Is GAS a good thing?

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[@Unchainedmaple888]

It sure beats being addicted to any other more dubious things lol

[@chrissmith6675]

Watching this video probably just cost me about $2300,00

[@riplead]

🤣

[@NicholasDunnAutistic]

After my dad passed away, I inherited all his guitars and gear. He was working on modding a Gibson Les Paul. I decided to finish it for him (it was bringing me closure). It sent me down a path of projects, learning electronics, ect. I'm on 5th Warmoth build now.

[@stratman3771]

My wife got me a Martin D-28 for Christmas. I stopped playing guitar for a few years prior to this. Every time I just open the case and smell this d28 I get inspired. Now I’m a guitar fanatic again and am currently waiting on a Tele build from Warmoth. (First time order) I’ve been missing music and I didn’t even know it.

[@invay69]

Nice to hear that man. You won't be disappointed with the tele from this guys, I got myself like a super strat let say, and it's gorgeous, beside, perfect and my main AXE! Good luck!

[@joek81981]

Be thankful its guitars, not motorcycles. The urges to amass, to mod, its all the exact same, but a set of tuning pegs is a thousand dollars. Also, you touched on the key for me: there's the buying, and there's the LETTING GO part. Its like two legs to it. There's a part of my brain that feels like its getting hurt when I sell something, even KNOWING I don't want it, don't play it, don't even like it maybe. And its never about taking a loss in the money. I just feel like its a mistake. This is something a qualified behaviorist does, so you're off the hook for fixing me, Aaron.

[@nikdrown]

Bro I’m in all of it. Guns music and bike. lol. I have to be choice in where I put my financial interests but get on deals a lot! Oh and trading rather than selling helps alleviate that parting with things especially stuff you don’t use hardly or ever lol.

[@jfrankcarr]

I didn't have that much gear until I got into repairing and building guitars about 25 years ago. Building a guitar using Warmoth parts is what got me started in that direction. Now I've got 40 to 50 or so guitars, depending on how you count projects in progress.

[@killertom8261]

The Telecaster changed my life! I was always a "Metal Guy" and have owned MANY guitars over the years. My favorites have been Ibanez, Aria Pro II and a few old Carvins. Then about five years ago I got an old Tele from Reverb(a 90s Fujigen) as a modding project and I was off to the races! There are no original parts left on it and it is hands down the best guitar I've ever owned. Oh, and flatwound strings. I play jazz and country soul now. The Telecaster changed my life! 🔥\,,/,🍅,\,,/🔥

[@Fishbulb77]

I can’t afford a whole new guitar, so I just get a new body or neck every year or so til I have a complete guitar built eventually, so Warmoth gets most of my gear budget $

[@clemguitar63]

Only Way to Go!

[@ralphbenitez4407]

I look at gear, specifically amps and effects as 🖍️ crayons. Sometimes I need more, different shades of colors I don’t have. Those are the things that help me or fire me up creatively. As guitars go, I have all the guitar I need. They vary in value. Some are expensive while others aren’t. For me a great guitar regardless of price is, if I can’t put it down, it’s a keeper. I have enough of them, not a crazy amount. I have 12 that I’ll never part with. When I’m in a rut, I pick up a different guitar and that works! I get ideas out of nowhere just by changing instruments. This doesn’t mean that there are no guitars I want. Of course I do. I don’t need more but they are so cool. I realized that when I did buy a new guitar, after a while, I went back to the original 12. Now I just don’t buy any more. It’s tough at times but it has realizing this has helped and I now have more money to buy more crayons.

[@anyday82]

That orange shirt looks good with the orange strat/tele

[@AtomicFacePunch]

I started building amps because I couldn't just buy one that gave me the right sound at a volume I am allowed to use in public. Now I understand why people say Dumble style circuits are hard! They are also totally worth it when you get the recipe right. Also built a Warmoth Nightswan (Warswan?) style guitar purely out of nostalgia for 80's shred, thinking it would just be fun but I'd never really gig with it. Now it's my main guitar and I can't believe how much I dig it with the 1.650" Wizard neck and the Floyd. Comparing this rig to my storebought stuff is like getting out of a muscle car that you think is fast and into a race car that is actually fast.

