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Location: Colorado | So which guitar is the one that got away? You should not have traded it, sold it, or given it away...and you wish you could get it back?
I guess another corollary would be the one that got sold because you ticked off your spouse and they sold it?
How about the one you saw in store - couldn't afford it...and realized it was actually worth 10x the amount they were selling it for? Let the crying and sob stories begin. |
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Hofner Nightingale Special |
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Location: Michigan | It was in the early 60's and an off brand electric - I only recall the nameplate said Wildcat and it had 3 ivory colored rocker switches at the top of the solid body, volume, tremelo bar and a removable bridge cover for palm muting strings (like in Apache' ). My first electric, sold in a garage sale for pennys. 2nd was a Sears Silvertone acoustic bought in a pawn shop outside Halifax Nova Scotia in 1973 for $35. Again sold at a garage sale for pennys. Wish I had both of these back now.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | VXT
AN35 35th Anniversary
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Assuming I could have afforded to keep them..... Collins DS-41 Martin D-42 Ovation 1538 Ovation 2002 Collectors 1987-4 Collectors Blue Ash Viper Black MM-68 Mandolin The list goes on..............and on...... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Arthur, if it makes you feel any better, the VXT is in a good home. I'll try to play it more so it doesn't miss you too much. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Adamas II Slothead.
But I know its in a good place and well loved. Pops up on YouTube occasionally in Jerome's videos. He thinks his music brings tears to my eyes but it just the guitar. |
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Location: Northwest Arkansas | The CS 2000. There was just something about that 2nd Ovation. It had the brown back and the old preamp, and it sounded sweet. C'est la vie. |
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Location: south east Michigan | As I've said whenever this topic comes up.... a wood topped version of the Millennium.
It was right there.
On the wall.
All I had to do was reach into my back pocket for the happy card.
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Location: Denmark | Believe it or not. This:
Miss it for sentimental reasons because it was kind of home made when I was 15 or thereabout. Neck and pg with one pickup were scrapped from a junk guitar, body and adjustable bridge self made with no special tools and the Dimarzio tele bridge pickup was the only purchased part. Had fun.
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | My very first Ovation, watching it go out the door was like being ripped in half.
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Location: NH | I haven't experienced guitar seller's remorse (yet). I still have the ones that I consider special, plus a couple more. I guess I have a different problem. I do see a time coming up where I'll have to rationalize which ones are "more special" as I'm running out of room.
elginacres - 2015-01-25 10:52 PM
How about the one you saw in store - couldn't afford it...
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Location: Utah | There are none I sold which I really regret, though one comes close. That was the '07BCS Collectors edition. It was redundant with my Adamas 2080, and I had GAS for some variety in my modest collection.
Guitars I should have bought but didn't? There are a few. The 1537 on consignment at a local shop for about $500 a few years ago. Money was tight, so I debated for a day whether I could really afford it. When I went back it was already gone. Another was the wood topped Adamas at the Ovation road show. The price was crazy low and it is a great guitar. The music store owner who was hosting the Road Show was a total d1ckhead and pissed me off, souring my willingness to pull out the credit card.
The first one that got away was in 1977. I was in high school working part time as a janitor in a hospital earning money for a 12 string acoustic. I thought I finally had enough but the discount off of list price for Ovations was less than other brands (according to the sales guy at Rondo Music in NJ). I was $50 short, so I went down the road to another music store and purchased a nice Avarerez Yairi. It is still a really nice guitar. |
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Location: Jet City | +1 on the WTA. The roadshow brought it through our neck of the woods too. I had just bought a brand new Adamas that same day from Lost Art Vintage, my Adamas 2 reissue, so funds were a bit tight. There was a brand new C2078 at the show for a ridiculous price though, so I loosened the purse strings one more time.
That's the only time I've ever bought 2 brand new (American made) guitars on the same day. Had the $ been there, the WTA woulda made 3.
