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Location: Caribou, ME | I was up to a total of 66 Ovations and Applauses but thinned the herd over the last couple years. All I have left are my 1983 Collector's Prototype, one black AA-12 with exceptional tone, one Academy KA-14 (ditto) and the 1000th Applause made (August 1976). Under the bench there exists one brutalized AA-12 bowl and neck that I will piece together and make a porch guitar out of.
I'm done collecting stuff. It takes on a life of it's own. |
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Location: Indiana | So you have 61 empty hangers. 
You have been busy! |
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Location: Texas | "It takes on a life of its own" ...bout sums it up.
Edited by jay 2018-09-04 5:24 PM
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | So true! The more you have the more you have to take care of and the less time you have to enjoy what you have! |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | Which is why I try to have little (but still not little enough!) |
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Location: When?? | I only save stuff that I know I will eventually have a need for. It's a big pile :-) |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I gotta quit buying two (or more) of everything. 
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Location: Caribou, ME | The electrics are easy for me. ONE Tele. ONE Strat. ONE Les Paul. The acoustics are a little different thing. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I’m slowly coming to the realization that I, too, need to begin this process as well. From a high of over 50, I’m now down to 46 and will probably start in earnest during the next year or two. Same with all the amps. I’ll keep all the stuff I regularly gig with and a few more. The neon and wall art will be tough to trim down but I need to do it. I can’t leave the mess for my beneficiaries to deal with. |
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Location: SoCal | I've never had that many guitars, but at one time I had about 15. It's down to 8 and if I were really mercenary about it, I could get it down to 5. But you get to a point where every guitar you have came to you with a special story, or it has major history with you. Can't get rid of them......
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm up to 20 and realized that I'm not making much progress on playing them more after I retired. Like the Professor, I've been thinking of what a hassle it will be for my family to get rid of them when I die. I don't have anyone who will appreciate them like I do. |
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Location: New Britain, Ct | Something I heard on this site, ( I hope when I die my wife won't sell the guitars for what I told her paid for them ) |
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Location: NJ | Sigh..... |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | My nephew will appreciate my herd, so no need for thinning at this point. |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | All this talk about death and mortality. Not a bad thing to be in touch with! Makes you enjoy every millisecond on this side all the more! Me i enjoy every millisecond with my Ovations! Been workin hospice lately. Makes me enjoy them all the more!! |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | And @Mark no one will ever appreciate them like we do!! |
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Location: Caribou, ME | Maybe I’ll cull a few more and finally go buy an old L-5. Ive had tons of L-7s but I’d like to reach the top. I’ve got a Heritage Super Eagle but we’ve never hit it off. |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | L-5? |
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Location: Utah | Two of my kids will gleefully take possession of my instruments and luthier tools when I die. Every time I get to thinning the herd for a new purchase, one or the other of them says they would love to have the cast-off, so the grand plan of getting funds for the new purchase fails. Lol. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | nerdydave - 2018-09-06 6:48 PM
All this talk about death and mortality. Not a bad thing to be in touch with! Makes you enjoy every millisecond on this side all the more! Me i enjoy every millisecond with my Ovations! Been workin hospice lately. Makes me enjoy them all the more!!
(((((((((((((((NerdyDave))))))))))))))
What you do for people is beyond mere Thanks!
Big Hug coming your way!!! <3 |
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Location: Yokohama, Japan | FlySig - 2018-09-06 11:36 PM
Two of my kids will gleefully take possession of my instruments and luthier tools when I die. Every time I get to thinning the herd for a new purchase, one or the other of them says they would love to have the cast-off, so the grand plan of getting funds for the new purchase fails. Lol.
I don't have any where near the collections that you all have, but that's my predicament.... no, no, my "blessing" as well. Lol!
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Location: Muenster/Germany | We live in a small appartment and I only have guitars in my room. My wife says that guitars take a lot of space on my life.
I installed a limited number (11) of wall-hangers.
I thought that would be enough.
And I have one wall-hanger in my workshop. Ok I need a guitar there.
And I have 3 or 4 guitars hanging on nails. Ok these are small and light guitars, they don´t need hangers.
And I have 2 guitars stored in the case behind the door.Ok one is a double-neck, too big for the wall and the other one is my "combat guitar", always ready to go with capo, picks, strings and string cleaner in the case.
And I have a folded travel guitar in the wardrobe.
And I have a guitar in a case behind my desk, the one that I´m going to sell.
Yesterday I bought a mint 1687 ....
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Location: Texas | Dave...L-5 is a super sweet Gibson...that goes back to the 20s or 30s.
deep pocket guitar |
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Location: Colorado | To Professor and Mark - I'll take a couple of each of yours off your hands - just to make it easier on your heirs! |
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Location: Colorado | Hey wait a minute - Professor, aren't you and my daughter Sam gonna arm wrestle over one of mine? |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | Thanks Jay. Glad someone noticed my question. And gracias a Nancy. She is always in tune with the pulsing heart of the universe! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Ha! Mark, I think it needs to stay in your family, although I sure appreciated you loaning it to me so I could do that comparo with my OFC I No. 5 a number of years ago. |
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Location: When?? | One practical method of thinning is to give/loan the instruments to family and friends. That way saves on hauling them around since when you go to visit there will already be something there to play. |
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| I don't really use it, but I can only get 50% of what I paid for it, forget it, I'm keeping it. |
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Thinned the herd. A lot.