[@diogorenato]

As an exclusively vintage strat player for 7 years, it was deliberating when I got a 24-fret guitar with a floyd. I just couldn't believe how much more comfortable it was to have the extra fret access, a flatter fb radius than 7.25" ... it really opened up my capabilities that I didn't know were constrained.

[@monstrok]

I got my Gibson R0 Les Paul 10 years ago and it changed my songwriting acumen from occasional to literally every time I picked up that guitar. It was almost as if it wasn't satisfied when I played what I know and tempted me with new directions into melodies I'd never considered. It was more than just the great sound and playability - it was the connection to the instrument.

[@Robstafarian]

Briefly, GAS exists and is sometimes good because playing guitar is an art. We lust after new gear for the same reason we do not commit to the same tonic for years and why we would not paint in a single hue. I have an amp which could easily be my only amp, but that does not stop me from loving other tones and taking the opportunity to make them available to me. GAS can be good when we are in a creative rut and need an external event to lead us in a new direction. I mean, even an introvert might write a new song, poem, or story after meeting new people. An important point to internalize is that there will always be a cool piece of gear one misses, just as there will always be guitar parts one cannot play. My own GAS is primarily for formats of guitar that I have been able to find which meet my physical and financial limitations. A good example of this is my recent decision to change a plan from using a Warmoth Nomad body to a Warmoth WGD body because I realized that I have been consistently unable to find a dual-humbucker guitar with four knobs (G&L PTB controls per pickup!) within said limitations. I doubt I will ever see something like a Gibson ES-339 or Ibanez AM within those limitations.

[@Eric_S]

Warmoth has enabled me to be an armchair guitar builder which led me to build amps and pedals. Each successive build getting cleaner and inspiring.

[@HunnysPlaylists]

Affection invigorates creativity.

[@HunnysPlaylists]

That includes happiness over finding new value in something.

[@jbrobertson2758]

Nice StratoTele! Love the Tangerine color!

[@cw-on-yt]

Josh Scott! Yes, _you,_ Joshua Heath Scott! Reach out to Aaron! You guys should totally record a video together!

[@warmoth]

Is Josh Scott the "Josh" of JHS pedals? I'm in! Josh.....let's do it. Wonder Twins.....unite!

[@cw-on-yt]

@@warmoth: Yep, that's who I meant. Both of you guys could feed my vicarious G.A.S., which is great, but I also would enjoy seeing the interaction. It'd be the understated-sense-of-humor-pa-looza.

[@warmoth]

Hahaha! We could exchange deadpan jokes for 30 minutes that no one would get but us = epic!!

[@jjfloyd618]

Man that color. I’ve been in pursuit of my personal holy grail instrument (Fender American Deluxe Jazz Bass V in Candy Tangerine) for some years now. I finally acquired one and not only did it inspire me to start playing a lot more (because it just feels so “right” in my hands) it’s also inspired me to get rid of all the superfluous, consolation basses I accumulated during the hunt.

[@dj_tmc]

The most recent acquisition that has changed my playing is a $120 Washburn fretless bass that I got at a gear swap. I never played bass before (just regular guitar), and I loved how those flat wounds feel! Because its fretless, it has forced me to listen very closely to the pitch and tone of what I'm playing. And, the scale length difference made playing a regular guitar feel so much easier!

[@OutstandingBill1]

I've read of many people finding inspiration in new gear, and I've found it myself. I recently flew half way around the world to stay with family. While I was there, I borrowed my nephew's budget, but very playable guitar. It gave me a new intro for one of my songs in the first half hour. I wouldn't be surprised if novelty played a big part in that story. I only have a small number of guitars, and one of those gets 99% of my playing, so my hands and head are very much attuned to that one guitar. I'm intrigued to hear that you have found an especially inspiring guitar. I imagine you're someone who gets to play a lot of guitars, and so perhaps for you, the novelty factor is more difficult to find. Do you think there's novelty driving your inspiration? Is it something else?

