From Now to Then! Decided on building my own Guitar Collection. Ideas??

[Philly Q]

I think we all have more or less the same plan, but start to sell the start of our collections to fund the onward progress, ending up with small collections and bigger debt  :?

^ This. 

But in my case..... a big collection (although the "sold" far outweighs the "kept"), no debt (touch wood) but a lot less in the ol' pension fund than there might have been.  :|

[Telerocker]

Telerocker: I've really been considering a PRS with P90s. I've never ever used P90s, and wouldn't know what woods they work best in, nevermind the guitar to start with. I'd really love a history lesson into the P90 phenomenon. I am really clueless come to that haha. But I do see a lot of PRS's with them.

P90's work in ash, alder, mahogany, in bolt-ons and setnecks.

[Attica!]

Well I think for the next guitar I'm going to try something with P90s. Possibly a sexy looking PRS or something similar. Anyone know of a model which could work?

[Philly Q]

Telerocker: I've really been considering a PRS with P90s. I've never ever used P90s, and wouldn't know what woods they work best in, nevermind the guitar to start with. I'd really love a history lesson into the P90 phenomenon. I am really clueless come to that haha. But I do see a lot of PRS's with them.

P90's work in ash, alder, mahogany, in bolt-ons and setnecks.

And in semis - e.g. the Epiphone Casino.  Or in some Gibson jazz boxes.  

Pretty much anything, really.  :)

Well I think for the next guitar I'm going to try something with P90s. Possibly a sexy looking PRS or something similar. Anyone know of a model which could work?

For PRS, you're probably looking at an SE Soapbar, single or doublecut, for well under your budget.  Or you might find a used McCarty Soapbar for not very much over £1,000.

[Attica!]

I'll definitely have to check that out then :)

[Telerocker]

The SE delivers a lot of guitar for the money.

[PhilKing]

I have basically done what you are thinking of doing, and over the last 30 years picked up 2 or 3 guitars a year.  When I started it was a lot easier to get great deals (I picked up a 60 strat for £500, a 63 strat for £350 and lots of guitars over here in the States for less than $1000.  I originally just got things I liked, but then a few years ago started getting things that I had bought and sold when I was first playing and could only afford one electric and an acoustic.  This year I've picked up a 1971 Les Paul Custom and a Squier Duo Sonic (so far!) along with a white Marshall Class 5 combo.  There are 2 big problems with doing this, one is space to store them all, and the other is getting to play them enough, and forget it when you have to do string changes and setups!  I try to do 5 guitars at the same time, since I already have everything out.

Since I also play bass, I have a fair number of bases in my collection too.  You can also put some guitars together yourself if you are handy and feel like doing that (I've made a lot of Warmoth guitars over the years).

[tekbow]

For PRS, you're probably looking at an SE Soapbar, single or doublecut, for well under your budget.  Or you might find a used McCarty Soapbar for not very much over £1,000.

Don't forget a used CE24 or 22

[Philly Q]

For PRS, you're probably looking at an SE Soapbar, single or doublecut, for well under your budget.  Or you might find a used McCarty Soapbar for not very much over £1,000.

Don't forget a used CE24 or 22

I was thinking about models with P-90s - I don't know if there were ever any CE models with soapbars?

[gwEm]

It's just which make and model i should get in a couple of weeks to start off the collection. I want a really spectacular guitar to kick it all off.

a Flying V of somekind?

[tekbow]

For PRS, you're probably looking at an SE Soapbar, single or doublecut, for well under your budget.  Or you might find a used McCarty Soapbar for not very much over £1,000.

Don't forget a used CE24 or 22

I was thinking about models with P-90s - I don't know if there were ever any CE models with soapbars?

Oh yep, you're just right, i was thinking of under the radar PRS's in general, sorry. There's Miras with soapbars for a little over a grand, i guess they'll start being second hand at some point?

[Philly Q]

True!  I've often considered getting a Mira Soapbar, I've owned most other Mira models.  :)   I'm sure it's a very good guitar, I do wish it had a Wide-Fat neck though.

[Attica!]

Regarding P90s, what is it that turns people onto them over SCs Humbuckers?

[Philly Q]

Regarding P90s, what is it that turns people onto them over SCs Humbuckers?

The coil is short and wide rather than tall and narrow like a Strat pickup, it has bar magnets and screw polepieces rather than individual magnet polepieces - so in both construction and sound it's something of a halfway-house between a Fender single-coil and a Gibson humbucker.

You can get sweet, clear clean tones like a single-coil but also fat, singing distorted tones close to a humbucker.  And it's particularly good for dirty, just-breaking-up rhythm sounds too.

[Attica!]

Sounds pretty cool that. I've been looking round at guitars, and I've found a Les Paul by Warmoth in red on Flamed Maple. Does anyone have an experience with Warmoth Les Pauls? Im just curious as they're bolt on and I want to know how it compares to set necks regarding the Les Paul design.

Also with necks, if I got Mahogany or another wood, what's the best finish as I don't see the option for them to be painted and I hate glossy necks.