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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Oddball;
If your strat had a tweed case and a blond fretboard, it was even OLDER than '63. It would have to have been an early '59 or older to have those features.
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Location: SoCal | The neck may not have been original.... |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by 6L6:
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.
6 Wow! I'll bet there are some other pretty interesting stories in there somewhere as well... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | A vantage telecaster copy made in Korea. And then to rub salt into the wound, I told my friend what I would do to upgrade it, which he did, and then I played it after the upgrades and I was just floored ... it was one of the best tele's I've ever played bar none. Oh well. No use crying over spilt milk. I sold it during one of the times when my wife was bugging me about thinning the herd. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Bluebird:
AlanM;
Are we talking a 1960 Les Paul Standard (200K guitar) or a Junior or what? BB: a 60's standard (probably lates 60's), I believe...not a 200K guitar. A slightly worse for wear Les Paul, that, nonetheless, played really nicely. The Strats were just run o'the mill Strats. |
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| The best guitar I ever let go, I got back....does that count?
Ok, so here is the story.....
A couple of years ago I bought a Gibson Lucille off of a local musician. He needed money for drugs or to pay off his drug debt, either way, I got a great deal on his Lucille...he set the price not me. anyway, feeling a little bad for the guy I threw in my parts-o-caster in on the deal.
Several months later he playing a gig and the amp he was barrowing died....ok, I go out to the car and get an amp and bring it in for him to use. needless to say, his cord starts shorting out or something and he starts yanking on the cord at the input jack of the amp....amp stops working!
He then has the audacity to start making comments about my piece of sh^& amp and how it was junk.
Ok, fine it was just an American made Fender Roc Pro. nothing to spectacular, but it was far from being a P.O.S. or junk.
So, you can imagine my blood pressure at this moment! He goes off to smoke a cigarette and go up on stage and grab my amp and throw it in the car.
I see him again outside complaining how my amp is ruining his gig! So I confront the S.O.B. and then go back in to the bar. I look at the stage and see the Parts-O-Caster I threw in on the earlier deal, so I go up and grab it, toss it over my shoulder and walk into the men's room where said musician is now in a stall. I kick in the stall door, he drops his little baggy of white stuff on the floor, and I tell him "You can get this guitar back the day you come up with the money to fix my amp"!
He finished out the rest of the night using some god awful abused Squire Strat with rusted strings.
I waited a few months for him to ante up some $$$ for the amp, and then I commenced to learning about amp repair.
I finally got the amp fixed, and I still have the Parts-O-Caster!
Several months later, I found his amp, the one he should have been using in a local pawn shop.
Yep, he pawned it to get high. So, I ask to take it for a little test drive and walk out with his Bogner Alchemist 2x12 combo for under $300.00! |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by USMC_CPL:
The best guitar I ever let go, I got back....does that count?
Ok, so here is the story.....
A couple of years ago I bought a Gibson Lucille off of a local musician. He needed money for drugs or to pay off his drug debt, either way, I got a great deal on his Lucille...he set the price not me. anyway, feeling a little bad for the guy I threw in my parts-o-caster in on the deal.
Several months later he playing a gig and the amp he was barrowing died....ok, I go out to the car and get an amp and bring it in for him to use. needless to say, his cord starts shorting out or something and he starts yanking on the cord at the input jack of the amp....amp stops working!
He then has the audacity to start making comments about my piece of sh^& amp and how it was junk.
Ok, fine it was just an American made Fender Roc Pro. nothing to spectacular, but it was far from being a P.O.S. or junk.
So, you can imagine my blood pressure at this moment! He goes off to smoke a cigarette and go up on stage and grab my amp and throw it in the car.
I see him again outside complaining how my amp is ruining his gig! So I confront the S.O.B. and then go back in to the bar. I look at the stage and see the Parts-O-Caster I threw in on the earlier deal, so I go up and grab it, toss it over my shoulder and walk into the men's room where said musician is now in a stall. I kick in the stall door, he drops his little baggy of white stuff on the floor, and I tell him "You can get this guitar back the day you come up with the money to fix my amp"!
He finished out the rest of the night using some god awful abused Squire Strat with rusted strings.
