Your guitar(s) that you miss.

[Nostalgic Distortion]

Re: Your guitar(s) that you miss.

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Not actual guitar but identical to the one I had....

When I was 15 I ended up with a beautiful Gibson L6-S through a series of trades. If I remember correctly I traded my $200 Alvarez acoustic for a very nice Godin Super Strat copy. The Godin was worth a bit more than the acoustic but they are made here in town and the dude worked at the plant so he bought it at cost. (Godin used to have a program where if you had worked there for over three years you could buy one a year at factory cost.)



He needed a acoustic guitar much more than the Godin because of the band he was in at the time so we traded. Honestly this trade was purely monetary, I took it because it was worth more & not because I liked it, act. I hated that frigging thing!!!

LOL, It was a beautiful looking Flamed Maple guitar with a set neck and Schaller pickups but it had also had a Floyd on it which I still hate today, but really hated back then!!! I brought it to school with me shorty after doing the acoustic trade, this kid I knew came over and basically fell in love with it!

He didn't really play or know much about guitars. I think he liked people to think he did, one of deals & I'm sure we've all met one??? LOL, his father had given him the L6-S a few years prior & it had just sitting under his bed. So while he was checking the Godin out & pawing over it I said that I'd trade for his Gibson and $100, the guy agreed!!! I had it for about 3 years but it was a 1975 & getting to the point where it was going to need some work done to it if I still wanted it to be a viable player...

Keep in mind I was only 17-18 at the time & really didn't even know how to do a setup, let alone trying to straighten out the neck and level the fretboard!!! I knew I didn't have the knowledge or funds to fix it properly so I traded again. This time for a used USA Strat and a 50W S.S. Fender amp, both of them served me very well for years!!!

Still, I'd kill to have that thing back now! Give me that same guitar and a afternoon to work on it, I know could make it great again!!!

 

[Progbusters]

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no really a guitar but last night I accidentally stripped the wires of the coil on my SH-5 and I miss that pickup now.

 

[Gunsmith1971]

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I had an early 80's ML style body with a Floyd Rose and a strat style neck that I bought off a guitar builder. It was the best guitar that I ever owned and I kinda regret giving it away to a friend who couldn't afford a guitar at the time. It had Dimarzio pickups and was painted white. I also regret selling a late 70's Fender Strat and a Gibson Explorer. The strat was in mint condition and I got a deal on it. Now they are very expensive to get an American Strat in that great of shape. Biggest regret I have for not buying a guitar would be the 1960's American Fender Strat 12 string electric guitar for $500.00 at Cambridge Music Center. That place was a gold mine for vintage guitars that were in mint condition and not over priced. I also regret not buying the Steve Vai Jem guitars when they were so cheap and shops couldn't give them away lol. Now you see them on fleaBay for $3,000.00 to $5,000.00 for a Jem guitar. I really wasn't a fan of them so I passed up getting one.

 

[2ndhandband]

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Had an early 70s Tele with a Strat pickup at the neck. It was one of the best sounding guitars I owned and it got run over by a truck... :flush:

The bad thing was it was like the one and only time I ever took that axe to a gig. Normally I won't gig with something that doesn't have a whammy on it but I made an exception because I was filling in with a country band.

 

[Demanic]

Re: Your guitar(s) that you miss.

'84 Carvin V220 in red and gold with the Kahler.
'89 Ovation collector series blue with a pointy headstock.

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[Diego]

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I've parted ways with the following guitars:

Ibanez RG1550 / sold
Jackson KV4 / sold
Jackson KE3 / sold
Epiphone S210 / stolen
$30 no-name POS acoustic / stolen

And I wouldn't have any of them back.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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I miss every one I've ever gotten rid of.

 

[rozman62]

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'71 black Gibson LP custom. Bought it used in '82 for $450. It was in rough shape but played well. I sold it along with my '70 Marshall Super Lead to cover tuition.

 

[Adieu]

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1. ESP m1, 4-digit NY 48th street neckplate, maple/maple/alder, single EMG 85x in bridge, odd non-roller Kahler-branded bladed trem with fine tuners

Wasnt "mine" per se, had been eyeing it but didnt have the cash, mentioned it to a friend who lived abroad and he had me pick it up for him and ship it.

Heartbreaking.

Price was laughable, something like $620.

