Does your taste in guitars change with time?

[leftyguitarjoe]

I've been buying strats/superstrats for over 10 years. Only my most recent guitar was a tele.

So I guess not really.

 

[oneblackened]

It's definitely changed. I was for a long time a gibson fan... then I found ESP.

 

[pondman]

Mostly I just kind of like Teles now, which I used to haaaaate.

Same here, I used to have a great dislike for Teles but just cant get enough of em now.
I can appreciate any guitar as long as its playable.

 

[BucketheadRules]

I guess my tastes have expanded rather than changed. When I started all I wanted was a Dean ML... I still love that shape, and it's very evocative of my early days as a Dimebag-worshipping 13 year-old. I also fell in love with the B.C. Rich Warlock and the Mockingbird, and I'd still do horrible things for a Jackson Rhoads. But now I like all sorts... I love a good superstrat (currently have three ) and my Gibson V is probably my favourite guitar, but I also regularly use a Jazzmaster, I've just ordered a more traditional Strat-style and I have a serious hankering for a Tele, an SG, and a Les Paul or several (Standard, Custom, Junior - one of each ). And I wouldn't say no to a Rickenbacker 12-string or one of those new Hallmark Mosrite replicas

 

[OmegaSlayer]

I think cash, or better, lack of it, is ultimately what makes you dislike an instrument or not.
I mean I would love me a Gipson Zakk Wylde Les Paul (to mention one), still in the GAS list is behind so many other guitars that it gets out of the radar, but if I could lay hands on it, it would be loved like a hot babe.

 

[Murmel]

I used to think that Fender and Gibson were boring and terrible when I started out.
Now I don't play anything but Fender/Gibson and other vintage style instruments

 

[TauSigmaNova]

More of expanded. Still love superstars with floyds and pointy headstocks but now I've grown to like LPs a bit more and I warmed up to ibanez which I used to really dislike. Also stsrted digging blank fretboarfs

 

[pushpull7]

With all of the gas here, my taste changes nearly daily

 

[Black43]

I used to worship the SG, now I like RG's and other superstrat shapes.
That's a whole letter.

 

[PBGas]

I think everyone goes through a phase as you get older. One thing that hasn't changed for me is the use of a locking trem. Although my latest EBMM guitar has me thinking otherwise. It is such a great setup, that I ordered another one. I never thought I would own a Gibson but I do now. I would love to have a factory US built Fender with a Floyd and the proper radius but it seems that that is an impossibility unless it is a custom shop unit.

 

[dragonbiscuit]

I wouldn't exactly say my tastes as far as aesthetics has changed but my taste as far as specs, features, tone, etc. have changed. It's just taken a lot of time and playing a lot of different guitars to find out what does and doesn't work for me.

Ditto - after so many years I finally know exactly what I want & need
One of the best things about this forum is being exposed to amazing builders and new innovations in design.

 

[7 Dying Trees]

Not massively, although when i was in my teens i really liked pointy guitars (warlocks etc), but have gravitated towards super strats, and lately have been jonesing fora les paul after playing one. I also got my first real strat a while back, a nice 70's beat up one.

I also moved away from EMG's ages ago, and now way prefer passives.

So I guess it does change with time, as you find out what you do and don't like really

 

[darkinners]

Definitely,

I first started when I was 17 or so.
I only like pointy guitars back then, my first guitar was a white B.C Rich Warlock.

Then I like more elegant looking guitars, like PRS, Les Paul and started to hate pointy guitars.

And now I really love strat and tele(which I hate them both when I was younger, alway thought they are old man's guitar, how naive I was)


Tonewise, when I was younger, I always love to crank the mid in an amp.
I feel that way the guitar sound bigger, the notes sound fatter, less harsh.

But now I like guitar to have more scooped sound. more spanky guitar sound.

 

[GRIZ]

Not changed per se... but definitely grown / expanded

This. I still love ibanez guitars, but I do love tonal variety and appreciate other instruments.

 

[narad]

I used to think guitars with lightning bolts painted on them were the best. Logically that makes sense, a guitar with lightning bolts is clearly better than an identical guitar without lightning bolts, but I just don't find myself getting excited about them 15 years later?

 

[jerm]

I've grown to dislike solid coloured guitars. they're just so boring. Ibanez does this a lot and they look cheap to me. I do however love their transparent finishes which you can see the wood figuring.

 

[SeventhSlinger]

I always liked guitars with a floating tremolo, even before I started playing I always loved players that did dive-bombs and all of those cool effects.

Then I got a guitar with a floyd.

My taste changed within hours.

But, over time I have grown to like them again, I still am not 100% on board but they're cool.
I'm a believer in that your taste could change just like that, but time does affect it too. 3 years ago I was always a fan of guitars with all the pointy crap on them and stuff, now, I'm more of a traditional type guy, standard V's, LPs and super strats.

 

[HurrDurr]

My personal tastes in guitars I guess have always been pretty set on Fender, but with a lot of digging on the site the last few years (and even further back before I joined officially), my tastes don't seem to have really changed, but more so now I have a great appreciation for all types of stringed instruments ranging form the weird to the absurd and even just the average.

 

[MikeH]

Not changed per se... but definitely grown / expanded

This. I used to be "RG or nothing!". Slowly transitioned on to other superstrats, then LP-shapes, then Teles, then Strats. Now I pretty much dig anything that isn't a V or some other extreme shape.

 

[Floppystrings]

I'll play anything.