Do You Name Your Guitars?

[narad]

So the aesthetic/image/concept/theme is just dungeons and dragons?

 

[odibrom]

Actual people names no. That's.... So early 2000s. lmao.
I prefer to name mine after the aesthetic or image I have in mind for a concept based around an album, song, or overall theme. Like if I have a black and green guitar I'd name it "Necromancer" or "Black forest" or something like that, kinda like a sig. I WANNA dub the kelly I just got the "Ritual Fire", but I'm deciding on what knobs/pup rings to get to compliment the name, ya know? Although it's for the most part a mental thing (you're rarely gonna "introduce" your guitars) t's all gotta come together

One does introduce their guitars to similar guitar nerds... hence the NGDs we see around here... it's like, look at my new girl/boy/whatever friend I just conquered kind of thing...

 

[noise in my mind]

No, because it is weird to name inanimate objects.

 

[KnightBrolaire]

So the aesthetic/image/concept/theme is just dungeons and dragons?

you mean you don't RP as a warbard with your guitars?

 

[narad]

you mean you don't RP as a warbard with your guitars?

My lentz tele Robben imparts -2 metal, +5 dad with a bonus to pentatonics.

 

[Spicypickles]

They all have names already.....I don’t see the need to give them another

 

[odibrom]

if one goes with Ibanez, one gets a mouth full to say the complete guitar name...

Also, naming the guitars is useful when one has more than one of the same exact brand/model/finish guitar... different tunings/setups/pickups justify different naming references.

I have 2 exactly equal guitars minus their pickups, which are similar looking but with different spces. The only differences between them are (besides pickups): a flat versus a round miniswitch lever and a cap of a push/push micro switch that differ from black in one to white in the other. Same everything else, wiring included, pot values, string gauge, tuning and setup is pretty similar.

 

[jephjacques]

no

 

[SlamLiguez]

So the aesthetic/image/concept/theme is just dungeons and dragons?

Not exactly lol, if I was in a fuckin.... WW2 band and had a green finished guitar I'd call it "war machine" or "panzershreck" or something, you know
Like how the Michael Ammot sig is named "Tyrant" after the album, or how the Brendan Small sigs are named "Thunderhorse" and "Snow Falcon". They fit the aesthetics and themes of their respective albums/concepts

 

[thedonal]

Not generally. They go by functionals- the Epiphone, the PRS etc.

Though strat-wise my HRR strat is known as the Brown Strat (in true Gilmour/Clapton tradition).

My RG550 is called Stormbringer, being the only named guitar in my collection. Mainly with it being black and pointy, like the titled black sword. Cheesy, I know- but I'm a Hawkwind fan and love the Elric books!.

I might call one of my guitars Gordon. Just because.

 

[NateFalcon]

I wonder if Rick Nielsen names his guitars?...

 

[narad]

Topic reminds me of Game of Thrones:

'When Olenna asks what Joffrey called his sword, Jaime replies, "Widow's Wail", to which Olenna calls Joffrey a cunt'

 

[AwakenNoMore]

Only one I've named Is my neon green Legator fanned 8. It's Chugnobyl.

 

[Fenriswolf]

I'm still trying to think of a good name.

 

[Church2224]

I have a pair of ESP M-IIs I named that are pretty much the same except one is Black with a rosewood fretboard and one is white with a maple fretboard

I named the black on "Black Lives Matter" and the white one "All Lives Matter."

 

[Thanatopsis]

Since I got my silverburst a couple months ago, I just called it "this beautiful thing". Before that, there had never been any other object in my life that I had desired for so long and finally got.

 

[Soya]

No. I feel like giving an inanimate object a name implies a deep connection or importance, and they're just chunks of wood with strings on them to me.

 

[Lorcan Ward]

No, because it is weird to name inanimate objects.

 

[noise in my mind]

People who name their guitars are equivalent to the crazy cat ladies of the guitar world.

 

[FourFour]

To quote a certain GoT character, "only c**ts name their (guitars)."