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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2018 15:02:09 GMT
I am sure you made the right decision, as much as I wanted to buy it from you! Actually I have a guy coming round tomorrow to look at my Strat, so if he likes it, I would have enough dosh. But will just mean I am looking harder again at Brooks, Lowdens and Turnstones!
Only guitar I regret selling was my MIJ Fender Jazz bass. It wasn't expensive at all, but it felt and played like a dream.
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Post by vikingblues on Nov 7, 2018 19:57:25 GMT
Fortunately no major regrets yet on selling acoustic guitars, and there's been quite a few. I did miss a Tanglewood Java TWJPE for a wee while. A parlour with a cedar top and a nice piece of spalted mango down the centre of the guitars back. It did have a rather sweet sound and was ridiculously cheap in a VIP sale - new and just under £250. I can't remember now why I sold it, but it was probably to help funds for yet another guitar. There is one regret in the non acoustic guitar arena. I sold a Vintage VSA590 - a semi hollow similar to a Casino, with great sounding Wilkinson P90 pickups. I sold it to help fund buying a Gibson SG with P90s - a "special" guitar so I thought. Which turned out to be a disaster and was sold in turn less than 2 months after I got it. The sound from the VSA590 was so much better. Mark
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Post by oustudent on Nov 7, 2018 20:15:11 GMT
You Live and Learn. so they say
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Post by vikingblues on Nov 7, 2018 20:18:46 GMT
You Live and Learn. so they say Well .... I live, but haven't got the hang of learn yet.
Mark
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Post by oustudent on Nov 8, 2018 16:10:33 GMT
Update
I was a bit upset that I had let down the guy who wanted the Taw, he contacted me and said he was still very interested and if I changed my mind I was to contact him. So I was feeling a bit guilty and I asked him to give me a call this morning. We chatted for half an hour and we arranged for him to call tomorrow and if he liked it he would pay me £1,600.00. So I finally made my mind up to sell, no backing out now..............................................
He just text me, he's not coming %&*!@£$%%*&^%
John
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Post by curmudgeon on Nov 13, 2018 16:39:57 GMT
Seler's Remorse ? Yeah, a few.
The one's that still sting are the Martin "-17 and the Gibson L-3, both of which I had to sell in 1975 when I'd moved into Hertfordshire for a new job and got my first mortgage - they each went to pay for a month's repayment. It's the Gibson I still miss really.
!973 Martin D35 - bought in 1975 sold in 1996 to a friend who still gigs it most nights. It went with me through my bluegrass years. There was/is something magical about that particular guitar - someone suggested (on UMGF) that Martin got some Euro spruce at about that time - can't say but it is the finest sounding D35 I ever heard.
A good friend and fellow dobro player was dying and gave me his Dobro which looked lovely but sounded horrible (I later discovered that it was because it was made (assembled) by gibson who always got the intonation way out. I sold my old '70s Dobro and gave his wife the money. Then had to spend a lot with Dave King to route out the cone shelf, and replace with a Beard cone and spider built by Beard to help compensate for the gibson build errors. It's fine now but wish I'd kept the other one.
Too many mandolins to mention but my Lebeda is ace so gotta let go.
National Style "O" Deluxe - traded to guitar village for an Estralita which I later discovered needed a neck reset.
Traded my 2007 Eastman AR805(e) towards a Waterloo and instantly missed the Eastmasn....Bought another earlier this year.
Time is like a river .... and guitars float on it.
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simonalex
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My main instrument is: Bown OM Lowden F50 Lowden 025 Mc Nally S
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Post by simonalex on Nov 19, 2018 22:21:22 GMT
Several really that got away-a Lowden F35 in alpine spruce and cocobolo sold to carry out some building works, a Ralph Bown 000 in koa-very old with many scars and imperfections but which sounded lovely,a Brook tamar sold to Steve Tilston a year ago which again was a lovely guitar..Nowdays I am cautious when buying as it seems easier to buy having fallen in love than to sell when the relationship with the instrument changes.
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