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hippiedave

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I regret a few...but the ones I'd really like to see back were the 2 first electric guitars I had 42 years ago. I can't remember the made or even what kind of pickups were in it...at that time' date=' I was knowing nothing else about guitars than a few chords and hardly tune them by ears...lolll ...The only thing I remember, it was bought at Sears by my parents as a Chritmas gift.

The second electric guitar I had, had a toilet seat shape (with single coils)....it was her nick name for all the time I had it. It's the first guitar I gigged with. There is an old picture of it, but you can't see no names or made... this picture is me and my toilet seat...40 years ago....

And the worst part you can see...I was wearing socks in my sandals...lollll

 

 

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wow...you did a roof top gig just like the Beatles before the Beatles did it!...the socks with the sandals thing...no, that ain't happening...but I did have a strap like that...in fact, I may still have it somewhere and I'm also pretty sure I had those clothes too...but not the sandals. Your guitar looks like a Teisco tear drop model..those Teisco pickups are pretty common. I think I have a few of them in a box somewhere. The guitar may have been sold through Sears but I'm pretty certain it's a Tesico...you didn't by chance also have a Nehru jacket ???

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wow...you did a roof top gig just like the Beatles before the Beatles did it!...the socks with the sandals thing...no' date=' that ain't happening...but I did have a strap like that...in fact, I may still have it somewhere and I'm also pretty sure I had those clothes too...but not the sandals. Your guitar looks like a Teisco tear drop model..those Teisco pickups are pretty common. I think I have a few of them in a box somewhere. The guitar may have been sold through Sears but I'm pretty certain it's a Tesico...you didn't by chance also have a Nehru jacket ???[/quote']

 

Sorry Uncle Al...Unfortunately, I was'nt gigging on the roof at that moment...just posing...lollll

And just to make it clear, the first guitar was fom Sears, but not the one on the picture ( was the 2nd )

So you must be right with the make...I don't remember at all...and how did you know I had a Nehru jacket ??? lollll

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I haven't let go of too many. I miss all of them from time to time. But I generally traded them in or sold them to upgrade to another guitar. I don't have any huge regrets, like the guy I went to high school with...who traded a 1955 Black Beauty Les Paul for an Ibanez Destroyer! =;

 

The one I really miss is my 1953 Gibson ES-125. I traded it in because a fully hollow guitar with no cutaways and 1 P-90 pickup didn't really cut it for a 16-year-old playing in loud garage bands. My current 45-year-old self would like to have a word with my 16-year-old incarnation. Sigh...

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Lutheran1971

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I regret selling my wine red Elitist LP Custom, though I needed to at the time....Tulsaslim got a great guitar and I am glad that it went to someone who will take care of her.

 

Somewhere out there is the white Elitist custom that I've been pining for since day one....just have to get the cash, the wife and the willpower all aligned. Yeah, the middle one is the tough part.

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I regret selling my wine red Elitist LP Custom' date=' though I needed to at the time....Tulsaslim got a great guitar and I am glad that it went to someone who will take care of her.

 

Somewhere out there is the white Elitist custom that I've been pining for since day one....just have to get the cash, the wife and the willpower all aligned. Yeah, the middle one is the tough part.[/quote']

 

Lutheran, I feel a pang of guilt every time I play it. The only thing that clears my head is that I'd like to think that me buying the custom in some way kept you from selling that gorgeous blue elitist studio you have (and if I were you I'd get another credit card or something before I'd ever sell that beauty). Here's hoping you get the white custom. (BTW, I want a white custom real bad, too. Never knowing when Gibson is going to pull the plug on the elitists I feel that every day that goes by without me buying one is like walking one step closer to the edge of a cliff).

 

As for me, I'll always regret trading my mid-60's walnut 335 and the '69 LP Deluxe I traded it for.

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carverman

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and you are kicking yourself in the *** for in now' date=' [/quote']

 

For me it would have to be my '66 Epi Riviera..I let myself be swayed by my

boss at the guitar shop, because he couldn't get one from Gibson back then

in a reasonable time and would have lost the sale. The other one would be

my beloved '67 Triumph that passed on to a collector (probably) due to a divource

cash crunch situation. I modified this archtop with wiring and SC De-Armond

p-ups, for a sound that was somewhat between a Epi Broadway and a Gretsch...sure

wish I had it back! Now, I would probably pay more for it than what I sold it for,

however it was part of my history as well as Epiphone's history,

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For the British car "fans"

 

Why aren't there any British computers?

 

Because they can't make one that leaks oil

 

Had 3 Gibsons' date=' one after the other (had GAS but couldn't afford more than one at a time)

a 330, a SG Standard and a SG Special. Would love to have kept any of them. But I sold

the last one for money to buy a motorcycle. Oh well....[/quote']

 

OK Why do the British drink warm beer? They own Lucas refrigerators!