[@warmoth]

Oh, I agree that novelty is a part of it for sure. It's "new input" for new creativity. Sort of like being on vacation in a new place, and you notice all the kinds of little things that you take for granted or don't even see in your day-to-day life. "Wow...what beautiful door knobs!" "Wow....I just love these dinner plates!"

[@Ste_Va]

I'm definitely on the "something new creates inspiration" train, I'm really digging that hybrid strat, it has some serious yvette young signature vibes goin on.

[@nikdrown]

So I have a modest studio in my house. I play guitar bass and drums pretty diligently. That’s a lot of acquisition to be had getting what you need/want. That on top of the recording aspect which I take a lot of interest in itself I have come to notice that my desire to get more stuff really isn’t a bad thing. I don’t NEED anything really but really like the inspiration that something new brings to the table. I’ve become more choice in guitars especially and use only a few on a regular. GAS is really arbitrary. I do know some people who buy and don’t use and rely on that to feed whatever delusion they have replacing their need to invest in building their talent. Doing anything but especially music we hit a point beyond our initial introductions that we can either be complacent and bored ourselves out or we need to expand somehow someway to feed the beast. There’s a huge difference seriously.

[@MauriceKindermann]

I had barely played in 10 years. Got a new guitar, now it's all I can think about. Totally agree with this, especially because it justifying my impulse purchases.

[@td7426]

I have a squier telecaster custom that I bought new 10 years ago. Vintage wind dual chrome buckers. I knew it was a special guitar when I tried it at the local store. When I play it there are riffs and chords that come out of me that even surprise me. I have three electrics and one acoustic but I play The Squier the most

[@angusorvid8840]

I agree with Aaron on accumulating stuff. I used to have a massive book collection. It got out of hand when I was tripping over boxes and boxes of books all the time. So I got aKindle and got rid of the books I didn't need. I only buy books I will read and I check out ebooks for my Kindle. No books to trip over! Yeah, I still have a few bookshelves, but they are all tidy. I keep only the books that are very special to me. As for gear, right now I only have a modded single bucker Squier strat with a DiMarzio Tone Zone, a 25 watt Gamma combo solid state, and it does the job for me. BTW, I love JHS pedals. They are brilliant.

[@warmoth]

Did the exact same with all my books. Only the most special ones stayed, which is only about five. Everything I read now = Kindle, or used books that a pass on the someone else when I am done. I did the same with all my old CDs.

[@lyricbread]

Man, I feel you. I hate having baggage too. It’s tough when you have a pallet of tones that require multiple guitars, amps, and gear.

[@warmoth]

I feel so heard right now! :)

[@christophertodd1980]

Wow! Aaron, we’ve both been bitten by the bug of the hybrid Strat! Once I got my own Warmoth hybrid Strat Baritone finished six weeks ago (you’ll see it on TGP, gold flake metallic and flame maple Tele Bari neck), I’m cured of GAS (except for a Dr Z Maz amp 😅) The hybrid Strat concept is really awesome, like you said, that great Tele bridge pickup tone with a Strat pickup in the neck in mine, awesome in the middle position too. I resonate with the anti-hoarder idea strongly though, and I’m serious about being done except for the aforementioned Dr Z Maz amp. I’d played for 25 years before I got into Fuzz pedals (All the Fulltone fuzzes) and especially delays a few years ago - Catalinbread Belle Epoch and Belle Epoch Deluxe, Adineko Oil Can Delay, Dawner Prince Boonar and Boss DM2w; have been my most inspiring purchases creatively to really change my game. But I’m totally LOVING my baritone.

[@jcooper306]

Thanks for sharing your feelings about this topic. I find that I don’t need a ‘collection’…..the journey is great fun, learning about what I like in the guitar world, finding wonderful inspiration, trying out different stuff…. I love it!

[@warmoth]

Yep, it's all about the journey. I don't have a big collection either. For me it's usually one-in/one-out.

