guitars you wish you never sold!
- CaptainCrunch
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Re: guitars you wish you never sold!
I know it's not an offset, and I know it's about the most obnoxiously ugly guitar you ever did see, but I really miss...
Man, that was the best playing guitar ever.
Man, that was the best playing guitar ever.
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Re: guitars you wish you never sold!
I sold a '65 Mosrite Ventures (disassembled) for $150 in 1983. Two years before that, I stripped off the original sunburst and painted it blue.You're not alone DB. My dad sold his '66 JB for $150
I got it in an even trade for a cheesy Domino beatle-bass in 1979. It was all original, right down to the case....
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Re: guitars you wish you never sold!
Hey Fullerplast
that's a Music Store you got there! I thought you were supposed to sell stuff in stores!!!
that's a Music Store you got there! I thought you were supposed to sell stuff in stores!!!
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Re: guitars you wish you never sold!
True, I was running an online store. But with a few exceptions, those hanging were "my keepers". The others were in cases in the storage area.
In addition to the "keepers" shown in the pics, I also had a 70s MIJ collection of Lawsuit stuff. There were some great ones in there too....
But really, if I were to list the ones I truly wished I had kept.... it would come down to a small handful:
- Fiesta Red '97 California Strat - A surprise birthday gift (brand new) from my wife and kids. I coldly sold it four years later (still had plastic,tags and receipt) during a bout of depression. I felt like I sucked so bad as a player and decided to just get rid of everything. She said she was OK with me selling it, but I still feel bad about it. Most of the others in the pics were sold at this time too. I brought 17 guitars to Florida and later sold them to make improvements on our house.
- '78 Hardtail Strat in natural. It was ash, light, all original, and sounded great.
- '63 Jaguar from my build article
- Many '62 - '66 Jazzmasters over the years. How I wish I had kept at least one or two of them.
- '65 Electric XII
The rest of them were very cool.... but I can live without them.
In addition to the "keepers" shown in the pics, I also had a 70s MIJ collection of Lawsuit stuff. There were some great ones in there too....
But really, if I were to list the ones I truly wished I had kept.... it would come down to a small handful:
- Fiesta Red '97 California Strat - A surprise birthday gift (brand new) from my wife and kids. I coldly sold it four years later (still had plastic,tags and receipt) during a bout of depression. I felt like I sucked so bad as a player and decided to just get rid of everything. She said she was OK with me selling it, but I still feel bad about it. Most of the others in the pics were sold at this time too. I brought 17 guitars to Florida and later sold them to make improvements on our house.
- '78 Hardtail Strat in natural. It was ash, light, all original, and sounded great.
- '63 Jaguar from my build article
- Many '62 - '66 Jazzmasters over the years. How I wish I had kept at least one or two of them.
- '65 Electric XII
The rest of them were very cool.... but I can live without them.
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Re: guitars you wish you never sold!
Ouch. Only 3 short years later I was 'routing' an '83 Sienna sunburst maple necked std. Strat for a humbucker with a hammer and a chisel. It came out pretty good but I'll never forget the look on the guy's face I sold it to when he took the pickguard off. "Did you do this with a f'n chisel dude? ". Yes. Yes I did.fullerplast wrote:I sold a '65 Mosrite Ventures (disassembled) for $150 in 1983. Two years before that, I stripped off the original sunburst and painted it blue.You're not alone DB. My dad sold his '66 JB for $150
That's a nice wall BTW!
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- CaptainCrunch
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Re: guitars you wish you never sold!
Here's another one, and while I miss having it, I don't regret giving it away.
I "inherited" it after my good friend and bandmate died. His little sister (no shabby player herself) probably couldn't stand the sight of it.
But a few years later, she asked how it was doing, "was I treating it right?". So I gave it back.
And I kind of hate admitting that I really, really didn't want to.
So an Oly White '64 Jag is really, REALLY high on my list.
BTW, sorry the pics stink. These were taken something like 5 years ago with a camera that you actually had to shove a floppy disc into.
I "inherited" it after my good friend and bandmate died. His little sister (no shabby player herself) probably couldn't stand the sight of it.
But a few years later, she asked how it was doing, "was I treating it right?". So I gave it back.
And I kind of hate admitting that I really, really didn't want to.
So an Oly White '64 Jag is really, REALLY high on my list.
BTW, sorry the pics stink. These were taken something like 5 years ago with a camera that you actually had to shove a floppy disc into.
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Re: guitars you wish you never sold!
Your pics aren't showing up. When I quoted you I noticed that you have a link there, but the link is blocked/something. There is just a space there where the pic should be on both your posts on this page.CaptainCrunch wrote: BTW, sorry the pics stink. These were taken something like 5 years ago with a camera that you actually had to shove a floppy disc into.
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Yeah, I also checked the text and pasted it into another browser tab as some sites block hotlinking, but I can't make those links lead anywhere. Are they to your private account that needs a password?
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- CaptainCrunch
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Re: guitars you wish you never sold!
They're in my Yahoo pictures file.
I really need to find somewhere else to host them, but it's hard to actually get your pictures back, and that computer was gone long ago.
Sorry guys.
I really need to find somewhere else to host them, but it's hard to actually get your pictures back, and that computer was gone long ago.
Sorry guys.
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Re: guitars you wish you never sold!
I regret selling some Mustangs & a 70s Jazzmaster
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Re: guitars you wish you never sold!
Don't ask me for details on how I put the Gibson violin body humbucker in the neck position on my Jazz. I'm pretty sure it wasn't much more elegant than the chisel method.luau wrote:
"Did you do this with a f'n chisel dude? ". Yes. Yes I did.
DB
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I won't ask DB. I had to steel myself to admit to you guys that I did what I did.
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hey, i routed out one of my guitars with a hammer and a flathead screwdriverluau wrote: I won't ask DB. I had to steel myself to admit to you guys that I did what I did.
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Ha. This is starting to remind me of the 'punk rock confessional' that Simple Machines (R.I.P.) had for the Working Holiday Weekend in '94. And no, I wasn't there.
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I did that to an SG copy. I put some Japanese Soapbars in it. It actually sounded really really great. Years later sold it to a friend, I wish I hadn't but it went to a good home.mynameisjonas wrote: hey, i routed out one of my guitars with a hammer and a flathead screwdriver
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