Guitar Addiction - How bad do you have it?

[@christophersuggs8487]

I once drove 270 miles in heavy rain, took 6 hours (one way) to buy a guitar that had been discontinued by Fender. Ten years later, I still have it and it was totally worth it.

[@sunn_bass]

Determination and dedication. I salute you!

[@bottomkitchen250]

As an addict several years in recovery, I can attest that the guitar played and continues to play a huge part of my recovery. And many times have i looked back and wished i just spent money on guitars. I'd have a killer collection. At least guitar addiction isn't going to kill you. Always appreciate the videos, Casino Guitars.

[@leftyjackTTV]

keep at it, bro 🫡

[@shanewalton8888]

Let us enjoy the great chemistry between Baxter and Johnathan while we can before KDH comes along and decides to do a tell-all expose on them.

[@Lovell93]

Ugh KDH is such a douche who makes his career on doing hit pieces.

[@catsofsherman1316]

What is KDH? Kill Devil Hills? Kenyan Death Hordes? Karate Dream Heroes?

[@caiusmadison2996]

Killjoy Dreambreaker Demolitionist, if you're Rob Chapman lol and his terrible guitars.

[@tylerdurden5122]

@@caiusmadison2996couldn’t happen to a nicer guy😂😂 rob chapman can gargle my ballsack

[@charlesbolton8471]

⁠@@catsofsherman1316 KDN is a guitar KZbinr based in the UK who did a video recently “exposing” the fact that the owner of Andertons (the largest guitar dealer in the UK) was partial owner of Victory Amps. The store sells Victory Amps and the reviews on the store’s KZbin channel are always favorable to those amps, but it was never officially disclosed the Lee Anderton was part owner of Victory. Apparently, that nondisclosure is (or borders on being) illegal under UK law.

[@Dian2Gig]

I am the only female member of a guitar group here in NC that comprises of 5 other men who have GAS like no tomorrow. I like all of these guys and don't judge what they buy. They do understand I am no way near to purchasing a pre-war acoustic or custom built electric or arch top nor will I want to. I've stopped buying about 2 years ago due to disappointing on-line purchases. I'm down to 2 really nice acoustics (Martin 00028-EC and a Tanglewood Parlor) and 2 electrics (Jaguar, Mustang) I play often. The past 5 years has shown me I know what I like and what I can easily play.

[@chrisdigital]

I'm fine, I can control myself. Oh shit I just ordered a 61 SG standard 😅

[@bluegryp]

I just smuggled a 1964 Vox ac-30 amp into my collection in hopes that my better half wouldn’t see. I literally had to have it delivered to my work. I crammed it into my car (no easy feat) and snuck it in while she was at work one day. I’m just hoping it blends in with the rest of my collection and she won’t notice. It’s been 2 weeks. She hasn’t said a word about it.

[@rvaguitars]

As a guitar builder I approve whole heartedly of gear addiction! Keep on adding to your collections! Your wife says it’s totally ok!

[@TVoltG]

I build guitars and my addiction is I keep them than sell them.. I build 5, sell two, keep 3 and fund more to build for myself and sell two more to keep the cycle going. 🥴

[@rvaguitars]

@@TVoltG I’ve never been much of a collector. I’ve owned dozens of guitars over the years but never more than a couple at a time. I do have completed builds right. Is but they’re all for sale, even the one I play.

[@go_ham_sam9902]

I have 2 good ones. When I was in college we were on tour in Europe with the pop/jazz singers group. I was the bassist. No guitar. We saw some buskers and decided to pool our money to buy an acoustic and bongos to street perform to make some money (we spent more than we made 😂) our first busking location, unbeknownst to us, was in front of Mozarts house and the police came and asked if we were stupid or American for choosing that spot and said they could arrest us for playing there. Second is when strangers enable you. I found an unloaded Diezel 4x12 on Craigslist like 15 years ago for $200. I'm in Philly and the cab was in Southern Maryland. I couldn't work out the trip to get it so I posted it to the Rig-Talk forum. My phone rang 20 minutes later and it was a guy in Maryland telling me he was going to pick up the cab. I congratulated him on a good deal. He said "no I'm getting it for you. Im coming to Philly on Friday for the hardcore festival and I'll bring it with me." That dude was amazing and wouldn't let me give him extra for the gas.