2. Japanese explorer/destroyer called Quest Atak
Bolton, superlight body possibly pine, nitro finish, rosewood board so dark it looked almost like ebony, fat huge fretwire, stringthru bridge, factory coiltaps on both buckers
Pickups swapped for DD hb108's i think...the ones that are wound like a Distortion, but have the pole pieces that look like an Invader's

Bought for $100, sold for $350

 

[MkIII Renegade]

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Sometimes I miss my 2004 PRS Custom 22 w/birds. Had to sell it during the Great Recession year of 2009 to pay bills, but it was so pristine and valuable that I didn't really want to play it a lot anyway for fear of scratching it. I no longer think of guitars that way, but at the time, it was good that I kept it flawless! I also think PRSs are perhaps a little too easy to play. I like the challenge that a Strat or Tele gives me. And they can look quite good with flaws. Some people even intentionally damage them for that look! :dance:

 

[Jeffblue]

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How about a late sixties aged white Gibson Les Paul Custom that had been rumored to once had belonged to Paul Kossoff and a early to mid sixties tobacco sunburst Gibson ES345. Both guitars, like the idiot I am, I let them go.

 

[BloodRose]

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there are several Id like to have back.. The 2 main ones are my Epi Ace Frehley.. It was rare black flame maple top and was very light.
The other is my Washburn WM526. Very cool features, a great axe and mine was the only one made with the finish that was on it

 

[EmiAba]

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My 1991 Fender Stratocaster. Bought new in 1992. My very first electric guitar. Sold a couple of years ago in really good shape.

 

[metalchurch79]

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I don't regret any of them because most went to good homes.
There are some that I miss and admittedly I do have fantasies about them and me on occasion. A few that come to mind at the moment are:
'87 Charvel Model 3 Pearl White
'87 Warlock USA Solar Yellow
'87 RG550 Road Flare Red
'13 Gunslinger Retro Yellow
'02 Gibson Faded V Cherry
'99 LTD V-250 Gun Metal Blue

 

[Robbiedbee]

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I've only parted with two guitars. First was a Squier Affinity Strat which I learned my first few licks on. It was a poor guitar though.

So the only guitar I miss would be my Epiphone Les Paul Custom. I loved how it looked, and it sounded pretty decent, I just never got on with how it felt. If money and space were no issue, I'd still have it. Knowing what I know now, I'd have sanded the neck and maybe dropped some Seymours in it. But there we go.

 

[NotCardio]

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Too many to list.

 

[STLMTLHD79]

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I have a couple....

1987 Charvel Model 2 white-I had swapped out the J-90c for a JB (probably MJ wound-it was an 80s production model). Played and sounded killer. I had it for sale at a store then the store got broken into...they stole my guitar so at least i got the money I wanted out of it.

1990ish Japanese Fender Strat-Cherry red with factory OFR and EMG SA pickups. Played amazing and its worth a pretty penny now.

1987 BC Rich ST III USA Baby Blue. I absolutely LOVED this guitar but it looked really lame (this was the early/mid 90s so this kind of guitar was way out). It had a Duncan Full Shred (again probably an MJ wound) and sounded so damn good for thrash metal.

1990 LP Standard Ebony. I bought the guitar basically in parts. It was a little beat up but not too bad. Swapped in a JB in the bridge (vintage unknown) tuned it down to C and played death metal with it.

1977 LP Standard Cherry Sunburst. All original. I swapped in DD and DC but at the time i didnt feel i had a good tone. I was just looking for output only (i was 15) and heaviness). The guitar was the heaviest LP i have ever touched to this day.

 

[Mincer]

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I had a Howard Roberts Fusion in the early 90s that I sold since it was so bright sounding. I wished I knew more about pickup swapping then, and I would have kept it, but there were Teles that sounded warmer than this thing. Maybe it was all of the maple, and balsa wood block in the middle. I think the modern ES-135 might be a better guitar that would get me closer to what I was going for with that one.

 

[Silence Kid]

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I was also cheated out of a project CIJ Jaguar now that I think about it; a "friend" was going to trade me a Jazzmaster project and never coughed up before falling off the face of the earth. Was young and stupid. I never got to play that guitar, but I miss it.

 

[devastone]

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Probably too many to name, along with amps.

Most recently the rootbeer JEM in my pic along with a cosmic blue (metallic purple) RG1527 that I sold this winter/spring to pay bills 'cause I've been unemployed. Good news is that I start a new job on Thursday!

Also had a sunburst LP Custom years ago that I should have hung on to.