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Permalink Reply by Vinylhed on November 25, 2014 at 2:55pm

My #1 go to guitar is my wine box classical 6 stringer. It's the guitar I write songs on and play at gigs, so I'm always practicing something on it.

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I have always played a classical, so it's the guitar I'm most comfortable playing.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on November 25, 2014 at 3:35pm

See Oily's Guitar Lounge 10 - Studio and Workshop Tour. All of them are my go-to guitar; I just go more often to certain ones than others, because each has different songs in them, only playable on that particular guit because of tuning, string gauge, action, etc., plus how I'm feeling that week / day / minute. It varies, in other words. Lately, I've been picking up the Yamaha 6-string Guitalele, primarily because I ran out of wall space / hangers, but eventually, as in yesterday, that loses its luster, and another git catches my eye. Again. So both The Busker 4-banger and the Turkeychicken 6 came down, and 2 different riffs / almost tunes popped out, that now need more exploration / refinement. I let them tell me when and if they need to be played. They whisper in the dark.

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on November 26, 2014 at 4:40am

I have a hard time with this question of a go-to guitar.  I recently got all mine hung up on the wall in my winter workshop in the basement.  I pick up a different one depending on my mood, but generally it is the 1931 license plate or one of the resonators.  However, the guitar with the eye bolt bridge was the first one I ever made and I recently got it into really playable condition with a finishing nail fretboard and eye bolt tuners.  I love playing it now even though it just has piezo disc pickups.

Oh, there's a TurkeyChicken hanging up on the top rack between the shiny resonator on the left and the Oreo banjo.  Next to the TurkeyChicken on the lower rack is an 8-string octave mandolin that I really, really like to play too.

One day, maybe I'll get to keep one of my Sawzall guitars.  I sold the first one and have the second up for sale now.  I absolutely love playing them and they will blow the roof off the house.  My daughter and I are doing a couple songs together with the upright bass we made for her.  She helped out on that quite a bit and it sounds great plucked or bowed.  I used a piezo cable for the pickup and run that into an acoustic guitar preamp with 5-band EQ.  We have a 15W Fender bass amp for it.

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Permalink Reply by Thumper on November 26, 2014 at 5:40am

My favorite CGB is my, "Dixie Maid" Can't really work it past the 14th fret, but hell, there's enough music stored in the 1st 12 to keep me busy for a lifetime!!

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on November 26, 2014 at 4:05pm

more here

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Permalink Reply by jim on November 26, 2014 at 5:32pm

spicy pickle shreader!

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on December 2, 2014 at 12:31pm

Another one that fits it's builder.  Love the strap. 

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Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on November 29, 2014 at 5:04am

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Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on November 29, 2014 at 5:06am

If I could only have one, this would be it. Still the best sounding box I have found and never found another like it. I call it Chateau, after the box.

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on December 1, 2014 at 3:07pm

This is what I'm talking about.  You can tell this guitar has been played.  A classic example! 

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Permalink Reply by Reeds Taylor on November 29, 2014 at 6:53am

My main player is made by Dan Sleep...

and this is what i grab quite a bit as well.

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on December 2, 2014 at 12:32pm

That Sleep guitar is a beauty, but I really like the big old homemade box Reeds.

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