[@SH-fm5eu]

The arsenal currently sits at 28 guitars, 6 amps and about 40 pedals. Mostly Fender and Epiphone but I got a Burns BM, Gretsch, Ibanez's, PRS SE and a few from a company called Carparelli in Barrie Ontario. Highest I've paid was recently for a Bonamassa 335. Its what I have instead of a Harley or muscle car.

[@ringoshub]

I was hospitalized for a back injury and the doctors told me not to move for a while once I was back home. But the day after I was back, I found out that a guitar store in my city (Paris, France) was selling a burst Epiphone Casino. I immediately got up, went to guitar repair store where my Gretsch was waiting for me while at the hospital and then went to the other store to make a trade. My back hurt like hell but I got my Casino and some ten years later, I certainly don’t regret it !

[@frederickacerra7766]

You guys are riots . By far the best guitar related content on KZbin

[@golfrick007]

I love how they wander off topic. 😂

[@jasonodell79er]

Agreed

[@chrishill264]

I drove 12 hours to grab a 76’ firebird while on family vacation 😂 left the family at the beach. Wife was super happy with me😂

[@alexwoolridge94aw]

Niiiiiiiiiice

[@WinstonWhite-l9j]

A lot of guys with large collections are 55+, when they pass, imagine the headaches, their significant others will have in trying to unload them…

[@SumOldGitt]

I'm a beginner and I'm hooked. Playing guitar is the only thing I've ever done that you can definitively see yourself getting better at. I spent my whole day, 16 hours learning and practicing, my finger tips we're sore as hell but I couldn't put it down.

[@between2guitars331]

“An old guitar is all he can afford”- Mark Knopfler. Man, things have chaged since he wrote “Sultans of Swing”

[@NewLifeWithGuitar]

I only started learning how to play guitar a month ago & I'm documenting my journey on here but I already have the addiction pretty bad! Every day I can't wait to get home & practice fumbling between the 5 chords I've learned so far.

[@jasondorsey7110]

That's how it starts, it's up to you to make the journey your own

[@rickyauman7565]

I reserved a new 175th anniversary Martin acoustic guitar, available only to “Owners Club Members”. The date for the celebration arrived and I left N.C. the evening before, drove to Nazareth,Pa to pick up my new guitar! Spent the day touring the Martin facility and drove back to NC.

[@Remsterdam]

I’m at 53 guitars, 30 pedals and 8 amps now out of 75 guitars on my wishlist to make my ultimate collection. Most vintage specs guitars were not that expensive, like Fender MIM’s, SQ CV’s and EPI IBG’s, upgraded them with new pickups and electronics. My heart beats the fastest from modern guitars tho and i bought a PRS core McCarty 594 DC and a Suhr Standard Legacy as top guitars of my collection. And i can’t even play that well 😂 Craziest thing i did was call in sick for work and drive around the country about 700 miles to pick up 4 guitars and 1 amp in a day 🎸

[@PeterMoore350]

Selling organs? Like a Hammond Organ? 🤣😂🤣😂 Cheers from NZ 😎🎸🤘

[@faces_of_japan]

I was thinking more along the lines of a Wurlitzer…..

[@williamfreeman9995]

Thanks!

[@b3pahunter546]

I bought a les paul standard...dream guitar! Went back to guitar center a week later to get strings and bought another LP - custom shop. Guy thought I was crazy. David, I think. Good guy

[@paulsadoff3661]

I was on a bicycle tour from Denver to Kalispell, MT. I found a '60 Fender Musicmaster with a home made wooden case for $ 69 at a pawn shop. I bought it and shipped it home......that was 1980- didn't need it but it was too cheap to resist.

[@beegeewhy]

At 10 guitars, 65 years old and about to retire, I thought if I build some guitars, I’ll not only get my perfect instrument, but it will cost less too. Wrong. Now I’ve got a problem with buying guitars, and more tools to build them with.

[@michelweedfald1657]

I played guitar for under 2 years. I live in a 150 square feet flat and owned 35 guitars. I dont see the problem.....

