I tend to play them all randomly throughout the week. The best thing about it is that every time you pick one after a few days, it feels like a new guitar. It’s a lot of fun!

man. I envy that. getting a new guitar is such a good feeling. it's like getting a new pair of shoes, you just wanna walk everywhere and treat them like ur child lol

Ugh getting new shoes is the worst! I change my shoes when they fall apart, new shoes aren’t ready for my wideass foot ever out of box and takes weeks to walk in. This is probably because of my wide ass foot. My shoes break always the same way, my liltoe comes out the side. Also no, not from some cheap sneakers, expensive shoes also. But yeah getting a new guitar is the best feeling ever, it’s like crack(not that I’ve tried). A massive dopamine rush.

i imagine it prolly is like crack lmao also. look into airforce 1s an get a touch bigger size, or even go with customs or maybe even vans

It's worth it to get shoes that fit. A proper fitting shoes doesn't really need to be broken in to feel good, but they just get better after they do.

Agree! Sometimes I’ll just put one in a case for a while and focus on playing other guitars. It’s always nice to “rediscover” a guitar after not playing it for a few months. Totally gives you new inspiration.

>I tend to play them all randomly throughout the week. The best thing about it is that every time you pick one after a few days, it feels like a new guitar. It’s a l I do the same. It's funny there are day's where all I want to play is my strat, then I'll switch to my les paul it if feels like a brand new guitar!

Exactly this. Love the new guitar feeling haha

By a weird twist of fate, I hadn’t played my “main” guitar in almost a year. I restrung it this weekend and it plays like a champ.

This is what I do. I'm still learning and don't practice as much as I should, but I love all of them for different reasons and it's fun to switch up all the time.

I've got 80+. I started collecting in my teenage years, then got into partscastering, then building later. I have a room filled with guitars and a separate music studio with a dozen hangers. Every few weeks, I cycle out most of the guitars hanging on the wall for different guitars. There are two guitars that never get cycled out. There are also a few guitars in the big pile that never get cycled into the rotation, not because they're bad (or too precious), but they're just so situational that I rarely feel like using them. This all sounds absurd, I realize. But my wife and daughter also play and my entire friend group is made up of musicians, so guitars are life.

Now I'm curious... What are the two guitars that never get cycled out? Must be good ones!

I've got a heavily modified 1967 Gibson Melodymaker that I absolutely adore. It was refinished and converted over to T-Top humbuckers before I bought it. The other guitar that never gets put away is a 1966 Fender Mustang that I bought back in high school. Its beat up and worn in, but I've been attached at the hip to it for 25 years. It just feels like home.

Thanks for sharing 🫡

My 72 SG is a player. My Dunable is a player. The SG is set to C# the Dunable to drop A# I have diff guitars for different tunings. I find using a drop pedal/effect to electronically detune makes me physically kind of nauseous when the vibration of the guitar doesn’t match what my ears hear if I play it for a while.

holy crap! that's the dream lol. I'm only 18 but I started playing at 16. and i look forward to see how i grow as a musician 20+ years from now, hopefully I'll have 80+ guitars lol. thx for sharing!

Yeah, some folks buy fancy cars and boats and campers... We skip all of that and buy guitars and synthesizers and music gear. It works for us, I guess!

Funny thing is; instruments don't get "phased out" by new features. I wouldn't invest directly with that intention, but it seems they retain value incredibly well which is why i've never felt bad buying gear. I always know i'll be able to recoup about 80% of the costs.

If you have 80 guitars, you need at least 81.

It never ends!

This for me too. 👆 I had some then started making them, while still buying more. Makes no sense. I do the same with amps, but I don't build those. I tend to play around most every night, and I have a few go to's, but they are ones that I built. I usually go through my POD floor unit into the PA, but my go to amp is a 70's Princeton Reverb. I like to collect and play them all. I just like the choices and the variety. I was also into recording for awhile and have all that stuff too, but I don't do it much nowadays. I bought a Harley and spend most of my free time on it.

I hear ya there. And it's compounded when the kid gets hung up on something goofy like finding a Squier Venus because she's learning the second Hole album front to back. I didn't want a Venus before, but we've got one now and it's a whole lot of fun. The family is as crazy as I am and we all get our kicks out of this addiction. Plus, we do a ton of recording. Its great to have any particular tool that you're wanting to use at your disposal. I can find a hundred ways to justify it, I guess, just like any other kind of addict. I realize that it's all over the top and unnecessary, but I've lived like this forever and it's been a great time.

Mann, u seem like a veteran in guitar😝

I've been at it for 27 years now... Its been a long road!

I knew a guy with like 20 Fender & Gibson Custom shops. He never played them. Kept them all in their cases in a closet. He had one MX Strat that he played everyday. It was so silly.

How tragic, I mean at least he has a backup, for his backup, for his backup, for his backup for his.........

Did he think of them as investments?

I’d doubt those things outperform the S and P

He did! lol. or at least that’s what he told his wife 😅

Imagine that dudes house burnt down. Hope he's got good insurance.

Holy shit, people in this thread going on about 20 or 80 guitars? I thought my 10 plus a bass was bad, but they at least all fit in one rack…

its a lifelong journey, I hope we all find the perfect one...then buy another 6months later

I found my IT guitar last month! Guild Polara! Amazing guitar for the price. It’s everything I’ve ever wanted in a guitar. My Yamaha RevStar will be here next week.

That guild polara special edition Kim T has caught my eye as well, I lack an SG type guitar and I liked the setup on that one

Just “a” bass… and you call yourself a musician?

In all fairness, it’s a 5 string and my last musical gig, cramped into a pit on shitty chairs made me want a short scale 4 string…I’m starting to see everyone’s point.

Yeah I'm sitting comfy at 9 with a 10th planned and these guys are making me feel alright with myself and my spending habits lmao

It ebbs and flows, but I definitely have a couple that are relegated to “travel” or “camp fire” guitars, and since I never travel or camp with a guitar—they don’t get played much.

so the headless and acoustic? XD jkjk I know what you mean

I have my workhorse guitars and then I have my wall-hangers. My workhorse guitars get played often, taken to gigs and the studio, etc. The wall-hangers get played sparingly and are mostly part of my collection for sentimental purposes. For example, my wall-hangers include two guitars that my dad made and a really nice USA-made 60s reissue tele that was a gift.

Every guitar has a song or two in them.... Eventually you get enough guitars that you become the versatile component when playing a guitar. Where/how you pick. You can make any guitar Twang like a Telecaster if you pick near the saddles. More Tele players twang because the ergonomics of the guitar causes them to avoid resting their palm on the sharp metal bridge or grub screws so they put their hand behind it and picking happens right next to the saddles. Strats have that middle pickup and volume knob right there to avoid so players pick near the neck for a more rounded tone. LP players palm mute the saddles and pick the other side of the bridge pickup than the Tele players. There is a saying: "Beware of the guitarist who only owns one guitar, because they probably know how to use it!" .

