Hide And Go Seek Guitar Rotation

[diablo175]

I gotta believe that others practice this. There has to be others that have discovered this tactic.  

If not, I think I might be onto something.  Here's how it works:

Rather than purchasing new guitars, I take a couple from my current, existing collection and hide/put them away for about a year. Then, break one out again and it’ll be like having a new guitar without having to pay for it.😆

At least, that’s what I did with my Stevenson “Bass boat” Std. 24. I really struggled playing it for whatever reasons, a year ago- it felt like it was fighting me on a number of levels. (let's skip over the psychology; the mental gymnastics and borderline textbook delusion inherent in blaming one's instrument for shortcomings in their skill!) So, I decided to sell it. It went into  hiding in the case and in the less used part of the basement. Then ads went up to sell but obviously, it never sold.

This morning, I was in the guitar workshop area of the basement and looked at it and decided, WTF! Let’s get it out and have a go on it! Holy weasel wizz! It played and sounded hella better than it did a year ago. It was like having a new guitar.  😆 
 

Edited March 14 by diablo175

[alantig]

I tried this once, but not with guitars.  My wife was PISSED, and apparently had found weight training equipment...

[Spinaltap]

I lose a guitar or 2 under my bed, and always enjoy when I rotate them every few months

[Biz Prof]

Breaking this one out for the first time in years. 

 

[hamerhead]

22 hours ago, diablo175 said:

I gotta believe that others practice this.....

Unintentionally. As in, opening random cases and finding a guitar I forgot about.

[diablo175]

19 minutes ago, hamerhead said:

Unintentionally. As in, opening random cases and finding a guitar I forgot about.

Hey, intentionally, unintentionally; if it works, it works!  

[Willie G. Moseley]

I experimented a few times, including once with a new instrument that I got for a particular writing project. Call it the home version of N.O.S. When I opened up the case about a year later, my jaw hit the floor---the translucent finish had rotted, for lack of a better description. Discolored and krinkled. There was a silica packet in the case. The guitar had to go back to the factory for a refin.  Maybe, with some brands, it pays to open the case every few months and let it air out.

[Biz Prof]

9 hours ago, Willie G. Moseley said:

I experimented a few times, including once with a new instrument that I got for a particular writing project. Call it the home version of N.O.S. When I opened up the case about a year later, my jaw hit the floor---the translucent finish had rotted, for lack of a better description. Discolored and krinkled. There was a silica packet in the case. The guitar had to go back to the factory for a refin.  Maybe, with some brands, it pays to open the case every few months and let it air out.

Didn't something similar happen to Don Felder's custom Erlewine doubleneck? I recall him saying in an interview that the Eagles broke up around the time he received it, and when he opened it up 14 years later to get gear ready for Hell Freezes Over, the flight case foam had melted into the clearcoat.