[@cortmiller]

My first vintage guitar acquisition (a 63 Strat) I ended up trading the guy my car I drove over in. Had to have him drive me back home in it

[@mitchellstrauss5117]

Just about the first thing I did after moving from Iowa to NC (a return home after decades in the midwest) was take a trip from Pittsboro to Wilmington NC to see one of my daughters, but took a modest detour along the way to visit Baxter (sadly Jonathan was gone) and Casino Guitars for the first time... like most of you I'd been watching them for years on KZbin... I'd worked out in my mind that my Collings 0002H needed to go and that my stable required a Lowden made of something other than mahogany or rosewood. It was so much fun trying out all the Lowdens and I settled on a Cocobolo/Lutz F-50. I got to play along with Baxter and meet his family which was way too cool for school and I got a nice trade-in on the Collings... Baxter even carried the Lowden out to my car! Buying guitars is fun! There were times when I suffered buyer's remorse afterwards where I thought I made a rash (too quick) decision, but after a pro set-up by a luthier in Carrboro to adjust the action I am delighted with the Lowden now and it complements my other excellent guitars! Thanks Casino!

[@CitizenofMelee]

Speaking of people who go above and beyond at work. I saw a Los Vegas Walmart employee sprint across the parking lot to save someones car from a runaway cart.

[@jonjones655]

Fully embraced and the occasional gear buy is magic. I have no car, don't need one but I need guitars.

[@EricBlackmonGuitar]

I have only one thing to say about guitar addiction. It's GREAT! Many times when I am asked about it, I compare it to cigarette addition. Cigarettes create pleasure, can cost smokers thousands of dollars per year but will eventually kill you. Guitars create pleasure, can cost guitarists thousands of dollars per year, but they will never kill you. Therefore I must buy every guitar I see.

[@jackstow8411]

What's crazy is I have almost justified getting a Murphy Lab acoustic. I'm a freaking K-mart grade player and I'm on the verge of getting this guitar!

[@JDGuitar82]

You must go buy it!

[@caiusmadison2996]

So you wanna pay Muphy prices for an acoustic.. hey, good luck. I mean, some people can't be saved, and though they ask to be, they don't actually want to be. I tell ya this much, if 8k is any model solidbody, or this barebones acoustic, you are wasting money.

[@johnwashburn3793]

You have my permission and my blessing.

[@josephperrigo7008]

Buy it NOW😂😂

[@tone1798]

Get it, play it, never leave it!

[@leftyjcw7173]

53 years playing. I own 47 leftys. Including my Martin D45, and 6 other Martins. And my Gibson L5, and 7 more Gibsons. I also build both acoustic and electric guitars. For myself. I actually played flipped guitars for my first 15 years. Took that long to actually find a lefty. It was a Fender ‘62 reissue Tele.

[@stevenpipes1555]

Guitar addiction is very real, but if you learn to repair, and build, you can feed the addiction without starving your wallet. I have 14 guitars and basses and only two of them are un altered and only one was brand new. It was a gift. But all of them are top notch! With a little imagination, and developing a few skills, every flea market and yard sale becomes a music store. You can build an amazing collection for very little dough!

[@alexholdenii4946]

Joe B just buys a seat on the plane for this guitar

[@springboard8558]

Hi my name is Robby and I am an addict. I can’t stop buying guitars haha. I’ve routed an international flight to buy a guitar. The whole experience cost me more than I care to share.

[@mknewlan67]

Hi Robby

[@DoctorEnigma01]

Hi Robby!!

[@MarbsMusic]

My Alexa notified me a few days ago that I probably needed to order more strap locks... I laughed, heh I'm not buying another guitar anytime soon that algorithm is crazy. Then I got a Reverb offer I couldn't refuse and bought something that night... so I ordered more strap locks the next day.

[@Wodawic]

Just counted them up - 30 guitars, not counting the ones I build, right at $60K. Space becomes the real issue.

[@EchoToVoice]

Trading out or selling a guitar you love for the one you "have to have" only to not love the new one so much sucks. Also remembered to check on that old 401k. If I can't get that guitar that I just learned is the one, am I really living?

