Another of my favorite Epis... my baritone. Stupidly sold this one while trying to fund the purchase of my Gibson (coming up in a few posts, LOL) because I wasn't in a bnad at the time that was playing stuff where a baritone was useful... I wish I still had it now, but no big deal. I can actually tune my PRS down almost as low and it sounds great, so in a pinch, I can cover the need...





This was probably my favorite Epi LP I ever had... if not my second favorite, but I don't have any pics of the other one. Limited edition (Musician's Friend exclusive) natural finish, flame maple LP Custom. The only Custom I've ever owned, aside from the fake one I have now, which I don't count. (It's a "Les Paul COUNTERFEIT according to the truss rod cover, LOL!)














I'm not certain, but I think I traded this one in towards drum equipment, probably cymbals.

Some nice ones there, MacGyve.

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Believe it or not, the photos don't do this one justice... this is quite possibly the most beautiful Les Paul I have EVER seen in person, if not the most beautiful I've ever seen period. 2008 LP Traditional... I had this thing on layaway for like 4 months... paying on it every day with tip money from my second job delivering pizza, plus whatever I could get selling off cheap guitars, LOL! It played amazing, and sounded like a dream... but I just couldn't get it to stay in tune on stage to beat hell, and I absolutely refused to spend a dime on upgrading anything out of necessity on a $2,200 guitar. So I traded this and the honeyburst Epi above for my Singlecut Trem, and I've been a PRS man ever since.










Not much I can say about this one, except what I told the wife was my reason for having to have it in the first place...

"It... has... THREE... NECKS. Three. 25 strings. 6 pickups. 72 frets. On three necks."




It was... heavy.


I'll bow out for now with a shot that sorta breaks the rule of the thread, since
I still have the green fake LP and the blue squier strat... but it's the only shot I have of both my Tele, and the Cream Squier Strat I bought specifically to smash at the end of the last show we played in the band I was in at the time... I knew the band was done after that gig, so I wanted to go out with a bang. We did.

Also making a cameo is the second Mesa cab, which I have since sold, so I'm down to only 1 at the moment. And yes, everything you see in this picture gear-wise went with me to that last show, and saw stage time. In a 75 minute, 14 song set.





There were a fair amount more, but I'd have to dig for pics of some, and others were never photographed. I've also had a few Parker Flys, a couple cool Ibanez guitars, including a PRS style carved top doublecut and an artcore jazz guitar... a couple flying Vs, an epiphone doubleneck SG, a few more Les Pauls... I couldn't even begin to post a full list off the top of my head, LOL! I apparently have a hard time holding on to guitars, I'm always a few hundred bucks short for the next guitar I want. It's almost like I rent or lease guitars instead of buying them, considering I'm never smart enough about it to make money or break even on them. Although, I think I'm finally pretty set on a few keepers... My USA PRS guitar and my two Fender Jazz basses aren't going anwhere any time soon. I guess that's a start...

Wow, MacGyver, that's a bunxh of ex-guitars you listed here.

I laughed about the "rather renting guitars"-thing, ha ha ha.

It really looks like it, though.

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STRATS ROCK!!! but Teles and Firebirds, too!

And that's probably less than half the list... I think last I counted, I've owned pretty close to 50 guitars over the past 16 or 17 years... and I only own 7 total at the moment. 3 electric guitars, 3 basses, and an acoustic.

My full list... (asterisks are the ones I still own)

01. red Memphis strat copy
02. LA accoustic
03. gold top Epiphone Les Paul Standard
04. black Charvel Dinky
05. green Hohner accoustic
06. red Lotus flying V
07. blue Jackson Randy Rhoads flying V
08. red Epiphone Les Paul Special Double Cut
09. red Epiphone G-1275 doubleneck
10. purple Jay Turser Les Paul copy
11. Samick Greg Bennett accoustic/electric
12. Black Epiphone Les Paul Studio
13. Red Epiphone Les Paul Standard
14. red Ovation Celebrity accoustic/electric
15. sunburst Ibanez PRS copy
16. Green Parker Fly Deluxe
17. White Epiphone Les Paul Baritone
18. Blue Parker Fly Deluxe Hardtail
19. cherry sunburst Epiphone Les Paul Standard
20. Blue Ibanez Artcore hollowbody electric
21. red Jay Turser 5 string bass
22. Galveston Tripleneck
23. red Samick mini Strat copy
24. wine red Gibson Les Paul Studio
25. natural korina Epiphone Explorer
* 26. blue Squier Stratocaster (MacGyvercaster)
27. natural maple Epiphone Les Paul Custom
28. blue Epiphone Les Paul standard
29. cream Squier Stratocaster
30. honeyburst Epiphone Les Paul Standard
* 31. counterfeit Gibson Les Paul Custom green w/ dragon inlay
32. auburn Samick Avion (Les Paul copy)
33. Purple Fender Telecaster Mexican Standard
34. counterfeit PRS custom 22 natural
35. counterfeit Gibson Les Paul Florentine blue
36. Gibson Les Paul Traditional, Iced Tea Burst
37. Fender Japanese Antigua Burst Strat
* 38. Dean Exotic Acoustic, Quilted Ash (natural)
39. AXL Badwater Les Paul copy
40. PRS Singlecut Trem, black charcoal
41. PRS SE Custom 24, quilted red w/ birds
42. Dean Exotica Flying V
43. Fender Black Strat, made in Mexico
44. Agile silverburst baritone
45. Agile Albino LP copy
* 46. Ibanez g10 bass, red
* 47. PRS Custom 22, honeyburst
48. Squier Vintage Modified '70's Jazz Bass
* 49. Fender Geddy Lee Jazz Bass
* 50. PRS SE Singlecut, White (Pink Floyd deco)
* 51. Fender Jazz Bass, Antigua Burst

That's roughly in chronological order, as far as I can remember.

Now I wonder about your girlfriends!

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STRATS ROCK!!! but Teles and Firebirds, too!

LOL... I wish I had half as many of those...

I did have a fair share of hotties in my early 20's while I was the frontman in Lift (6) Eighteen, but not many since... A few came and went, and I've been with my wife for going on 9 years now.

I guess, unlike my many guitars, there's just nobody interested in taking her off my hands...

Here is one that I actually have pics of...



It was a 62 Reissue Tele MIJ...Great guitar...I do mis that one.

The three others were a Les Paul Custom and a 62 Strat (back in the 70s, when I gigged steady, I miss the strat, but that LP weighed a TON!) and an Epi Les Paul Standard.

T2

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This is a 2003 Les Paul Standard Plus. I sold it because there were just soooo many physical problems with it. The longer I had it the more issues would reveal themselves. 2003 was part of Gibson's period of severe quality issues.





This is a 1989 American Tele Plus Deluxe. It is rare due to the fact it has a Gold Sensor at the neck rather than a Blue from the factory. Could have been an oversight during assembly. Solder connections were examined several times by people more experienced than I and were deemed to be original. Unique or not I hated the pickups. This guitar was my first experience with silent single coils and I loved the quiet but I hated the tone. I sold it for $200 more than I paid for it but the young fellow who bought it has beaten it to hell. I jammed with him this past spring and I couldn't believe how much damage he'd done to it. It was in pristine condition when he got it.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

i have not pics of my giveaways:

ibanez js 100, my first one
santana se
g&l s500, grrrrr today i could bite me in the $@! that i sold it

cheers

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Looks like you sold a lot of gear this year.

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Everytime I see this thread title that damn Gotye song goes through my head...

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