Sell guitars and find yourself. How to build a meaningful guitar collection

[@anthonyb2334]

I hear what you’re saying. My guitar journey over the past 60 years has been well over 150 guitars. Most were cool to try, play for a while, some I’m sorry I let go, but I’m glad I had them. I’m down to 6 now, but I’m always looking . The journey continues. Cheers.

[@russcomstock5871]

This video is a good example of what I like about your channel: you give advice based on insight into your own strengths and weaknesses as a collector.

[@davecaster95]

2020 Martin D-18 2021 Martin HD-28 2019 Lakewood M-18 (Italian Spruce and Ovangkol) 2022 Lakewood D-32 (Italian Spruce and EIR) 2024 brand new MiJ 52 Tele with Texas special (in Sonic blue!) 2024 brand new MiJ Nocaster Selling, Trading for years. Now I’m happy. Thank you Jeremy, your channel and Rick Beato’s are truly worth watching.

[@seeburg220]

Budget is the main driver for me, with one exception: I have 10 guitars. All of them are $500 or less, with the exception of my Martin D-28. I wanted one, really nice guitar and that fits the bill. I love the tone.

[@tommym6335]

Thanks, Jeremy! The hardest ones for me to part with were those with truly sentimental value. At my age, ergonomics is now the driving factor in my guitar purchases. So in 2020, I reduced my guitar collection (in one day) from 20+ to just one. I have since commissioned two more guitars to address my ergonomic and sonic needs and wants, and I feel much better about my much smaller and more focused guitar collection.

[@nathanlienard8820]

Great video man. Doing my part to keeping the music going. Played a gig in Toano, VA last night and I am playing in Richmond, Va on Sat. Keep posting and rawkin man!

[@Emperor.of.Organos]

I have a single mexican telecaster. I am happy. Could be happier always, but its important to remember to be happy with what you have.

[@triples4good]

Thanks!

[@JeremySheppard]

Wow! Thank you!

[@kimikimistri2846]

BEATER: 2007 Yamaha 720S Brown Sunburst Acoustic Mahogany B&S STAGE / BAND PRACTICE: 2007 Taylor USA 414ce Grand Auditorium Acoustic-Electric Ovangkol B&S 2008 FCS Strat 1960 Time Machine 3TS Relic w/ 7.25 radius Slab 2008 GCS Les Paul Custom Oxblood VOS RECORDING / HOME PRACTICE: 2023 Martin D-28 2017 Acoustic Rosewood B&S 2023 FCS Strat 1961 Journeyman Relic Fiesta Red w/ 9.5 radius Slab 2020 GCS LP Standard R8 Dirty Lemon VOS COLLECTION / HOME PRACTICE: 2020 FCS Strat 1960 Deluxe Closet Classic Masterbuilt Ron Thorn Olympic White w/ 7.25-9.5 compound radius Slab 2024 GCS LP Standard R9 Murphy Lab Sunrise Teaburst Ultra-Light Aged More than enough for me 😅

[@danieljdtaylor]

I’m down to a point where every guitar has sentimental value and that’s why I keep them (except one bass for recording purposes and one acoustic as a beater guitar). It’s quite freeing only having guitars that mean something to you. It means my collection is at 5 electrics, 3 acoustics and 2 basses. It’s honestly still more than I need but they all mean a lot so it’s the perfect collection for me!

[@tomhampton4595]

It was wonderful to listen to you today ! I love these videos! I’m looking forward to the next one! Are you still searching for that Olson? I found one about 6 years ago. It is spectacular. I was in the studio working on a new album and took three guitars. Murphy lab J 200, and Advance Jumbo and the Olson. After recording a couple songs, I took the Olson out and the technician went nuts for the tone. Said he had never heard anything like it. This sure is fun! God bless you, my friend!

[@travisshaw3866]

You've got an awesome guitar collection. Sure, that''s really helpful.

[@JeremySheppard]

Absolutely. I never imagined I’d own a collection like this.