I waited a few months for him to ante up some $$$ for the amp, and then I commenced to learning about amp repair.
I finally got the amp fixed, and I still have the Parts-O-Caster!
Several months later, I found his amp, the one he should have been using in a local pawn shop.
Yep, he pawned it to get high. So, I ask to take it for a little test drive and walk out with his Bogner Alchemist 2x12 combo for under $300.00! Great story, CPL! Sorry to hear about the other guy and the train wreck he was making of his life. |
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| Late 50s LP Gold Top loaned to me for a week or so and could have bought it for $1,200. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | I haven't sold many guitars.....but there are a few cars I regret selling.......maybe another thread!!
There is one I remember although I didn't own it.
Back in the early sixties my dad had a car wrecking yard as well as general secondhand business.
I always remember a light greeny coloured electric guitar he had at one time.
I was about 9-10 at the time and before my interest in guitars.
I now realise it was a Seafoam green Fender Stratocaster.....ah well!!
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Location: 6 String Ranch | My 53 Les Paul that AJ wants to buy....
Going for the full Lester effect!
Maybe this will make up for the strat... |
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Location: CA | Wayne, yer killin me. That Strat could have been a '59? Took some photos of it with me in my Beatles-era haircut. Will have to dig them out and see if I can ID the guitar better. Course then I'll feel REALLY bad... |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Meh, you'll only have to feel 4 years or so worse than you already feel!
I'd love to see the pics to know for sure, though. |
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Location: Rochester, NY | I had a American Strat. It was the year they released the 25th anniversary model but it was not a "25th Anniversary" model. It did have the 25 years anniversary logo on the neck plate:) Back then you could buy a new American strat for less than 700. Now they are well over a thousand.
Now I have a John Petrucci Ernie Ball Music man electric. Its a great guitar in its own right. But boy do I miss that strat neck pickup on a nice clean channel:) :) :) |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Get a blank page: number from 1 to 100...
Seriously though, it seems what goes around comes around...I just moved and the guitar room here is full already...however, these are keepers and Beals idea of using the bathroom and shower is tempting...
Many here have benefited from my now and then momentary loss of mind...so it's all good!
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Location: GA USA | Seems to be a little bit of a theme here. The only guitar I really regret selling is an American Standard Strat that I bought around 1990 for around $500. Nothing historical or all that special about it, but it was a great guitar. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I have never "had" to sell a guitar so I guess that is why I don't regret selling any of the ones that I have sold.....and the best one is only the best till a better one comes along.
I am sure that ultimately they all went to better homes where they received more attention and playing time than I was giving them (hence why I sold them). |
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Location: Flahdaw | You ever sell that EF-75 and you'll regret it. |
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Location: East Tennessee | I sold a Country Artist and it cost me more to buy a used one a few years ago to replace it. |
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Location: Rochester, NY | Fortunately I sold my strat to a friend and he says I can always buy it back from him! :) |
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Location: California | I have not sold any guitars yet. If anyone wants back a 53 Les Paul, there is one in CL.
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/msg/2402145180.html |
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Location: Utah | Some of these old Les Paul and Fender guitars that people have let go have got to cause some pain. Ouch.
I sold an Adamas to get a new Adamas. I also sold a Music Man Luke and JP to get new Luke and JP guitars. All three of those were very nice guitars. |
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Location: Rochester, NY | Brickglass, which JP guitar do you have and what color. I got a killer deal on a used JP (in mint condition) with the Piezo for a grand. Its not the mystic green one though. That mystic green is awesome! |
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Location: Utah | I sold a mystic dream JP and replaced it with the koa BFR JP. The Luke I sold was the Luke Blue color and I replaced it with the koa Luke. All four are great guitars, but the koa's are beyond what words can describe. I'll post some pics tomorrow. |
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Location: Rochester, NY | Nice! Would love to see those pics. The BFR model is so nice man! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | This...
All of these...
Both of these...
I sold this... (but I got it BACK!)
Sold this too... (but TJ sold me another one)
Really wish I hadn't sold These too... (didn't know what I had til they were gone)
I've got things that I have regretted buying too, y'know! :p |
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