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(06-01-2021, 11:35 AM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Here's a question that I think everyone can relate to that been playing for a long time...  Any guitars you're still kicking yourself for selling?

I may not even want to hear the answer to this from some of the guys a little older than me (Ex: I sold a pre cbs strat for 900 bucks in the 80's.)

I don't have anything that was worth crazy money that I got rid of but I've had quite a few I really wish I would kept.

-1976 Gibson Firebird with the bicentenial logo, with OHSC.  I sold this for around 700 bucks to Mike's Music in the late 90's so I could buy books for school.  I'm guessing it'd be worth around 5-7k today.  This was my first "nice guitar".  But being a 15 year old kid I didn't appreciate it as much as I should have (I didn't like the body shape then).  I owned for a few years and was actually playing an Ibanez more than it.  I'd love to play it now that I'm older.

-1959 Fender Musicmaster.  I got this in high school from a friend for like 300 bucks and a DOD Flanger.  This guitar obviously wasn't that great but it's still a 50's Fender.  I have no idea what this would be worth today but I'm guessing quite a bit (5k maybe???)

-1964 Mustang.  Similar to the Musicmaster, it was just a Mustang, nothing that special.  But it was Pre-CBS and it was all original.  Being a teen in the 90's obviously these were popular with the kids who liked Nirvana.  I think I've owned 3 Mustangs at one point or another but this is the only one that I really should have kept.  (The others were 70's models).  I can't remember what I did with this, if I sold it or traded it, but I can almost guarantee I got less than 1k for it in the mid 90's.

-1982 Gibson Les Paul Studio Standard.  This is the guitar I actually miss the most, and it's probably worth the least.  This was one of the last years from Kalamazoo which was cool.  And being a "Studio Standard" is was basically a standard with dot inlays and slightly thinner body.  It was all orginal with Tim Shaw's which were really nice.  It's the best Les Paul I've ever owned and I've own a bunch.  I think I sold this for like 1,200 bucks in the early 2000's

-Suhr Classic Antique Limited Edition.  I miss both my Suhrs, but I miss the "strat" a lot more than the Tele.  The tele I can live without.  This one however is my favorite strat style guitar I've ever owned.  It was also a limited edition finish (black over sunburst) and they only made 500 total across multiple colors.  I really wish I could have kept this.  But I needed some money and being a bedroom player these days it doesn't make sense for me to have that expensive of a guitar.

-Fender Mustang Bass mid 70's.  Thought I'd throw a bass on here.  I LOVED this thing.  It was short scale so it was perfect for me a guitar player.  I bought it because a buddy asked me to play bass for some recordings he was doing with his band after their bass player quit.  I'm far from an expert on bass but I really thought it sounded pretty good.  I should've kept it.  It was a blast to play.

Any of you got any guitars that got away that you wish you still had?

My collection has never been that big that I've sold off extras.  BUT, my neighbors growing up tossed a guitar out in the trash by the street my brother brought home.  I looked at it and thought "meh" because it didn't have a name brand I recognized (no name at all, actually, so I assumed it was just a kit guitar) and told him he could do whatever he wanted with it.  He shoved in a closet and several years later he told me he'd figured out it was an old Teisco electric.  Neck and body were in great shape, it just needed some updated electronics after years of non-use (just the pots, the Spectrum pickups still worked great).  Those sell for anywhere between $600-1,500 online when I've seen them.  Would've been a cool vintage piece more than something extremely valuable, but I just had zero idea.  

I'm also still mad about a late-70s Ibanez Iceman I found for sale while I was in college.  The guy was moving and broke and willing to unload the guitar and case for $75 because he'd inherited it, didn't care about it and wanted cash over lugging around a guitar he wouldn't use.  But I was interning at a music studio and we had a session so I couldn't drive the hour to pick it up and he sold it to someone else.