[@travisshaw3866]

@@JeremySheppard Listen, it's your channel, and you can boast all you want to about your expensive guitar collection, but when you cap it off with "I hope this was helpful," I call BS. 😂 I like your channel and have learned a lot from watching your videos this year, but I also know your sales pitch and marketing strategy. This is just constructive criticism. You can take it or leave it, or even delete and block me.

[@kevinpeterson6542]

This video was posted at the perfect time for me! I just hit 20 guitars with my purchase of a Taylor 322e 12-fret. It's time to thin the herd a bit ... maybe a lot!

[@pacificgreen9690]

2022 Boucher BG-52 GM 2023 Boucher BG-151 GM 2024 Yamaha LL36 2024 Yamaha FG9M 2024 Asturias Emperor EC Jacaranda On the way: K. Yairi YS-120 LS w/custom 44mm neck and personally selected tone woods!

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

Sweet guitars! I picked up a Boucher SG-51 a while back. How do you like yours?

[@pacificgreen9690]

@@rosewoodsteel6656 I wasn't sure about it for the first several months, and I even listed it on Reverb for a time. On a whim, I pulled it out about two months ago and I haven't been able to put it down since. It seems to have simultaneously opened up and mellowed out. I initially thought it was too bright/nasally, but that's all gone now. Congrats on the SG-51! How do you like it?

[@mikeconway727]

Taylor 414ce Custom Yairi DYM60HD Martin SC-13 Special Eastman E40 Washburn WCG-25 Fender Mustang Bass Fender Mexican Strat

[@JDP-we9hk]

If I had the money and could play I'd be more likely to go the Joe Bonamassa route. LOL

[@MeatyMax]

1960 Martin 00-18 1934 Martin 0-17 1964 Gibson J-50 1966 Fender Mustang 1962 Magnatone Custom 410 I think I’m done.

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

All you have is old stuff! :)

[@MrDaveKC]

My 12 string I intend to keep for life is my mid-70's Guild. And of late it's more of my own guitars I've built. Electrics I really don't use much anymore.

[@eljefeguapobarbon]

Amen brother! Going through this right now. Set up a Sweet 16 style playoff bracket and am playing each of them until they are whittled down to just a handful.

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

Now you tell us.. Where the heck were you, last week? I have a 2010, Steve Fischer PRS Angelus heading my way. It should be arriving this Friday. It's figured mahogany with a European spruce top. I can't wait for it to arrive. :)

[@Haskaza22]

With 30 guitars in my collection of over 48 years of acquiring with ranges from a 1965 Fender Precision bass, Custom Martin DC Aura and PRS 35th Anniversary Custom 24 down to a Guild Surfliner HH that I grabbed for $269 new, my belief is buy what you enjoy to play. Everyone of my guitars offer something different to inspire my playing. I actually tend to enjoy the guitars I've bought under 1K more because of the "bang for the buck". Buy what you like as long as you don't go into debt for it. Even though I can afford guitars in the 5 figures, I can't justify spending that amount considering the unbelievable quality of inexpensive guitars available in today's market.

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

-Sounds like you have a sweet collection, Haskaza. What other guitars do you have?

[@fratertater6130]

I have over 20 guitars at the moment. I have found my two favorite acoustics. A Waterloo and a J-45. If I could figure out the two perfect electrics I would be so happy to get rid of all the others. It is just so much easier to buy than it is to sell. But I have been wanting to get rid of them all for a while now.

[@pmscalisi]

Great subject. Glad to see you active again.

[@terrymattingly6843]

My standards: The neck fits my hand. I can play it and I do play it. “Excellence” for me mixes being able to afford them, yet they’re great examples of what they are. The Martin 000-15s is the perfect example. Finally, each of the four is unique and fills a slot in a balanced set for the music I can make.