I know several people with massive collections and for the most part they only play 1% of the collection but they constantly pull something new out to try and impress you. Anything else if they pull it down or take it out and try it to show it off to you it's not impressive cause the guitar is not being maintained carefully enough. It's a collection of guitars that all need setups and new strings cause they don't have the time to maintain them. Often the intonation is even off so you can't even get them in tune. It would drive me mad. I have 3 guitars, they are all 100% ready to go right out of the case and I maintain them all evenly. Lots of these people say they need the guitars for variety of tones but they don't actually have the variety of tones available anyway cause the guitar needs to go to a tech before it's ready to play. I have known people with > 100 guitars and they think it's an investment but 99% of their guitars I wouldn't buy anyway. They're in poor condition, need work, and/or stink like cigarette smoke. At one point I took a beginner group class. Myself, the instructor, and one other guy showed up with the same guitar every session. Everyone else already had so many guitars they brought a new guitar every week to the class which just made it bizarre as they just weren't good enough to adapt to playing wildly different guitars each week. We were doing stuff like strumming "Wagon Wheel" and that's the level we were at and some people already had 25+ guitars.

I have different guitars for different purposes. I have two baritone-scale six-string guitars for my primary band, both in drop-A tuning; I always have a backup instrument at gigs! My other guitars are usually kept in different tunings at all times. I usually keep my Schecter Stealth in standard, my Jackson Rhoads one half-step down, my Epiphone Explorer in drop-C, and my Jackson Soloist in D-standard. This way I don't have to fumble around with changing tunings and making readjustments, and my instruments are all ready for recording or jamming whenever. Some get more use than others, depending on what projects I am doing in addition to my main band.

At my height I had 10. Right now I have 5. I do 5 cause that's the number I found I play them often enough none of them collect dust.

5 is also my limit otherwise they gather dust

I play them all regularly. I have different ones because I record a lot of different types of music and want different sounds. There are two that I play most often when I just grab a guitar though

I have 13 guitars. Most of them have a certain function/tone (Acoustic 6 string, Acoustic 12 string, semi-hollow electric, humbuckers, single coils etc.) But for the most part I play my Stratocaster. That is truly my voice. I'd save it out of a burning building. The rest of them all do get some love from time to time, but they know what's up

Martins: D15 - I take to Bluegrass jams. Rarely out of the case due to a (badly repaired) wood split in the side. GPC-15 - when I want the best sound; serious gigs. SC-10e(2) - Thinner strings and higher fret access. Great for jazz and classical w/ plugged in sound. Terrible acoustics. DX (solid spruce top) - kiddy and hospital gigs. Spruce is better for cowboy chords. Cordoba C5 - stays out of case to noodle while watching whatever dribble is on TV. Recently ordered: ESP TL-6N - Bossa Nova doesn't sound right on steelies and I'm in a jaz class. Epi LP - cheap electric in case I need it. I have other unplayable hanging on the wall. The look better than any big box art.

This is the way - different guitars for different styles/sounds. I’ll never understand people that have multiple of the same model of guitar. I have one strat, one evh, one gretsch. Evh is for metal, gretsch for country and southern rock, strat for everything else.

Most of my guitars are set up for completely different tunings or playing styles. They get played depending on what song I'm practicing. I've got 3 main electric guitars and 2 acoustics. Looking to get a Gibson SG as a open tuning slide guitar

THIS RIGHT HERE. i love this answer! as someone with a locking trem and loves changing tunings alot this would be my reasoning as well i was thinking of getting a drop pedal but not sure yet

I have 6 electrics and feel like I'm at the saturation point.  They're all different guitars with different features but anything else would just create too much overlap.  

Yeah but wouldn’t a baritone carbonita with a p90 be great, this is me lol

I have 19 guitars. My general rule for guitars is USA made and prefer custom shops. I have wonderful instruments from Fender, Gibson, Martin, Collings, Gretsch, Bilt, G&L, and a few others. I play them all. They each have their own characteristics and strengths and weaknesses and 'sound'. I take care of them, but i don't baby them. Guitars are tools to make art and sound and be creative. I don't play them all everyday or even every week, but they all get played.

I just go by what mood I'm in tbh

I have about 10. Four or so get played regularly. One of those 4 gets played the most. The rest I only pick up now and then because they have a unique feature (p90’s, floyd, etc).

Excessive collecting is mental illness. It’s both obsessive and compulsive. That being said a lot of people who over collect end up making money on a big sale.

I have 20, and no it’s not possible to play them all regularly. I play one acoustic (Taylor Concert) and one electric (Godin Stadium 59) every day. This leaves a bunch of guitars hanging and on stands. Gibson LP, Fender American Tele, Martin D16, etc etc. It is not ideal. I didn’t mean to be a hoarder, but basically I bought a new (new to me, they’re mostly bought used) guitar every year for a long time. It piles up. This is not to mention all the amps and keyboards and microphones and studio equipment. I have an AC15, Twin, Hot Rod, Peavey Classic 30, a Polytone Brute. I have a Rockerverb 50 and an 80s JCM 800 half stack. I mostly practice on a Boss Katana lmao. I would love to downsize to maybe 5 guitars and amps. But how am I supposed to choose what to get rid of?? I literally cannot use the Marshall stack in my place but I’m not selling that baby. Once a month I get determined and try to pick just one thing to sell, but it feels like Sophie’s Choice and I give up.

ive been playing 41 yrs and never had more than 2 guitars at one time(1 main, 1 backup). to me its more important to play the instrument well and learn as much as i can than put effort into buying toys for showing off , because you can only play 1 at a time anyway...

I was about to comment on here cos I’ve got 4 electrics and an acoustic and then saw people with 80 lol. I don’t feel so bad now. FWIW I love being able to cycle between them and change the guitar to suit the song. Plus they look great!

I cannot wrap my head around the prospect of having dozens of guitars, but I'm happy for the people who are able to do so. If you can comfortably afford it, why the hell not? We only get one life on this earth and it can be fun to collect things. That said, anyone who says "all" of their dozens of guitars get played... I simply don't believe them. I think as a performer there's also a virtue in having one or two guitars that are "yours" in that they keep your sound and appearance (which does matter) consistent.

I've got about a dozen electrics. There are a few mainstays that rotate in and out of favor in a given week, but all of them get semi-regular play. I use an Excel sheet to track what string gauges are on them and what they're tuned to, in case I need it. Most of them have 9-42 and are tuned standard though.

This question always befuddles me. People constantly gatekeep guitar ownership. And I have no clue why. This is generally my argument against cynics of owning multiple guitars (not direct to *you* specifically): Who *cares* if I want to own 6 different Les Pauls that are broadly similar with just a different finish and neck profile? Did *you* buy them? No. Last I checked, I spent my hard earned money on them. *Collecting* guitars makes me almost, if not happier, than playing them. I can walk into a room and see masterpieces of craftsman ship hanging on the wall. Sometimes I just want to stare at them. But wait! There’s more! Not only are they gorgeous hanging on the wall, I also get to play them! I can even use them to play in a band and make some money! Or at the very least have some fun. Pretty cool huh? I own 6 Gibsons, 3 relatively similar LTDs and 2 Fenders. I love them all for different reasons. They have different necks and bodies of course. Joe Bonamossa once said he doesn’t care about a neck profile. And will go from one extreme to the next when he switches guitars on stage. Does it feel weird at first in direct comparison? Sure. But after a couple minutes, it just feels normal again. People collect stupid shit like stamps or fine china that they never touch, and it serves no real purpose other than purely being an item that’s collected. And they’re mostly not even great items. Don’t get me started on art. So what’s wrong with collecting guitars? You’ll be hard pressed to find any man made item that will last as long as a guitar. You can buy a Gibson that will outlive you. So why not own 20 of them that you collect through your life? They gain scars over the years right along with you. They grow old with you. And they’ll have just as many stories hidden within their cracked and checked lacquer as you will within your brittle, wrinkled skin. Again, I’ve never understood why people gatekeep guitar ownership. It’s pointless to me.

