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Location: Texas | So what was the best guitar you ever let go?
For me..........oh, so many...but "the one" has to be:
1938 Martin D-18
Had to sell it to keep body and soul together and a baby on the way.............23 years ago.
How about you?
Serge
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Slothead #45... didn't HAVE to sell it, but felt it needed a more loving home. It's happier now. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Yes Serge, so many indeed.
But the top of the list for me has to be my all original 1954 Stratocaster.
I'll stop with that one but I could name several more... |
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Location: Tennessee | Rickenbacker 360/12V64 in Jetglo. I didn't think I'd miss it but I was wrong. |
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Rickenbacker 8-string Panda.
El Nino winter back in the mid 1990's. Forestry Dept. wouldn't let anyone go to work in the woods till almost summer due to fears of serious erosion problems. Money from the Panda kept a bit of food on the table that spring, but I've missed being able to play her ever since. |
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Location: Ohio | 57 Les Paul Custom.....1st good electric. After not being played for quite a while I made the decision to let her go.....I am such an idiot!!!!! |
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| 1988 HD-28. Sold it about 1996. Big mistake. Gonna cost me way more than I sold it for to replace. |
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Location: Eaton, Indiana | 1940s Gibson L-7, mint |
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Location: SoCal | I've never really had a best guitar. I've always played Ovations...... |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
I've never really had a best guitar. I've always played Ovations...... Well, there's a ringing endorsement for ya. |
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Location: Ballston Lake, N.Y. | 1968 Fender Telecaster. Then I got sober. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | A mid-60's Tiesco with built-in four inch speaker, three pickups, and at least five mojo switches. Ran on 8 AA batteries and could get deliciously ugly feedback from it's own speaker.
Never had a clue what the switches did though. |
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Location: SoCal | Glen Campbell, in the early to mid 60's played a Tiesco Del Rey..... |
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Location: Newington, CT | My mom gave away my '60's Les Paul, two Strats and a MusicMaster some 15 years ago. What can I say...she was my mom! She thought I was done with 'em. Heck I thought I was done with 'em!
We were both wrong, and I still miss her! |
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Location: Flahdaw | Uh...weren't you "technically" an adult? What the heck was she doing getting rid of your stuff? That's a weird sounding story there. |
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Location: NJ | never looked back
only forward |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | that might be one of those answers you don't really want to know..... |
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Location: south east Michigan | Was it the Cat Stevens signature prototype? |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by dark bar:
Uh...weren't you "technically" an adult? What the heck was she doing getting rid of your stuff? That's a weird sounding story there. I was in the middle of my lengthy hiatus from the guitar. She thought -- correctly at the time -- that I didn't care about them anymore, and figured they shouldn't go to waste.
At that point, I was a classical music fanatic...couldn't get enough of it, and hadn't touched the guitars in probably 12-15 years. I only re-took up the guitar in earnest some five years ago.
When she gave them away, I was very blasé about it. It wasn't an act of hostility by her; rather an act of generosity on her part to the recipients. She was a good and decent person, and we were always very close. That's why I miss her. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Let me guess....she'd heard you play? :p |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by dark bar:
Let me guess....she'd heard you play? :p Lol! Good one! |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | AlanM;
Are we talking a 1960 Les Paul Standard (200K guitar) or a Junior or what? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Only sold one guitar in my life, and that was to pay for a plane ticket to interview for a job which I was then offered, accepted, and at which I have remained for the past 32 years. I have bought a few, however, and run over one in the desert with a dirt bike. |
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Location: San Francisco, CA | Without a doubt, it was the Fender Custom Shop "Pinecaster" I owned, Number 3 of 40.
Weight was under six pounds and to this day I've never heard a Tele that sounded/sustained as good as that one.
It's now in the MUCH more capable hands of San Francisco Blues Legend Chris Cobb and it's his #1. He knows I want to buy it back but (understandably) doesn't want to part with it.
When it comes to acoustic guitars, nothing compares to the incredibly beat up 1972 Guild F-50NT that was on sale at REAL GUITARS in San Francisco 10 yrs or so ago.
The guitar looked like it had been run over by a car and somehow was pieced back together. Gary Brawer works in the same shop and I had him look inside of it for an analysis...
He said it looked like it might "fold", but likened it to a great tube amp when the tubes are at their peak just before they die.
Even at $900 or so, I elected not to take the risk. BIG MISTAKE!!!
A day later I decided to go back and buy it, but it was already gone. I've been feeling like an idiot ever since.
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Location: CA | '63 Strat with a blond neck. Got it for $100 (with tweed case) when I was about 17 and thought I made a killing when I sold it a few years later for $150. There was a rosewood-necked '63 or '64 on Antique Road Show a few years ago. It was pristine, of course (mine was well broke in). Guy bought it to learn and lost interest. It sat in the case in the closet for 40 or so years. They valued it at $20K. |
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