Do You Name Your Guitars?

I only named two one guitar amp and one guitar. Why I don't have a clue. One is my amp the Green Hornet it does everything a amp
should harmonic generator out of the hundreds of amps I've owned and thousands I've repaired it takes the crown.
Guitar the beater burst Les Paul Standard refinish re fretted who ever set that guitar up was a master.
 
WavMixer said:
I also name my cars. Emma is the name of my Evo. She is named after Mount Emma Road in the AV. This was my favorite test track when I lived up the hill.
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I had a super bad a$$ 92' Mustang that was named "Untamed" when I lived in Florida. Mustangs are wild horses thus "Untamed". That beast would pull the wheel off
the ground and could break the tires loose shifting into 4th gear! It was set up as a street-strip car. A quick tire change and it was ready for the 1/4 mile. Sonic every
Saturday night looking for some trouble...

The SP8CTRE thing started with my 2004 Corvette. I wanted "SPECTRE", but that vanity plate was taken so I had to substitute the "E" with and "8". The 8 was the closest
looking to an E and 8 starts with E. So there is another reason I go by SP8CTRE with an 8 and something beyond the Comic Book connection. 8 is also very lucky in
Chinese culture which didn't hurt...

No. 8 in Chinese Culture
Because Eight (Ba in Chinese) has the similar pronunciation with 发 (Fa, meaning wealth or fortune), this number is very welcome among Chinese people. The popularity of 8 was
obvious in relation to the Beijing Olympic Games which commenced at exactly eight o’clock eight minutes on the eighth day of the eighth month in 2008. When people choose
telephone numbers, mobile numbers, house numbers, car identification numbers and important dates, 8 is usually the first choice.
 
Interesting responses...

I don't get emotionally attached to guitars or amps and I don't name them with conventional names. There are some i like better than others however.

All mine are meticulously set up to as high a degree of perfection as is humanly possible, and all play splendidly, but to me, they are just tools I use to earn a living, although I take great pride in the setup.

The highest compliment I ever received was when I let a musical colleague play my fake Chinese 59 Les Paul I got from Adrian, which is now owned by @Sp8ctre.

He owns a real (documented) 59 Les Paul and he asked me, "Could you set up my 59 Gibson to play and feel like this one? I've never felt anything that slick..."

(I eventually did a fret level and crown on his '59 Gibson to the absolute best of my ability.)

My nicest guitar is my 2019 Schuster Purple Burst C1 Hellraiser FR. Absolutely perfect, right out of the box.

I got a nice Jackson San Dimas Floyd Rose that I got from Adrian, which stays in perfect tune...plus my homemade double neck.

Interestingly, I seem to gravitate towards my black homemade Les Paul. It's the guitar that I play the most. It has that well broken-in boot feel to it. Perfect "lightning bolt" intonation, frets only .036" tall, hand-crowned and polished, action .060" @ the 12th and .015" @ the 1st fret, aluminum tailpiece, 4mm small pin, gold plated aluminum roller Nashville Bridge, fully copper shielded and just effortless to play.

Besides looking like a $4,000 Gibson Les Paul Custom on stage, I like the visual reference of the big, block inlays, when I glance down from the Mike to get my bearings.

There are more expensive guitars, but none that I have played that are better...it works everyday.
 
Robert Herndon said:
Interesting responses...

I don't get emotionally attached to guitars or amps and I don't name them with conventional names. There are some i like better than others however.

All mine are meticulously set up to as high a degree of perfection as is humanly possible, and all play splendidly, but to me, they are just tools I use to earn a living, although I take great pride in the setup.

The highest compliment I ever received was when I let a musical colleague play my fake Chinese 59 Les Paul I got from Adrian, which is now owned by @Sp8ctre.

He owns a real (documented) 59 Les Paul and he asked me, "Could you set up my 59 Gibson to play and feel like this one? I've never felt anything that slick..."

(I eventually did a fret level and crown on his '59 Gibson to the absolute best of my ability.)

My nicest guitar is my 2019 Schuster Purple Burst C1 Hellraiser FR. Absolutely perfect, right out of the box.

I got a nice Jackson San Dimas Floyd Rose that I got from Adrian, which stays in perfect tune...plus my homemade double neck.

Interestingly, I seem to gravitate towards my black homemade Les Paul. It's the guitar that I play the most. It has that well broken-in boot feel to it. Perfect "lightning bolt" intonation, frets only .036" tall, hand-crowned and polished, action .060" @ the 12th and .015" @ the 1st fret, aluminum tailpiece, 4mm small pin, gold plated aluminum roller Nashville Bridge, fully copper shielded and just effortless to play.

Besides looking like a $4,000 Gibson Les Paul Custom on stage, I like the visual reference of the big, block inlays, when I glance down from the Mike to get my bearings.

There are more expensive guitars, but none that I have played that are better...it works everyday.
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You seriously need to name that Chibson. Shall we start a poll?
 
67plexi said:
I only named two one guitar amp and one guitar. Why I don't have a clue. One is my amp the Green Hornet it does everything a amp
should harmonic generator out of the hundreds of amps I've owned and thousands I've repaired it takes the crown.
Guitar the beater burst Les Paul Standard refinish re fretted who ever set that guitar up was a master.
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I have a Tele named the Green Hornet.

Mitch Pearrow SJMP said:
Mine too.
But I did name one.
Because of a thread on the MF I named my Heritage Cherry Burst
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Nice. I like the Heritage Cherry bursts.
One of my Les Pauls is called CherryBomb.


The thing is, I also have 10 other LPs, and a bunch of other models where I own multiples: Teles, Strats, partscasters, PRSs, acoustics & basses.
Plus many types of which I have just one.
I spent decades as a pro musician, deducting equipment purchases from my taxes, and have been collecting guitars for more than 45 years.

Given a fleet that size, I'd wind up pretty confused without names.
 
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