Targ wrote:
Thats great! it's a rare thing now a days that you can pick up a guitar and honestly say its the best guitar you have ever played, and get to own it too.
With so many choices out there, did you get to Play it first? or was it just luck on a mail order? Is it a Jag or Jazz?
It's a Jazzmaster, and I played it first, a couple of times, in Vintage and Rare Guitars in London. The first time I played it, I was literally in the store for an hour and a half, just noodling away on this JM through a JCM 800. The second time, I played it for another 20 minutes (2 weeks later) and confirmed that I adored it. Then I bought it.
FWIW, I don't believe in guitar collecting. Guitars are working instruments, for me, and I can't bear to even THINK of them as works of art to hang on the wall or keep in the case. But that's just me.