The Complete Collection 2024 (Part 1) - Which Ones Will I Let Go?
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- It's the start of a new year and time to take stock... 60+ guitars is probably too many so it's time to make some tough choices and cull the collection. This is not an easy task so please join me as we look at my collection and try to decide which ones to list on Reverb 🎸Part 1 of 4!! 😁
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Loic Le Pape Steel G Kid: • A Guitar Made from Ste...
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00:00 intro & coming up
01:26 my new year's resolution
04:30 gibson flying v
08:12 squier bullet P90 strat
10:00 gordon smith gs1
11:38 epiphone les paul custom
13:42 epiphone wilshire
15:34 fender highway one strat
18:09 pink jet jt300
19:36 modded tokai goldtop
20:53 modded gretsch streamliner
22:32 loic le pape steel g kid
26:35 gibson sgj
27:42 gibson les paul melody maker
30:29 gibson custom '64 sg standard
33:23 squire cv starcaster
34:51 guild s100 polara
36:02 burns jazz short scale
37:51 danelectro stock 59
38:32 the stoner les paul
41:01 tough love!
43:44 play out jam
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I see 3 listings in your Reverb shop, are the other ones sold? Thanks!
@@dennisj2203 Yes... 6 sold already this week, more listings to be added on Friday 👍
I can't wait! @@theguitaristas
Great show. I currently only have 24 guitars. Both high dollar and some lower dollar. Regardless, when I sell one it is like watching one of your kids leave home but for a good life. Over the years I have owned several hundred guitars. Now at 76 years old it never gets easier to let them go but it feels good at the end because it is the right thing ti do.
I love guitars and I have owned quite a bunch of them from cheap ones, to expensive ones and even vintage ones. One thing I noticed is that owning too many guitars never did me any good. It felt somehow heavy. Owning less guitars (but the ones I really love) feels way better to me. It's like I have more time, love and attention for the ones I have decided not to let go.
I had a pretty modest collection of 7 electric guitars and 3 basses. All Fenders, MIM and American. One day as I was hopping from one guitar to another I realized I spent too much time guitar hopping instead of playing and making music. Whittled the collection down to 2 guitars and 2 basses and I’m spending more time playing and bonding with the ones I kept. 2 sentimental MIMs and 2 nice American models. Cheers to spreading guitars to fellow players who will use them!
Ahh Colin’s annual Les Paul clearout! First episode in February: Colin buys a new Les Paul!! 😂 keep up the good work Col, I myself have a new acquisition, a Fender Player Limited Edition Jazzmaster which is currently in bits while I fit a shim to the neck to make it playable!
A lot of people just don't understand how hard it is to let go of anything in a collection, being a storied one or one you have one you have a lot of work on or maybe it's just a gorgeous instrument 🎸 ❤ 😊
I get ya. This year though every guitar with £500 or more tied up in it is going* I’m getting into modding and setups and will only buy or own guitars like Epiphone (no specials!) and Squiers. There are some great sounding and playing guitars around with those names on their headstocks. *I’m getting into photography and good, cheap lenses is an oxymoron. Good lenses cost lots of money - it’s just physics
So true!
What happens to me any time I think about selling a guitar - usually because it's been played so little it's all dusty - is that I clean it up for pictures, start playing it, remember why I bought it in the first place, and decide to keep it.
Lmao
It's a sickness, really
That aged arctic white SG with the peace sticker in the scratch plate is my absolute favorite guitar .
Your intro guitarplaying is fabulous, Colin 👌
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I did the same thing about 2 years ago. It was very hard. I sold every piece that I didn't play on a regular basis. I also find myself still getting GAS (it is like an addiction) but fight it off. Still very hard and down to about 12 instruments that I cannot live without. Good job Colin! Cheers mate!😊
Its very hard though. When you pack them away you get that regrett in your gut. Had to sell a Gibson Studio from 2012 In Natural Finish like the SG Colin showed and miss it even though I rarely played it in the end. Sold a few Squier Telecasters and same. Just hard to let them go but we have to.