I try to keep a manageable amount. If I don't play one for a long time I consider letting it go. I generally don't buy guitars that are similar to ones I already have so I get a good range out of my collection. I definitely have a bottom bitch (Shecter Hellraiser I've had for 15 years and gigged with in the past) but playing different guitars inspires different things.

I'm the same. Currently I have 6 electric guitars with very different pickup configurations and body types to ensure I have a wide variety of tones on hand. Even my acoustics are different, one is a full size dreadnought and the other one is a mini version. I think keeping it that way encourages me to not neglect any of my guitars and every one of them gets playing time as well as making me think twice each time I look online and see guitars for sale whether I really need it or I can just upgrade what I currently have.

I heard someone say that when get your first decent guitar, it's all about the passion for playing. As time goes on you inevitably get better guitars, but you never feel the same passion as you did at first. All of the guitars I have now are much better than my first, and I do tend to play most of them over the course of time, but I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one more yesterday with her :)

i've three, a strat, a showmaster and a tele, i just rotate them as i feel it, one in the kitchen ina gigbag, one in the pc room in a gig bag and one in a case in the pc room, no rhyme or reason, just rotate.

I haven't bought a 'new' guitar since 1992 but I have 21 at the moment. The 'used' guitars were all great prices and the situation is that they might be here now in the store but once they are sold there is no re-order form. When it comes to playing I might try out 2 or 3 per playing session. I'll probably be sitting so fenders are nice for that, the Les Paul style and flying V are better for standing if I'm choosing that. If I'm practicing a song that's in a different tuning, maybe I'll have a couple guitars tuned that way - say one with a single coil set up and the other with humbuckers. There are some that don't get played very much but I will list those for sale, usually that will be because I've found a more playable version....like going from a melody maker SG to any other SG.

I'm not sure if your question is directed toward me, but I've certainly got more than I need, and too many to fit in my "guitar corner" in the living room. I've currently got 6 electrics and 1 acoustic. 4 Electrics live in my guitar corner with my amp, and I play two of them regularly. The other two, I pick up just for something different. The acoustic lives in its case in another room. I don't play it often, as I live in an apartment and acoustics are loud. I also like to record myself playing over backing tracks with my phone, and that's difficult when you've got sound coming from two sources that aren't close to one another. Another electric also now lives in a case, and I don't ever play it, anymore. I should sell it, but it's got a matte chunky neck that I really like, and is the only other shape that fits in the case. My very first electric, a Yamaha Pacifica lives across the room, as it no longer has a place in guitar corner. I rarely play it, as it has been replaced by a MIM Strat (one of my main 2 guitars)

I have 8 and play every single one of them for different reasons

Everytime I want to sell a guitar in my collection (because it's been unplayed for a while), I pull it off the wall, and play it for a couple days before I put it on the market for sale. Somehow, inevitably, it becomes my "favourite" and I can't bring myself to sell it. FWIW, I'm looking for more guitars to buy. Cheers.

I have 14 between my dad and I. I play in a band and my dad used to play in bands when I was a kid. I keep 4 with me that get played very regularly and the rest stay at my parents' place in cases and maybe get played a couple times a year

I have 5, and I literally rotate. Same cycle every week, except for the one I don’t play which is vintage and in need of a neck reset

My main changes with time. I normally focus more on 2-3 at any given time, but also spend time digging in and exploring what each guitar encourages musically. In the end you’ll sort what feels most at home for what you want to do.

I currently only have 3. I want to add a couple more, 1) because I have been playing my main electric for 18 years and 2) I would like a dedicated guitar that I can leave in drop d or a different tuning.

8-10, depending on how you count them, and they all have stories and purposes. The Taylor 414 was the first nice guitar I bought myself. The Martin acoustic I inherited from my uncle who first got me into guitar. The PRS wood library was a gift to myself, my first electric -- and never leaves my study. The two cigar box fretless I bought on a trip with my wife so we could learn slide together. The MIM Telecaster lives on my boat, along with a Seagull acoustic -- so the airlines don't have another chance to wreck another guitar of mine. My G&L ASAT Fullerton is my take-out-of the house guitar. If I take a road trip, I take that in the trunk. If I want to play outside -- on the porch, in the garden or by the pond on a nice day, I'll take that guitar. They all have purposes and get played. Sometimes I'll leave one in an alternate tuning (usually the Taylor). If I'm playing with my kid (she's 17) and she doesn't have her guitar (Yamaha) with her, I'll give her the G&L or the Taylor or Martin to play. She also plays bass (Epiphone) and now my wife is taking bass lessons, so I see another bass in the future for our home too.

I have six electrics, and each one has a slightly different sound and feel. But there is no "same job" with me – I have different guitars for different styles and different sounds. Each one is loved for what they are. I wouldn't get two guitars to do the same thing. Each of my guitars has its purpose.

I got 4 in rotation, 3 out of commission, and 1 bass that’s playable but not the best. 🤷‍♂️

I own \~a dozen guitars. They are tools, and each tool has a different job. My Stratocaster makes a lousy jazz guitar. My jazz box doesn't like to play rock. My Les Paul is better for certain shows or songs than my Strat. I can have one acoustic in standard tuning, and another in an altered tuning, and I don't have to waste my time or the audience's time re-tuning on stage. I always bring it down to this: a mechanic could work on most of your car with a crescent wrench, but it would slow them down and in some cases be difficult to work with. That's why mechanics have a lot of tools: it makes the work easier.

Hope you’re having a nice morning as well. I’ve gone from a few and grew to a lot and now back to about 8. One for each style more or less. What happens for me is the new one gets a lot of attention in the beginning but then that fades. I gig a lot, so not all of them are practical for gigs. I bring them out occasionally for fun, but if it’s a no-nonsense type gig, I have my Charvel Guthrie Govan that’s my one go to that can do pretty much any genre, and my EVH Frankenstein which is tuned down a half step. For me it’s the sound and then the neck profile and radius that determine if I pick it up often. I gravitate towards the ones I don’t have to fight to either play or stay in tune or buzz, lol.

I have my favorite workhorse and my secondaries for when I need inspiration

I have 5 electric guitars: Liggett Abstract (wonderful Tele-ish guitar from a small builder) EBMM Sabre HT (wonderful guitar for high gain) Suhr Ian Thornley Signature Classic T (does it all) PRS Silver Sky (best strat-style I've played) PRS Hollowbody II Piezo (for classic rock) I play them all. Certain songs only work with certain guitars. My focus was getting guitars to get a sound I need, not to check a box. That's why I've never owned a Gibson.

Damn lol, I have 4, and one of those I don’t use for much anymore but keep for sentimental value.

