Quote Originally Posted by daveeed View Post
I’ve also been collecting guitars for a few years , like Sota they sound better hung on the wall as opposed to when I’m playing them lol.
At Christmas I gave my step grandchildren my Fender California fat Strat antique cream with a beautiful neck, these were interesting as Fender made them in the US between 97 and 98 but to save money sent them to Mexico for painting as the process they used was illegal in the States, after painting they were sent back to the US for assembly.
The first decent guitar I bought was a Japanese Tokai 335 which probably still sounds the best of all through my Epiphone Blues Custom valve amp, a Rickenbacker 360 mapleglo from 1995 that is on my wall, a Gretsch G400 Jimmie Vaughan that is gorgeous , and then the 3 Gibsons , a ES339 custom shop in antique red that is my least favourite, a J185EC electric acoustic jumbo with beautiful flaming and finally one to be handed down an ES175 from 1956 (my year of manufacture as well) which may be a good investment one day.
Photos, please daveed, if you have any handy!

As you say, guitars can be a good investment which adds to the pleasure of playing and enjoying them. Even my Lowden S5, which is pretty low-end by Lowden standards, has done remarkably well. I bought it for about £300 in 1982 and it would cost me about £1800 now.