[@alar7743]

@@warmoth Because of the color of the T-shirt, I can’t shake the feeling that this report is from a prison or from a place of compulsory treatment for GAS - please, at least some of the stuff they wear outside of prison, please? )))))

[@schmoemi3386]

Just wonder when a collection is considered "big" 🤨

[@alar7743]

@@schmoemi3386 When she starts to interfere with any other people - I think)))

[@jasondorsey7110]

My experiences seem different...as my stylistic tastes change, so do my gear requirements, and I seek out whatever does the thing I'm looking for right off the bat...but I do agree, a new piece of gear can inspire you to come up with things you otherwise wouldn't

[@clemguitar63]

A Good 'Ole 'Beer Belly' beats out 'Comfort Contours' all day long, plus those 12 Ounce curls really help to shape muscle definition!

[@brettdemarco274]

This was a great video, thanks Aaron! My only “Tele” is a Schecter PT Van Nuys. It’s got the contour cut and two humbuckers, hence “Tele” 🤪 but I do love it so!

[@stringspicksandfiddlestick6388]

I saw a band called Three Wise Men. They are a Christian Christmas band in the Seattle area. One guy in the band had a Line 6 Variax with a Warmoth neck. That guitar is a digital modeling guitar. Digital modeling is big with keyboard players but never caught on with guitar players. Let’s just say the Rickenbacker and Coral Sitar models are very useful.

[@crappyfellow]

In 1976, I bought a brand new Peavey Artist amplifier. It was the first guitar amp that I purchased with both a clean and dirty channel. Abandoning my distortion pedal in favor of using the dirty channel motivated me to learn "heavier" material because I could now sound like the guy on the record. I started playing Kansas, Heart. Queen, etc. It's true that new gear can point you in a different direction.

[@warmoth]

I think every guitarist I knew as a kid had Peavey Bandit, at least for a little while. It was a rite of passage.

[@crappyfellow]

@@warmoth The Artist was the poor man's Mesa Boogie. I was the poor man back in 1976!

[@woodygranger2126]

Ironically, I modified a squire strat with a Warmouth Pro neck and change all the wiring and electronics to match an original 1954 strat, including a capacitor that would have been put in an original 54 strat . I wired the bridge to the tone control though and used 4% silver solder because I thought it might help with conductivity. I carved a bone nut and set it up to my personal taste. Planet waves 18:1 gear ratio locking and self cutting tuners with roller string trees. 1954 custom shop Fender pickups. I haven't been able t9 put it down since 2011. Alder body, jack and bridge are from the squire it originally started with. Not traditional bridge though.

[@diegoduarte5606]

Hello from Brazil !!! I have a Warmoth strat, the best one ever! Thx

[@ethanwelles]

Totally going through this right now also. I bought a super cheap guitar to fly with nearly 20 years ago and it turned out to be one of my fav instruments in tone and feel. Playing it again lately after taking many years off from recording, I feel like I had a reset on how I approach guitar, and it's just gushing out new riffs and track ideas where my other guitars aren't. I love the current pup config but I also want to revert it to my previous config. Wanting both options equally, I've been thinking of buying another off eBay to mod to my earlier config but I must have SS frets because it's a 2-step bender/wild vibrato axe and I ground the frets down after recording one album with it. This spurred me on to start an enhanced signature build based on its specs, which I'm also approaching differently to any of my previous builds or off-the-rack purchases. All of my guitars have something unique about them that the others don't (by choice), so they each bring out something new or fresh when I pick one up.

[@kevinalfrey2633]

I hate getting rid of any gear. I always regret when I do because I’m always changing artist and styles and I always circle back🤷‍♂️ Digging that fiddle. Maybe one day I’ll build my own. You gotta set your priorities because I’m just a hobbyist. I don’t play out anymore 😢

[@azbluesdog]

I still have a Randall combo amp that I used when touring the upper Midwest in the late eighties. The amp eventually died but I still use the Celestion speaker (in the original cabinet) on a regular basis.

