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/r/guitars is a place for people to post pictures of and discuss everything about guitars i.e. electric, acoustic, lap, steel, bass, amps, pedals, strings, picks, etc. Basically anything with strings. Feel free to post pics of your own gear, cool gear you saw online or anything else as long as it complies with the rules.

269k subscribers950 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. <1% by known bots)772 authors / mosince 2009

r/guitars has 269k members (+16% over the last 12 months). It gets about 950 posts a month from 772 people. Top topics: Identifying Guitars, Identifying Guitars and Guitars & Amplifiers.

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Size and growth

How r/guitars has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+16%in 12 months · +3.0% in 3 months · +0.7% in 1 month
Oct 2026269k
Growing269k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−1.8%vs Sep 2025 · +0.9% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026950
QuieterPeaked at 2.4k in Jan 2024
Sep 2026: incl. <1% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/guitars

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Identifying Guitars1.6%
  2. Identifying Guitars1.6%
  3. Guitars & Amplifiers1.5%
  4. New Guitars1.4%
  5. Epiphone Guitars1.4%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Sweetwater Sound
  2. Guitar Center
  3. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
  4. eBay
  5. Musikhaus Thomann

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research