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Post by snakehips on Oct 13, 2014 23:30:05 GMT
Hi there !
Saw a recent Facebook thread by a musician friend that he has just bought another Fender Strat that his wife doesn't know about.
Got me to thinking about my more recent acquisition and thus similar predicament.
Over the last few hours though, I've been remembering other guitars and gear I've also acquired on the quiet, and every so often I remember something else !!
So come on people, own up !
I'll start :
Kawai/Teisco electric guitar - Hound Dog Taylor model
Gibson ES-330 reissue (P90 pickups)
National Polychrome Triolian - 1933 with rolled F-holes
National Style O - 1930 all-steel body
National Style N - 1932 all-brass body
Kay dreadnought acoustic - Elmore James model - yesterday, on ebay !
Fender Blues Jnr Mk 3 Red October amp
Various vintage Dearmond pickups
I've run out of space in my garage, hiding things behind my Hammond organ which doesn't work still !
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 14, 2014 3:44:34 GMT
the guitars are easily differentiated from all the others she has seen. even the 2 strats are different colors/fretboards.
recent amp acquisitions tend to induce color blindness. likely 'cause the 4 winfield thomas amps i have are all cocoa tolex with gold piping. the 2x12, 1x15 and 4x10 cabs from him are cocoa with oxblood grill cloth. the 1624T supro head clone currently being built will also be cocoa/gold.
death by hot chocolate.
not an intentional guise, wanted the interchangeability among cabs and heads.
oh yeah-- a vox nt 50 w/2 ea 4x12 i keep at "jam bud's" house. these she knows i scored to avoid moving better loved amps constantly when gone to make too much noise. way too marshallesque for my tastes, even with 12AT7 in V1, 12DW7 in V2 & V3 into 5751 at V4 {PI}. clean or dirt channel. was thinking the VOX name implied a VOX tone. at least it won't require any more room when i finally have it gutted and reuse the overkill trannies to get it morphed into a one knob KT66.
the peavey delta blues looks kinda like the 6L6 victorilux 3x10...kinda. whether or not you can choke this down, the lowly peavey is a great sounding amp.
then 2 ea fender ultra chorus stereo amps, with a BXR 200---that played downstream from an active 3 way stereo crossover, bridged mono bass circuit--it downstream from a digitech 2101 LTD twin disc surviving from my pre-vacuum period. [don't really count 12AX7 pair pre-amp circuit as much more than a tease].
think that many more of 'em will get me moved into the yard for space to store them in. shouldda been a guitar addict instead, the dozen or so of them take much less room....
mitchfit
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Post by obrienp on Oct 14, 2014 11:21:13 GMT
Interesting thread! I can't compete with you guys, you are buying and smuggling some really serious kit!
Also I don't have a spouse anymore. However, I still feel guilty when I buy new stuff; old habits die hard. My daughters seem to have taken over from my ex: when they visit me they make pointed remarks about the number of guitars I have. I have taken to hiding some behind the sofa when they come.
I saw a post on Facebook recently that seemed to fit the bill: "My big fear is that when I die my wife will sell my guitars for what I told her I payed for them."
My one success at smuggling a new guitar when I was married, was an Epiphone Inspired by 64 Texan that looked similar enough to an Epi FT145 I had since I was a teenager. I just swapped them on the guitar stand when she was out and nobody was the wiser. The FT145 went into the attic where the spiders kept it safe.
Slide on,
Pat
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Post by twang1 on Oct 14, 2014 20:38:37 GMT
A good friend of mine is an electric guitar freak and buys soft double cases only, so his wife sees only (!) fifteen cases around the house instead of 30 guitars!
On my account I have the opposite problem: everytime I see a special guitar my girlfriend would be ready to buy it for me... She last bought me a good reso from the very opener of this thread! But in the last couple of years I've got the bug of getting rid of instruments I don't get to play much and so I'm often resisting....
Frank
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Post by washboardchris on Oct 14, 2014 21:09:39 GMT
I think I am very lucky,I have 5 banjo's (soon to be thinned out a bit)& 6 Resos & 4 steel strung guitars. I have no problem with sneaking guitars into the house.She says that she knew that music was important to me before we married & so she knew what she was getting into.that being said I dont buy new guitars & most of them are worth more than I paid for them.My only worry is if I drop down dead she will have to work out how to sell them.This may sound morbid but I have had to do it for 3 friends partners over the last three years. I have a visit to the heart doctor soon(hopefully) & depending what they say keep your eye out in tincan alley for some vintage Nationals
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Post by hokumjim on Oct 15, 2014 16:33:01 GMT
My darling knows all about all of my many guitars and other instruments, she doesn't mind ata ll. Reason why? I bought her a brand new mini! That should stand me in good stead for a few more yet!
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Post by pete1951 on Oct 15, 2014 16:38:20 GMT
You can also remind her that the Mini (I`m guessing that's the car , not a short skirt) will be worth less ever year, whereas your guitars should be worth more as time goes by! (Unless you have bought a load of far-Eastern Cheapos)
PT
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 15, 2014 20:26:22 GMT
the trick is to keep the inventory down to practical levels. this can be difficult to define, and harder to self enforce. we can all take solace in the fact that there are others out there far more afflicted than ourselves... www.tdpri.com/forum/amp-central-station/517541-quality-hoarding.htmlhello, my name is mitchfit. i am a recovering ampaholic. i have been sober since i ordered the latest clone build to begin. |
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Post by gouranga on Oct 16, 2014 6:36:34 GMT
I don't have another half to bother about, just a lack of funds, space and time to play what I alreadt have.