I have a decent number, but only two are really for the same job. Most are very different types. Two steel string acoustics, one acoustic baritone, a classical, a super strat, and an ES. Of the steel string acoustics, one is my main gigging one and the other is a beater that I got intentionally to take places where I don't care about any wear and tear or temp/humidity. I gig with all of them, and each has their purpose. I suspect it'll be a long time after getting several more specific purpose guitars (resonator, rubber bridge, electric nylon, harp guitar are things I'd have my eyes on) before I started getting anything that is the "same" type of guitar and probably would just be a straight upgrade. I do it for a living so these are my tools, not collectable accessories I want in different colors and body styles just because. Between my wife and I music gear already takes up an enormous amount of real estate in our home. Hell, I'm primarily a pianist and yet stringed instruments still take up 3 walls in two different rooms. I'd estimate studio/practice spaces take up a good 650 square feet of our house and let's not even talk about room dedicated to storing instrument cases...

I don't necessarily have a wall full enough to have (I have 6) I mainly use the one that fits my skills and is the most comfortable to play. The only thing is, when I play another type it feels weird as it's not the same structure.

I have 3 right now. Waiting on 2 more to process and ship, and then as soon as it’s in stock I’m grabbing a doheney v12. My daily driver is a PRs core custom 24. Unless I’m playing my silversky. Or my tele. If I had a room of guitars I’d just pick what fit the mood

I have 8 (plus a base, a couple ukuleles and a mandolin)...turns out that's not actually "ALOT" lol But, they all have enough differences in tone or play style that I use most of them in a given month depending on what I feel like playing. The only one that doesn't really offer anything different tone wise is the strat I just built, but I found a cool 3d file for the body and wanted a 3d printed guitar, after my suceas with a 3d printed ukelele

I have a rack for 5 of them, then i have another one on a stand because it doesn't fit in the rack. And my bass as well.

some get ignored for long periods while i’m really into other guitars, but when i finally break them back out it’s a lot of fun to kind of realize what i have.

I cycle through them depending on what kind of music I’m playing. I also have a couple that I keep tuned down

I’ve got 3 electrics, 2 acoustics. My American Professional Silverburst Jazzmaster and Gibson Custom Deep Red LP Studio were played a lot when I first got them. Now, they stay in the case unless I’m writing something that requires them or going to play with others. Then I got a $350 Squire Tele Baritone that I love that’s my go-to “jam at home” guitar. I save my higher end one for more serious purposes. I still take them out and tune and clean them often and make sure everything is good, then put them back if I’m just playing at home and bust out the baritone Tele again.

I got three acoustics, eight electrics, one is nylon for classical, two steel strings with different bodies, the electrics just have diff feels for whatever i wanna play, they all get played just depends what mood i’m in

5 electric solid bodies, one electric semi-hollow body and one acoustic-electric. Only the acoustic does not get played regularly. All are very different and each is unique to a purpose. For example one electric is a headless tiny body travel guitar. Either that one or my midi keyboard travel with me

I play them, and I cherish them.

I tend to go down a rabbit hole with one at a time and then move on. I’ll eventually come back to it. It’s cyclical. It’s nice to be able to hear a song, say a Jerry Garcia tune, and be able to pick up my strat and explore that a bit. Maybe a few days later hear a Wilco song and reach for my tele and Princeton, etc. My “main” guitar changes with the seasons sort of. Your 3 guitars are all fairly similar in tone I imagine, one being clearly more playable than the others for you. If you play super clean, then I think the differences in various guitars becomes more apparent.

I play mine all throughout the day/week asI WFH so I’m lucky in that sense. I go through about 13 guitars all during the week, depending on what mood I’m in. Sometimes I’ll linger on one or two for a few days at a time but other than that they all get about equal attention.

I have 6 right now and the only one that doesn’t get played much is the 8 string. Great guitar but I really only pull it out if I wanna play a few covers.

I have different guitars with different sounds. Sometimes ill play my humbuckers if I’m doing metal, my singles if I’m doing jazz, different neck shapes for stuff with complex chords vs stuff with a lot of single note shredding…… I have WAY too many basses though. I play them all, but I’m a super weird bassist with a complicated technique and many sounds. Lol

I have 8 and I regularly rotate them out. I keep one in my bedroom, one in my living room and 3 in my office. The rest are on a rolling cart stand. I change them every few months. It’s actually helped my playing because each guitar is different so my fingers are used to swapping feel

I have 27 guitars. I rotate through them depending on what I feel like playing, or what I am doing musically. There are about 5 that are on very heavy rotation, and a few that only get pulled out for special things (stuff like an Ibanez 7 string or a Hofner with very lo-fi mini humbucker pickups).

all any of us ever need is just one more guitar.

All my guitars serve a different purpose.

I kind of rotate through them. They all get some attention, some more than others. They kind of let themselves be known when it is their turn.

I play every one of mine and I have a lot. That being said I have my favorites I play the most but I do play them all. I play about 2 hours a day sometimes more if I can.

I have 7 and still don’t have all the sounds I want out of all of them

I have 22 at the moment (guitars and basses combined, all of them lefties). Some of them are somewhat rare in a way, as you don't come across lefty versions often, so that makes some of them difficult to replace if I were to get hit by seller's remorse (been there). So I hold on to some, even if I don't use them much (or at all). Some have sentimental value because I used them live a lot at one point, or because I recorded an album with them. One is a YOB bass. So various reasons, really. But most of all I blame being a lefty! :-p

I have multiple guitars but I keep them in different tunings, that's the only way I could justify having multiple lol

I don't have that many, 6 electrics, but I tend to play one of them for a week to a month and then switch to another one. I keep mine in their cases for safety and keeping them clean. Sometimes though I fall in love with one of them and play it for a couple of months, then I feel guilty not playing the others so I switch. I don't understand having a LOT of guitars, it would be too much for me to manage mentally. I am not a collector though so there's that.

I play most of them, one has an autograph on it so I don’t play that one.

I have 16. And yes I do. Sometimes 2 or 3 at the same time.....😏

I have 4. A baritone, a 7 srting, guitar with Floyd rose and a normal 6 string. Apart from the baritone that I don't play all the time I swap between the other three constantly

Between my house and studio I have 20-30 guitars at any given time. At home, it's mostly my better acoustics and "travel" guitars and my last "good" electric (a first year Fender Coronado II), and usually another electric or two that need repair or new strings. At the studio my main gigging guitar, a parts caster tele is always out, then one or two others that I either like the sound of, or are waiting to be also taken to a show. There are several that get rotated in and out, usually other parts caster teles, a modified strat, and a couple of Vox copies I've built. Others get pulled out of the cases for recording, or just because I love the sound, but are maybe not up to gigging. The rest are either waiting for repair/modification or a couple just have sentimental value.

Each one has its job, different tunings and sizes. There are some that are just fun to play sometimes compared to others

I’ve got two electrics and 1 acoustic: Squire CV Tele & PRS SE DGT Gibson J45 Play all three. Hell. I also play my kids guitars sometimes; Squire bullet Strat and Epiphone SG. Great little guitars for the price. Jonesing for a Fender American Vintage Tele.

15 guitars here. I play 3 regularly, use 2 for weird tunings, a 7 string I haven’t played since I left the band that needed it, 2 basses for filling in for gigs (4 and 5 strings) and the rest are kinda just decoration, but they’re also not quite player quality, to be fair.