A couple of times, not just guitars,I needed to clear out: In the end, I drew a 3 circle Venn diagram with a strong KEEP reason in each circle. If something never hit the bullseye it went. Hobbies come and go with me:)...TBH I have some guitars out in the room, which I was asked to dust just the other day. Currently enjoying flash photography and trying to restrain myself, LOL. Tis a very soft market though, but obviously no clue how long that will last. Great playing as ever.
What were the three circles?
Your playing has such a swagger to it. It’s a common theme in British guitarists. Love it.
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@28:00 I wouldn't sell that Melody maker les paul Jr. As it's 1 of 200 made in that color. I have one, paid $200-$300 as well and they are very rare,especially since TV yellow is the most valuable 💛.
Sometimes life dictates when and what guitars to sell. I had to sell 23 guitars to pay for private surgery. I had been finding excuses to hold on to them all for years but when a decision had to be made it was easy and obvious. I kept 4 guitars which I’d spent a lot of time and effort trying to find in the first place and I play all of them which is what it’s all about. My GAS has been defeated. Well, at least for now…
Great way to kick off the new year! Unlike typical collection videos, you're making things interesting by not only showcasing an excellent line-up of fiddles, but teasing us with a chance to own some key pieces that have a history on your channel! If I were in the UK I'd probably be knocking at your door! Looking forward to Part II!
I hate purging. I’m telling you. I understand having things you don’t play, but it messes with my brain. That one guitar I never played becomes all I think about the moment it goes away. Then I end up getting another one somewhere down the line. I swear. And it’s even worse when you play drums and piano and brass Instruments too.
Happy new year Collin, wow!! that is an impressive collection, looking forward to seeing part 2 mate. all the best.
Happy New Year brother man.. can't wait to see what you have in store for us this year! Ill be checking out the reverb page for sure
Happy New Year Colin..Nice show... I always love it and look forward to Friday's
Happy New Year, Colin - have a great Guitaristas 2024! 👍🎸
Happy New Year Colin! Good luck with the selling, enjoyed the stories 🎸😎
Happy new year Colin! 🤘💜 Great video and so looking forward to what this year brings or should I say what lands on the Guitaristas table! All the best mate and enjoy your weekend.
Happy new year Colin all the best for 2024
Amazing guitar's
Amazing channel
Amazing guy 🤟
Thank you for sharing so much !
I am NOT letting my wife watch this episode!!!
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@@theguitaristas Just explain to her that your gear is like handbags and shoes to her. See if that helps?
@@strumminroninShe's an engineer like I am. She wouldn't get it.
Happy new year fella. Top vid (as per. ) Keep the stories behind them coming…
Really great, enjoyable way to kick off 2024 Col. 👍🙏❤️
Happy New Year Colin, all the best for the coming year.
I absolutely loved this episode. I could listen to you talk about guitars all night long. That Gibson Custom shop SG is sick.
Looking forward to part 2
Happy New Year Colin!!!!!!
That’s the way to do it, when doubt… sell! Good action for the new year, and best wishes for it of course! 😁
Can’t wait to see your Reverb store
Happy New Year Colin!
Totally understand on letting some go. Cant keep buying endlessly and keep them all and only keep the special ones. Great to see your collection of guitars Colin. Happy New Year.
Just had to say that I love your style of videos, absolutely brilliant. The transitions, just everything, perfect 👌
Happy new year. I haven't woke up at 4am on a Friday in two weeks and I'm glad to do so. It is an absolute struggle to pick witch guitars to let go of and witch ones to keep. I only have 15 but the struggle is real. Anyways cheers and see you next week.
