'. Yet it probably cost something in the region of a couple of hundred quid to make, yet its pristine and shines like a gem, the knopfler strat and the adamas are worth ten times that yet I'd happily gig with them over and above the Suhr (Perhaps we need to invent a new name for my suhr copy as there are a few 'purists' on the suhr forum who would regard my efforts as sacrelidge! From now on I intent to refer to it as a Chur....) ;D
-
Thanks 2manyguitars, for your effort. That collection looks brilliant. Is it possible to post some pics of your "Chur" ?? As on the groupfoto you cant see it entire....
Thnx again for posting!
:clap :clap :clap
-
Will do so as soon as the wife forgives me for taking over the front room...
-
Nice-looking family, 2manyguitars! ;D
-
Giving birth was painful.... ;D...sorry...really bad joke....!
-
:think I imagine so! ;D
-
Although not up there with what you own but I have just bought this beautiful baby to not only add to my three MK's but for use at home and our holiday home too!!
It is a Brand new: Fender 'Classic Player' 60's Stratocaster finished in 3-tone sunburst and although it's a mexican it is designed and built by the Custom shop guys! even has a custom shop neck plate too!
Plays beautifully too.....
From the Fender site for those interested:
http://www.fender.com/series/classic/classic-series-60s-stratocaster-rosewood-fingerboard-3-color-sunburst/
-
very nice guitar knopflerfan :thumbsup
I like this 60ies look with the grennish pickguard and 3-tone sunburst
very jimi-SRV-gallagher look