:lol: Be strong!
Good to hear it's better.
I don't often get the guitar doldrums anymore. I think it's because I gave it up altogether for a few years when I woke up one day and realised I was a slave to this thing (music) that wasn't actually giving me anything back at the time. I was going through a bad patch in general, and cutting out things that were "hurting me" and finding new things to do is really what got me back out to where I am now.
Anyway, when I picked up the guitar again, I made a tacit "agreement" with the thing that it was for my enjoyment, not for music's nor for anyone else's enjoyment. Somehow that approach has worked. It's one of the reasons I don't feel any problem with owning all this stuff without using it in public (and without using some of it at all for months on end!).
When I pick up a guitar and it's not happening, I put it down, mebbe try another one, probably do something else.
Also, different than many on here, I tend not to want to get rid of guitars that I've acquired. If it's not working out, I tend to try and concentrate on what attracted me to it in the first place, and to figure out what there is about it that might be stopping me.
If I was a "move the thing on" kind of guy, I wouldn't have my Baja now. I found that one really disappointing after what I'd been expecting. You can find posts from me on here asking if anyone had swapped out their stock pickups (I wasn't brave enough at the time to go "I think these Baja's are cr@p actually, what are you lot on about??" :lol:) - and most of the answers were coming back "no, the stock ones are really good". Luckily, I decided that, for me, they weren't what I was after. Getting the Blackguards turned the guitar into a go-er for me (and, incidentally helped me to finally understand what teles are about for me - I bought several more after that). That guitar is now one of favourites.
I've been into strats a lot recently, and renovating an Explorer (another one that was a big disappoint and is now a big favourite), the teles have been in their cases. But I'm just getting the stuff out to clean up and restring the Baja, and I know that in a few hours I'm gonna be going "why didn't I keep this one up-and-ready-to-rock all the time?!..." (I broke a string when I didn't have spares, I had a load of other geetars ready to roll, so I put the Baja away and forgot it for months...)
My gut feeling (based on the guitar-ownership journey that you've been through over the last couple of years) is that, in an ideal world, like me, you probably ought to have several guitars. At the least you need to have some sort of humbucker guitar and some sort of fender-type guitar. They play differently, they sound different, and they fit different moods. Some people can stick to one guitar. I could if I had to, but I'm a lot happier with options...
The main thing is do it for yourself, not for anyone else... and enjoy it! :D
