Naming Your Guitar
 

Do any pickers out there have a name(s) for your guitar(s) ?

Here is a link to a "tongue-in-cheek" list of rules for naming yours :

http://www.guitarzoneonline.com/Nami...r%20Guitar.htm

I have a Guild guitar, and have dubbed it "Gilda".

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I usually call mine "the piece of crap" and other choice words -is as close to a name as it's going to get. Once again, I thought to toss it into a trash can last night. I was changing strings and I noted several issues once I got the strings off. So I was doing things like tightening turners and hammering a couple pegs that kept popping up. It's all nice and cleaned up and I went over the fret board with my ancient supply of Fast Fret.

I thought I'd try a heavier gauge than the silk & steels -Martin bronze mediums and both the sound and the action is worse.

ok *itchin' about the "piece of crap" (and it's propped up just inches from where I'm sitting here). I'm still careful not to say anything outloud ;).

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Love that post!

On strings I'm a big fan of D'Addario phosphor bronze. Usually light but sometimes medium.

I don't have any names for the guitars.

I DO have that end pin problem! My old Martin seemed to finally settle down on that account but my current regular favorite will send one of those pins flying across the room. Between kids junk and my lousy eyes that can be an adventure. But when everything's set up and right there's nothing like it.

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Some 'family' photos below but I haven't really thought about giving them names. The first bass I built at age 17 (my firstborn) I named 'Catherine' after a girl I had a crush on. That girl, now my wife, is still the love of my life some 37 years later, although her namesake is a little more worse for wear.

My pride and joy is my 1957 Gibson EB-1 Bass pictured below. (My only adoption)

The a few other members of my once growing family are pictured below.

A number of 4, 5 & acoustic basses in various stages of completion. One photo of the 'before and after' of my 5-String bass made from exotic Bubinga wood, with rosewood and maple laminate neck and ebony fingerboard.

Finally a number of unfinished projects in my 'birthing clinic'.

Names?, too many to name... (It's so hard to see them leave home!)
For those interested, more photos at the Luthery Link below.
Yuri

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These are great Yuri!!! Yeah, I remember meeting some of your family!!! I can't help but notice that there's someone missing!!!

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Oh yes Pam,
I do have the Yamaha 6 string acoustic as well as a knock-off Gibson SG electric but as I love the Low end, I had forgotten about those orphans.

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I'm willing to adopt the Yamaha...needs a mama :biggrin:

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My Ole geetar is affectionatley known as the "Portugese Air Compressor"