[@bigtex7361]

My favorite thing went from hobby at 10 guitars to an obsession at 20. Now at thirty 🎸(is this hoarding?)- I wonder what it is when I hit forty?? Great work guys!!😂

[@johnwashburn3793]

One day my wife asked me, "how many guitars do you have?" I had no idea. I never felt a need to count them.

[@HUGzJayGon]

It's only hoarding if you don't have clear walking paths through your home

[@josephperrigo7008]

I’m at 30 or so guitars and even the ones I don’t care for I don’t wanna sell. I think that might be classified as hoarding

[@dvsreed]

Hoarding is when it's somebody else's crap......you guys are collectors

[@JoshMarzolf]

I'm at 48. I think it's only a problem at three digits...

[@BrettFunkGuitar]

Guitars & Nicotine are the only two things I can't quit. I could write a book. Maybe I should. Great video. I laughed muchly. Thanks fellas!!!

[@Triple3hot]

Ive had 53 guitars and amps over the years. Im down to 9 guitars and 5 amps, but I need more. Why? Who knows as I make them sound almost the same anyway.

[@sjaakvandam2170]

Last week bought 2 '98 Gibsons from seperate sellers because i have had a '98 LP standard for 15 years and they are siblings. :-) This brought the value of my collection up to about 30k.

[@PooNinja]

There are worse addictions, but it is an addiction I often say Guitar friends are bad friends. Ill use myself as an example. A friend asked me to go guitar shopping with him. In confidence his wife asked me to prevent him from buying anything. I found a beautiful schecter c1+ and I couldn’t come up with a reason not to buy it. She eventually forgave me. It’s still a great guitar 20 years later 😂

[@cageliner]

I have 21 guitars, 22 amps and cabs, and 46 effects pedals. I have five mics and a small mixer. Because I shop bargains when possible, if I sold everything I would have enough to buy a four year old F150 LOL.

[@denbodg9311]

At age 11 saw Hank Marvin, then went back twice more to see. At age 12 OCD Strataholic. At age 31… Bad, At age 51…worse, Now age 71… Have GAS but no car & no hope. 😂🎸🎸🎸

[@BizarrePudding]

Bought a guitar on Reverb in July one day before I left for a 3 week vacation...that meant I wouldn't be able to physically inspect the guitar until long after the 1-week return window had firmly shut... Furthermore I had it shipped to a friend's place since I was gonna be away when it got delivered...A day before I got back she left town for 3 weeks All told, almost 7 weeks elapsed before I got my hands on it... was it worth it? -yes, saved close to 1G compared to what everyone else was asking for the same guitar and although it's technically player grade, it's in great shape would I do the same thing again? - yes... I know it was a stupid, reckless way to go about buying a guitar I'd never seen in person, considering I could have very easily saddled myself with an expensive lemon with no legal recourse to recoup my $$$...But I decided to throw all caution to the wind, I wanted it that bad Yeah, Id say I definitely have a problem

[@squaredtony]

I think Johnathans travel time to pick up that amp grows with every telling of the story

[@surinderpunia2804]

The best two GAS enablers out there! ✌️❤️🎸

[@HAUSIDMT]

Got this Reclaimed Vela brand new the night before my son was born. So naturally during his newborn shoot I had one picture done with him.

[@tomperkins6389]

Also drove 16 hours to Nashville to Gruhn Guitars to get a bunch of them appraised. Wound up coming home with a '65 SG...

[@216trixie]

I never feel like I have too many "guitars." I love stringed instruments. Just played an Egyptian oud. Might have to get one of those. I got a banjo ukulele there's plenty of stringed instruments on Earth you can keep buying and not replicate. You can call them all guitars and you're fine

[@markhafterson5638]

The craziest thing I did to get a guitar? Living in utah I was having a hard time getting my PRS SE Hollow body II piezo, so call these guys in No. Carolina on a whim, and sure enough, they had my guitar. After 3 tries and failures to purchase this guitar, I got it from them. Thanks, Baxter... for feeding my addiction. 😂

[@thg705]

Nice group therapy...thanks!

[@acaceres5788]

Across the first 12 years of my guitar playing life I purchased 4 guitars (not including my first guitar that I don't play but keep for sentimental reasons), the most expensive being my Taylor for which I paid $1300 after taxes. I was pretty satisfied and didn't feel like I needed anything else. Since the pandemic I have bought 4 more guitars, 2 amps, and 8 pedals, the total cost coming out to around 10K. I'm certainly not rolling in money, I kinda went crazy. FOMO'd myself into some purchases including a custom shop. But ya know what? I don't regret it hahaha.

