Thanks, BeBop, for the article. I've been an avid collector for 50 years and have over 300 pieces. Many are really valuable (pre-CBS
Fenders...my first good one, a 52 ES 295, lots of L-5's, etc.). Others are just fun, like the Robin mentioned in an earlier post.

I have taken busines depreciation on all of them and buy the maximum a year I can legally get away with.

It's my retirement, but I can't bring myself to part with a single one, although I have given 4 or 5 away to really promising jazz students over the years.

The thing is, I can't get as attached even to old B-3's as I can with a real piece of wood with vibrating strings aging with grace.

I smile when I look at some of the appraisals, but the joy they have brought me in my lifetime is priceless.

Russ