Do you name your guitars and if so, what?

[jimilee]

I do not, it just never occurred to me but I do find it fascinating.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

When I was 12 I tried it. Didn’t stick with it for long.

The Les Paul is the LP
The main strat is the main strat
The blue strat is the hardtail
The Danelectro 6 string is the dano
The Danelectro 12 string is 12er
The hagstrom 8 string bass is the jangle bass

That’s as close as I get with nicknames

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

I call my p bass "the '74" but that's more of a vintage brag than a nickname.

 

[tegendemuur]

I've always called my Les Pauls Paula.

It's like when your dog dies and then you get a new one and tell the kids its the same dog, I stay calling my Les Pauls Paula, even though the original Paula is long gone.

My Strat is called The Black Strat.

Your sensed feminine qualities in that first one? Or was it just a name that popped up in your mind, and never went away?

 

[PapaBear]

I have enough trouble remembering things at my age without adding unwarranted stress!

 

[GizzWizzKing]

Nah. They were named when I bought em. It's like a tattoo... I never could figure out what i'd like to keep around for more than a few weeks so I never got one. I only named my kid because it was necessary.

 

[andare]

No names. Also no pronouns other than it.

Always feels weird when people refer to objects as he or she. I'm not German

And a bass can't ever be a she. It's a 34" dong!

 

[Einzeln]

De bruine (the brown one) the Ibanez, the Martin.
And the Les Paul nevers got mentioned, because it stays in the closed.

 

[Cybercow]

M'Strat . . . .

 

[finebyfine]

I never name my guitars but they do usually end up with one-two syllable names that I use in my head that I wouldn’t say out loud. Didn’t realize I did this until this thread:
- my ltd ec is “Espey” for esp
- black strat is Gil
- red sg bass vi is Dev or Doomer
- ltd telecaster is some incomprehensible slurring together of LTD, close to “litted”
- regular bass vi’s are jag1 and jag2

 

[Paradox916]

Nope.. I already get accused enough of being mentally ill for various other reasons. No need to add to the list

 

[jimilee]

I have enough trouble remembering things at my age without adding unwarranted stress!

This all day long.

 

[xefned]

I remember some faux-woke thread on TGP where the OP claimed naming an instrument a girl’s name is sexist and “problematic.”

It made me consider naming my basses. But I never did.

 

[jimilee]

I remember some faux-woke thread on TGP where the OP claimed naming an instrument a girl’s name is sexist and “problematic.”

It made me consider naming my basses. But I never did.

Are you sure it wasn’t a troll post?

 

[Aentons]

I don't do it, but I have a friend that does and he has a bunch of 'em. I can never figure which guitar he's talking about.

 

[Gordo]

I thought it was cool till I found out that ALL of BB King's guitars were Lucille. Never got into it though.

 

[xefned]

Are you sure it wasn’t a troll post?

That is a comforting thought, actually.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

I remember some faux-woke thread on TGP where the OP claimed naming an instrument a girl’s name is sexist and “problematic.”

It made me consider naming my basses. But I never did.

I don't know about sexism or whatever but it has a bit of performative heterosexuality energy. "Hey, look at me! I like girls, I swear!"

 

[HamishR]

I follow Bricksnbeatles naming system. Naming guitars is a bit like calling your motorcycle "her". I love my bike but it's an it. I guess the whole calling things by female names comes from sailors calling their ship "her". There were no other women around.

The other expression which I find a bit cringey is when players call the collection of guitars an arsenal. "I have another axe in my quiver" (which is rather mixing metaphors). Unless you're Keith Richards a guitar is not a weapon. Or at least I don't see it as one. You can make your own mind up as to whether my guitars are weapons only after you hear me play.

"He really got Gladys to hand out a thrashing tonight"

 

[xefned]

I don't know about sexism or whatever but it has a bit of performative heterosexuality energy. "Hey, look at me! I like girls, I swear!"

I figured it was dudes copying off BB King and Jimi Hendrix.
And copying an older generation of guitarists that blatantly was never my jam.