[@Fikcity1992]

I was down in Tampa for a long work trip (from Buffalo, NY) Just managed to find a 1979 Gibson RD Artist at a guitar shop so I took a rental car over an hour away and only paid $1500. Had to get a box from a Sam Ash to get a guitar box so that I could ship it back to myself because I was NOT taking that thing on a plane.

[@johnwashburn3793]

It was one year ago last Friday that I took a day off my vacation in Hilton Head, SC and drove 4 hours north to Casino Guitars. This seemed perfectly normal at the time, but now you make me think perhaps not. But the CEO-7 is perfect. You should hear it now!

[@billw8648]

Guitars are fun! I hope to learn play well enough to get the most out of them!

[@richardroyster6631]

I bought 5 strats because the GC was selling strats for 399. I scrolded MF for hours and ordered the best deals and biggest guitars. I m an old Guild fan.

[@Alienadin]

I took a trip from Vienna to Munich to buy a jazz box, and it was totally worth it. The trip was just an added bonus. I have a very versatile collection, and am currently looking to buy my ultimate dream guitar. The one to end them all, but whom are we kidding, right? Ha, ha

[@fretted]

I love it when my wife finds a nice expensive piece of jewelry. This opens up the door for me to get a new guitar. I have over 50 guitars ❤

[@brutallyremastered4255]

Wasn't it Bowie that said the key to any art form was balance? Over to you, Maestro.

[@2dazetake]

I could of bought a Gibson les paul, but I bought 30 budget guitars, and it was still less than the Gibson I had my eye on, now I have every iconic guitar I grew up listening to, and guess what, budget guitars are just as good as the real deal today, cnc machines and quality control along with great features like stainless steel ball end frets, roasted maple necks, great sounding pickups can all be had for $200-300 dollars, no need to buy an expensive guitar today, budget guitars have come a long way, and you don't have to worry about banging them up, so cheap throw it away and get another.

[@CraigGriffiths]

I was listening “hard and fast” when I realised I may be an addict.

[@andrewhess2978]

Maybe not crazy stupid, but on an already expensive trip to London for three concerts including costly seats for EC at Royal Albert Hall, bought a vintage guitar I didn't know I wanted. Didn't really even know the model existed: a Gibson ES-225T

[@kennethpogue718]

Moving to NYC stifled my addiction but it didn't stop it! 😂

[@myshow667]

as a tech i flew with my personal guitar many times. put it in a soft case and if it didnt fit overhead on top of stuff(which it more often than not did) it sat between my legs. theyd have to pry it from my cold dead fingers

[@catsofsherman1316]

You're the Charlton Heston of guitar players

[@myshow667]

@@catsofsherman1316 guitars should be in the Constitution

[@jeffhuxford2870]

You guys are the best!!!!

[@RodVonLongrod]

For me it's about having a variety of pickups, and a variety of semi-hollow & hollowbody guitars. I just need to either buy another guitar with Dynasonics or buy a set and put them in one of my existing guitars. I have full size semi-hollows, a thinline hollowbody, a thick boy hollowbody, and a few regular thick hollowbodies. I have P90s, "normie" humbuckers, Guild Lil' Buckers, mini-hums, and Filter'Trons. I could probably thin the herd by one or two if I had to but it's convenient to keep guitars around already tuned to different tunings. I recently acquired a 150th Anniversary Sheraton and a Broadway that I'm Gretschifying. I'm really set for guitars now. Of course there's always the White Falcon dream guitar to acquire but that will come when the time is right.

[@MrSmiley1964]

No, I don't want to add up the value of all the guitars I've owned during the 45 years I've been playing. But yeah, I've done things. Outstanding job guys, I can totally relate to driving to Nashville to watch my friend buy/sell a guitar, esp if I get to play a Dumble.

[@robertspreitzer8126]

I’ve been addicted to vintage Ibanez RGs, bought 3 in the last 6 months.

