Which guitars do you play more at home? Cheap? Expensive?

[V-man]

idk what cheap vs expensive boils down to but (with the exception of an unassembled mini V and a travel guitar) all my guitars are MIA, and the least expensive are Gibsons, All in the 4-figure range. I have at least 1 approaching 5 figures and any are fair game for playing.

A V gets a lot of play because they are light wall-leaners and easy access guitars. my LP studio is probably second (primarily over access). Usually a guitar is grabbed because it has a floyd the day I want to Floyd or is tuned to C# the day I want that.

 

[StrummerJoe]

The only "cheap" guitar I have is a mid 60's Teisco Del Ray I use for slide.

Shitty guitar, but it has a funky sound and is perfectly fine for slide.

I play my "expensive" guitars a lot more often.

@backstreets81 BTW, how are we defing expensive and cheap? At what price point are we considering a guitar expensive?

 

[StrummerJoe]

I have taken my Suhr, my Bunker(s), and my Wildwood thinskin '54 strat trout and sometimes salmon fishing with me.

Maybe I should get a cheaper guitar.🤔

 

[PelliX]

I play all of mine, but the one I pick up most often is my MIM Strat it sits in a 5 rack stand,, and is very convenient to grab, and never out of tune.

My Strat lives a life of its own. We just hang out together and I re-tune it frantically. That's how I see it.

 

[LoudStroud]

Just curious....I have enough of both. I find my self picking up the cheaper ones (which I set up to play nicely) for practice rather than the Gibson LP's etc...
All the cheaper ones are out on stands/hangars, while most of the LP's and EVH's are in their cases.
I play weekly in a band and use my LP/EVH's but find myself playing the others at home because it's easier (probably not the right word) ???
I teach guitar at School of Rock and I beat it into my students heads to keep their guitars out and PLAY them !! Whenever you walk by, pick it up.
Keep it out of the case!!! They make more!!!!
Feel semi-hypocritical, but I think most of them have one guitar.
Anyway...I will take my $50 used Fender acoustic out on the dock and I don't care what I bang into or about the elements.
Didn't know if anyone had the same experience....

I find I'm playing my vintage guitars around the house more than ever these days. Heck I didn’t buy and collect them over the years just to stay in cases under the bed.

 

[donwagar]

I normally gig with my LP '59 reissue, at home I usually practice on my most expensive ('53 Goldtop), I don't usually take it to a gig. But I love playing that thing.

 

[-BOOGIEMAN-]

During the week, I do most of my woodshedding on my Ibanez RG through either my Bogner Mini Ecstasy or Katana. I bought it cheap and replaced the pickups and pots with some GFS Crunchy Pats. Weekends I have more time and play my Wolf LP and LTD Eclipse through my tube amps…

 

[Lo-Tek]

I try to play all of mine (only 8) . Excluding an acoustic buried in a closet.
Mine are mostly all around the same in value. 1-2k.
My most valuable being the pre-war Martin I inherited which is worth quite a bit. It's too good not to be played and it gets used regularly.
My uncle was still taking it to gigs before he passed.
The wall hanger that gets used most is a made in USA G&L.

 

[Vinsanitizer]

I've got some pricey guitars, but the ones I play the most are about $800-$2K - and even the $2K one gets the feather duster treatment if it sits out for very long. The ones $$$ above that just sit there looking pretty, making me wonder why I bought them, as if I had "arrived", yet at what I do not know. Problem with my $ figures here, is they're outdated. It'll cost ya about 20% more for the same level of quality now.

Most valuable, seldom played:
1959 Reissue:

1958 Reissue:

2020 "COVID Lockdown" model:


Least valuable, most played:
2010 Traditional:

50's Tribute ($600 used):

Ibanez RG's (L-$600 used, R-$800 New):

 

[Ken Ops]

All my guitars, even the acoustic, are in the roughly (USD) $800-$1200 range*. So they’re also what I play.

When I say all, there’s not that many really. A few. If I ever need another one or two, I’ll go ahead and buy them.

* edit: All bought used though. Probably averaging around $1500-$2000 new.

