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We just took the majority of our instruments to a storage facility ahead of Hurricane Milton. My wife has a few nice guitars and I have dozens of guitars and maybe a dozen mandolins and half a dozen basses that we took out of the house. I also have a shop building with dozens more.

Getting them there was one thing. Bringing them back is when I expect the questions to start flying.

Been playing for around 40 years and they just accumulate somehow.
I'm in Sarasota. How did you do with the storm?
 

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I'm in the same boat, but I have been playing around 50 years with a collection that "accumulated somehow."

I am at 50+ guitars (not to mention amps) in 3 storage units (25 are Guilds) and I really must "thin the herd" at some point. In the past year, I have given 8 guitars to a local charity for a Women's Shelter.

I had kept myself to 1 acoustic six string, 1 acoustic 12-string and 1 electric for years... But then along came eBay and that damn "BUY IT NOW" button!!!

And it got to the point where I'd go to one of the storage units, open a case and say "Oh, did I have a blue one of that model?" When you open a case and don't recall buying the guitar, that's when you have too many.

And when it was 12 or less guitars, I would rotate the ones at home and play all of them over the course of a year, but now there are guitars in storage I probably haven't touched in ten years. My buying has dropped off dramatically.

First World problems!!

As far as Wives, my current Wife has no problem with my guitars. My former Wife was divorced for other reasons. And, as for the comment of a divorce costing $700 to $15K... I wish!!! My divorce dragged on for 10 years and I stopped counting the lawyer fees when they hit $40K and I filed for Bankruptcy. But, yes, in the end it was worth it!!!

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Good on you for helping out a worthy cause.
 

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19 years and counting here.

She encourages my passions for cooking and cleaning.

After a long day of cleaning and cooking and company that finally left, I pick up my unamplified Strat, sit in a far corner and softly pluck a C to G, D to A, and that's as far as I get "You're not gonna play that again, that got earwormed into my head bla bla bla" but I am allowed to play random blues that don't sound like anything in particular as long as it's very quiet.
 

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What she doesn't realize is how inspirational the Strat is, how those simple chords unplugged in the barre positions sound just like Jimi, the same basic guitar, maple fingerboard, so the guitar is basically trying to play Hey Joe all by itself, and it's a wonderful chord progression...

The first 10 years were like "you're noodling, why don't you play a song", the next ten years "you're playing that song again".
 

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But my real quandary is that I'm being offered a bass that belonged to the guy, departed now, who owned the spooky weird and wonderful Strat I recently picked up, so it really fits into this thread, can I buy another blank and pass it off as some old thing, when it looks like this?



What say the hive? It's a all stock '76 P Bass, I guess they were making them heavy in those years. The gal selling it on behalf the widow say it's "still heavy".

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Here's a better pic, I need to sh*t or get off the pot today, during my brief window, and it being Halloween, trick or treat.

I don't usually post pre pics, bad juju, but in this case my pocketbook would thank me.

It's artful holing to be sure.

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I may just have to buy it and let this be "my last one".

The reason; I can't find another holy guitar out there in pics, no one has the temerity to do this to an expensive instrument normally, even though there must be millions of us who have fantasized about it.
 

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Yes, but it also allows me to buy a '77 P Bass for $600 near delivered, within 20 minutes, and I can get another body anywhere, aftermarket or original, and resell the holy one, or just leave as it, unless it just feels too weird, and no hiding this one, it's too weird and obviously a new thing.
 

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I would like to get a few opinions on this question: how many guitars before the wife threatens divorce? I'm on 8 and treading on thin ice.
Don’t worry I reached 27 before I (alone) decided to cut back and make room for. Now stuck on 12 (10 electrics, 1 acoustic & 1 bass.

i took a pic when I had 21. Think I only have the bass, 335 & sunburst Strat left out of this lot, so others have come in the door.

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Look at the fingerboard, this guy was a lot of show and not that much go. I own another one of his guitars, it was custom made, exquisite but not played much at all, still like new beyond a little grime.

Speaking of hot mess mods, I'm going to kick myself a long time for not having bought this one from the collection, a '65 Mustang with original hardcase, $400 with actually seriously kick @ss hot mess mods. but again, absolutely impossible to hide without admitting to have bought yet another guitar, even an awesome one.

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Don’t worry I reached 27 before I (alone) decided to cut back and make room for. Now stuck on 12 (10 electrics, 1 acoustic & 1 bass.

i took a pic when I had 21. Think I only have the bass, 335 & sunburst Strat left out of this lot, so others have come in the door.

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I love it, the Mandala of all the "right" guitars.

So I take it you've been single most of the time? Lol
 

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I'm my wife's biggest fan, and she is mine. We encourage each other's passions... 29 years and counting
Good on you @James Hart !!

My Wife and I are each others biggest fans also. We give one another the space to pursue passions and make sure we each have a physical space in the house as well: her art studio and my music room.

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