Hello Col, glad to spend the first Friday morning of '24 with you! So I see it's time to thin the herd. If I was in the market, I saw a couple of yours today (the Wilshire and the Stoner, maybe the Thayil sig Guild) that I'd enjoy owning. Hope some of these beauties you featured here will find their way into new homes where they'll be somebody's new love, and not only to have and look at. My new year's resolution is similar to yours, learning to let go of a few things and say a happy goodbye and bon voyage. New adventures await. I actually started in October by selling off my 'spare' Epi to a friend because he kinda coveted it and I'm at the place where I won't get another guitar until I first make space for it on the wall and in the budget too. I enjoyed it for two years and still got back every dollar I had in it plus a few extra so no complaints, a good deal all around. He swore he'd hang onto it to keep it 'in the family' and would cherish it after I'm gone for sentimental reasons. Weeks later I heard he'd already pawned it and defaulted on the note. Dope. I'm trusting the universe simply used this chain of events to put the guitar in the proper hands. Cheers all from Dallas!
I always watch youtube vids of guitar oriented variety when
noodling around in my music room. I thought these were all guitars you were going to sell and when i heard the story of the highway one, I was shocked you would sell it.
Glad to catch the fact that this is more of a collection vid than a "guitars I will sell vid." The story behind that strat makes it priceless.
Amazing guitars on show in today's video, good luck with parting with some of them !! 🎸👍😛
Happy New Year Colin. A nice batch of guitars. Keep the ones you play. Keep the sentimental ones. Sell the others. (this seems like your thinking as well) Looking forward to the rest of this series.
great collection so far mate!
yes its really hard to decide what goes and what stays....
ill be having a look at my small collection soon and possibly selling a few myself...
hoping you had a great christmas and new year! cheers my brother!
So glad you see you my friend.
That French peace symbol SG has ALL the mojo. Can’t believe how good it sounds. Of everything you showed today, that’s the one I would keep
Must be those quality tonewoods in that bad boy 🧐🤣🤣
Happy New Year, have a perfect 2024 guitar year 🙂
What matters most is the journey, not the destination. The best news about letting a guitar go is that there is always another waiting to take its place, the fun is in finding it and seeing if it's a keeper.
I don't have 62, but I have some that I don't play and I might just to have follow your lead Colin. Best of luck for the new year with channel and with life in general mate.
Happy New Year Col and thanks for another great video ! What an amazing collection you have - I’ve owned about a dozen guitars and currently own just 3 ! A CV Telecaster and the CV Jazzmaster that I bought after watching your review. I struggle to justify owning more but I would like a 335 style guitar…..I hardly dare admit to you that I have never owned an SG style guitar !
Bought an identical V a few days ago. Absolutely love it.
Brilliant video, Colin! You have some great stories that keep us all rooted to the spot, Your humor is pure rock n roll😂 Keep it up, Colin, and happy new year mate😊
Cheers man! 😁👍
Your story behind the Fender Highway One strat hit me right in the feels. On the one hand, I can't believe you stopped playing guitar for such a long period of time. On the other hand, I can believe it because I've done exactly the same thing. I've wasted many years smoking cannabis and then later developed a drinking habit that made my self belief and motivation completely dissipate. It's always so much easier to get high and just do nothing. Now, here I am in my mid 40s, rediscovering the guitar. I'm playing rudimentary punk rock with a drummer. I lack knowledge and I posess minimal ability. On the other hand i'm writing songs that are slowly but surely, developing into small works of art that I can be proud of. Now I'm aiming to put out the mini album I should have made when I was in my mid 20s. If this is my mid-life crisis, then I don't want it to stop. Who knows what I'll do next? Psychedelic, space blues? I wish you all the best. You are a brilliant guitar player. You play with feel and demo these guitars so well. Yours is my favourite guitar related channel on You Tube. Keep on keeping on and we look forward to more!
Cheers man that’s appreciated 🙏 those were exactly my vices, and that was my age then too… so I can say for sure it’s a perfect time in your life to say yeah enough is enough I’ve done that so let’s do something else now… guitars are a great motivator and you’ll probably have found a lot of hours in the day to practice that you didn’t even know existed! Good luck with the new habit! 😎👍👍
@@theguitaristas thank you 🙌⭐️
Happy new year. Although I only have 11 guitars I've come to realise some aren't getting played much and they're overrunning my little guitar room. Like you it's clear out time.
Happy New Year Col.
