VERY cool - nicely done, Marley23. Guitar geek that I am, I have to ask: is it the thicker, full-hollow-bodied Trini Lopez model, or the somewhat thinner, semi-hollow-bodied version? They made both types - the easiest way to tell would be the thickness of the body - over 3" for the hollow and under 3" for the semi-hollow (guessing here) and also if you look inside the diamond-shaped holes on the body, whether there is a center block running down the length of the body.
Those guitars are becoming more collectible and getting some attention - good for you for holding onto it for your dad!
A Fender Squire Mini , a fairly generic acoustic that desparately needs to be replaced with a Martin and a Guitar Hero controller. 
This is a semi-hollow, which I always thought was cool. I doubt his guitar is going to be collectible, unfortunately - he paid someone to do repairs and the guy broke the pickups, so they’ll need to be replaced and won’t be “vintage.” (Or that’s the story the guitar shop gave me as they were explaining why they hadn’t wanted it in the first place and still had to make a profit…)
You can buy replacement pickups - even true vintage ones from 1966. They are getting a bit expensive, but it is not like they are a pair of original PAF’s from the 50’s which go for thousands a pair at best. I have some connections if you at least want understand price ranges.
I started playing a Washburn D-10. It was given to me by my mom, who used to play it for me all the time as a kid and sing Joni Mitchell songs. She was quite a good guitarist back then, although she hasn’t played in a really long time. I got this guitar more or less handed down to me when I was 13 or so, although initially it was more of a borrowing type deal. As the years went on, I pretty much appropriated it. (This guitar is now sitting in my sister’s room after she brazenly stole it from my apartment last year.)
When I was 14, after working for a summer at a hardware store, I took all my savings and bought a Fender Jazz Bass. This has been my standby instrument since then. I hated the white plastic pickguard that came on it, and I removed it and made my own wooden one, tracing the original over a sheet of thin birch plywood and then cutting it out. I sanded it and put a walnut finish over it and it looks really nice.
I also have a Lucida classical guitar (I struck back at my sister by brazenly stealing this from her [in other words, she stopped using it and it was sitting in a storage room in my mom’s basement when I took it - unlike my Washburn which was sitting on a guitar stand in my living room when SHE took it!!!]) The website says that guitar is “easy to tune,” which is very true. The thing is, it’s not easy to keep in tune. In fact, it’s impossible!
When I feel like playing an acoustic guitar that’s in tune, I use my friend’s Spencer acoustic that he left here and never picked up and probably never will. I’ve never seen another Spencer guitar and I assume it’s some kind of obscure off-brand. It sounds really good, actually. It has a black sunburst finish and also has an “XXX DRUG FREE” sticker, which said friend presumably put on the guitar during his “straight edge” phase in high school, which lasted a few months. As of now, the sticker is a complete and utter joke. I assume he kept it on the guitar for sarcasm.
I also have an Epiphone Les Paul Custom Plus. It looks exactly like this except it’s an Epiphone. It has a really good sound but quite honestly it’s uncomfortable for me to play. Too heavy, and it has the Les Paul hard edges (I prefer guitars that have a contour around the body.) I may sell this guitar sometime soon and get a Teisco like this one here. I could probably buy that one right now, in fact, but I also need to get a new video card so it will have to wait. There are always Teiscos on eBay and I’ll be able to find another one, probably cheaper.
I have a white Rickenbacker 360 that I picked up in 1983 for about $450, trading in a Carvin Les Paul Jr. copy that played great but didn’t have much of a personality. It sounds great for those chiming mod chords and it has a great fat tone out of the neck pickup (and also for the coolness of having a Rick), but the bridge pickup sounds too thin.
I used to have a Ventura guitar from the '60s, a ES-335 copy made out of plywood, that had the thickest distorted sound I have ever heard. It was great for playing anything from Husker Du to Chuck Berry. Of all the guitars that I have owned, it was the one that I loved to play the most. Unfortunately it was stolen years ago. I also made a Flying V out of zebrawood, with two humbuckers and a Strat tremelo bridge, but it was stolen with the Ventura. I also had a Martin twelve string, but it has been on loan for years (No, I didn’t give it away; it’s still on loan!)
I also have a Warmouth bass neck in cocobolo and a couple of slabs of padouk that will be a five string bass whenever I find time to make it.
I just bought a Fender DG-8S in a starter pack that also came with a tuner, training video, and some other stuff. It has a pretty good sound, at least to my relatively untrained ear. But then I still have tender fingers, so what do I know?
- A $30 garage sale special, currently on loan to my sister.
- A wonderful steel-string rosewood Dean Exotica, my favorite guitar. These Deans are highly variable (bad QC, it seems) but this one is a beaut.
- A Guild jumbo twelve string, mid 80s, the archtop design, tuned half-a-step low. No pickup, but it’s so loud I don’t really need one in small spaces.
- A mysterious resonator (dobro) I bought in Hill Country Music, Fredericksburg, TX. The neck developed a crack three days after I bought it–now mended and plays as good as before. Working on slide. I’ll get it in about six more years.
- A ‘Les Paul’ knock-off I keep in the basement. Some mysterious Japanese make.
- A custom-built Carvin AE185 with a quilted maple top in scarlet sunburst finish; the coolest electric guitar I’ve ever held. Dual humbuckers. Like playing silk.
I have a simple rule for buying guitars. Never buy a guitar that doesn’t get into your hand and say “Baby, I’m going HOME with you!”