Aside from that, I usta have a Gibson Custom Shop Explorer way back in the 80's, my 3rd guitar bought just after my V, and it was destroyed while on loan to a friend... used as a weapon in a fight... neck snapped off... totaled.
It is the reason I ended up with the doubleneck Mosrite though, so it all works out in the end. |
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Location: Utah | Another one I couldn't afford was a Hamer Newport Pro in tobacco burst, in the last year of production. There were some subtle but nice improvements since 2001 when my Newport was built, and I love the tobacco burst more than the orange sparkle that I have. One of those first world guitar owner problems to have! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Every damn one of them... |
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Location: Colorado | Lazarus is in good hands |
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| I was in grad school at the University of South Carolina from 83-89. There was a guitar shop on the north side of town where the area by that time had taken quite a nosedive, but the owner had probably had owned the shop for years, was undoubtedly set in his ways, and he was riding it out.
Anyway, when you walked into the store, there were only a few "ragtag" guitars hanging behind the counter but -- BUT -- if you knew to ask, he had a bunch of NOS (new old stock) instruments shelved in the back, still in their original boxes and from years past!
Around 1985-6 he pulled out -- from his back stock -- a brand spanking new 1968 Martin D-35S (slotted headstock, 12-fret, wide neck) with Brazilian Rosewood for . . . $1200!!!!! (The original 1968 price tag, I believe)
Why -- WHY???? -- did I not buy that guitar?
If anyone on here is from that area, I would love to know what happened to all of those NOS guitars; I'm certain that it's quite a story . . .
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Location: Colorado | I don't live there now...but I lived there a lot....I know the store...as he quietly shut down, there was not a sell off of the NOS, he just kept the stuff - and every now and then you'd see a piece here or there advertised in the want ads. He never sold anything for under retail, unless you had cash in your hands...and even then - it was generally not more than sales tax....4% at the time. He once had a Adamas 1 - there - brown...would not budge under 3K...which I believe might have been over retail. Said he had to make $ on the case too. He was a dang good Pedal Steel Player...you don't find many of those...but he did not do lap slide or resonators, or dobros...just 10 pedal - pedal steels...I'll come up with the name - probably at midnight... |
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| Glad to know that someone else remembers the store. I really figured that some lucky person came along at just the right time and bought the whole inventory from the estate or something. I would LOVE to find another "time machine" store like that!!! |
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | naellis58 - 2015-01-31 9:35 PM My very first Ovation, watching it go out the door was like being ripped in half. Nice! |
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Location: Colorado | Reasley - The name of the store was Johnson Music. If was off North Main and Monticello. I spoke with a few old timers in Columbia...he just faded into the sunset - slowly sold off old stock...never opened anything anyplace else that anyone I know knows of.... |
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| elginacres - 2015-02-06 5:27 PM Reasley - The name of the store was Johnson Music. If was off North Main and Monticello. I spoke with a few old timers in Columbia...he just faded into the sunset - slowly sold off old stock...never opened anything anyplace else that anyone I know knows of.... Thank you! Yes, that was the place. Probably strangest guitar shop I've ever visited: a few clunkers out front, sporadically placed on the pegs, all the "good stuff" in back in original boxes -- "reverse showrooming" for lack of a better term. I'm wondering if he did this because the area had deteriorated so much. You know, if a robber came in, they would just grab and run with what they could but the regular customers would know to ask about stock out back. I would love to have the inventory list of that place around 1985 when I was there. I don't know what the '68 Martin D-35S would have really been worth then, but it would be fun to know . . . |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I've only sold one guitar, a Yamaha 12 string, and that was 37 years ago so I could afford a plane ticket to interview for the job from which I retired two years ago. So I guess I don't regret letting that one go. The one I wish I bought was Sergio's Martin OM45 which I think he sold through these forums maybe 7 years ago. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | In about 2005 my next door neighbor offered me his Legend for $300. It was in perfect condition, but I wasn't playing enough to use it. A couple years later I tried to buy it and he had given it to his son. That was probably a better use for it.