Happy New Year Col! ⚡⚡⚡ Love you mate xx
And you buddy! 🖤
Just found your channel! I’m loving it! Definitely subscribed!
The trouble is that the more guitars you have, the less you play them, it's an annoying paradox but true! Happy new year Colin!
Awesome show Colin. Love that vee that I cannot afford. Can't wait for next week.
Love ya mate, picked up a couple more guitars this year too. No regrets.
Glad you are keeping the Strat; proof that the emotional pull of some things can be so much greater than their monetary or practical value. Guitars to keep, aside from those which have personal value, are perhaps the ones which you think may provide some kind of bench mark to compare future purchases with. Even if they don’t get played quite as much as you would like. I see Anderton’s EastCoast T Style guitars are as little as £99, maybe that’s worth a punt for the upcoming Tele comparison? Thanks for all the great content in 2023, looking forward to what you have in store for us in 2024 : )
I feel your pain. Somehow I’ve managed to accumulate 87 guitars over the last 25 years, mostly really high end stuff too but it’s time to have a cull. I’d like to get the figure down to 25-30 but I can’t bring myself to actually do it. Good luck with your cull.
Is your name tag from a U2 song?
Happy New Year and this seems a great way to kick it off . . . fresh start, reset can't be a bad thing! I can understand the need to keep an instrument if it marks a special place in time like the Sydney Strat, and also the 'one of each' rationale- semi-hollow, hollow etc. I'd be the same. There are a few I picked up ridiculously cheap and for that very reason it's unlikely anyone would buy them so . . . will figure that out at some point (no family owned local here!). Cheers and good luck with the clear out, Colin!😄
no man. Don't sell your treasures-the faded sg is proper special. and you are a real SG man.Same the Polara!
Hi again Colin! Know exactly how you feel man as I am in the same boat played stopped started again and a collection that needs culling too. Thank you for your videos...peace!
Happy New Year ! I had a long and haredd look at myself as well. The mirrot cracked ...
I think that going through this is a healthy mental practice. I need to do something similar. Keep focued on the positives such as the cool new guitars that you'll get to experience and share with us by selling these. Also, as you say, guitars should be played so it's good to let someone else play the hell out of those guitars instead of them collecting dust. I look forward to more videos! Cheers!
Goodluck Colin! Only good things coming from this..
Good on you picking up that strat to get back into guitar and fill your time properly
would love to see some mid-range kind of low-popularity guitar brands on the channel, like Reverend, Hagstrom, or not low-popularity but some Schecter maybe. lots of love and have a great 2024❤
I have about the same number of guitars as you, Colin. It’s difficult to part with some of them. However, I have gifted several guitars - Music Man, Fender Rarity Telecaster, PRS, Martin, Ibanez semi-hollow - to friends who were kind to me. I wasn’t playing them and I thought my friends would appreciate them more. The guitars needed to be played, and have their voices and songs heard.
Best wishes for a wonderful New Year, Colin!
Fun video!!
What a fantastic video have a good weekend Colin also how was your holiday season ❤😊 also have a wonderful happy new year
This channel is such great relaxing 😊viewing that even I can forgive your penchant for Gibsons and SG's 😉
I’d love a guitar. Had to get rid of mine 😢. Most guitars can live a new life in the hands of an inspired person. Keep rocking and stay cool 🎸
Welcome back Sir !!! 2024 !!
Great Therapy. I feel better now about having having a dozen guitars mainly Acoustic..My 28 Martin I bought new in 1974 for 525 us dollars is 50yrs old this year.
Hey Colin, great vid as ever and we all have to make these tough decisions. If only we could keep them all! If youre selling, I'd be interested in the Burns and the Danelectro!
I like your channel. Keep up the great work!
I like them all but one that stood out was the melody maker, and the LP Jrs of course... Happy New Year BTW
You and me have remarkably similar histories. Guitar hiatus during the 80s and 90s, back into it, an intense gigging period, retired, buying/selling/trading/modding dozens and dozens of guitars just used at home....going through the exact same mental/emotional gymnastics if one is on the wall too long and not used enough. Should I or shouldn't I....? Etc, etc...