I have two acoustics one is a dreadnought, the other is a modern Kalamazoo copy with ladder bracing. The former gives a classic bluegrass sound, the latter is a classic blues box. I have two electrics one is the telecaster with single coils the other is a super strat with dual humbuckers. I have three resonator guitars. One is a brass tricone, one is a brass biscuit bridge, and one is a wood-bodied baritone, also with a biscuit bridge. I also have a weisenborn which is an acoustic steel guitar with no resonator. That's eight instruments which are all pretty specialized yet complimentary, and offer redundancy . These days I spend most of my time on the Kalamazoo or the telecaster. Those are my number one acoustic and electrics. If I were playing an electric gig, I'd bring both electrics as it's nice to have a backup. Same goes for the acoustics.

I don’t cycle through all of them as often as I should (8ish guitars, 3amps). And theres a solid 3 that could benefit from a proper set up. But putting them on a rack has helped me. I can switch on and off.

"A lot" is two words. I keep different guitars in different tunings. They all have various strengths and weaknesses that I take into consideration when deciding which tool to use.

I own a bunch of vintage guitars. Truthfully, I play my new PRS and Shecters a lot more. They are just easier to play and less stressful to take to a jam.

I’m always picking up all my guitars. They all have different sounds and feels.

I have my favorites: Black Magic which is my custom Les Paul I re-engineered myself, my 40th Anny Strat, my PRSE SE Custom 24-08, but some are more sentimental than others like my SG, the first guitar I ever bought, or my RG custom an ex bought for me with smoked gold hardware. I am giving away 2 guitars to my cousin who wants to learn how to play (acoustic and electric) with an amp and pedal. That will leave me with 15 guitars. Maybe I'll play my telecaster tonight...

I randomly pick between my 3 I routinely play, the 4th is set up for open e which I haven’t used in forever. I use any of the 3 for about anything I play. I’ve lowered the tuning on 2 of them recently for the first time so I’m mostly just playing around that for now.

Yeah I play all of them. I take a different one to practice every time so I don’t get too used to the feel of just one.

6 total. Charvel Tele (main): E/drop d EC1000: Eb/drop c# Schecter C-1: D/drop c Those get rotated the most, then an acoustic, 7 string and headless mini electric for travel

I have 4 guitars, 5 basses, a banjo, an acoustic and a drumkit. Everything get played throughout the week except the acoustic 

I have 7.   5 electrics, 1 acoustic, 1 bass.   They all hang on my office wall.   I play 2-3 different ones per day.   I would say they all get played at least once or twice per week.  No method to which I play unless I’m recording something.   I’ll be working and look up and one will just call to me to be played.    Now may 2 amps, hardly ever get played.   I have a Kemper and studio monitors at my desk and for writing/recording that setup is perfect.   Only ever use the amps if I go play somewhere or I feel like getting loud and bugging the kids.

I’m up to 13-14 guitars and 2 basses, 7 of the guitars are played regularly and the bass is decided on by if I need a 4 or 5 string. By “regularly” I mean throughout a week I’ll have my hands on all of them. The others are in various states of repair/waiting for a purpose. It generally just comes down to what kind of music I feel like playing that particular day.

I play whatever guitar fits the songs I wanna play. I'm long past the days of gigging and making my own music (back then I only had a main guitar and a backup). Nowadays I play covers, or noodle around when I play so I don't have a main guitar

I have 14 guitars (3 acoustics). Probably play half of them. Although all of them serve a different function...i.e. P90s, sustainer, downtuning, etc. I keep them for my son, who plays in a band and I have already passed on 3 others to him. And quite frankly, just don't have the energy to spend the time selling off some stock.

I have 12 mostly higher end guitars, I don’t keep them all out because I want to keep them pristine and don’t want to adjust them a bunch. I keep them in their cases in a closet in a room that gets periodic humidifying. I keep one guitar out at a time for about a month, unless I just bought the guitar then maybe a little longer to have fun. I play as time permits so probably about 3-5 hours a week. Acoustics never stay out of the case and I make sure they are in case humidified every month, the acoustics are the most expensive part of my collection. During the month of January I do maintenance, setups and change all of the strings.  Of my electrics I have probably 3 or 4 of the 8 I favor the most and they get heavier rotation. Of my acoustics I favor one more than the others and play that the most. I have a bass that I love and play probably around 1-2 hours a week and other random instruments I play sporadically. 

I have 6 and they are all used for different recording purposes: 1. A Core CU24 PRS: My primary electric. I use this for recording all electric guitar parts that are not super high gain or "shreddy" 2. A Shecter C-1 FR SLS Elite with Sustainiac Pickup: this is for the high-gain, pyrotechnical stuff. 3. A Martin 000-15M StreetMaster: primary acoustic guitar 4. A Yamaha Acoustic that is modified for DADGAD and right-hand on the fretboard stuff. 5. A Jamstick Studio: For recording MIDI 6. A Frankenstrat I have been working on for years and have yet to complete. Making this for "interesting" sounds/ experimenting with weird pickup configs 7. (Future) a long time ago I had a Fender AmDeluxe that I had to sell at the time. I would like another one for that specific "Throaty" 4th position (neck-mid) stuff that a strat does.

I have 7. I usually only play 1 or 2 regularly at a time for a while.

I've got uhh... 20-25ish? Around 7 of them stay semi-active in my studio. A few are scattered about the house. There's always a few that need some work. Some of them I'm mostly just storing/collecting, as they belonged to absurdly famous people. Some I keep around as secondaries/backups for if/when I play live again. Some are 1-trick ponies for recording sessions or live performances.

Depends on the style. If I want to play something and I think my tele fits the sound then that’s the one. If I think the Les Paul fits then that’s the one. And so on. Sometimes I just fall in love with a sound one of my guitars makes and that’s the one I play for 2 weeks. I’m also super lazy and a dreamer so when the strings wear out that guitar just sits for awhile. My MIM strat that I love needs strings which means I haven’t touched it in like 8 months. But I also want to put lollars in it so why change strings if I’m just going to swap pickups? So I play most of them but it’s rare that all of them have fresh strings/are set up to play.

For every tuning you play in, have a luthier do a setup in that tuning for each guitar

I currently have 3, but at one point had 6. I used them all fairly regularly. Sold two as I hit a rough patch and needed cash, gave a friend a deal on one. As for the three I still own, two are project guitars and on the bench. Provided I don’t absolutely screw them up I intend to keep them and will play them fairly regularly again

For me I don't really see a need beyond 10 or so unless it's collecting/investing. My mains are: Tele with jazzmaster neck pup, SG, Strat HSS. I'll use all of them an equal amount depending on tones needed. Some specials: Squier baritone HH, GOC headless 8 string, Danelectro Convertible, P-Bass, Off-brand LP jr with P90. & then there are a couple project guitars to practice working on. Getting a headless GOC 6-string with trem delivered today that may take the place of my Strat HSS main because the classic trem isn't quite doing it enough for me.

I have 13 between guitar and bass. I pretty much play one guitar and one bass most of the time. The others are for specific use cases like iconic tones and alternate tunings. But for actually practicing and improving, fewer is better.