[@henrymcardle]

GAS takes many forms...I still play the "same" white strat that I bought in high school with summer job money. But, you know how they say, "if you replace every part of a car, is it still the same car?" Same thing. It's been taken apart, gutted, rewired, bits replaced here and there so many times that it no longer resembles itself. I think only the body is original at this point. On another note, I'm not sure if Warmoth is the cure or the cause for GAS. I've thought about this a lot. On one hand, you can spec exactly what you want, so one would think it cures it. That said, just cruise over to the unofficial forums and you'll see guys who have built 10+ of these things so it doesn't exactly play out in practice. In any case...there are worse addictions out there!

[@warmoth]

I think different people have different goals. Some guys build one guitar that is perfect for them, and then go make music with it. Building the guitar was just the means to an end. For others, building guitars and tinkering with stuff is their end goal, and how they enjoy music. It's all good.

[@sagittated]

There are definitely worse auctions out there. If anyone wants to feel less bad about spending money on guitar gear, go check out expensive clutch purses or golf clubs. Talk about an empty waste of resources!

[@MichaelSheaAudio]

Well GAS is definitely a great thing for the businesses selling gear, but I'm in a state of not even really wanting new gear. I don't care about pickups, I don't care about wood, all of my guitars play really well and do what I need them to do, so that's all that matters to me. I don't approach each guitar differently, they're all just guitars to me. I find inspiration in the different styles of music that I listen to and try to incorporate into my music, as well as limitations. For the EP I'm currently working on, I'm not an amazing singer, and I can't afford to pay someone to sing on it, so I made a creative choice to record tons of vocals with nice harmonies, and kinda bury them a bit in the music, so they're there, and you can hear them, they're just not really the focal point. So far, I think it's working, the songs are really nice melodically, but the music is like old 2000s metalcore mixed with my other influences, it's cool. I got this kind of idea from the band Astronoid. I heard them years ago, could never remember their name, but finally found them again this year. That kind of thing, but with my own spin on it.

[@SimenNeverdal]

Helix! I got the Helix and finally startet playing instead of buying gear. Had it til right now. Got the Hotone Ampero stage, smaller and easier to use. Got tired of the Helix after 5 years..

[@clemguitar63]

We're Here for Ya Dude!

[@Robowx]

I’ve been playing close to 50 years. Yes I’ve done local gigs, tours, session work, etc. Plus I’ve owned lots of guitars, amps and gear. But recently I discovered my last guitar! Believe it or not I bought a Gretsch Electromatic G5230T!! This guitar is phenomenal in my playing style! Sure it needed some tweaks. It definitely needed locking tuners. I recommend the Grover 406, it needed a roller bridge or a compton bridge, a good set up to your liking. Other than that. It’s a great guitar!! It does everything I want it to.

[@gsbguitarsgsb679]

It’s a combination of things partscasters, pedals, amps, I bought a MP15 PRS signature amp last year and haven’t really played any other amps. I’m gonna have to get another one cause I like it so much…

[@sagittated]

I don't need more stuff. But my next guitar is a partscaster exactly to my specs that I'm planning on acquiring very slowly. So far, I've got a bridge. The other 15 (or so) elements will trickle in. No hurry. Just patience, and the joys of expectation and creativity. And hopefully when it's done, it's not a dud. 😂

[@Bigboybooya666]

that's a super unique guitar!

[@jams4218]

I spread it around lol. Guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, banjo, dobro, trumpet ect... 😅

[@robertmitchell2178]

I have enjoyed that Warmoth Hybred Strat in swamp ash with a Warmoth maple Tele neck for years now and I still am enamored with it's shape, tone, and comfort. It is the last Tele I will need, ending that part of my G.A.S. obsessions.

[@PFDarkside]

I’ve got a carved top soloist with a fat back neck configured like the best Les Paul I’ve never played. Every time I pick it up it oozes rock riffs!

