dannyalcatraz

Don't forget, a lot of the more mainstream legends were given stupid numbers of guitars. At KISS's peak, Gibson gave Ace Frehley 24-50 LPs at the start of a tour.

Best spent advertising money in their budget.

I read somewhere that Steve Howe culled his collection down to around 200 guitars.

Still, 1,500 for JP might be a bit high, nonetheless: the Scott Chinery collection was estimated to be well over 1000 guitars, and was routinely described as "the biggest" or "one of the biggest" guitar collections in the world.

http://www.themomi.org/museum/Chinery/index.html

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nightowl2011

I love getting new guitars, I obviously have a problem, but I'm seriously running out of room to store them.

jpcl

There is no real limit. From the moment that you stop using a guitar you know you own too many. As long as you give use to all them I find it just fine and great.

It really is a shame when someone buys guitars (weither you have 2 or 200) and you don't use them all of them (even if it's just 1). I more into the philosophy that guitars are beautiful things but they are things that are made to be used and not be just exposed for people to look at.

Dave_Mc

that was before i knew jimmy page had 1500

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diddyman99

Only one but I love it to pieces.

Mephaphil

Well, we don't know for sure. It's just something I read recently and there's lots of pages on a Google search I done about it.

I think you should try and find out. See if you can have a meeting with him or something, then post it back in this thread.

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Dave_Mc

i actually saw him (well... i think it was him ) in victoria station once. I should've asked him.

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Robbgnarly

The drummer from Molly Hatchet lives 7 houses down from me and Pete the guitarist for Sick of it All lives a couple blocks away also. Not jimmy Page, but still cool anyways

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Dave_Mc

hehe that's cooler than my "i saw jimmy page for 4 seconds once in a public place and I'm not even sure it was him" story

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Ippon

I thought Greg had at least 70 guitars.

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I think the limit is different for everybody. It should be based around how many tones you need to cover and your personal preferences. Someone who works as a session guitarist might need a bunch to cover a lot of different ground. Someone who is content with one or two tones only needs one or two guitars.

For me its probably 5-6.

2 Les Pauls, 2 Strats, (Each with different style pickups), and something to do some slide work on is good for me.

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flyfshr

6 string acoustic, 12 string acoustic, and an electric, so 3 very different guitars, I just gave my son my godin redline hb for his ninth birthday as he's interested in learning.

dannyalcatraz

That's a nice starter guitar! You're trying to be The Cool Dad aren't you?

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flyfshr

I just remember when I was 10 , learning on a cheap plywood guitar with bad intonation and action so high you could use it as a cheese grater, I'm suprised I didn't quit lol !!
Hopefully my son enjoys it and keeps at it.

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trashedlostfdup

even worse opening a case that has been tucked away to throw your guitar in and pack up, and find that there indeed was already a guitar in there, that you thought you sold or traded. or just forgot about.

with classical guitars it puts me over 20. either 5-6 classicals and probably 16-18 electrics. it may sound silly to some of you, but there is good reason. some are in an open or dropped tuning, and i still need a backup for each tuning, and different guitars simply have different uses.

most of my guitars are mid range some cheaper. seven gibsons one 11/400 production gibson. i own three prestige ibbys now (each in different tuning), and two wolfgangs, one trem one hard tail. damn solid guitars.

i have a few random ones like a really cool 1982 Peavey Horizon guitar, plays great sounds totally unique and not the smallest scratch on the whole thing. i paid like $40, but its minty and it plays really smooth.

i do have a mexi strat i got for $175, oddly enough after going through 10 strats i settled on this one 1995 maple on white, best one i had.

i also have a fender showmaster, which plays and sounds great. only a single humbucker though so its a little limited. oddly enough i have a 498t gibson pickup in there and that has won over several other pickups. for some reason it works.

i have a dime guitar (back when he was with washburn as kind of a sentimental thing. i grew up with pantera. i remember playing the tape in my dad's truck when i was five years old.

i have a custom guitar, but it needs a lot of work and just hasn't ever really wanted to invest the time and cash into it.

random ramblings. i will stop now.

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desperatechris

A couple of years ago i had 10 guitars( a couple of acoustics, ibanez prestige, carvin, PRS. fender, strat copy, peavey, les pauls.)

But i sold most of them today i only use my old Strat and my 2012 mia strat.

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dannyalcatraz

You're farther down the path that I'm traveling: 1 classical, 3 acoustics, 1 A/E fretless bass, and 7 electrics...with 2 customs in the works and a guitar in Cali half paid for.

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Bhaok

When you kick the dog away from his bowl of kibble and eat that you have too many guitars.

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