About 6 months after I started trying to learn to play I named my guitar Shitty-Shitty-Bang-Bang. Then I bought another one that I like a lot better. Havenāt named this one, though.
To be fair, there was nothing wrong with the first guitar.
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Haha, thatās a good one. It probably likes you better too
Yes I have, but unprintable on this website.
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I havenāt named my guitar OR my motorbike but one night after an argument with my wife I went into the garage and gave my bike a hug - ha ha, true story. (Honda VFR 800)
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Thatās quite wholesome.
As you should.
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Hey Gang, maybe itās time to ānameā your guitar. I just took an in person lesson this past weekend and my new instructor suggested naming my guitar after Iād mentioned that a big breakthrough for me in learning guitar has been to find a place in my room to showcase my guitars. So theyāre begging me to play every time I see them. I also welded stands for them with personalities that suit their style. Iād post photos if someone could help me figure that out?
Anyway, Iām naming my latest āLilaā after my grandmother and the title of Robert Pirsigās second book after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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You may find this interesting then 
https://community.justinguitar.com/t/have-you-named-your-guitar-s-yet/21209/57
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Thanks Toby
Here are two of my three guitars. Homemade stands.
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Hey Kevin - a wonderful book, one that I have read multiple times.
I bought it as a Christmas present for Justin a couple of years ago too.
I still make my own mental references to the wisdom in it (and Zen & the art of too).
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I bought my guitar with the money I got for my 55th birthday back in September. Itās a Yamaha beginner guitar that I got at the last minute before heading back to Scotland when I was visiting my mom. I was gonna buy a normal beige guitar, but the salesman mentioned he had the same model in black in the store room. He brought it out, and I fell in love. Heās so damn beautiful, all black and shiny. I call him āJohnnyā for the Man In Black. Iāve loved every moment Iāve spent with him; well except for the moments where I canāt get him to play automatically what I want him to play! This is me and my new ābest friendā
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Thatās a great name, nice to meet Johnny
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Iāve called my guitar many things, wouldnāt say Iāve named it though.
I am lame with the guitar names. But I do also have a motorcycle history, although my āfro was never so magnificent.
Unfortunately, motorcycling ended on the front end of an Oldsmobile in the mid 90s.
Never participated in this Topic first time round, but why not.
First guitar to be named was my electric, not by me but by the Community.
On my NGD post, somebody made a comment about liking the body colour but not the knobs. @batwoman picked up on that and shared that the contrast made her think of Van Goghās Starry Night. Later after posting some audio samples @CT referred to the guitar as a āblue beastā.
And so my electric was christened Vincent Blue Beast.
Later I named my acoustic Rose, the lady in the couple, simply after the rosewood back and sides of my Fender Paramount Deluxe. I fell in love with the sound of that guitar when considering an acoustic upgrade. Iād sat trying guitar after guitar and it took just one strum, a D7 as I recall, to be seduced by the rich warm tone of that chord, a cord which I usually find far too bright for my liking.
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I havenāt named my guitar yet.
For me thatās half the fun of GAS, figuring out a name.
@DavidP I really like it when names happen organically.
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I havenāt named my guitar either. However, reading this thread now I want to 
. As my guitar is an imitation of the iconic Angus Youngās SG. Maybe I should call it something like Youngie. I accept suggestions, though
Iāve never named my cars, either. My guitarsā names are just the ones on the headstock.
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My guitars are named, my motorbike is named, my RV camping trailer is named, heck even my wife and kids have names.
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