[@Dave-qn5lm]

Collection: Godin Metropolis, Cedar top; 1971 Gibson Dove; Alvarez Yairi CY116; 1970 Guild F112; 1974 Guild G212; 1995 Guild JF30; 2001 Guild JF30-12; 1996 Guild DV52; 2022 Guild D40; 1993 Guild DV72; 1988 Fender F230 (campfire guitar);...

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

I may be wrong about this, but I believe you like Guild.

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

-Just had a 2 year old Guitar Hunter video appear in my feed. Jeremy was talking about downsizing his collection.. :)

[@JeremySheppard]

🤪 I was at 55 a year ago and 16 now. It’ll be back up to 17 next week and 18 in January or feb.

[@markinmemphis]

The Boucher and Emerald are worthy additions to any collection.

[@stevendavids9530]

Peavey t60, armin hannika 1a rf, 1976 Gibson les Paul deluxe, 1946 Martin d18

[@JeremySheppard]

Whoa. This is a beautiful collection. T60 is awesome and that D18!!! 😱

[@jeffhosscartwright77]

I’m at 40+ with some great guitars and some that are still projects. I do look it as I don’t play golf. I dont collect cars. Guitars are my hobby and I try and play them as much as I can and when I find I’m not I tend to sell them. I started sitting down and being more intentional about what I bought to avoid duplication and the impulse buys. I’ve also found sometimes as much as you try your not as Into some guitars even when you try (strats for me, I’m down to one) I also have had some older vintage acoustics restored (harmony 1260, old Kay jumbos) and there is some joy seeing a guitar that had almost been thrown away brought back to life.

[@daynmitchell7543]

I’m actually playing a show with John from hometown music Saturday 🤘

[@thierrylecuyer1507]

Great video as always my friend!

[@JeremySheppard]

Thierry! You’re the best.

[@Sake11880]

amazing video. i have the "too many guitars" problem. i have a bunch but each of them hold sentimental value as it has been something that my dad and i could talk about and geek out on for the past 15 years

[@skyout19]

Ya gotta have a 12 string ! I have a Aria AW 700T 12 String Ser. No. 910900001 - probabaly from September 1991. What a sweetie! And a Martin D12X1AE that I use for other tunigs, picked it up for half the retail price.

[@robanderson5720]

In terms of acoustic, I have a J45 60's reissue. A few weeks ago I took delivery of an Auden Maple Chester, mind blowing guitar. The quility of wood and built is wild. Sounds amazing too. Electric wise, Heritage 535, 89 AM Fender strat and a MIJ Mustang.

[@CarolLove-u7l]

I am going to thin the herd right after these 15 guitars I just ordered come in! You got it bad you’re hot for guitars.(and the guitar industry thanks you)

[@rogerboudreau]

I own 2 Boucher’s, SG-61 with Torrified adi top and Torrified maple back/sides. Sounds just fantastic. I also have an HG-56. But, have you ever tried a Lakewood guitar?

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

I checked their website, last night, after seeing your post. -Nice!

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

Glad to see you are getting the Boucher! I thought you had one and it was one of the ones you parted with.

[@MatthewPeskay]

I currently have a Taylor gs mini koa plus, a Taylor 714ce sinker redwood top and a Martin Om-28 modern deluxe. I want a les Paul and I’m going to try and sell the Martin even though it’s my only Martin and it’s an amazing guitar. But I want an electric and the modern deluxe is the only one of the three I am willling to part with. I will get another Martin someday.

[@dw7704]

I have fewer than you do, but don’t know which ones I would get rid of. They all do different stuff. In fact I have resisted buying some guitars because they were too close to one I had. Although I recently sold some pedals because I rarely use them.

[@dennisvalianos8255]

Thanks for the video. You make good sense. Adding a Larrivee LV-03R this month and that should be it. Maybe a Veillette Gryphon 12 string will fit your unique arsenal. Look it up. Also, I’m from Roanoke. Sorry to have you leave Va.

[@treetopher9342]

Collect whatever you want. There’s no right way to guitar ownership. Only thing I can say is at a certain point option paralysis is a problem, and honestly it sucks.

