Why You Shouldn’t Buy a 12-String Guitar

Jon Clemence
3 min readOct 28, 2022
Photo by Lucas Leon on Unsplash

I had to change out my car’s battery the other day. The normally simple procedure was made more complicated because there was a bracket securing the battery to the car. I could not quite reach the bolt to unscrew the bracket with my wrench.

I found out via a YouTube video that you needed an extra-long fixture to easily reach it — something any auto shop or gearhead would have, but not me. I eventually found a way to get the job done, but it would have been much easier with that specialized tool.

Too Many Guitars? You Mean Not Enough Guitars

There is a certain point for many of us where we start getting more than a few guitars — enough to unironically refer to them as a “stable.” At that point, we usually start branching out. We ask questions like, “Which guitars are missing from this collection?”

So we start buying the “new and different.” As for me, I started my current collection with a cheap Epiphone Les Paul Special. After a few years and a lot of saving up money, I expanded my collection to a PRS SE Custom 24 and a Godin Strat-style guitar. A little more time and savings netted me a replacement for my long-lost Seagull acoustic, a Deering banjo, a Danelectro, an Ibanez semi-hollow…you get the picture.

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Jon Clemence

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