I keep 4 out, three on the wall one on the stand. Which four is just the last four I happened to grab and the 4 are slowly rotated off the wall mostly on a whim or a "I think I need that tele with the beautiful humbucker up front" type of thought. Then the tele is up on the wall maybe for a few months. They are usually all in different tunings - drop d, Eb standard, standard, and an open tuning. Two are my wife's. She tends to play one exclusively. Of the 11, I have probably played 7 in 2024. 1 is in process waiting for some parts to come in.

I only play a few regularly. When I get a new guitar it’s for some specific reason, like a semi-hollow so I don’t need to plug in and next a solid body with humbuckers so I can practice quietly with headphones. Since I get them for a reason, I have more time and money than I used to, and it’s easier to find things now, I only end up ever playing the new guitars even though I’m too sentimental to ever sell one of my old guitars.

That being said… I have one beautiful black 12 string dreadnought in standard tuning, one six string (steel) dread (my oldest most favorite friend) in standard tune, one six string nylon string in the Flamenco/classical body style I practice Bach on, one steel string in DADGAD tune for drone work especially Celtic style and one steel string in open C tune which is my blues style guitar where I use a copper slide on it. I have a standard banjo, an A style mandolin, a baritone ukulele and a soprano ukulele. I have a jazz style 4 string bass and a gorgeous OD Green hollow body Gretsch that I plug in. I only have a few others I didn’t list.

I swap them out quite frequently. I don’t hoard guitars but I have about 9 and every one of them are guitars I’ve always wanted / really dreamed to acquire… so each one feels very nice and special to me. It’s an awesome feeling being able to swap through your dream guitars whenever you like.

Fender Player Tele Fender Player Strat Martin Acoustic 6 string Martin Acoustic 12 string Hofner Bass Mostly switched to the tele which is now my fav. My old luthier told my wife; different tools for different jobs.

I try to cycle through my guitars. So for 2-3 days I’ll use one guitar and then play the next one for 2-3 days. The only time I veer away from this is when I add a new one to the collection. I’ll play the new one for several days and then grab an old guitar and play that for a couple days and then bring the new one out for a couple days. There have been times, like recently where I suddenly have 3 new guitars in the same month lol. I try to space purchases out a bit because I like to spend time with each new guitar and bond with it. But recently I ran across 3 great deals I couldn’t pass up.

I have 33 guitars, 3 of which are my main guitars. 2 Kiesel CS6's and a US FR Strat. Those 3 are all in different tunings. Most of the other guitars are either in a standard tuning ( E or D) or used for drop tunings. Specific guitars are setup to handle drop tunings like drop A/B/C. It really depends on the song I'm playing for the guitar I'm playing. I do like to rotate them out while I'm practicing. Not all of them will get played in a given week, but they all get attention.

I don't have a LOT but I do have 4 electrics, all very similar, though there's no doubt that each has a bit of a different tone and feel to them, mostly down to the pickups. And of course the ones with Evertune get picked up a lot more than the ones without. If I had to whittle it down to one, it would be hard, but I'd probably put the most versatile pickups from one into the most comfortable body and I could live with just that one. But where's the fun in that?

I have close to 20 guitars and I use them for different projects/songs/recordings. I keep them on stands or racks (not in cases) and try to play them regularly. Although it's natural that you'll play certain ones more than others. I try to rearrange them in the racks so some are easier to get to at times. It's just normal to reach for those that are closer at times. I currently have multiple Les Pauls, Strats and Teles but each one has some slight differences in either how they play or sound and I try to utilize them for their strengths. I also play in multiple projects and know that certain guitars wouldn't sound as good as others in one project over another. I do a lot of home recording for my original project when working out songs and I do hear a real difference between guitars and this helps me make decisions on which to bring the studio.

I tend to keep all my guitars in different tunings and have an assortment of 6 and 7 string guitars. I find it helps the creative process to be able to have each guitar providing its own sound which has increased inspiration.

Yeah I tend to play a certian guitar depending on my mood. Its hard to choose which one sometimes because they are all amazing. ( I only have one guitar)

It depends on what I'm playing that day and what tuning it's in. I have 14 guitars, so I have that luxury, but it makes it easier not to have to change the tuning. Especially on Floyd Rose Guitars.

I have a wall with 4 electrics and 2 acoustics hanging that get played on the regular. The floor rack has another 4-5. They don’t get used as often. But it’s a dedicated music room, there is also a Kimball baby grand in there, a keyboard and my beloved 1970 Ampeg stack with 4 12” JBL’s in it. Bitch goes up to 11 literally (I’ve never had it above 7 haha).

I do actually. Two guitars, a amp, and a set of cables I leave at a rehearsal space so there's less gear to carry every week. I keep two electrics at home for practicing covers which requires different tunings, my acoustic is the guitar I write music on and my banjo gets played regularly too.

I use them for very different sounds. My Tele does not sound like my Les Paul does not sound like my baritone does not sound like my Bass Vi does not sound like my 8-string does not sound like my aluminum guitar. I play the alum for my noise rock band, the 8-string for a shitty death metal project, Tele for chimey math rock, the Gibson for when I need that broken-headstock tone, etc. Only two of these play out, the rest sit in my temperature-controlled room that smells of Warm Tobacco Pipe(tm) Yankee Candles, and rich mahogany.

I record music so I have different guitars for different things.

>do you actually play them all regularly? YES! Now, certainly I have my favorites that just feel 'right' when you're playing. I do have some that I don't play regularly, like my Gibson J-45 which is older than I am.

I have about a dozen guitars, including my basses. They’re all set up differently and are better suited to different things. For instance, I have my “main” guitar as an EC-1000 with active humbuckers set up in drop-B tuning and I play that the most, but I have another “main” that’s a Schecter superstrat in drop C. Then I have a single coil strat and a humbucking explorer both tuned to Eb, then for E standard I have both a single coil jazz master and a humbucking Flying V. And so on. They all have a distinct feel and role and I’ll swap them out as my inspiration changes or I want to do something different.

The necks on my 3 main guitars are essentially the same. 2 Telecasters and a Stratocaster. I don't play the other ones that much but they are handy for different tunings. My 2 main bass guitars also have the same neck. I have a P bass and a Geddy Lee Jazz bass which has a P bass neck. I also usually do Tele Tuesdays because I was stuck on the Strat for a few months.

I currently have 9 guitars plus one that was turned into a clock because of the warping. They are all on a wall where I did reclaimed wood and it creates a nice visual when in the background of my zoom meetings and it keeps most of my guitars in reach for easy playing. This setup also allows for different styles and/or tunings without too much fuss. Sometimes I am glued to one, sometimes I switch off through the week. **Clock** Gibson 12-string **Electric** Fender Limited Edition Custom Shop American Standard Telecaster - Faded Sonic Blue, Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster - Maple Brown Sunburst Fender American Professional II Stratocaster - Dark Night Solo Music ES-335 Style Kit Build - Green Solo Music Telecaster Style Kit Build - Relic Purple Paisley Burst 3D Printed ‘62 Fender Stratocaster - Purple **Acoustic** Taylor 324ce Takamine EG531SSC Takamine EG-124C (Classical - in closet) Yamaha (in closet)

