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So, I was fooling around with my guitars the other day, and I noticed that I always seem to pick up one more than the other, and I wondered why. I quickly figured it out, and that kind of led to these questions:

1. Do you have a #1, go-to guitar? An Ol' Reliable, Ol' Faithful, etc.
2. Do you have any guitars that are "sacred." Not in a religious sense, but in the sense that you refuse to change it. For all its flaws, you keep it the way it is. Or maybe it's got sentimental value.

This is a picture of my two.

They are my first and second builds. The Padron is my go-to guitar. It was built with all the lessons learned from building the Arturo. I added toothpick frets and a smaller nut and bridge, and I got it right.

The Arturo was my first guitar, and is my "sacred" one, simply because it was the first. I used spent 7.62 Nagant shells for the nut and bridge because I though they would look cool. And they do. They also lift the strings almost a half-inch off the neck. Even if I had know how to play fretless, I couldn't have pulled it off. So it's slide only, and even that didn't work so well at first, because the strings don't provide much support. But I won't change anything, because it was my first, and I want to preserve it as I built it. I could change the nut and bridge, I could add a fretboard, but no. I'll leave it the way it is. As I get more practice, I get more use out of it, because I have a better idea of what I'm doing. And it sounds great. When the time comes to change the strings, I may play around with that. But no improvements.

So, I'd like to see and hear about your main axe, and your "sacred" guitars.