[@dadudezpr]

AA for me was a Warmoth neck, put it on Squier and it changed. No im switching necks like crazy. Also I’m neck guy , any pickups are good for me but the selling point is the neck. It cured me cuz I’m not looking and if I’m looking is not the same interest when you you can build a better guitar lol.TY

[@tiagoramalhais5493]

I just want to say that I love the strato-tele hybrids, it solves the tele ergonomic issues and I like the strat shape more, too bad there aren't many on the market.

[@warmoth]

I love them! There are a few. Even Fender has one, I think.

[@IrateWizrd]

funny enough I used to watch gear videos and stuff like that long before even trying to learn guitar, so GAS was kind of a good motivator

[@krone5]

warmoth is a good company to help guitar players keep most of their own gear, instead of buying another.

[@nickm.9474]

And oh yeah. Sick guitar.

[@famousaimless2]

Ya gotta stir things up every once in a while!

[@warmoth]

Yep. New input = new output.

[@VintageRadius]

Aaron, speaking of GAS, I’m plotting my next Warmoth build. Little off topic, but I’d love to see a new neck profile that I think would fill a gap in Warmoth’s lineup, a thicker C profile somewhere between the thickness of the Standard Thin and 59 Roundback. Similar I believe to what Fender Custom shop calls a ‘65 C.’ The 59 Roundback is near-perfect but something that felt a little more “Fender-ish” and perhaps just a bit thinner at the nut would fill that gap I believe. Just my 2c

[@VintageRadius]

BTW if there’s anything currently in development I’d appreciate a wink or nod 😂

[@amaiorano67]

Lol we're all the same . My cousin and i are always texting each other with a new guitar or amp we bought . We r both in our 50's so it could be worse we could be partying still or whatever but we laugh about it we don't need 20 guitars each or amps but it's fun to do it and I do play different things and get ideas when I get something new . So I think it's OK. As long as your not going broke doing it . We laugh at each other calling ourselves crackheads . But with guitar gear . Anyway it's fun to get new stuff and trade stuff it keeps me feeling young lol

[@frankiechan9651]

GAS for guitar stuff follows the same rules I use for new tools. It must fill a need and I must use it regularly. If I haven't touched it or it no longer inspires, then it can go. I'm at the point where I feel I have enough, but who knows what may pop up? Love the strat body with the tele hardware - that is amazing. Having said all this, there is the old, old joke/ meme of hoping your wife never sells your collection for what you said you paid for it. 🤣

[@nathancourtney2006]

Ditto: we each have our journey. Enjoy yours.

[@warmoth]

Exactly!

[@ericv7720]

Wish I could afford to have GAS, but alas, no. As it is I have one tube amp, one practice amp, a couple electrics, and a classical guitar. I have been playing 34 years, and like to mod my own stuff. A Warmoth build has always been a dream of mine, though, so sometime soon possibly!

[@chuchuchip]

My ex-wife wouldn't allow me to have anything after we married. After 8 years of walking on eggshells I had enough. My son pays the price now since she only allows her to own & you nothing, the love of her life (she supports him & his girlfriend). Well I'm in the black, have a few Warmoth guitarsI built & a car I like, not the one she liked. Love your "Telestrat". sounds & looks good, I want one. At approaching 70. I think I've got enough GAS & stuck in my past. My Warmoth green turtle Stratocaster I hit it right with the electronics is my favorite I had for nearly 15 years! I have 5 other strat style guitars (Warmoth modified Fenders, I fell for your boat style neck). I play small combo amps & too many pedals. I'm now q "Living Room Legend". Thank God I don't have to ask permission, once was enough.

[@jonahguitarguy]

How many guitars are enough? Just one more!

[@dangolguitartech]

Are you leaving Moultrie? I told you there was nothing there… 🤠 Regardless of where you wind up, safe travels… And thanks for another great video. This one really got me thinking.

[@warmoth]

Haha...yep, leaving Moultrie. And you were 100% right. I'm in Logan, UT now.

[@murpsman]

I carve contours with an angle grinder in all my Tele builds.