[@WilliamHaisch]

“The liver is the only visceral organ with the capacity to regenerate.” -Wikipedia, Liver regeneration

[@tylerdurden5122]

Great to know!

[@MarcStanton1]

I live on the West Coast and in 08 I bought a guitar on eBay. Instead of having it shipped to me, I went to pick it up so I could bring it home myself. It was located in west Maui. I got to hang out with the guys at the music store there at the time. A shout out to Kerry who sold me that EJ strat. Still have it. I used a timeshare there and hung out for the week

[@CyclopsGuitars8642]

I drove to Atomic Music in Maryland from Massachusetts for a Marshall Silver Jubilee 4X12 Cab 8 hour ride one way hahahah.It’s not a 1959 burst but it was fun

[@Somenite]

There has got to be a ton of people sitting on so much equipment out there. I've had the same Les Paul for about 30 years and it was used when I got it. Unlike other things in life, they don't really reach the point where they have to be replaced. Every year, companies like Gibson product more and more but I've never known a single person to throw away a mid range to upper range instrument. Has to be some people with serious guitar addiction buying them up.

[@RickO-pu6my]

I had some bad GAS during COVID, but after picking up a PIA after a 14 month waitlist, then realizing you don't really want it, I've been pretty clean for the past 10 months. I want to sell it, but haven't decided how much of a haircut I want to take on a guitar I've played only 2 hours on (I just don't feel worthy of it, but it's a great guitar). Best of luck to everyone!

[@factualverbage]

About 4 years ago, I drove 3 hours to Sarasota to pick up a Yamaha T100C from a seller who would not ship....... because I got it for $400.00 and the circuit in to is designed by Michael Soldano and is very similar to the SLO head that sells for much much more..... It is a 1x12 combo with 100 watts and its downside is it is pretty darned heavy... but it sounds great and will cover just about anything from metal to pristine clean very well.......The spring reverb actually sounds very good and it can get some complex sounding overdrive sounds, although I usually play through it clean and use my pedals for dirt...... just easier and sounds plenty good....... but because of its' weight I mainly only play it at home....... Scotty Moore uses to tour with a Peavey Classic 30 and one of these T100C's in case it was a larger venue and he needed more power........this was near the end of his career and I'll bed he didn't do the lifting of it....... lol

[@DonDon-ou7jt]

Its ok to enjoy the fruits of your labor its worth it. Currently choosing for my 10th guitar: jaguar or jazzmaster or strat? Currently i have: 5 tele, 1 ES, 1 les paul, 2 strat

[@ahoneyman]

I went through a brief period of collecting to figure out what I wanted. My bass rig is P Bass+cord+amp. I've got 1 PRS SE for humbuckers metal stuff and a Mexican Tele for whatever doesnt work with the PRS. The necessary bases are covered and the buying is done.

[@robsteffey606]

Being a newer player I feel as my skill develops my collection will narrow down to the key ones I must have. At least that’s what I keep telling myself. Lol

[@marcel-jt3dy]

You Need a Jazz bass fretless and freted, A music man stingray, also you Need a 335 one PAFs and one with P90s ,that should keep you going for a while. All the best

[@jasondorsey7110]

​@@marcel-jt3dyYou forgot the Ric and the eb-3

[@marcel-jt3dy]

@@jasondorsey7110 dam it You are right ,I probably Need a white falcon as well! What else do I NEED!

[@jasondorsey7110]

@@marcel-jt3dy Well, if you don't have a Martin yet...

[@ThomTranOnline]

Maybe not the craziest thing I’ve done to get a guitar, but the most elaborate. I found a Paul Gilbert PGA1000 acoustic in Italy. About an hour from Vicenza. I’m in Los Angeles. But I DO have a friend I was in the Army with, stationed with the 173d Airborne at Vicenza. He had to take leave, and convince his wife they were going on “a weekend trip”, so he could pick this up for me and ship it via APO back to the states. she was pissed. 😂😂

[@84kjk]

Seems like a logistical nightmare. Some people I guess like you don’t care. I question your friends sanity for doing all that for you.

[@ifly65]

I just sold three guitars...then I bought three within a month. Great videos guys! Panda Ex is the worst food Ive ever had. Cold and stale, tiny servings served by a kid who didnt care and it was stupid expensive (On Lindberg St. Louis MO). Ill never go back. We have authentic Chinese food buffets that kick their ass just blocks away.