[@g4guitarschoolsoxnardventu805]

Did you get to keep the Guild Baritone 8 string? I’m trying to get one through a friend of mine who works at the guild factory here in oxnard.

[@JeremySheppard]

Yes. I got one from them and had it for two years before I sold it. Great guitar but I just didn’t play it enough.

[@davestagner]

I bought two surprise guitars this year, but I feel they’ve really “completed” my collection. (haha) But yeah, other than a couple I have for purely sentimental reasons and one I haven’t gotten around to selling yet (anyone want a vintage Craviola 12 string?), I feel like every guitar I have contributes to the collection, and gets played regularly. And the only brand (much less model) I have more than one of is Mossman - I have a 6 string and a 12 string Mossman.

[@davestagner]

I’ve also gotten into a habit of bringing one of my really great guitars along to stores when I’m even half-assed looking. If a guitar can’t in some way beat, say, my ‘68 D-18, it doesn’t get to join the club. I want to immediately fall in love, and be blown away by how good it is.

[@johnwashburn3793]

Guitars Make Us Better! I still hope to own a Mule one day and I almost settled for less

[@johnwashburn3793]

You have no idea how much we miss you, me, in particular. I have a few meaningful guidance... perhaps not of value. My first guitar, which needs a neck reset . It's an old Harmony H181? Is it worth it (1970) An 82 Washburn Tanglewood I bought new after a divorce. It kept me alive and I gigged with it for decades. ...etc The 3 I played today are in Martin Adirondack over mahogany and an Eastman E-40 OM TC which Herold Haines bought first...a bit heavy but great tone and beautiful. I Will possibly give my electric guitars to my grandson m HE is 16 and wants a looper for Christmas...any ideas?

[@aficionadolurecompany700]

I "ONLY" have 4 guitars. 2006 Larrivée L-03Re 1999 Larrivée 0-1 (my oldest @ 24 years old) 2012 Taylor GC3 2004 Martin OM-21 I do want to buy an acoustic guitar with a moon spruce top and Brazilian rosewood back and sides.

[@paulwp2]

Howdy from Reno Nevada

[@JeremySheppard]

Hey paul, what's in your guitar collection?

[@paulwp2]

@ 1956 Les Paul Jr. 1961 es 335. 1990 Fender custom tele ultra. Taylor 1997 710ce. Martin 2017 D18. 2008 LesPaul Supreme. And more

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

@@paulwp2 Nice collection! Very nice!

[@JeremySheppard]

That’s such a good collection!! Perfectly diverse and capable.

[@gerryr8713]

Jeremy, I have 2 12 strings - a Taylor 352ce and a Vangoa VGE12-3. WHat can you swap? 🙂 Emerald has 12 strings too BTW.

[@jamesmarkham7489]

I have 4 electrics and a beater acoustic. I feel like I have too many

[@tsg74074]

Will you do some content on amps, like boutique amps

[@SamVecchio]

Finally the Emerald. I want one sooooooo bad. Waiting for your green light 😂 and Christmas check ;)

[@SamVecchio]

Oh and for a 12 String, look seriously at Guild. Even the imports play easily. I have a sub $600 one that is divine

[@johnwashburn3793]

Jeremy, my 16 year old wants a looper. Any thoughts?

[@kenevans457]

I have a Norman 12 String if you want it

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

Was that made by Boucher's uncle?

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

By the way, don't get rid of too many guitars or you will have to change the name of your channel. :)

[@MashaT22]

No need to change the channel name. It’s Guitar HUNTER, not Guitar COLLECTOR!! Even if Jeremy had just one guitar, he will never stop hunting . . . even if not for himself, for others. 😉😊

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

@@MashaT22 Thanks for the correction, Masha! I think he'll be hunting guitars into his 80's. :)

[@treetopher9342]

Collect whatever you want. There’s no right way to guitar ownership. Only thing I can say is at a certain point option paralysis is a problem, and honestly it sucks.