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sound like a guy that knows his guitars, don't know if you play or invest but was wondering if you have opinion about baritone guitars. I only own 3 guitars, but I play and have never thought of them as an investment. More of just a beautiful thing that makes something really nice come out the sound hole or pick-ups. I got my first Fender Strat in 1971 high school it was old and used that my dad picked up at a pawn shop. Had an Ovation for about 20 years and now have a beautiful Taylor to replace it. Cost me an arm and a leg but I earned the money and said, "I'm playing this thing everyday of my life"... I earned the dough and it's the most beautiful thing with the nicest action I've ever held. I know that guitars are like women and you're probably dreaming about your favorites. But really just love at first site and sound. Put the Elixir strings on and it's sublime.

I've only held one other guitar I've felt like that besides my first Fender and that was about 25 years ago I played with a guy's Les Paul. My gawd, it sounded like molasses and velvet. The action was so perfect that if I thought of the note or chord it just seemed to play itself.

I had to just put it down after awhile cause I thought I'd be tempted to steal the dang thing. It had to have been tainted with heroin and cursed by the devil, I just wanted it SO MUCH. It was just too much money and it wouldn't have been played as much as my acoustic or Fender.

THis is just my opinion, but you buy a guitar and ya gotta play the thing. That's why I never got into collecting them. Felt almost silly to me to have all these beautiful works of art and they're just hanging there with nobody playing them.

I think I'm older now and would play the Les Paul and I'm almost positive that a Greenfield Baritone would get most of my attention.... but I can only dream of that stuff so far. hahahahahaha

I have forty years of experience and own too many guitars (as my wife says "some people have a 401(k), we have guitars)." I have some connections in the business and have generally been able to buy at dealer cost.

While I've dealt with tenor guitars (and soprano, tenor, and concert ukuleles), I've never seen nor played a baritone guitar. Sorry I can't help you, but you have me interested.

I have several guitars that are for playing (right now in my bedroom, it's all acoustic: a Gibson, two Martins, and two Collings - and a Gibson banjo, a Weber mandolin, a Gibson mandolin, and an old Martin ukulele), not for investment. Most are for investment.

You probably love your Taylor because the neck reminds you of your Stratocaster; Taylor's have a bolt-on neck instead of a dovetailed neck, and the neck's much more like an electric guitar than virtually any other acoustic you'll find.

Bob Taylor's a nice guy; I first met him when he was still delivering his guitars out of his car. I was in a guitar store near the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco, looking at a Santa Cruz guitar, when he drove up to deliver some guitars. His car and trunk were full.

I've met him a couple of other times since then, including at NAMM.

Felt almost silly to me to have all these beautiful works of art and they're just hanging there with nobody playing them.

They are beautiful works of art. And I do part with them.

All my kids are driving cars that were paid for by selling guitars. They've helped with college tuition, too. And when it comes time to sell, I'm always willing to take less money from a player than a collector.