Take care and very best wishes to all.
Gouranga
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Post by pete1951 on Oct 16, 2014 12:10:02 GMT
hello, my name is mitchfit. i am a recovering ampaholic.
i have been sober since i ordered the latest clone build
to begin.[/quote]
Amp are much harder keep away from your other half, a guitar can go under the bed, the sofa or on the wardrobe, an AC30 makes quiet a lump under the bed and will crush any Ikea stuff, I`ve started making my amps as `heads` which helps a little.
PT
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 16, 2014 20:20:07 GMT
Zak,
why are you holding back?
mitchfit
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Post by twang1 on Oct 17, 2014 8:44:56 GMT
Mitch, get some assorted pieces of cloth and you could have many nice (and expensive) amp-tables all around the house, perfect for tea sets and flowers...! Just concentrate on combos only.
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Post by Misterkevster on Oct 17, 2014 10:22:01 GMT
My darling knows all about all of my many guitars and other instruments, she doesn't mind ata ll. Reason why? I bought her a brand new mini! That should stand me in good stead for a few more yet! Nice one Jim!!!  .....from Kev in Leeds....Single now....but far too many all the same!!! |
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 17, 2014 18:24:12 GMT
Mitch, get some assorted pieces of cloth and you could have many nice (and expensive) amp-tables all around the house, perfect for tea sets and flowers...! Just concentrate on combos only. but what will i do if the wife has her friends over for, say--tea, and one of them puts a pointy toed high heel shoe right through the speaker cloth and driver? :-0 mitchfit |
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Post by mitchfit on Oct 17, 2014 19:01:05 GMT
pete1951 said:
You can also remind her that the Mini (I`m guessing that's the car , not a short skirt) will be worth less ever year, whereas your guitars should be worth more as time goes by!
i used to rationalize my gear/kit habit expenditures away with that very premise. but then i started figuring how much inflationary loss goes with it, opposed to dealing only in numerical values.
IE: thinking my 2014 dollar value against 1970 dollar value.
then i saw a thread at a gear/kit-head web site [thegearpage.net], where someone was asking about the best choices for amps to purchase as a long term investment. as i suffer from chronic lethargy, i copied and pasted my entry below to save myself all the mental and labor intensive gyrations of writing a proper response here---
"some where back there some one said basically buy them to play them.
good advice.
if you got lucky and picked one that appreciates ridiculously, cool. if it doesn't even keep up with inflation, YOU STILL HAVE AN AMP YOU LIKE PLAYING....
put it this way, my first axe/amp was a package deal. bought in the mid '60's. was a vox super berkely reverb twin, along with a fender jaguar. was OK for a while, then all my music heroes started playing high gain crunchies. that sweet old push-pull EL84, 18 watt vox would only begin to feedback when topped out on the control panel and the mild jaguar PUPs and controls following suit. sold them both about 10 yrs later for around twice what i had in the set, fetching about $400, each.
just got lucky and bought them from a guy who needed money quickly. there's no point in cyphering out what they might fetch now, had i held on to them. you'd need a calculator to figure out whether i had made a mistake by selling then. until the late sixties, gold was about $40 an ounce, so i'd need to realize 40x my original purchase price of $400 for both to break even in the $1,600 per ounce reality of today. doubt very much they could be worth $16,000, now.
you guys paying into your retirement plan accounts paying attention, here?
that pair of instruments MIGHT have gained 40x in value if:
kurt cobain hadn't been playing an early version of a "pawn shop special", and had instead used a stock jaguar.
brian may had a used wall of berkely twins instead of AC 30's.
but those scenarios didn't happen. maybe YOU can hit on the amp lotto, and pick the new product that will end up being the next train wreck. or maybe just a wreck, how well does your crystal ball work?
would your crystal ball have said to go buy an amp that was basically just a tweaked bassman circuit in the early/mid 1960's, one that was spec'd out according to the whims of a drummer who owned a music store in west london?
in that same time frame, would it have said to go buy a low budget supro amplifier, same resplendent with chip board cabinet, low quality cheap electrical components, AND designed by the same company who drew out guitar amplifier schematics for montgomery ward's mail order catalog?
also same time frame, would it have said to buy a modded fender amp from a couple of hippie partners who owned an old chinese grocery store that had turned into a music store, in mill valley, california? (that's right, B. J. Hunnicutt's home town.)
IF THE ANSWER TO ANY OF THOSE 3 QUESTIONS IS NO, buy an amp you love playing.
maybe you'll turn out lucky in love.
mitchfit"
[above was base on gold prices circa 3-2013, currently down to $1240 (+,-). i should also mention that there was much more sweat equity involved that can't be factored in as to my first axe/amp purchase being funded by riding many a mile delivering newspapers on my bicycle in birch bay, WA]
mitchfit
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