[@Littlesuzieofficial18]

This gentleman is Mark Holcomb doppelgänger lol

[@nickm.9474]

Wow! I’ve been feeling the same way. Kinda comes and goes. Hahaha. I’m in that rut now of thinking I’m good with what I have. A rut. Hahaha. What I always say about buying gear is that money would be spent on something and most likely something dumb. Gear will be worth something. Sometimes more if you’re lucky.

[@RobTackettCovers]

I've never owned a Tele...or anything Tele-esque ...I'm very apprehensive of ever getting one...because I'm concerned I'd really really like it...I consider the Tele and or Esquire a "break glass in case of an emergency" ace in the hole for me in regard to electric guitars I've never owned when I really decide I want to jump into an electric guitar that would have completely different inspirational aspects that I've never endeavored into......I'm not saying I'll never get one...just holding out for as long as possible...and I'm 62 going on 63, hahaha!

[@donald-parker]

A couple of thoughts. I feel sorry for someone who has no hobbies they are passionate about. My wife is an avid road biker and skier. I play guitar. We completely understand and respect each other's passions. I never begrudge money she spends on sporting gear because she uses the hell out of it, and it brings her a lot of joy. Same with my guitars. And if you amortize the cost over the hours of use, it's not really that expensive.

[@allanmakela3011]

Got a Strymon Volante,and Ojai,still play my strats,these pedals are definitly cool,and negate the old thinking of some players who come full circle,after many years of trying other things,only to say that they sounded better with their original setup,this is GAS for something new,and inovative,not nessesarily nostalgic,or tried,and true

[@moxythepirate1281]

I would love to know a) how many amps you have, and b) how many guitars you own, including ones you built? I have 2 amps plus the Synergy system, along with a separate tube power-amp. And 12 guitars, 4 of them Warmoth Soloists, 1 Martin acoustic and 7 PRSs. I've been trying to downsize for years! The gear I acquired that changed how I played is my JCM 800 reissue. I always played high gain amps but when I wanted to cover music in mid gain territory, that one hit the mark.

[@warmoth]

I think I currently have 10 electrics, 1 bass, 1 acoustic, and 1 amp/cab. Oh...I also have a Fractal FM3.

[@angusorvid8840]

Learning to customize your ax is a great cure for GAS.

[@warmoth]

In a way. The things you spend your money on become smaller and cheaper; pickups, pots, caps, tuners, etc. Then it becomes necks and bodies, and then suddenly a new guitar appears in your living room. LOL.

[@myopicautisticmetal9035]

I suffer from gas, as well as wind at times.

[@montyellingsworth4982]

Most of what I have has been acquired in the last 6 and a half years since I BECAME a non smoker.

[@BugGenerat0r]

For Warmoth, yes it definitely is a good thing 😃

[@KingLoopie1]

Some may call it gas, some call it hoarding, etc, etc... I call it being prepared.

[@flyingrat492]

have to say ive got it bad, just bought an AC30 and some WEM stuff, ive got stacks of gear everywhere, far to much for how good i am, but its just fun and inspiring. another consequence is my whole band basically borrows my gear for everything, which for the most part isnt to bad, we're all young and im the only one thats not flat broke

[@warmoth]

Everybody enjoys music differently. Some enjoy performing, others enjoy writing or recording. Some enjoy tinkering with or collecting gear. It's all good.

[@flyingrat492]

@@warmoth oh absolutely, I enjoy all of them, many artists say “the song wrote itself” after buying a new guitar, and I have to agree with all of them, even if it didn’t, it’s just fun to collect them, and since I only buy pre owned stuff I don’t have to feel to bad about environmental impact or any of that, it’s already been made

[@piptyson5512]

Nothing specific here, but yeah new guitars seem to always pull new riffs and song ideas out of me. Maybe it's a mystical process that my lil human brain can't understand, but it is what it is. So I'll keep buying...within reasonable financial limits as to not get kicked out of the house ;)

[@jasonchew79]

I own my very 1st 1996 full warmoth custom make guitar, more and more addicted, 1 guitar is not enough 😂.

