Start plank spankin' and bending some steel dude!

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

When I first got My New tele I asked the same Question: Someone, Sory I dont remember ho it was said to me.
"Guitars are like old trucks, the more dents they get the more you love them". Just make sure there your dents and not someone's elces.
----Danny,

I thought I would add my 2 cents PS. I was the same way when I bought my first guitar. I agree with all the previous posters. Play those things. They lose "value" just like a car as soon as you bring them home. All guitars need maintenance if they are played regularly. Just take care of them. They will get the occasional ding or maybe a major mark, but you will know how it got there and it adds to the story of the guitar.

My first guitar hangs on the wall in the music room along with others. Its an old cheap Yamaha acoustic from the seventies. Its got major buckle rash, and countless pickmarks from heavy handed playing. The finish has aged and yellowed. The 1st five frets are way past worn out and the truss rod could use a tweak but I wouldn't sell it. It reminds me of Dorm room jams, beach parties, sing alongs, and drunken dreams of stardom. The often felt humility and inspiration of someone who could really play coaxing sounds out of it that I did not know were there. Those memories are what makes it valuable to me so go out and make your own with yours. You'll never regret it.

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I'm not slow... and I'm not fast... just sort of halffast...

Wow, so very well stated, tdanb2003, that's a real nice story there, thanks so much for sharing that. Thanks to all of you, who posted your sage advice here!

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I believe in Christianity as i believe that the sun has risen. not only because i see it, but because by it, i see everything else. C.S. Lewis

Very well said, that 2nd paragraph is like poetry!

Guitars are meant to be played, We are musicians, that is why we lusted for, saved for, sacrifice for, have them.

'Recently bought an axe which came from Austin, Tx. A lady's brother passed, 15 years ago, at 42. He had like 71 guitars. She ultimately sold them to a (really classy dealer, Strings West) who put many on a table at a show.

Once the beauty purchased was cleaned and polished of the mold, corrosion, neglect...of 15 years, all that instrument wants is to be played.

If you were a "coveted" guitar, would you want to spend your life in the case or bag under the bed or in the closet or on the wall, or have the joy of "getting worn"?

After all, are you "saving" your body, by not using the muscles, nerves, joints, organs? Not advocating abusing bodies or guitars, but what are you "saving" either for?

You and the good instuments are here, now. Play. Enjoy. Dig it.

I have 27 guitars from the early 60s to present and none have significant fretwear as I rotate the playing of them every couple of weeks.If you have 3 or 4 0r more guitars that you play regularly there is very little danger of any of them getting excessive fretwear.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

o_O How the $@!& could you not have to have any fretwork done in 40 years? I've had my #1 Jag and #2 Strat a quarter of that and have had to had frets leveled and crowned multiple times.

Granted none of my non-gigging axes have needed any fretwork, but they are all >5 years old/

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Thanks Guitslinger, i'll rotate too!

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I believe in Christianity as i believe that the sun has risen. not only because i see it, but because by it, i see everything else. C.S. Lewis