Ever run across your old guitars up for sale?

[KeeperOS]

Re: Ever run across your old guitars up for sale?

It once happened to me in reverse, I got a PM from a member here telling me that he was the original owner of a guitar I have and that he wanted to buy it back. Apparently he had sold it to the bro I bought it from.
He described the guitar in detail that you'd have to have owned, or at least played it, to know.

It was funky

 

[Vengeance]

Re: Ever run across your old guitars up for sale?

I had a ibby I cherished but the neck was waaay to thin for me and I would get cramps playing it. It was rare and a beautiful flamed top sunburst. I loved this guitar and it killed me to sell it. About 2 years later I found it in a pawn shop just beat to hell and back. That guitar was just destroyed. Scratches, dings, chunk out of the edge of the guitar. Broke my heart to sell that guitar, broke my heart again to see it destroyed.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Re: Ever run across your old guitars up for sale?

Only in the shop I traded it to. I bought a s/h Les Paul Studio in alpine white back in 2000 when my MSG Standard was in dock. I kept it for a while but never really gelled with it - mainly due to the fret work being junk - this being long before I had the tools and skills to tidy such things up, but I digress. I eventually traded it for my Yamaha SA2200. Anyway, a few months later, I saw the same guitar on the wall of the shop, it's condition though was something to behold. Seemingly, it's time in KSA had resulted in the wood on the body contracting, but nothing was apparent on the surface - the shop had paid good money for it at the time. By the time I saw it again the wood had obviously absorbed moisture from the atmosphere in the UK, where humidity is significantly higher. The whole surface of the paintwork had turned into a mass of cracks, the like of which you'd normally find on a crackle-glaze vase; talk about a relic job, the Gibson Custom Shop would have been proud of it. I mumbled a rather embarrassed question about its condition, then left pronto...

 

[sixstringsamurai333]

Re: Ever run across your old guitars up for sale?

It's happened to me heaps of times, largely because NZ is a small place, and I have bought/sold a LOT of gear over the years.

On a few occasions I've even bought the guitars back! I re-bought an old RG770DX on impulse... but realized I still didn't love it, and resold it (again!).

This year I found the old Gibson LP Classic I'd foolishly sold off a few years ago. Best LP I've ever owned. Bought it back in a heartbeat, never letting that one go again.

 

[metlking]

Re: Ever run across your old guitars up for sale?

I sold an R9 on eBay then saw it back on eBay about 8-9 months later.....it had been trashed in that time. Must've been someones touring axe. It was beautiful when I had it!

 

[BloodRose]

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kinda different, yet similar sitch.. Im selling Washburn now and the guy that is buying it is the guy I bought it from. He misses it.. I understand why.. Im gonna miss it too.. Nice axe!

 

[3'scompany]

Re: Ever run across your old guitars up for sale?

I never have, though I'm not surprised. All the guitars I've sold have been liquidated because eventually I found them to be wanting in something I desired, even if needing some money was my main motivating factor for the sale.

It might also have to do with the fact that I'm not very sentimental when it comes to gear. I go through a lot of guitars trying to find something that suits me best and never really get attached to guitars. Therefore, when I buy a new guitar it's usually something different from what I owned in the past. That doesn't lead to me finding my old gear for sale.

That being said, I did go see a band play one time and their lead guitarist was using my old giant dual-head JCM 2000/Mesa Rectifier flight case. I felt phantom back pains just looking at it.

 

[King IzzO)))]

Re: Ever run across your old guitars up for sale?

Yep, a couple times. I tend to do weird **** to everything, so if I see it, I'll usually know. My old ESP KH-2 with yellow dimarzio's and a black XPL Explorer. The XPL pissed me off pretty bad.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Ever run across your old guitars up for sale?

I flip quite a bit and occasionally that happens.

I would actually buy two of them back (my original LP Custom and my cherry Explorer).