True or False? Every guitarist has seller’s remorse…

lex666

lex666

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I’ve been collecting guitars for decades now and was reminiscing about the guitars I wish I never sold. Is this an inevitable part for any guitarist? Death, taxes, and the guitar envy?
 
I think we all go through it, just not with every guitar sold. There are many I have been happy to sell, as they didn't work for me. Just one or 2 I sold I wished I had back.
 
No remorse here. I've Only sold a couple (ie. two) of guitars (of the 40+ I have) over the last 30 or so years ..and one of those I bought back :p
 
I don't miss any of the guitars I've sold. But I haven't sold any guitars that I was attached to.
 
I've never sold any gear. I have traded or given it away but never sold. I have never traded for more gear either.
 
I sold, traded, and gave away a bunch of stuff when I was younger, and I used to regret it, so I stopped getting rid of anything for about 20 years. I think I'm at the point where I know what's important practically and I can respect my strong sentimental attachment to a few things, and everything else can go. I do best when I only play one instrument every day anyway, unless I need to practice switching between guitar and bass or drums or something. I just need a few guitar shipping boxes.
 
I can't sell music gear, but most of my stuff is very easy to give away. Guitars are tools and losing one is just a reminder that everything is borrowed. There will come a day when we lose all our instruments, so there's no point to letting it hurt
 
I go through phases when it comes to what I am interested in playing, so I've sold things to buy what I want at the moment, but inevitably I come back round to wanting things I've already had. Amongst all of the things that were sold, there were a few "perfect specimens", not necessarily cosmetically, they just played and sounded perfectly. A great goldtop Les Paul Standard, a purple quilt top EBMM Axis, and an original black Paul Reed Smith CE24 from '91, and a Tremonti from about '11, black gold quilt top, and a black Peavey Wolfgang and Vandenberg Custom, those are the ones I regret the most (I have owned other examples of all of these guitars, but they were not the same!), there have been amps as well but most of those were 100-120 watt heads that I can't really use anyway so I don't really miss those!
 
Ehhh...if you want a piece of gear back that got rid of, there are plenty of avenues to go about doing that. This is assuming said gear wasn't some super rare, one-off piece of course!
 
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Thinking back on the few guitars I've sold, I can't say that I want any of them back. I'm not an impulsive person, so by the time I sell a guitar it's usually something I should have already parted with.
 
I kinda regret selling my Fender bass. I rarely touched it, but it was nice being around.
 
False. I have bought and sold guitars since the 70's (often had guitars much older than that). Every now and then I had a bit of remorse, but that was very rare. I still buy and sell because I get gas, buy something....but5 don't keep many guitars around, so I'm no hoarder.
 
I've sold a lot over the past 65 years and regret every single one.

That being said, if you never sell any, you'll never have seller's remorse. So now-a-days I just don't sell any of "my" guitars (I do sell custom builds to customers, however).
 
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