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there's always threads about dream gear and the ones you regret selling. so what's the one's your glad you kept?

this is inspired by the near sale of my classic player 60's strat. i didn't play it as much and needed the money to buy mike's baja tele. i was really reluctant to sell it, as when i was getting it ready to sell and plugged it in, it sounded amazing. mike, that diamond chap, helped me out with the bro deal of all bro deals and now i can keep the strat and still get the baja tele. i've been playing the strat loads since thinking of selling, i have it in my hands as i type this. it was my first proper guitar and my first proper fender. after Les pauls and sgs, i've realized that while i like gibson, i love fender. i'm a fender man.

I guess I came close to selling my Jag a while back - took me a good couple of years to get it to sound how I wanted, but I'm glad I perseveered. After a few pup changes, change of wiring configuration, change of bridge, back to original bridge, buzzstop, no buzzstop, I now love the guitar. It's my go to Fender.

I've had some I've sold and regretted selling (my Jag, my brown SG, my Longhorn), but they all had to go at the time, and were all stepping stones on the way to getting my Jazzmaster. My white tele is the guitar that's been with me the longest (thirteen years and counting), and though it's been beaten and abused, long-term-lent to people, and generally gone sometimes for years without me picking it up, whenever I do play it, I love it to bits. Lately, I've been giving a lot of thought to chopping in my baritone, my SG and my tele, and putting all the cash towards importing a secondhand 52ri, but the thing stopping me is the thought: could it really be that much better than my white tele?

In a moment of madness i listed my Orange Mustang in 'classifieds' but pulled it off a day later. Never considered selling any of my other 'special ones'.

I miss some guitars but I don't regret any of them, I only sell stuff for a reason (it ain't getting played) and that reason is generally enough for me to rationalise the sale afterwards.

The Baja is typical of that, is it a great guitar? Yes.
Is it one of the best guitars I have owned? Yes.
Will I miss it when it's gone? Yes
But am I playing it enough now, while I own it? No.

i suppose selling gear on SS puts your mind at rest a little. knowing gear is going to a good home and being used must feel better.
i know that noirie will look after my les paul custom, even if it will mean being beaten with a shoe at doogfest. plus i get a mudhoney, so i get the doogfest II rig i fell for

oh how i hate this thread. it's like thinking of ex-girlfriends...

i was told yesterday that i am never ever allowed to move my gibson firebird. or my bird will be removed...
this was from the girl who carries my balls around in her purse...
who also "technically" owns the guitar...

i will now never be able to get rid of my jaguar. i would also not be able to sell my strat unless it was to get a 62RI CIJ/MIJ.

This is an interesting thread for me, especially at the moment.
I've been toying with the idea of offering the Stealth Jag for trade, towards something offset and with humbuckers, as had been my original intent when selling the Jagmaster. I go back and look at pictures of it and am dissuaded every time. Looks like it's hot rails for the Stealth Jag.

yes. my '83 MIJ SQ-series 3-bolt squier strat. i always come back to it...



best neck, ever. like my favorite jeans or converse sneakers. i'll never sell it.
i also have another of these in white with rosewood neck but it's not even half of the love. just sold my '79 hartail and i'm still keeping my beater 1972 strat. but they will go someday.
this one won't.

Pat.

i regret selling my avri jaguar, but the dogs life was more important one guitar that i will never sell, or even lend out for any period of time is my jag-stang.
it has served me well and it was my first "nice" guitar.
of course i will never sell the tele i made myself, but thats becuz there is no price tag on it for me, its worth way more to me than it is to anyone else.

CIJ Jaguar.

I came close to selling my Epi SG (my first electric six string) when money was tight(er). Instead I bought new pickups for it

Never sold/traded a guitar I wished I hadn't. But I almost traded off my Hi Flyer, and I am very happy I didn't, as I really came to love the neck on it.

Mike wrote:I miss some guitars but I don't regret any of them, I only sell stuff for a reason (it ain't getting played) and that reason is generally enough for me to rationalise the sale afterwards.

The Baja is typical of that, is it a great guitar? Yes.
Is it one of the best guitars I have owned? Yes.
Will I miss it when it's gone? Yes
But am I playing it enough now, while I own it? No.

with it gone, what's your backup or have you forgone that in favor of lightning fast string changes @ gigs?




for me, i'm glad i never ditched my avri jag when we got really low on moneys about a year ago. not only is it a very spendy guitar that i'd likely not be able to replace any time soon, but it was the sole survivor of the burglary a few months ago. it's been great using that guitar exclusively again.

the other guitars i ditched the previous year (toronado, mustang, and strat) are missed, but i don't regret the decision. like mike, i wasn't playing them anywhere near enough to justify having them, plus we reeeeeally needed the cash they brought in.

my mim jaguar. I've always wanted a jazzmaster, and when I got my p bass, and only played that i felt i didn't need it anymore. then last night i picked it up and played it for a whole 4 hours. it's just worn in enough that it's like an old pair of boots.

I was close to selling my '61 Jazzmaster just after I bought a Gibson... I'm glad i didn't though...

I would actually like to have me very first guitar I was bought. Hondo Telecaster complete with iron Maiden sticker !!

I had an '82 Bullet with the best sunburst ever, kinda wish I still had that. I also had a '96 Ric 330. I wouldn't play it, but I sortof wish I had kept it for a few more years until the prices went crazy.

I keep toying with selling my '67 Duo-Sonic because I never really play it and it needs some work. I probably never will, though - it might become my Nashville high-tune guitar soon.

Guitars I wish I had sold:

My Ibanez Blazer back when it was still in project status.....I made the decision to keep it and soak $150 more into it based on the idea of not buying more guitars but then I went and bought my Rickenbacker and now the Blazer has too much invested to justify getting rid of.

My Hagstrom Viking II back when they were worth more.


Guitars I'm glad I didn't sell:

Ovation Tornado when I was giddy with the hagstrom

My Les Paul when I finished the Blazer.


Guitars I wish I didn't sell:

Fender MIM Fretless Jazz Bass (I only sold it cause I didn't want to get suckered into playing bass in a band)

60's Sekova semi hollow shortscale (sold cause I had too many guitars, last in first out thing....beautiful guitar, and played like butter though it felt like a toy due to its size)

50's Airline Stratotone (sold because the 1 pickup in it didn't have any sustain whatsoever and I didn't want to gut it for a p90 or something since it was so pristine, sold for my acoustic)

There are times I've thought about selling that. I've never got to the stage of having it up for sale but it's been not far off. It spends quite a while in the case, but when I want to play guitar for a couple of hours it's exactly what I want to be playing.