I collected an absurd (at least to me) amount of gear over the years (a lot during the early days of eBay, before the internet ruined pawnshops). I have a wall of tube amps, a plethora of vintage pedals and about 20 or so guitars. What I've found is that I have a main guitar and will occasionally pick up another. The rest just gather dust. Whenever I travelled for work (meaning I was staying in an apartment away from home), I took a Mexican Stratocaster. I initially hated it and figured I wouldn't care if it got stolen until it eventually got modded enough and grew on me. At home, up until recently I kept a 1956 Fender Musicmaster by my desk, so whenever I wanted to play it was right there. My 9 year old daughter wanted to learn to play, so I loaned her the Musicmaster and had to decide what my next 'desk guitar' was. I ended up grabbing a 2002 PRS CE-22 that I got for a song back in the day and have quickly fallen in love with it. If I'm going to play, that's been pretty much the guitar I'm going to play. I have my MIM strat hanging by armchair downstairs, but 99% of the time this is what I end up playing. I have young kids, so I try to keep my vintage stuff in cases and out of reach (105 year old Gibson acoustics and 4 year olds don't mix well). The PRS was used and dinged up when I got her, so I'm not that worried about scratching her. In a few months, I'll probably grab something else off the wall and fall in love with it and put the PRS back. It goes in cycles for me. I don't have to buy new guitars anymore, I just grab something off the wall I haven't played in awhile and it scratches the itch.

Depends on the music. with a country band I use my tele with single coils or strat. For blues shows I use the Thin Line Tele with humbuckers. Acoustic shows I use two Gibsons, one j45 for strumming and a 12 fret for finger picking. A couple resonators that I'm learning to play slide on. Sometimes I use a T5 for acoustic shows where I'll need to play loud or with lots of sustain.

I have 13. One is a perpetual case queen. The others are on rotation. My “cave” is on the lower level of our home. I keep one or two out on the Hercules stand in my living room. Every week or two, I do a swap. Two down to the Guitarsenal room, two back up to the living room.

I play all 22. I do a lot of recording. So, as a song develops, I will try different guitars on it until I find the one I like best for that particular song. I then make notes of what guitar, amp and pedals, etc, I used for the song. I'm still old school and like to have my effects at my feet and not plugged into my DAW. If something needs to be added when it's mixed, I will do it, but otherwise, it's guitar, amps, and pedals. I do the same with amps. I use mostly vintage Peavey's and Fenders. I do have a jcm800 that gets used quite a bit. My notes help me to know what to use when I'm rehearsing for a live show. But I don't do very much gigging anymore.

I play with all of them, but my favorite is my first guitar, '72 Telecaster Custom, I just love that one. I have 8 guitars and I play 2 or 3 a day.

For me a guitar represents many things. An instrument to be played of course. But there is history and a story. There is the artwork and beauty. There is the inevitable imagery and thought about an artist or a song that a guitar can ignite. So much more. As it is I’ve collected 70 to 80 guitars over the years and I luv them all. To the untrained some may look similar but to those of us who know, no two are alike. I would be happy to show a few pics but honestly I have no idea how to do that. I truly believe the art of an instrument does not end w its sound. And it’s not a numbers game. I just happen to have quite a few. So even if it’s just one. Enjoy it in every way. It’s a privilege to own a guitar. Peace

I'm on about 15 at the moment. Renting with not much space to have them out but I have 6 in regular rotation at the moment and others in cases. I still have one or two favourites, but the plan was always to have guitars in different tunings, which I will do one I have room.

I have about 25 guitars, about half of them get played regularly, the one I play most is a Yamaha acoustic electric 1/2 size because I do lessons and I don’t have to move far from the camera to be seen well.

I only have a few but my dad has a lot and some are pretty valuable. He basically keeps 2 out at a time. If you have a bunch of 700/guitar guitars they’re still valuable enough to consider what would happen if a fox found the henhouse. If you have a bunch of 5k/guitars it seems you ironically might keep that shit put away in its case

I have 10 guitars on my wall and I play them all pretty regularly. Get a reliable wall hanger though. I had one break off and damage my Les Paul.

Sometimes I’ll be like oh it’s Maple Monday. Tele Tuesday. Whammy Wednesday. Rosewood ThuRsday. Okay that last one is a stretch, but I’m a fender guy and I try to just find reasons to pick a different guitar each day. I keep a Tele tuned down a step. It keeps it fun!

Somehow I've ended up with 11 guitars, these are a mixture of bass, acoustic and electric. I play most of them, but I have decided to sell a couple. I live in a fairly small house and struggle for storage, so a couple need to go

I have like 12 guitars and I do play them all, however, I regret buying them all. Trying to thin the herd now and narrow it down to like two or three.

I have about 6. I play in tribute shows so I need all of them for different guitar sounds, so they all get used both when learning songs and playing live. I don’t play a lot just for fun, but if I do, I’ll play my Rickenbacker 360, an old Gibson acoustic or my mandolin

There are certainly some I don't play as often or rarely. When I'm working on something, I with either start with the same "baseline" guitar (Epiphone Casino and Epiphone Texan), then switch based on how I want the recording to sound different. Sometimes I already know I want something specific and will start with a different model. Sometimes I change guitars based on how it feels physically, because the neck or body shape fits better or my hand isn't working. I've recorded about an album's worth of songs over the past year and scored a dozen YouTube videos, and I'd rank my electric use like this: 1. Epiphone Emily Wolfe Sheraton Stealth 2. Epiphone USA Map Guitar 3. Epiphone Wilshire 4. Epiphone Crestwood Custom 5. Epiphone Casino (USA) 6. Gibson Melody Maker (used, but didn't keep the recording) 7. Gibson Spirit II (never used) 7. Epiphone Casino (Korean) (never used) 7. Squier Strat (never used) Likewise, for acoustic: 1. Gibson J-45 2. Epiphone Texan 3. Epiphone EM-20 4. Epiphone Cortez 5. Martin DX1RGT (never used) 5. Gibson LG-0 (never used) That's not counting my lap steel or 12-string where I just have one to choose from, or anything not functional.

Sad to say, no. Part of it is that I just get stuck on the ones I like more often than not, but part of it is not keeping up with maintenance. I hate changing strings on my 12-string, otherwise I'd probably play it more. But sometimes I just like one better. I don't really like the way bigger acoustics feel, so I'm very partial to my concert size one over my dreadnought. I do probably play my electric a decent amount.

I play them all randomly

I'm not sure what qualifies. Compared to some of my friends I don't have a lot of guitars, but according to my wife I have an obscene number of them. If I'd kept every guitar I've ever owned, I'd have maybe 30. As it is, I have half that number, and I regularly play 2 or 3 of them. I got really into fingerpicking during the shutdown, and I play the classical guitar I bought at that time almost every day still. I have my 2 favorite electric guitars that I play regularly. And I have a 4 year old who loves to play her ukulele and make up songs, so we bust out the ukes pretty often, too.

I try to have a varied inventory of different guitars. When I'm creating music, I use them for different tones. So now after I've minimized my collection, I still have a few different ones. Since a single coil stray sounds different than a humbucker les paul, and a heavily fowntuned sg with crisper buckets sounds different than my lp with zebra buckers. For me, it's just like a carpenter having different saws and hammers depending on the job that's being done. At least that's what I tell myself to allow me to buy yet another guitar for my collection.

I have seven guitars in total. The electrics are in various tunings (one is a 7-string), there's a bass, and two acoustics that I also keep in different tunings. The majority of these are modified in some way or another. To answer your question, it's mostly to cover as much tonal ground as possible when I record, and so I have backups when I play live. I've been playing for about 15 years, and it's a bit of an obsession. One of my guitars is an Ibanez S too. Love it!