I haven't room for more than 18 at a time, though, so I think I may have it a bit easier.
Keep those that give you biggest smile when you pick them up Colin. You know which ones I’m talking about I’m sure.
I love mine p90’s too:)
Great to see the whole collection gradually coming through Colin. But, yeah, every once in a while that feeling comes along of “I’m not playing it, shouldn’t it go to a better home?” Who knew guitarists had a conscience or could be sensible?!
just found your channel from the tv yellow les paul special review! love your content, and your playing!
god bless the clash 😎
I need to thin the herd, too, but don't relish the idea of in-person selling or dealing with possible shipping damage. I may see if a local shop will take a few on consignment, although there are possible issues with that, too. I can say one thing--it's easier to buy than to sell! Good luck with your sales, Colin!
Your story about the highway one strat is exactly how i got back into playing after 20 years!
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Great video. That Starcaster looks great.
I’d love to see a video of you talking about the story behind that initial strat for sure!
What a great show! Now I've just got to build my own Bullet Strat with a P-90. That, or take my Bullet Mustang and set it up that way.
I am so glad we are an ocean apart. It prevents me from stopping in and buying more than I need and my wife says I have too many now.
I sold my Highway One Stratocaster and am kicking myself for doing it. Like you I fell in love with it at first glance.
Hey there my friend Colin!!! Happy New Year!.....If you love it pass it on,..Sometimes we need to clean house before going forward......Forward Is The Only Direction........Love the views my friend. John
As we say here in the States, 'Your the realist'. Finally, just got a blem Epi Firebird yesterday, for $549.00 USD. Wow! Why did I wait so long? It is no Gibson, but it is a very, very nice Firebirdesque guitar with not a single negative issue. Plan on playing the s**t out of it until I croak. Anyhoo, my son and I are up to around 11 or 12 guitars by now and thinning the herd has come up. My favorite is my goldfoil tele. I think you would be very surprised at how awesome these guiytars are. Maybe not. Cheers, mate. 12:56 P.S. put a fairly high price on the ones your not sure about getting rid of, then, when, and if, you get good money, you'll not feel so bad forbletting them go. Like it or not, the fact that YOU owned it means something to a lot of us and is worth paying a little more for.
Jan 2023 I did the same thing! Sold off nearly all my gear for the same reason-- 99% were sleeping in their cases not being played. So everything went, and I bought two new guitars and two amps to be my only gear. Now, 1-year later I'm so much happier and I spend much more time playing, and far less searching for new gear. The larger my collection got, the more I began wondering if I had things, or if the things had me!? Got that squared away ;)
Best wishes for a healthy a musical 2024 Colin! Looking forward to see what is going to happen to the Eastmans you have.
So did I...
As Santa (yet again) failed to bring me a Gretsch White Falcon - I had not option but to buy myself a 2nd hand Harley Benton SC550 - mightily impressed for £180 !! Happy New Year x
Happy New Year Colin. I would like the Emily Wolfe please. As long as you sign it stealthily!
Whatever was going on back in Australia Colin I am so glad that Fender put you back on the right track !
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Don't worry Colin we are all here to help you thru this somewhat painful process..... lol.... cheers my friend from Ohio USA.....
Happy New Year Colin, decisions decisions lol 😆😄 G.A.S
So interesting to see all these guitars on the table. I’ll be watching to see what goes under the hammer but unfortunately I don’t think I can afford anything at the moment
Hey buddy, thank you for sharing your story on the Fender Stratocaster. I totally understand, been there and still go there every once in awhile. It's a lifelong thing,the battle. Please take care of yourself, Steve O
Cheers man, I was lucky I never looked back so that Strat saved me from myself! 🙏
Happy New Year and thank you for showing some of the guitars. Very interesting guitars but unfortunately some have to go to someone that will play them.
I’d love the highway one not in a position to lay out any cash just after Christmas though but if you don’t sell and I put a few good months in I’d be well keen Colin.
Happy new year great little solo on the Gibson Flying V 👍