Advice needed Part 1....

[Smellybum]

My fellow knuckleheads,

I need your help!

I have a heavy guitar collection that I want to thin out to prepare for a BFR, and possibly something else.

My problem is that I have had some of these guitars for over 10 years and have gotten a little attached...

your opionions are valued as to what should go and what should stay - I'll post the final decision when my DD luke arrives...

CURRENT LIST.....

AXIS - Black /Floyd and matching
AL Blue non- matching
DD Luke with piezo - 1of 5 - eta May -07
SUB 1 in Cinamon

the above ones are the easy part....

2004 Gibson Les Paul Standard
2001 Gibson Les Paul Classic
1984 Gibson Les Paul custom blk.
2000 Gibson Les Paul Custom (CS) Alpine white
1994 fender Heartfield Talon iii
1994 Wolf EVH clone
1991 PRS EGIII
1993 Std Mex Strat

The non balls are my area of concern - your thoughts and opinions welcome... I may end up keeping all the non balls or they may all go - help me decide!

 

[andynpeters]

I'm in the same position, though for slightly different reasons, with a PRS goldtop, a J-200, a 335, a Strat Deluxe, a Ric 360 & 360/12, 2 DeArmonds as well as my 2 EBMM SS to try to choose between. Not easy is it
Not here to hijack your thread though,,,,,so here are a few thoughts
The Gibsons duplicate each other so keep the 1 or 2 you like best
The AL probably renders the PRS & MexiStrat redundant....you might be able to find a "collector" to get a good price for the PRS
The other 2 will probably not bring in a lot of money so might be worth keeping and using for open tunings or something.
Of course none of this addresses the sentimental value question, so you also need to think about how easy they would be to replace if you needed to.......modern Gibsons very easy, "vintage" (hah,hah!!) '80s ones less so.
Or in short words......it's up to you!

 

[Jimothy JP7]

+1 on cleaning on some of the les pauls. They may have some individuality to them, but nothing that an EB wont crush.

I'm no strat fan, so of course I'm going to say give that the boot, but obviously you have it for a reason.

Definitely keep the Wolfgang, I'm sure it feels great.

 

[Sub1 Zero]

I am doing the same thing with the Axxion... As soon as I finish my history test today, that and the Kramer are going on the bay. The way I see it is, if you give it to a good home where it will be treated right, you haven't lost anything

 

[Astrofreq]

I'd say really think it through. I wish I had my first two electrics, especially my first, even though they were junkers. If you have your first guitar, keep it. The money you'll make isn't worth more than the emotional value. I've had guitars I've sold and never missed since, but the old ones I regret selling.

 

[MusicManJP6]

I'd say lose the strat and a few les pauls... But like everyone else is saying, "don't sell your first guitar"! I still have mine............

 

[Fusionman]

Keep the Balls and the LP standard. Consider selling the SUB. Lose everything else.

 

[mark_tampa]

I'd say sell off two of your Pauls, used market is good on them and you should have enough for your BFR.

I've sold off all my Fenders and Gibsons (except a Warmoth that I made with EMG's). EBMM replaced the Fenders, Hamer's replaced the Gibsons and haven't looked back.

BTW, owned a '62 Strat in near mint condition that I was afraid to play as to devalue it if something happened to it. Purchased 10 years ago for $700 or so, sold it a year to so ago for unreal money, enough that I went out and bought a '72 Cessna 150. I've put a heck of a lot more hours on the Cessna in the year I've had it than the 10 years I owned the strat..

 

[andynpeters]

Never heard of Cessna guitars. What do they look like?

 

[mark_tampa]

Not a guitar, airplane.. With a 150hp engine conversion and STOL kit. Great fun to fly, and insurance is actually cheaper than my car!

 

[glockaxis]

It has a fuselage, two wings that double as fretboards and is powered by a propeller-driven engine not your "Michaelangelo Batio speed Kills fingers." Unlike most guitars this one flies and stays airborne until the fuel runs out.----in other words, he's talking about an airplane not a guitar.

 

[dfrady]

I would probably keep the first guitar you ever owned, as far as the rest goes, if you're not playing them their not doing you any good collecting dust, sell those baby's and buy something that would be of some use too you. I sold my 1957 LP Custom reissue several years ago to buy an Axis, and never looked back as the guitar was just collecting dust because it wasn't being played, because i had sold 2 ESP Kirk Hamsters to fund 2 Axis' and then later sold my 40th Ann. Strat just too get rid of it. These are just my 2 pennies, good luck on what ever you decide to do Smelly.

 

[robelinda2]

ditch the non balls. you know you want to. maybe keep one LP.

 

[andynpeters]

It has a fuselage, two wings that double as fretboards and is powered by a propeller-driven engine not your "Michaelangelo Batio speed Kills fingers." Unlike most guitars this one flies and stays airborne until the fuel runs out.----in other words, he's talking about an airplane not a guitar.

Please can posters on this side of the Atlantic have an irony smiley??

 

[Sweat]

My two cents or what ever the british currency equivalent is!
$ Les Pauls, just keep the one you like best, the rest at least in the american market bring good $$$, I sold a new unfinished Les Paul on the bay and got what I payed for it, dump all the fenders, just crap as far as I am concerned, the PRS well I might keep cant comment on the Wolfgang no clue to what it is like, as far as the first guitar thing, I kept mine for a while but why have a dust collector when you can buy a ball, sold it my first that is to buy my AL.

 

[glockaxis]

Please can posters on this side of the Atlantic have an irony smiley??

sorry