Do I have to say?
Actually, I have two Strats. I also have a difficult-to-play Yamaha acoustic that my buddy (and old bass player) gave me that has been nicknamed “The Penalty Guitar” because whenever we’d get together, if someone forgot to bring his guitar, the penalty was to play this torture device.
1971 Les Paul Goldtop re-issue, with the smaller “epiphone” humbuckers. Bought it used in 1982 for $425.00 (hardshell “chainsaw” case included in purchase price). Very sweet sound, seems to weigh about 25 pounds when I first strap it on to play, and by the time I take it off, it feels more like 40 pounds. I don’t deserve such a guitar, but I’ll keep it forever.
1971 Rickenbacker 4001 Studio Bass. Got this one about 1983 for $700.00. Weight characteristics similar to the Les Paul. Another keeper.
1981 Yamaha FG-375S acoustic. The only guitar I own that I bought new. Pretty guitar, and with fresh strings, it sounds really good (to me). I’ve always found the neck on this one to be a bit too narrow, but plays O.K.
1980’s (?) Ovation 12 string acoustic/electric. Don’t play this one much. The guitar sounds good, but I have a problem with Ovations and their rounded backs. The damn thing wants to wiggle away from me all the time.
1970 (or so) Cameo classical guitar. This is a cheap Japanese department store classical guitar that a friend of mine bought from the PX at Fort Sam Houston (for $35 I think) in 1970 after we saw “Woodstock” and he decided he wanted to learn guitar. He gave up on it after a week when he still couldn’t play like Alvin Lee (Ten Years After). I bought it from him for $5. Best guitar deal I ever made. It’s warping a bit now, I don’t think they were ever meant to last this long. Unlike the others, it has no case, so it’s usually the one I can just pick up and play. Great sound and ease of playing for such a cheapo.
I mostly record god awful (but original) music on my PC these days with Cakewalk Guitar Pro, using Line 6 Guitar Port as a pre-amp. The next guitar I buy will be an acoustic electric for recording. Preferably Takamine (I’ve wanted every Takamine I ever played).
1940s Harmony archtop. It’s a model number nobody’s ever heard of. It’s got a crack in the top all along the tailpiece.
I can’t play it. I tried to learn. Once. Once was enough.
An acoustic that I bought in Spain, God knows why
A Fender squier strat., bought off a pal for £40
I cannot even play a damn triangle.
Ibanez and a mitchell.
I have:[ul]
[li] a Takamine steelstring, 1970s vintage, which my brother gave to me after he decided he couldn’t play it and never would be able to. This is what I play 95% of the time.[/li][li] An Ibanez Artcore hollowbody, single cutaway. It’s an OK guitar but its intonation and ability to stay in tune are not nearly as good as the Takamine.[/li][li] A 1980s vintage Japanese made Fender Telecaster. I think it’s what they call a two-tone sunburst with white piping around the edges, and a rosewood fingerboard. It’s a gorgeous looking guitar but I’ve always had problems with keeping it in tune, as well as with the electronics. I think the offshore Fender factories didn’t quite have it all together yet in the early 1980s. I’ve played Japanese made Fenders of later vintage and they were perfect. Actually this guitar has been at my brother’s house for 14 years or so, so I guess it’s really his now.[/li][/ul]
And I forgot to say that the Takamine seems to be a perfect guitar. It seems that I only have to tune it once every couple of weeks, though I play nearly every day. I play classical on it.
Whoops. Just noticed I misspelled Takamine.
As I said, I’m not good enough to tell the difference. But it sounds as if I chose a decent one. FWIW, it’s marked C-128.
I’ve got a Fender jumbo acoustic like this one except without the electric pickup.
I’ve also got a Franken-guitar made up of parts from other guitars, which I inherited in pieces from a friend who died. I had it profesionally assembled and set up. It plays okay - it has Grover heads, a Les Paul style body, a nice neck with a rosewood fingerboard, etc. It still has some intermittant electrical problems I have to fix, though.
Last year I bought my daughter a Jasmin-by-Takamine beginner guitar, since she expressed interest in wanting to learn. Said interest faded almost immediately, so I keep it in standard tuning as my guitar for playing songs like “She Talks to Angels” by the Black Crowes. My Fender plays and sounds much better.