I also passed on the Wood Topped Adamas at the Roadshow. I dropped hints to my wife like crazy that night, but she ignored them. Damon should have bought it so I could buy it from him.
A year or so ago I found a 2012 1617ALE on ebay up north of Seattle at some liquidation store for $900 BIN. Miles stopped by to check it out. It was supposedly sold locally just a day or so before the sale ended, but I suspect my inquiries prompted them to figure out they had something worth more than their BIN. I still would like to try one of those. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | In 1987 I bought a brand new Guild F45CE. It was a beautiful playing and sounding guitar. It was also stunning to look at it had an arched maple back and beautiful flame maple sides and I think a spruce top. I have never seen one exactly like it, but boy I miss that one. I sold it in the mid 90s when I quit playing for a few years.
The one I should have bought was at the roadshow too, but it wasn't the woodtop Adamas. There was a beautiful black Adamas very similar to the OFC II that I fell in love with. I called Adam and told him I was going to buy it, then decided against it, because I had recently got something else. You can see that guitar in the video thread.
I also had one get away and I got it back about 10 years later. When I sold the Guild, I also sold my Ibanez Rocket Roll Senior, which was an (almost) exact copy of the original Gibson. That Ibanez line prompted one of the first Gibson lawsuits. I wanted to get a flying V again and I saw it on ebay. When I examined the pictures closely it had the exact 2 dings I put in it and the DiMarzio super distortion pickup I had put in the bridge position. Also the case had a very distinctive mark on the outside. I was shocked and amazed and bought it right away. I paid way more to get it back that I sold it for... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | A Gibson ES 125 archtop that was "loaned" to me for nearly 10 years beginning in 1959 by my truck driving neighbor. I gave it back along with the 1950s Gibson amp when I moved out of my parents house. About 5 years ago, I missed buying both guitar and amp by about a week. He had just sold it to somebody else when finally reconnected. It wasn't anything special, except it was vintage Gibson, one owner, and the guitar I learned to play on, so that made it special to me. |
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | Brand new Martin GT75 archtop f hole electric. one of the first. A drunk guy owned the local music store I took it to for stringing when I was 17. He offered me an even trade for a new Gibson Hummingbird. I took it but was later upset because I wanted to be a rocker. |
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Location: Muenster/Germany | I´ve always tried not to be attached too much on things, but some of the guitars....
-Hofner A2L (the best archtop guitar)(I had 3, should have kept at least one)(Idiot)
-Mossman Rosewood Flat-top. (you should not sell such a guitar)(never)
-Ovation 1619(my first Ovation, old, scratched, cracks,rust, but sooo nice,sold, ok I have great OV´s but the oldie was IT, s**t)
-Ovation 1687 (Sold.Regret.Found new one, even better.Had the $$ at the right time.That was a close thing)
..and now the one that I found long ago with nowhere near enough money in my pockets:
-BOZO Bell 12string. The first and the last I ever had in hands.What a guitar! Later I had a Bozo copy by Yairi, nice try.
When I look at my recent guitar collection it´s really not too bad, but a little bit I miss them. |
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Location: Colorado | I had a Mossman Golden Era...don't know it?...look it up...phenomenal...it was just like JDs. Because it wasn't acoustic electric...I let it go...but man I wish I still had that Brazilian...with the tree of life inlay...Got a grand for it in 1978...I will bet she is opened up by now. Here is a sample pic....
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Location: New Hartford CT | 1127-4 Glenn Campbell Artist, 1970 S/N F 962. WHY did I sell it... |
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Location: Colorado | Sorry - I don't know that one Beal |
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Location: Jet City | elginacres - 2015-04-09 5:25 PM Sorry - I don't know that one Beal http://ovationfanclub.com/megabbs/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=26501&mid=345668 |
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Location: Colorado | Thanks Damon...anyone got a current pic and know the whereabouts? |
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