D 35 comes around again

[Br1ck]

I play three guitars, one at a time, each for a month or so at a time so when I change it's been two months since I've played the next in line. The Guild follows a rather nice Martin Custom D 35, so it's a big difference. Know what? The Guild's clarity is a joy after the overtone rich Martin. In two months the Martin will be a joy after playing the Texan for a month. This is a terrific method for combating GAS. It's a new fresh sound every month. The Guild neck is the absolute winner.

 

[GGJaguar]

This is a terrific method for combating GAS.

I wish that worked for me, but I do like "re-discovering" some of my guitars after a long hiatus. It can be like a mini-NGD.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I am back on the Br, exclusively.
The F30r solved my right shoulder pain. This is now my wife's acoustic...fits her perfectly.

Due to right elbow issue, just fingerpicking, but always a welcome surprise how nice this all hog dread is for that. Coming up on 10 years of ownership.

I like your system Brick...

 

[adorshki]

I wish that worked for me, but I do like "re-discovering" some of my guitars after a long hiatus. It can be like a mini-NGD.

I generally just play the one I'm in the mood for, although a few years ago I consciously focused on the D40 to put playing time on her, with excellent results.

But the big surprise was when I started experimenting with strings on the F65ce and then even the D25. After 20 or so years of virtually nothing but PB the change to silk and steel or silk and bronze along with the accompanying drop in string tension, was like having a new guitar.

 

[Br1ck]

Note: I always put new strings on the guitar when it comes their turn to play. This solves what was once an issue I had. This round robin approach works only when you have gotten a group of relative equals together. This took a mere forty years. I also have some wild cards, a Martin Custom 00 15 12 fret, and four mandolins. The 00 15 surfaces when I just get a whim. I play mandolin every day.

My D 35 will be followed by the 65 Epiphone Texan. The Texan takes two or three days adjustment as I have to tighten up my pick attack. Then I go from the Texan's dry punch, to my Martin Custom D 35s rosewood overtone richness, then back to the Guild. How very different they all are.

 

[jeffcoop]

Note: I always put new strings on the guitar when it comes their turn to play. This solves what was once an issue I had. This round robin approach works only when you have gotten a group of relative equals together. This took a mere forty years. I also have some wild cards, a Martin Custom 00 15 12 fret, and four mandolins. The 00 15 surfaces when I just get a whim. I play mandolin every day.

My D 35 will be followed by the 65 Epiphone Texan. The Texan takes two or three days adjustment as I have to tighten up my pick attack. Then I go from the Texan's dry punch, to my Martin Custom D 35s rosewood overtone richness, then back to the Guild. How very different they all are.

That sounds like such a great rotation.

 

[Guildedagain]

I play three guitars,

My this is so very sad. I realized that around 30 gives you most of the choices you need, "most" meaning different things to different people.

 

[Br1ck]

Just so you don't ruin your night's sleep, I'm not counting the banjo, the dobro, the Stella 165, the Acoustisonic arch top. two Pono parlors, a six and a 12 string, two jazz basses, four teles, two strats, two ukuleles, a 1913 Gibson A 1 mandolin, a Silverangel mandolin, a home built F style mandolin and a Weber Yellowstone Deluxe F style. But the big three get 95% of the play time. The 00 gets 3% and the rest 2%. That is guitar time. Mandolins get 50% of total play hours, because I didn't start until i was 65, and I have further to go.

 

[Guildedagain]

Vive le choice ;]