Agile les pauls im going to do it!!!!

[sosomething]

Re: Agile les pauls im going to do it!!!!

Sarcasm aside, I'm wanting a mahogany set-neck, stop-tail P-90 guitar for my second guitar. I linked to the one that find both aesthetically appealing and has the features I want for what I can afford. If I get that guitar, I'll play it for a while, possibly swap pickups and if it needs fretwork, I'll do it myself and won't feel scared doing it to a $1000+ guitar. I find the experience of repairing and modifying a guitar valuable and in a way, it brings the "tool" to a more personal level. I like the idea of having a #1 and keeping it and making it "my own". I'm rarely 100% happy with off-the-rack stuff, no matter how expensive it is. Though, I've yet to play a Suhr.

There's absolutely something to be said for having the same #1 for many years and forging a kind of symbiosis with it... You learn all it's little eccentricities and can use them to inject a subtler nuance to the sounds you make.

That kind of bond with a single instrument is something I haven't felt in a long time.. at least not in the way someone who has been playing the same guitar for 10+ years does.

I probably won't until I have a fully-custom instrument made to suit me perfectly. Because I probably won't settle down and stop buying+selling until that happens.

Though really, each time I get something new, I learn more about what I like and what I don't. That penultimate "guitar in the sky" will probably be an attempt to culminate all the things I liked the best from all the guitars I've owned...

 

[sbecker67]

Re: Agile les pauls im going to do it!!!!

........The OP has made numerous posts asking if x or y guitar or amp is any good and has always stated hes low on cash. Please explain to me how its a good idea for someone who is strapped for cash to be stocking up on low end guitars? .........

In this case I have to agree completely. This is no longer about only being able to afford $X. He would have been better served combining the cost of all these guitars and getting at least one upgraded model. In the end, it wasn't just $X that he could afford; it was $X + $X + $X. Budget guitars are great and serve many purposes, but you'll get more mileage out of one good guitar than three average ones. I didn't start buying budget guitars until AFTER I had acquired a couple good ones.

.....One thing ive noticed on this forum is if someone says hey i only have so much money or thats the one I want people are generally pretty cool about it. Its the people that come to their defense that try to keep justify their decisions that make things go awry...

Unfortunately, that is NOT the case. "Get a real guitar" is the typical response; some are just more blatant than others.

 

[Franknfilms]

Re: Agile les pauls im going to do it!!!!

Hey malymal86, be sure and let us know what you decide to buy, once everyone has had a chance to cool off!

 

[malymal86]

Re: Agile les pauls im going to do it!!!!

^^^ will do my man!