My guitars (all Asian manufactured)

Fender Jaguar
Fender Jazzmaster
Mosrite Excellent
Burns Double Six
Epiphone ES-295
Danelectro Pro

I also just ordered a Gretsch 3/4 Diddley.

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T H E ✠ S U R F I T E S

ok, here's a related question: where does everybody find the cash?

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Ya I have too many but can't help myself. I'm up to 14 including basses!

It's an addiction worse than drugs

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"where does everybody find the cash?"

Rio, just have a job and buy a guitar every few years and suddenly before you know it you are middle-aged and have a dozen of 'em. Hmm. Somehow that doesn't make up for the being middle-aged part.

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Jeezus, I didn't know how many I had until I started listing them all. Here goes . . . (as if anyone really cares)

ELECTRICS
1 AVRI Jaguar, olympic white
1 CIJ Mustang bass, olympic white
1 MIM Standard Strat, olympic white
5 MIJ 62RI Strats: olympic white, gold metalflake, red metalflake, black, red fotoflame, and natural.
1 AVRI Tele, butterscotch
1 CIJ "Tele" P-Bass, butterscotch
1 MIJ ReissueTele, fotoflame, vintage natural (amber)
1 Italia Modena, pearl white and green metalflake.
2 Gretsch 6120's, both in orange tigerflame (one is a Setzer model)
2 Vintage Silvertone hollowbodies w/bigsby, both black. Mid 60's.
1 Gibson Explorer, black, 1984.
2 Jackson DK2s, both black, one maple board, one rosewood.
1 Jackson set-neck Sharkfin V, red w/silver pinstripes
1 Peavey Bass, black
1 no-name Ric-copy 6-string electric, red sunburst
1 late 50's Fender Deluxe steel guitar
1 late 50's Fender Champ lap steel
1 50's/60's Magnatone lap steel
1 single pickup Teisco Del Rey, mid 60's I'm guessing

ACOUSTICS
1 Gibson RB-5 Mastertone banjo, natural walnut
1 Gibson Blues King Acoustic, natural, 1996
1 Hondo J-200 copy, natural, late70's
1 Luthier-made Dreadnought, cherry w/red cedar top.
1 Yamaha classical guitar, student grade
1 Flinthill Dobro
1 Glaesel upright bass, early 80's
1 Strad-copy 4/4 German violin, circa 1870
1 Strad-copy 3/4 German violin, circa 1880
1 Alvarez A-5 style mandolin, mid 70's
1 Sheon "Possum" cigar box mandola

Amps: black-face Twin Reverb (re-issue), a Blues Junior, and a Pig Nose.
Effects: A Digitech GNX Workstation, a Crybaby Wah, and an old baby-blue Boss chorus pedal.

I also own a 1959 Hammond M-3 Organ, plus a plethora of other keyboards, accordions, horns, drums, percussion. I did not include home-made instruments, or flea market wall hangers costing less than $30.

Matt Crunk
Decatur, Alabama

Founder: North Alabama Surf Alliance (NASA)

Let me see if I can keep the list straight in my head.

21 guitars of all shapes and sizes

1. AVRI Jazz
   
2. CIJ Jag
   
3. "Excellent" Mosrite
   
4. Hallmark Sweptwing
   
5. Customized '67 Fender Bronco
   
6. Dano Baritone
   
7. Dano 3/4 guitar w/ amp in case
   
8. '65 Magnatone Typhoon
   
9. Squier Strat
   
10. Epiphone Emperor
    
11. Epiphone Les Paul
    
12. Gibson Les Paul Recording Model
    
13. Samick SG copy
    
14. '74 P-Bass
    
15. Sakai "mosrite-looking copy"
    
16. Guild Steel String Acoustic
    
17. Aria 12 String Acoustic
    
18. 60's Silvertone Steel string acoustic
    
19. Dano Hodad
    20 & 21 - Cheap classical guitars
    

Why do I have so many? First, I am a gear whore. Second, I have sentimental attachments to the cheapo guitars, and financial attachments to the expensive/rare ones. Plus, I play a lot of various styles of music here and there, so I like to have a setup that is suited for whatever I want.

AMPS
'67 Dual Showman w/2x15 cab
'64 Twin Reverb
60s Alamo 2x12 combo
Univox 2x12 combo
A handful of cheap cheap practice amps
Acoustic 150b bass amp w/2x15 cab
GK backline bass head w. SWR 4x10 cab
Fender Bassman 60 (1x15 combo, made mid 90s)

I've also got a slew of effects, speakers, a mini PA system, all that jazz.
~B~

Well, I'll add that this garage full o' gear has been building up for nearly twenty years now.

Plus, at least five of my guitars have been given to me for free. And apparently I have one more freebie on the way.

~B~

Yup, I've got it bad. Since the last time I posted, my collection has gone to 20, with the addition of a Fender FSR Straight Six Stratocaster, and I've ordered a Fender Standard Stratocaster (Electron Blue/rosewood) that I'm going to convert to a Double Fat Strat. The new pickguard arrived today, and the Strat will arrive sometime Monday afternoon. Still need to order new pickups (Fender Atomic Humbuckers - white bobbins), as well as new pots (3x 500K in the Standard Stratocaster HH).

I keep telling myself that as soon as I have my lap steel and electric 12-string, my collection will be complete. Those two would put my total to 22. Since I'll be dabbling in more areas than strictly surf instrumentals, I'm fairly well covered for choices.

Matt

Fast Cars & Loud Guitars!

What gets played now - the Godin Velocity through the Dual Showman Reverb 135 + 412 cab + FRI tank. Or for being quiet at home I just play through my Roland Mico cube RX with the reverb cranked. Oh, its fun for anything crunchy too. Perfect practice amp.

This other stuff was loved during previous musical formations but are all in various stages of collecting dust: Les Paul style Ibanez, Fender Deluxe DeVille, Martin 018 (sweet sounding and just the right size for me), 12 string Takamine (the Leo Kotke influence), a handbuilt classical guitar from my 20s for when I was enraptured with lute music, a travel mandolin from my celtic focus days, a penny whistle or two and my grandpa's beautiful fiddle which he got in SF when he was five.

We just got a rehersal space where we are going to set up the dualie, deville and tank with a friend's old drum kit, a steel drum and god knows what else we can cram in the space. In the studio we also have my friends old solid state Randall keyboard amp with a basic Fender keyboard until we can get the Roland out of storage. So far we just have one mic. I used to sing but never really thought it was that much fun. But running it through the reverb channel is so fun, I might get back into it. Peaceful easy feeling done slow enough with layers of reverb is very watery.

I am hoping my friend that was a hot sax player will put hers out of the attic and remember how much fun it is. Oh yeah, also plenty of hand drums are coming - can't be helped, this is Santa Cruz after all.

Previous guitars I have loved and let pass from my hands were a Gretch Tennessean (played through some ancient smaller Fender tube amp that had a broken reverb channel) - from my jazz phase, and a gnarly Gibson Les Paul "The Paul" that I played though a badass Peavy stack - from my thrashy punk phase. Both were such fine playing riggs but then I move into my acoustic phase (about 20 years ago) and figured if I ever got the bug to rock again I would start over...

I have 4 now. The one not pictured is my Epiphone PR 350 accoustic.I also have a Fender Classic 50's blonde bass. I do actually play them all as a hobby at home. I'm getting a new amp next.

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