I have an Alvarez accoustic electric, the [url+http://www.elderly.com/new_instruments/items/PD85SCAV.htm]PD85SCAV for now, although wit Word Man’s exquisite help someday maybe a Les Paul/Marshall combination may issue forth.
Eh, stumbled on the E… les try that again, paul…
'78 Les Paul Custom - Tobacco Sunburst
Fender Strat (American Standard)
Martin D-18 Acoustic
A 1965 SG Jr. (like this only in the cherry finish.
This Takamine acoustic/electric from about 1981.
’92 Sigma ElectroAcoustic Cutaway - love this with Martin Silk and Steel strings, but using Elixer strings at present for economic reasons (they last longer).
’96 Fender Squier Protone - blocked Floyd Rose, FatStrat style with a Seymore Duncan humbucker. It sounds and plays good enough to feed my Mark Knopfler/Dave Gilmore delusions. I’m looking to replace this soon, it is great and I love playing it, but I don’t like the sound from the upper frets (some sort of vibrato thing going on). Maybe I should get it looked at. And replace the single coil pickups - Fender Lace maybe, or Seymore Duncan Vintage (single coil size and sound, humbucker wound for noise reduction from my laptop).
’70s Yamaki Dreadnought Acoustic - hate the Piezo pickup on this, sounds ok raw, and I need to try it with new strings (recent cheap aquisition). This stays at home for my kids to play.
I play through a Edirol FA-101 and Guitar Rig 2 and Ableton Live 6 on my laptop, but using rubbish wireless headphones from a Denon amp so that the flatmates don’t complain 
I want to justify getting new guitars, but I don’t play in a band (except some sunday services on acoustic) and I am not that great a player, but … GAS builds up and you gotta let go. 
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My GAS is playing up lately after laying dormant for many years. I currently have, I don’t remember how many guitars, I’ll count them, in order of aquirement we have:
70s Fender Tele, much gigged, re-fretted and very beaten up. Indestructable.
Explorer copy (made by me at evening classes) solid mahogany, ebony fretboard, DiMarzio PAFs. I really should play this more.
Yamaha accoustic FG-something, not a jumbo, pretty average*
Fender Performer, looks like a mutated Strat. 24 frets, Locking trem (which I no longer use) coil tapped humbuckers. Fantasically versatile guitar but currently strung and tuned to play System of a Down stuff which makes it useless for anything else (Rock Lobster maybe?).
No-name crappy sort of Les Paul junior that I converted to a 12 string. Horrible.
Ibanez S550 - or something. Very thin, skinny wide neck, superstrat layout. For shredding, and Bach.
Gold Top Gibson Les Paul with P90s of dubious origin. Refinished by some moron but still has the original hardware. What to say, it’s a Les Paul, it’s heavy, I can make Jimmy Page noises with it.
PRS CE 24 frets, blue figured top, would be a fantastic guitar if the neck wasn’t so sensitive to the weather.
Washburn/Status Bass headless with active electrics. Pulled out when I feel like playing One of These Days or Rain.
I think that’s all of them. Eight guitars and a bass. Way back I started a thread on all the guitars I have owned in the past, I don’t think it ran to as many as fifty but it’s possible. I do wish I’d kept the Les Paul Junior, and the Epiphone Casino, and the Charvel ::sighs:: better stop there :o
- this is where my GAS kicks in, there’s this small body Martin hanging in the Exscape shop and I could use a decent accoustic. And it’s only £799. And it’s my birthday (nearly).
Lowden O32, made in Ireland. I love this guitar & it turns heads with its volume & tone.
Martin D-18. I bought this guitar in 1966 & played it off and on for almost forty years (till I bought the Lowden in 2003). I had the braces shaved in the 70’s and it is a cannon. Needs a neck reset now, but I probably won’t do it. Has so many dings in it that it looks like a golf ball.
Gibson ES-175D. I bought this guitar in the 70’s & played it only briefly. Keep saying I’m going to sell it on ebay.
If you every want to move that guitar, let me know! I have my '57 Special, but love SG Juniors! How big is the neck - slim or chunky?
I dug around and found the old guitar ownership thread. A serious case of guitar aquirement syndrome Oh. Dear.
SC - a word, please: GAS is defined as “Guitar Acquisition Syndrome” (or “Gear” if we are extending it to amps, effects, etc…). There is no such word as acquirement.
Sorry - I nitpick - your spirit remains strong.
And year - pretty funny - after reviewing my list from the previous thread, I have had almost 100% turnover since then. But, its funny - just a day or so ago I was regarding my guitar arsenal and thinking that, for the first time in almost 30 years of playing, I was holding a full house - I genuinely love playing the main guitars I have, and the others I am holding onto for sentimental or practical reasons (i.e., good value and starter guitar for one of my kids, for instance).
I can see expanding the herd from here - not anytime soon after getting that vintage Les Paul Special - but not getting rid of any of these guitars. But man, have you see a Trussart Steelcaster? Hummina, hummina.
In a moment of monumental dumbassery, I sold my G&L Legacy Special. It was amazing, and kind of a secret. Nobody seems to have ever heard of G&L despite it being Leo Fender’s company, designs and original tooling.
I still have a terrible Korean-made, non-pointy B.C. Rich as well as a 1937 Gibson L-37 archtop. The archtop is in the shop for a tune up and some fret work. I maybe get it back today. I can’t wait.