[@MetalMaineiac]

The Tone King's collection is impressive...

[@stevenumbers4027]

I drove 6 hours round trip to an airport in mid Ohio to pick up a guitar for Derrick about 10 years ago. It was a George Strght guild. He sold it not long afterwards.

[@DK-rv5tt]

Love to see you guys review the fender Suona Stratocaster thinline !

[@gshep42]

GAS but I can only ever really have around 10 guitars/basses at once. Usually end up selling or trading lower end ones for higher end eventually. It’s very hard to maintain any more than 10, and that’s pushing it too.

[@evalonious]

Omg the Livers😂

[@Mcfly0856]

It comes and goes, I have a few hobbies that I jump in and out of frequently.

[@emo_galaxy9413]

Its funny guitar porn has replaced sex porn. That is when you know that something profound has occurred in you!

[@davej8045]

I tried not to buy a guitar this year by getting a couple of amplifiers instead. Later, I started putting together a pedalboard, which turned into two pedalboards within a few weeks. I ordered my second guitar of the month yesterday, and just lost a dollar bet to a friend & coworker over me not buying another guitar. I’m starting to think that my gambling problem is getting worse.

[@manupbritain5232]

I just got number 7. Ive doubled my max spent on guitar spending £1800 on a Les Paul. No regrets. I haven’t looked at anything else since. The GAS is quenched. There are some things i would like but I'm not chasing. For now...

[@216trixie]

120 comments and only one praising the thumbnail! That's hilarious. And the thumbnail is hilarious too.

[@alexwoolridge94aw]

Bought a Magnatone, Heritage, in December 2022, drive 8 hours to get a Martin custom shop, from Carters and just within the last month I bought a gretsch billy bo from Carters again. All this year basically. If I sold all my shit I could pay half my house off. No addiction at all. That lil Magnatone Starlite is catching my eye as well after recently playing through one lol. It never ends.

[@ryangunwitch-black]

I'm kind of addicted to weird affordable vintage stuff like Tiescos and Supro amps and new things like Classic Vibe Teles.

[@johnwashburn3793]

I once bought a guitar that I didn't want from a girl that I wanted to get to know. I traded it for something later that year.

[@Glicksman1]

How bad is my guitar addiction? Well, it started when I was seventeen, and has not abated one bit since, many decades later.

[@jfrankcarr]

One time a guy showed up in a Pontiac Fiero to buy a cab I was selling. His girlfriend was with him. Watching him try to fit both the cab and his girlfriend into that tiny two seater was hilarious.

[@mknewlan67]

I’m surprised neither the Fiero or the girlfriend caught fire lol. Those Fieros were deathtraps.

[@Vidar.m]

Its the same with photography. Always some new better lens or other piece of gear you should have.

[@JukeboxGothic]

I finally got the old guitar thing under control. The old motorbike thing not so much.

[@bobsteel6916]

I have had it for years. It's an obsession. It annoys others as far as my love for music. I one day found out that I have many planets in the 5th house in astrology, and that indicates either doing music professionally or a total love, which it is my biggest love.

[@reedhead1]

Iv'e collected all 3 colors of the GE Smith signature Telecasters, also, the Buddy Guy polka dot Strats, the black one and the white one, all 5 colors of the Cort Matt Murphy signature models, the Gibson Mr 335 and the Sire Larry Carlton 335 model.....I've stopped now because I'm retired.

[@ELWOOD..]

Very cool. I thought I had to have one of those GE Smith at one time.

[@BobPerrone]

I finally cured my GAS. Sort of. I'm turning 70 next March and am resigning myself, since the other family members don't play, to the knowledge that I probably won't have the time to get tired of any more new gear...😢

[@DDE_ADDICT]

I build my own Strats from scratch, it is way cheaper. 7 in the rack, 2 in gig bags, 1 more on the way.

[@catsofsherman1316]

When you say from scratch does that mean you carve your own necks and bodies?

[@216trixie]

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[@Mr.Owl9]

I'm still looking for an affordable left handed Les Paul that is of respectable quality... It's driving me crazy ! Does that count ?