 

[KraftyBob]

During the week, I do most of my woodshedding on my Ibanez RG through either my Bogner Mini Ecstasy or Katana. I bought it cheap and replaced the pickups and pots with some GFS Crunchy Pats. Weekends I have more time and play my Wolf LP and LTD Eclipse through my tube amps…

I have an Ibanez RG as well (RG470). Really good guitar for the money. I got tired of trems and never really used the middle single coil so I blocked the trem, disconnected the single coil and screwed it all the way down so it doesn’t get in the way of my picking. I swapped out the stock pups for a set of DiMarzio John Petrucci’s (LiquiFire and Crunchlab) and wired in a new 5 way switch. For my tastes anyhow the guitar went from good to wow! 😀

 

[KraftyBob]

I own 2 mid range guitars that play 3 times their price, I play em both

This is exactly how I feel about my PRS SE 245. $680 guitar that easily feels/sounds/plays like I spent a lot more money.

 

[backstreets81]

The only "cheap" guitar I have is a mid 60's Teisco Del Ray I use for slide.

Shitty guitar, but it has a funky sound and is perfectly fine for slide.

I play my "expensive" guitars a lot more often.

@backstreets81 BTW, how are we defing expensive and cheap? At what price point are we considering a guitar expensive?

Maybe "cheap" and "expensive" weren't the exact words I was looking for.
Lower end vs. higher end?
My "cheap" guitars are anything from a Leo Jaymz (which actually plays great), a couple kits I built, to a couple PRS SE's, a Schecter, etc
My "expensive" guitars would consist of my LP's (Traditional, Standard, Black Beauty), my EVH's and USA Tele/Strat.
Probably $200-$500 vs over $1000 is what I was trying to get at.

 

[backstreets81]

Sometimes, it just depends on where I am in the house.
I put my guitars out everywhere so that I am in reach of one constantly. (which makes the wife very happy...hahah)
That's also a factor in which one I pick up.

 

[Filipe Soares]

I have no pcicking criteria at all.

 

[BlueX]

I've got some pricey guitars, but the ones I play the most are about $800-$2K - and even the $2K one gets the feather duster treatment if it sits out for very long. The ones $$$ above that just sit there looking pretty, making me wonder why I bought them, as if I had "arrived", yet at what I do not know. Problem with my figures here, is they're outdated. It'll cost ya about 20% more for the same level of quality now.

Most valuable, seldom played:
1959 Reissue:
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1958 Reissue:
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2020 "COVID Lockdown" model:
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Least valuable, most played:
2010 Traditional:
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50's Tribute ($600 used):
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Ibanez RG's (L-$600 used, R-$800 New):
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Very nice looking LP RI's! Any particular reason you don't play them (much)?

 

[Wildeman]

Cheap,cheap,cheap.... I have a favorite old Regal parlor and usually grab my Affinity Esquire , the Regal cost me bout 75 buk and I probably have 150.00 into the Tele.

 

[Vinsanitizer]

Very nice looking LP RI's! Any particular reason you don't play them (much)?

In the past I've had a tendency to wear frets down, sometimes quite a bit. I don't want to be wearing frets down just banging around the house, I leave that to the lower-end guitars - those are the beaters. Plus, in my case, when you leave something really nice out in the open, there is a very strange magnetism that attracts "accidents" of the "one-in-a-million" kind, and I'm just not having that crap with those guitars. I once ruined part of the finish on a $4K Martin: I decided it would be a great idea to take it to camp and put some memories into that nice new guitar. There were bugs everywhere at camp, so as people usually do, I sprayed myself with bug spray. 15 minutes later I felt sticky gook on my right arm. I looked and realized the bug spray was melting the finish off the guitar. I would have never thought that would happen in a million years - just never heard of it. (That's because all my previous acoustics were cheap poly-coated guitars.) So that's why my nice guitars don't come out to play much anymore. I bought them to perform with, but just never had the desire to get into another [dysfunctional] band again.

 

[Matthews Guitars]

With the exception of a single cheap Affinity strat that used to belong to my now dead friend/local amp building guru, every guitar I currently own was made with my own two hands starting with raw lumber.

The blue PRS-ish guitar in my avatar, and my sunburst LP homage I made in 2001, are the guitars that get the lion's share of my playing time. They're just the two that I consider my best from a player's perspective.

 

[Eric'45]

Overall, it's my most expensive Guitar. It is my Gibson LP R8, that cost me slightly less than 4k Euros (Kinda amazing, considering what even the plainest plaintops cost now). I'm not a rich man by any stretch, and I saved up long for that one. Out of the many Guitars I tried in that Price Range, this was the one that really spoke to me. We all know it's not always the case, but on that Guitar, Gibson got it right. It was set up very good from day one, and it really resonates so well, it never goes out of tune. A very close second is my Mockingbird (MIK, ~1700€). I almost alternate 50/50 between these two, the R8 has slightly more playing time, since it resides in the living Room. I must admit my other Guitars don't get played frequently enough.