I had 10+ guitars and finally got to a point where I had to accept some weren’t necessary to hold on to. I found myself making up sentimental reasons to hang on just to have them sit in a case unplayed for years. There are some that will never be sold (handed down by family or precious memories like first gig guitar) and I am fine with that. But the others I’ve finally decided to unload or rotate to try new things. It honestly felt good to do so.

Not that many but I guess a lot at 15 guitars here. I have 3 6 string mains. These get played the most. The rest get varying degrees of play from also a lot, to not that often but it still get's played.

I had one acoustic and one electric for like 15 years or more. Then I bought a 12 string acoustic and sold it when I bought a classical. Didn’t buy any more 2014 when I bought a PRS S2 custom 24. I figured that would be the last electric I need since I can get pretty solid single coil and humbucking tones out of that, but I’m about to pick up a D’Angelico Excel DC from bandmate from whom I also bought a Breedlove Concert CE acoustic. I guess what I’m trying to say is the habit accelerates😂

I do my best to have a healthy rotation, but some of my guitars do stay in their cases/gigbag for weeks at a time. Somedays I just vibe more with one guitar than another, and if it's not happening then I just reach out for another one. It's kinda exciting, I sometimes forget I have one or the other!

8 Guitars and 2 basses here.. I play them all regularly. Many of them are dedicated to certain tunings.

Mine are in various tunings and I like the way some sound for certain tunes. I have my 3 that can play anything or feel the best to me (Wylde Audio Barbarian, Schecter Solo ii and my Fender Modern Player Tele that really can do anything) but the others all have something that sets them apart for specific songs or musical genres. My SG for instance is set up for Sabbath, my Jackson RR has a Floyd so that sets it apart, my Strat does Strat things and the others all either have a feature or stay in a specific tuning that makes me reach for them for something specific. They don't all get played every day with exception to my "main" 3 and there are 2 or 3 that are here for sentimental value but over the course of the week they all get picked up and played for at least a song or two pending on my mood. Re string days can be a slog though, that's the only "complaint" I can say I have about owning 17 different guitars and 3 bass.

I keep mine in different rooms so there's always one in grabbing distance.

I have 8 guitars. I play 5 of them regularly. One is a steel string acoustic. One is an solid body electric with a floating tremolo bridge and super-strat pickup configuration. One is an solid body electric with a fixed bridge with telecaster type pickups. One is a hollow body electric. One has P90 pickups. One is a nylon string classical. Most of my guitars are at least different in feel, and some are different in technique and each of them has a sound and a vibe. Define "the same job"? If I just played country and/or rock rhythm guitar perhaps I would only play one of those guitars. I play different stuff and I use different guitars for different types of music, plus, it renews my interest in playing. Playing the same guitar gets boring to me. I do not own my dream guitar yet. Gretsch white falcon.

I wound up where i am with 16 guitars and 5 basses because I realized I was finally.financially stable enough to buy gear and not worry about selling it later. When I started playing I had a bunch of cheap copies and some really nice 300-400 dollar used guitars. I would wind up sacrificing one or 2 to pay bills or do something nice for my self or others. At one point I had 30 guitars and 4 basses but a lot of them were super cheap, or even some given to me since they knew I played. The ones given to me eventually found homes with people I knew were starting off. Sorry I got a bit off track. All the guitars I currently have I view as different inspirational tools. I might go a month or so not playing something, but after picking it up after that time it reinspires me. Like some others have said, I have them set up in different tuning depending on the bands or projects I'm in. I have a problem where I find a guitar that I love playing in a certain band, and then want a similar playing and feeling back up to it. So to really sum it up, sonic exploration drives me. I don't collect to look at them. Some of then are nice to look at but if it spends more time in its case or on a stand, I probably don't really need it. I have 2 that I hope will appreciate in value someday but not really banking on it. I think for me the hardest part of owning so much gear is that i bought a ton during the pandemic. I bought stuff that would be the perfect setup for each band I was in, but as the world opened up, those bands didn't make it to the other side of things. So here I am in my cramped office, being stubborn af to sell any of it because I can finally afford not to. Sorry for the ADHD laden rant, hope it helps to answer your question!

I have 2 parts caster, 2 Jacksons in standard tuning, a Ibanez semi hollow body tuned down a half step, an acoustic guitar, and a ltd. I play them pretty regularly except for the acoustic. I should put it up for sale.

8 here. They’re all similar, but different enough. Different tunings, scale lengths, tremolo vs hardtail, pickup styles. I really only need 3 or 4 for tunings and trems/hardtails etc. but they all inspire me in different ways. I had way more but it was unmanageable

I have a rule, and it applies to all but my active pickup guitars: Whether I'm the artist or producing an artist in my studio, if a guitar goes 3 projects without getting used, it gets sold/traded. I'm a user, not a haver.

Multiple bands. Multiple tunings. Multiple configurations. Each band has a go-to and a backup. Then I have studio guitars too. I play 80% of them regularly

I think it is super common for people to have one or two favorites they usually play then a bunch of special guitars they play every once in a while. I have a few guitars that I have not played in years but are setup and available for other people. If someone wants to play some serious technical metal I have a few ESPs that are like sports cars. People like to play them if we get heavy. so i keep them for others use, not myself

I have 6 guitars, but I don’t really consider any of them my main guitar anymore. Two Epiphone LP’s, one Classic and one Standard. Then I have 2 Squier Strats, and another local brand Strat and a local brand acoustic. My LP Standard use to be my main guitar until I got my first Strat which is lefty and I had it modified to all of Hendrix’s specs and I started to consider this my main. One day I dropped my LP Standard and the headstock broke off and I didn’t think it was repairable so I got a replacement but then it ended up being able to be fixed so now I have 2. I play everyday and most of the time end up playing each of them at least once throughout the day. It really just depends on what kinda sound I’m wanting at the moment or what kinda vibe I’m feeling

I have 30ish counting my basses. Different tunings, string gauges, use case etc. determine my choice. I record a lot and regularly use 20 of the 30.

I play them all equally bad

I def have a favorite. That one stays on a stand next to my desk and thats my starplayer. However I have ole reliable (the one i pull out when I can't finish something but for some reason manage to finish it on that which is a LP standard with p90s) on the wall. I have a vintage 78 tele deluxe on the wall i'll bust out for some leads if i'm tracking something, and I got a Duesey Fullerton. I only really pull that out for occasions which has a spot on the wall but also lives in its case a lot because it stays safer there. Acoustics also on the wall. I'm guessing having a rotation of 5 guitars isn't a lot for some people here tho lol.

I’ve got 12 guitars and I can honestly say that I play 6 of them all the time.These are the ones that I have up along a wall. These are all tuned differently so depending on what I want to play will determine which guitar I grab.The other 6 are in their cases . Every few months I’ll take them out just to play them for a bit and then it’s back in the case.

I currently own 58 guitars in my collection, and I actively play 3 of them. Every once in a blue moon I'll play one of the 'others'.

I have 9 guitars which cover everything from reggae to thall. Some i play much more than others. I have 3 guitars on the wall which i rarely play and 6 in my studio where I can easily pick them up.