I have these:[ul]
[li]Mako lks-3 mid 80’s strat copy, now a project guitar[/li]
[li]Peavey indianola acoustic 6 string, plays nice, bought it for my kid[/li]
[li]olympia od-12s acoustic 6 string, bought it for me.[/li]
[li]97 american standard tele. Rosewood board, currently with Texas Specials[/li]
[li]Seagull s12+ acoustic 12 string, all cedar body[/li]
[li]ibanez jtk2, again bought for my kid[/li]
[li]Ibanez ags83b, wanted a guitar with humbuckers[/li]
[li]Oscar Schmidt electric mandolin, too good a deal to pass up[/li][/ul]
I don’t know if GAS is an addiction or a disease, but I enjoy it.
yeah - well, I’m the wrong guy to ask - I am at one end of the Guitar Geek spectrum. I don’t have many, but the ones I have…well, they are special:
Acoustics:
Electrics:
And my two heavy hitters:
Well - THAT was screwed up completely - still not used to the pop-up blocker I had to install on my PC. Sorry.
Anyway - here is a pic of my '73 Les Paul Custom:
And my last guitar is a 1957 Gibson Les Paul Special. Again, I could devote a ton of text to describe why this rocks so hard, but basically it is a beginner’s Les Paul that was so well made back then that they are now considered full-on rock machines and very, very desirable from a vintage guitar standpoint. How I got this one is yet another story…
Correction: It was a Telecaster.
I think I’ve said before that I can’t really claim to play guitar so much as annoy it, but anyway:
1965-66 era Sears Silvertone 1478 solid-body made by Harmony. Fender Jaguar/Jazzmaster-style body, two DeArmond pickups, nice solid neck, whammy bar, etc. Looks like this one only in worse condition – fair number of nicks and scratches, couple of missing knobs on the pots, but stock except for the tuners, which were so rusted and stiff not long after I got it twenty-something years ago that I replaced them. Doesn’t really play in tune up the neck (floating rosewood bridge), but that’s not much of an issue for a power-chord rhythm-only guy like me, though I have thought about losing the whammy-bar tailpiece and having a decent guitar shop install a fixed compensating bridge, since it’s not in collector condition anyway. Do have it in the original case, which is a bit worse for forty years of wear, but still functional. Almost never take it out these days.
I also have a sixties-vintage Silvertone acoustic, also made by Harmony, that’s beat to hell – my wife’s family ended up with it somewhere along the line, and it was mainly used by her brothers to beat each other up (none of them play). It’s a piece of junk, with cracks in the top, etc., but I just can’t bring myself to throw it away.
Also have a Danelectro Rumor bass (with the built-in chorus) strung with flatwounds, and my main axe, my MusicMan S.U.B. Bass (4-string, with the passive electronics; red, like the one in the pic).
An Ibanez acoustic and an Epiphone ES-335 Dot electric.
I’ve got a couple of Rickenbacker 330s, one in Jetglo from '86 and one in BurgundyGlo from '02.
I have a Simon and Patrick acoustic. Not sure of the model number, but it has a non-glossy cedar top.
I have a Martin D-18.
And an Ibanez AX120.
I have a cheap Austin acoustic for toying with at the house. I use an Ibanez acoustic/electric (I replaced the pickup with a fishman though) for recording and shows. I am also toying with the idea of buying a 12-string again, which will probably be an Alvarez, which is what I had before and I loved it.
I also have a Squier Strat (Red, plain, with Mighty Mouse on it). I had a Epiphone Les Paul back when I played with a full band, as well as a Crate Halfstack that was made in 1989. When I replaced the Crate with a Line 6 (1x12) I realized that I got comparable sound from the strat and sold the LP.
Brendon
For the last ten years, I’ve played an Epiphone Les Paul Jr. Special. I picked up a Fender Jazz Bass six months ago.
And this only sort of counts, but my dad sold his '66 Trini-Lopez about two weeks ago. It didn’t bring him any joy or much money, and he didn’t want to do it in the first place. So I bought it back from the store a day or two later and gave it to him again. It’s his, but on some level I think it’s also mine. 
That was a very admirable thing to do, Marley23, and I salute you.