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Guitars, Guitars, Guitars...

I have a couple of PRS SEs. Both (now) loaded with Seymour Duncan pickups.

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I'd like to get a Gold Top Les Paul. The Epiphone version would do fine.

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Last summer I was cleaning out my dad's basement and found my first guitar amp from middle school. It's an Fender Sidekick Reverb 30. These things are a surprising gem from the 80s designed by Paul Rivera that nobody knows about but they get much love online for the price. It's got spring reverb, a presence knob and a sweet overdrive. You can snatch one up for $50-$150 on reverb. I swapped the blown Fender speaker for WGS and now the thing has more volume than I need.

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Oh you had to go there... So here goes.

Make no mistake, Bass is my primary and preferred instrument. But there are situations where I just want to play the guitar. Most notably on camping trips. I get to be the guy at the campfire playing the guitar... Being the guy at the campfire playing the bass just isn't the same...

I have a few, some are mine, some are my brother in laws...

My electric guitar is a B stock SX Hawk MN CAR. There are some finish / edge issues at the neck pocket, but nothing that regular production Fenders don't see all the time. I paid something stupid cheap like $50.00 for it.

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The amp for it was an open box through MusiciansFriend, that has been through plenty of gigs as my guitarist blew out his amp and borrowed this for a while. It's a Behringer GTX-60 50watt 1x12 with a Bugera speaker. It works fine. Absolutely nothing to brag about, but it does its job...

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My brother in law keeps his Yamaha F-315A in my music room. Nice guitar to just play around with..

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The Rogue 7/8 scale starter guitar was bought as a gift for my former neighbors foster son. It was back ordered, a LOT... It came in after they moved and I ended up stuck with it... Once I find another kid worthy and needing of a guitar to learn on, it goes to them.

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The Fender Acoustic guitars. They are...
Mine is the FA-135CE Acoustic Electric (Sunburst) on the left.
My brother in laws is the CN-240SCE Acoustic Electric (Black) on the right.

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I still have a touch of GAS, but its not too annoying, for a Les Paul style guitar. (Epiphone Les Paul ES Pro)...
 
I own more guitars than basses (2 basses)
Comprising electric solid body, hollow body electric, 12 string acoustic & classical.
I also have a solid body mandolin.
Not as many as some of you guys...
I'll have to hunt down some pictures.
 
If this thread was titled, "Drums, Drums, Drums..." this would be a long post, as drums are my primary instrument. But, I do "dabble" in guitar. Actually, I've spent more of this past year working on my guitar playing than I have drums or bass.

I love Telecasters, but none of my three Telecasters are what you would call "traditional". I own a 2012 AVRI 1972 Telecaster Custom.

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I have a 2017 American Elite Telecaster Thinline, which is my favorite guitar to play.

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My third Telecaster is in some ways the most traditional, and in other ways the least traditional. It is a 2016American Standard Offset Telecaster.

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330 Ric 1.JPG EA-250 Epi-2.jpg Frankie 2.JPG Epi Sheraton II 1.JPG Eastwood Baritone.jpg These are the ones I have pictures of:
- '87 Rickenbacker 330. Came to me needing new frets, so.. it's currently being refinished, too. Won't be a Fireglo when it's done..
- '71 MIJ Epiphone EA-250. A very nice one, too. A little Rockabilly monster, it's the one I play most often...
- '71 EA-250, badly converted to a lefty 12-string. It does play, and actually sounds pretty good, but it really needs a lot of work...
- '90s era MIK Epiphone Sheraton II. For Blues, mostly..
- '08 Eastwood Sidejack Baritone. For Surf and Spagetti Westerns, it's a blast played thru that vintage Rickenbacker TR-7 amp next to the 330. For the others? The little, hot-rodded, back-to-vintage-spec Gretsch Electromatic tube amp next to the Sheraton...
I also have a Hagstrom Swede, and a Jay Turser JT-50 Telecaster copy. Couldn't tell you why, really; I hardly ever play them...:cool:
 
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