Do you name your guitars?

[Thin Crust]

I used to name mine, but as guitars came and went the practice ceased.

[Scootch]

No.

I did post a pic in the Post Your Jumbo thread of my Jumbos today and gave them names but that was more of a joke.

I do not name inanimate objects. Some animate objects, I do not name. I used to keep tropical fish and never named them.

I don't care if someone else does nor do I look down on them or frown upon their sad insanity.

[Rosewood99]

The real question is "DOES YOUR GUITAR NAME YOU!"

[ewalling]

Originally Posted by ljguitar

Hi s2y

When I was 16yrs old I carved my girl friend's name (SUE) in block letters on the front of my guitar. Do you know how hard it is to keep finding girls with the same name to date. Less hard than explaining to girls who are not named SUE why it's carved in the top of your guitar!!

I imagine it wasn't the easiest guitar to sell either, Larry!

[Scootch]

Originally Posted by ljguitar

Hi s2y

When I was 16yrs old I carved my girl friend's name (SUE) in block letters on the front of my guitar. Do you know how hard it is to keep finding girls with the same name to date. Less hard than explaining to girls who are not named SUE why it's carved in the top of your guitar!!

You should have typed ME after SUE.

SUE ME


I was not quite as bad. My brother had a rubber stamp kit and I made a rubber stamp with my name, my girlfriends name, the high school initials and graduation year and my future college and graduation year and some other trivia. I stamped it on everything I had. I am able to maintain my stuff over the years (usually) and still have books all over the place with that cursed stamp. The girl did not last past the summer and I took four more more years then projected before I was able to finally graduate from that college. The stamping was done in early 1972.

I have a Pete Seeger songbook next to me. Guess what's on it? That stamp.

[Mycroft]

Originally Posted by paulzoom

The real question is "DOES YOUR GUITAR NAME YOU!"

I hope not, for then they could conjure with it.

TW

[The Bard Rocks]

All mine have names. You can see them fastened to the label inside and sometimes on the headstock.

[jjracer]

No. Since I have more than 1 Taylor I refer to the model number. Same with my Martins and Gibsons. They all had been named by the manufacturer, no reason for me to change that.

[Mbroady]

If I don't name them then my wife will. She is not bad at coming up with names

Furch D32LM - FBG -Fat bottom girl. She has more bottom end then a big but porn star.
Martin HD-28 - Amber, for her ambertone top
Martin D-18 - Jane, she might look plan (Jane) with nofrills, but she sounds killer
Tacoma Papoose - Tiny Tina, It’s obvious
Voyage Air VAD-2- Birdie, She comes with me when ever I fly
Rain song - Sunny, for her sunburst top
Fender strat - killer

Yep, they are all girls, even killer. The wife says they are the only other lovers I am allowed to have.

[BradleyS]

Originally Posted by MC5C

Ones I build, yes - so far. Ones I buy, no. Other than "the '46 Zephyr, the '35 Dobro" and like that.

My first archtop is named "Firewood", because I used several pieces of highly figured and spalted maple from my firewood pile for the trim. My second archtop is named "Catherine", after my wife.

Brian

Hey Brian, how about some photos please.

[jaybones]

I do, generally when I have multiples of the same model. Specifically I have about 6 Stratocasters, a Fender 1976 natural hardtail "Natalie", a Samick bodied partscaster I put together "Grace"- (interesting trans red finish, with Lace Sensor red pickups, custom wiring hotter bridge in the neck and PP volume pot Gilmour switch, and a custom installed Graph Tech Ghost piezo saddle system, separate volume knob and mini 3 way switch, instead of sacrificing a tone pot for Ghost volume and using a PP volume pot to switch between magnetic and piezo outputs. With the 3 way in the middle I can use the separate volumes to blend the separate output- magnetic to my signal chain and amp, Ghost into a couple acoustic type effects, tube preamp and either into my acoustic amp or the PA board, and it is a TONE MACHINE!!! Name after Grace Van Pelt/Amanda Righetti on the TV show The Mentalist, since they're both hot redheads), a Blackie clone "Blackie" (B&W FMIC strat body with Lace Hot Gold pickups, a vintage tint maple cap neck, Callahan big block tremolo and bridge, CTS pots and Oak-Grigsby 5 way), another black strat "Midnight" with a black lacquered neck HK via the 'bay, a black Fender blacktop PG with stock Fender pots and switch), a dark blue Betamann strat "Jason" (Jason Betamann, get it?), and a black Betamann Jackson pointy type shredder "Batman".

Have a purple Hondo II body, which is plywood but has a nice flame veneer. Going to put a big headstock bullet truss rod RW fretboard neck on it, switch out the electronics and HW, my intention was to make it into the Strat on the cover of Deep Purple's Greatest Hits. Was going to call is Purple, possibly Richie (Blackmore), maybe even Barney. Since I usually name them female names, I thought maybe Alice (Walker or In Wonderland). I'll have to live with it for a while and suddenly it'll tell me what it wants to be named.

I also named every car I've ever owned. Currently driving The Stig (white '07 Ford Focus ZX3), previous to that was Ashley (light sapphire blue metallic 2000 Focus SE sedan, unless it wasn't starting or struggling to get traction, then it was Danielle San, as in Focus Danielle San!). Then I had Sally Bru, a 1986 silver Subaru GL wagon (turbo, 4 wheel drive, 5 speed- car was a beater, bought with 180K miles on it for $800, and each corner had been smushed a bit, had a couple cans of silver Rustoleum- matched the factory paint pretty well, but it was a blast in deep snow! Put it in 4 WD, and rally car around corners, giving it enough gas to spin the wheels and power slide, 4 wheel drift around the corners, scared people riding with me, and I only did it out in the country on deserted roads, never oncoming traffic, and was never really out of control, just approaching the edge). Owned a 1978 sage green VW Westfalia bus named Kelly, the can I bus (almost got the license plate CANIBUS, but would have gotten pulled over too much, and I was following the Dead, and definitely didn't want any unwanted attention from the law).

[muscmp]

yes, i do. martin, taylor, gibson, fender, asher, national and rks.

play music!

[flaggerphil]

.....No.....