 

I've bought and sold alot of guitars....but some regrets....69 Bigsby Tele,72 SG special,70 Les Paul Deluxe,57 RI Les Paul Custom Shop Gold Top,77 Electra 335 copy,Ovation Deacon,Guild SD-300...that's enough I'm getting depressed!

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jonny_2_owls

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The guitars I regret selling the most are all epiphones.

 

Elitist Casino with B7 Bigsby.

 

2 x 84 Japanese Casino in Wine Red (one with bigsby).

 

84 Japanese Casino in Tobacco Sunburst.

 

I now play an 84 japanese Riviera with Gibson Classic '57s (and soon a bigsby)! which I love but those casinos were just lovely...... hindsight is such a wonderful thing!

 

 

 

Also, if anyone is selling or knows where there is a Riviera 12 string for sale, I'm looking for one of those!

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byrds1965

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I miss my 68 335 with Bigsby. Sold off to buy an amp I no longer own.

 

I also miss my first electric just because. It was shaped like the Gibson Johnny A sig but made out of paneling and had a black pickgaurd with 2 white switches and had chrome single coils and a Bigsby type vibro thing that if you looked at it would go out of tune. It was a POS but was my first guitar.

 

The only guitar I regret not buying was one of those MIJ Casinos I saw in Dekalb IL with the solid color back. Didn't know what it was at the time and had just bought my burst MIK Casino. After joining here found out what it really was and went back to buy it and it was gone. Oh well.

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hippiedave

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Tales of woe?

 

I kinda wish I could have held on to my second Dan Armstrong. Also pissed off about having the first one stolen. Ah well.

I had my uncle's for about a year, I avoided him for 2 months when he asked for it back- he sold not even a year later for 450$ and didn't even call to see if I would buy it first-what a jerk!

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Epiphone Elitist Broadway...with upgrades...

 

Stupid' date=' stupid, stupid...8-[

 

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6string! Where oh where did you get those little buttons between the strings in the Frequensator? I have a buzz on the low E that I can solve with a pipe cleaner threaded thru or by wrapping a rubber band around them. Won't let anyone see my beautiful Byrdland reduced to that!

 

And I regret trading a 60s Silvertone 3-pickup (imbedded in lucite!) archtop in natural. The one with the silver plastic rocker arm on the rotary pickup selector switch - for a Squire strat that I traded used as partial trade for an 1971 MGB(GT) that was hit four times in 6 months and finally totaled in the last one. Insurance settlement bought my first Harley Davidson and I rode it half way around the world.

 

My, what a huge lot of memories that started with a guitar!

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carverman

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I only regret one - a Guild FS-46ce.

 

Guild made some beautiful guitars in the late 60s. Their flat tops

and archtops were par excellence, not to mention their classic nylon strings,

Mark II-Mark V (not sure if there was a MkIV?), maybe there was.

which rivalled in tone with anything that came out of Spain (Ramirez).

Unfortunately, a lot of those models got scrubbed when F*nder

bought them out and transferred production from Rhode Island to

Ca. A lot of the skilled luthiers out of R.I. didn't go along with the transfer

of the factory assets...and the Guild luthiers were the ones that

made the difference!

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Early 80's SG standard, Alpine White....sold it to a friend who before he paid the full asking price, lost the guitar and all of his stuff in a house fire. I let the debt go, wrote it off...don't regret that, but regret the "sale!"

 

Also, a Fender Esquire reissue that I had at 18. Wish I still had that one...turned it into something that I can't even remember now, but still miss that Esquire.

 

And, an Ovation Viper...my first decent electric. I turned that into a MIJ Fender Strat...

 

I could go on and on....LOL

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I sold a Gibson Explorer. Can't say I regret, it was a nice guitar but we never bonded like I have with my G-400 :-k

 

Worse is it that I sold my Washburn bass. Active pups, red with black crackle. Looked sweet. Oh well, at the end of the day it just didn't have enough strings.

 

But. The cream Kramer Floyd Rose sig I let go, that will haunt me as long as I live. Ser# E0403 - if you see her, tell her to come home.

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We've done this before..... But, when we gave them up, it wasn't that important to us at the time..

 

1. '63 Gibson SG w/Maestro tremolo w/lyre.. In early '70's bought for $50.00. S/N 135987. Sold it back to the guy that sold it to me for $500.00, 'cuz I found that a custom made Strat gave me more versatility on stage and it was just sittin' in the case. (many stories with that one)

2. '67 Gibson 335 12 string..S/N 067261........ Absolutely 'pristine'..... Traded in for the aforementioned Strat.

3. '67 Gibson ES175..........Another one just sittin' in the case. Paid $300.00 for it and sold it for $1200 just 'cuz I wasn't playing it..... Major slim neck... Don't have the S/N available right now..

 

SEVERAL others........ BUT, at the time, it felt like the right thing to do..................J

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