It's always interesting to me how often you get serious guitar collecting junkies or guys into amps, but rarely huge collections of both.
I'm a little in both camps I suppose.
I definitely fall into the amp and guitar range.
I will never admit how many guitars I currently own. I always respond with "Four". As in I have only four guitars. I have been dumping those that I do not play but that is not the problem. The problem is that for every guitar that goes another one or two show up. Whether I buy them or build them. Over the last few years I have purchased only a few stock electrics. The rest have been personally built by me for me.
What I have noticed is that I am slowly building a stable of acoustics and archtops that seem to take up a tremendous amount of space. Still though, I love them and I play them. That is the rule... If they are not played then they are out the door.
Amps... So I have a few. Many tube heads of various wattage. Then there are the GK guitar amps that I believe that I only keep for sentimental reasons. I played the hell out of those amps in the 80's. They were at over a 1,000 gigs and I recorded hundreds of hours in the studio on so many different projects with them. I think that makes it rough to get rid of them.
Truth be told though, I have not used the tube amps in months because the Fractal Axe FX has been getting all the glory.
Yesterday I finished up another guitar. I am 99% sure that it will stay with me. I start another project last week and I see three different guitars on ebay right now that I may bite at.
I believe that if I had to get down to 15 electrics I could easily and quickly choose which ones but I just do not see that happening.
Hell, I thought my 5 electrics, 1 acoustic and 1 bass was borderline excessive! 20 to 30-something guitars? Really guys?
So I turn 51 in October... I have been collection 1-3 guitars a year since I was 13 years old. It really does not start out like a hoarder scenario. It just kind of gets that way over the years. I have purged in the past. As many as 40 pieces. Yet... add a few years to that and we are in the same boat again.
My name is Scott and I have a problem.