Heh. I've got an even 35 back/side sets, maybe 40 tops (those 10 sets of WRC from Jason pushed things over the top a little), 6 electric guitar tops, and a bunch of mahogany boards outside for bodies and necks. Oh, and a good 50 fingerboards and bridge blanks and the like (and a bazillion EIR headplates..fun when you get them for 50 cents each, like). I'm severely limiting my buying now, for a few reasons: 1) most of my cash is invested in wood (and I'm quite content with that) and 2) I have no space to put more stuff.
I mean, in this selection, I've got an even dozen back/side species (and I might add that none of them are Honduran Mahogany or EIR any more. Should probably get some of that at some point..) in various figures, five species of topwood, and a lot of them fairly unique, and things I'll build with one day, but not quite yet. I've also got some more wood with BobC (who's supplied a good third of the back/sides), and I'm constantly resisting temptation to really get much more, but, yeah. I've decided I'm limiting myself (exceptional deals/special sets excluded, of course) to about 4-6 back/side sets per year, finances permitting. I don't have any Brazillian sets (have a couple of old boards, probably process them into bridges and fingerboards) but I also don't necessarily feel the need to get any. Plenty of other, equally beautiful woods out there for less insane prices :-)
Considering that I estimate I'll build 3 guitars per year, max, for the next few, that means I'm already set for a decade (and a bit), and given another decade or so, probably set for life in terms of wood. I don't spend cash on big tools (don't have the space), the guitars I build are being sold at cost (so I don't really lose any cash), but my ultimate goal is to, essentially, be able to build from a stash of woods that I've personally had lying around for as many years as possible.
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