[@MohamedFelfel902]

Will warmoth ever offer options for necks with quarter notes? There are LOTS of middle eastern guitarists that will line up for it. Atleast, I will.

[@warmoth]

Probably not, and definitely not any time soon.

[@jamesonpace726]

I'm a caveman, I guess. I play the same regardless of the gear. I wrote my 2 records on a $400 Ibanez acoustic, because as you say, the purpose is the music, not the sound or effects or even poetry, except where those support the song....

[@someoneelse9271]

I don’t have gas and it’s a good thing that I have it.

[@sTVG2]

The first step in degassing is to admit you have a problem. oh boi... He's got it bad😬

[@Techead78]

Quality not quantity.

[@clemguitar63]

Exactly the very reason I eschew the Warmoth Showcase....Oh No, No...I now feel compelled, I'm fighting, struggling with the uncontrollable urge...

[@warmoth]

You had me at "eschew".

[@clemguitar63]

@@warmoth Sometimes them old Brain Synapses get Fired-Up....Just Sometimes!

[@daneph]

Gas. Got another strat

[@dbrown6451]

Is that a satin or gloss finish?

[@warmoth]

Gloss. IMO candy and flake finishes don't look very good in satin.

[@dirktucker77]

If gas keeps you inspired then it's all completely worth the cost of having really bad gas!

[@osman01003]

No marketing, no GAS. No advertising, no GAS.

[@warmoth]

I'm not sure this is 100% true. There weren't a lot of electric guitar ads circulating in the 1950's, and certainly no KZbin, and Les Paul couldn't seem to put the soldering iron down. That guy never seemed happy with what he had. LOL.

[@Juliosguitarstuffs]

My helix definitely cured my GAS for amps and pedals. But guitars are still on the “undisclosed problems.”

[@warmoth]

Same. I have a Fractal, and don't feel the need to own a bunch of amps any more.

[@schmoemi3386]

It definitely is! Especially if you're selling gear. 😜

[@gogey1068]

Between gas, gas, and gas im broke

[@MilanoGuyTexas]

So Shaggy is married now? While Shaggy is normally seen with Velma Dinkley, I always suspected that Daphne had a secret crush on Shaggy, he being the free sprit she aspires to be. So come on Shaggy, spill the beans who is Mrs. Shaggy Rogers ?

[@nocturnal101ravenous6]

Guitars and Gear are tools, That said I like having the correct tool for any given job. Honestly There are some things where you would say WTF Why would you have all them like having an ENGL Fireball, Mesa Dual Rectifier, and a Soldano, they are all expensive and well. . . . the same thing, different yet the same. So you can def take things too far. GAS can be a good thing as long as its not messing with your finances and responsibilities, sometimes you find inspiration or play something completely new or different because of an instruments individual qualities. Pedals I think are where people really go bonkers and Amplifiers Its like Pokémon for some people gotta catch them all. You know waht I think we should rename Gas to Pokémon guitar syndrome.

[@papablue3015]

I've been married for 40yrs! Been playing for 50yrs! Got 45 guitars 9 amps! Wife doesn't like my hobby! Her hobby is chickens! She doesn't work on my hobby! Unfortunately i have to work on her hobby hate it! And life goes on! 😆

[@warmoth]

At least you get farm-fresh eggs! 1,000,000 times better than eggs from and "egg-factory". Those big, dark yolks....so yummay! ;)

[@russellzauner]

says the man holding a very shiny guitar lol jk, good chat!

[@APMTenants]

You only regret the guitars you lose, or miss out on.

[@alankelly1001]

Why did you have to post this on the very day I'm getting a shipment from my local music store?

[@ranman58635]

If the neck pocket was a Telecaster size, id have one too.

[@warmoth]

The neck picket on the Hybrid Strat body *IS* Telecaster-shaped.

[@ranman58635]

@@warmoth , uhg, on my way! Lol! I got the most killer neck that I would like to fit. A 86 Squier bullet 1 contemporary stratocaster/ Telecaster. Thanks for the reply.

[@Timanator]

I definitely would have gas if aanj ever gets offered!