Guitars you wish you had back!

[musikarero]

If you are like me you probably regret getting rid of some of your guitars. I really miss my Axis SS that I traded for a amp a couple of years back. It was trans orange with humbuckers. Another guitar that I really wish I had back was a custom shop tele. Only one hundred were made and I had number fifty-four. It was a beautiful light blue with tons of birdseye all over the maple neck. Okay that is two of a long line of regrets for me....how about the rest of my fellow Ernie Ballers?!!

 

[Jimi D]

My Luke!! I traded it for a Jem a few years back... dumb! dumb! dumb! dumb! dumb!

 

[PurpleSport]

Love most of the gear I have now, but I really want my first electric back (an absolultely DEAD-ON Japanese lawsuit era copy of a Les Paul Custom Black Beauty that my late dad got for me on military duty in Tokyo), as well as the first functional superstrat I built from an ash Hondo body. Oddly enough, that started my whole ash fixation which still lives on with my Axis Sport today!

Both were apparently stolen by a crack addict on my last day in college. Get this: the guy crawled up the side of my apartment (a converted garage), kicked in the attic vent, came in through the ceiling, changed clothes right there in my bedroom (yes, stole a pair of Reeboks, socks, shirt, and jeans too, to add insult to injury!), grabbed my axes and preamp and headed right out the front door!

They're all probably sitting in someone's bedroom somewhere totally bashed up and unappreciated for what they are and what went into getting/building/modding them...

Moral of this story, kids, is to have good renter's/homeowner's insurance and photgraphic documentation of what you have. I managed to get some good stuff in return that was worth more than my original gear in monetary value (but sadly, not sentimental)....

 

[tvanveen]

I miss a Gibbie SG I had years ago, probably my first "real" guitar.

I'm not that big of an SG fan, but my dad gave it to me.

 

[Scotty]

I had a US Fender Strat that I'd done some mods on. I had stripped the paint off and oiled the body for a natural effect, the guitar was stunning

That Tele sounds great, I really feel your pain on that one.

 

[OrangeChannel]

The one guitar I wish I had back was an Older Ibanez RG that I'd done a boat load of mods to, from getting the pickguard from a Jem 7VW to putting a tone zone, jem single, and air norton in. That guitar smoked and sounded great. Not that I have much use for floyds anymore but it's worth crying over now. It's about 8 years gone anyways.....I also wish I had one of the two PRS that I sold back. CE24 in tobacco burst, that guitar had the tone too. Maybe I'll have my AL soon so I can stop thinking about these lost pieces.

 

[tvanveen]

Hey OC, what options and finish did you get?

Going from Ibanez and PRS to an AL seems like quite a change in direction...

 

[ex3.8]

Early 80's Les Paul Standard sunburts. Couldn't play it for **** but........

 

[bing4sons]

Well I had a Gibson Les Paul standard that I sold to get my wife's engagement ring about 21 years ago. It was a great trade though.

I may also regret selling my Orange SS that I have for sale not. It has the prettiest top, IMO, of any guitar I've ever owned.

Bing

 

[musikarero]

Scotty the tele was nice. It was actually a Esguire that came with a neck pickup. It was a light metal flake blue with a dark rosewood finger board. I remember the back pickup sounding so good I never installed the neck pickup. Even though the guitar was routed for it and came with an extra pickguard, I never bothered to change it. There is a small picture and advertisement for that guitar in one of the old frontline mags years back. Said it was a limited custom tele with only 100 being made "so hurry before they are all gone"... It came with a light brown tolex case with yellow lining. I still have that old frontline by the way and I can't bring myself to look in there. Worst thing about the whole thing is I can't remember what the hell I traded the guitar far. What a mistake!!

 

[OrangeChannel]

Hey OC, what options and finish did you get?

Going from Ibanez and PRS to an AL seems like quite a change in direction...

I have 5 hot rods right now...2 are basically hotrodded tele's
2 are hot rodded strats (one has a tele style electronics layout)
and 1 is a custom jazzmaster....I kinda want a trem guitar since theyre all fixed bridge jams. I'm a freak dude. You have no idea.

 

[akozols]

Hi,

I had a pink EVH and a red Sil Special. I don't regret getting rid of the EVH, though I wish I made a better deal. I paid $1200 new and sold it for about $2400.

I do miss the Sil Special. That was one comfy guitar. Everything about it felt comfortable from the way it hugged my body to the smoothness of the neck. I sold it becuase at the time I had a quilt Wolf and was going to make a Wolf Special with an Axis Sport SSS pickguard.

Al

 

[peter71]

Early 70's Ibanez Artist (Tans Blue Sunburst, weighed about fifty pounds but sounded like a dream)


I got rid of it because it had a buzz in the string. I took it to a repair guy and he said that it was probably always going to buzz. So I traded it in for a Mexican Tele. My tele sucked, and later I saw my Artist in their show room for $800 and the buzz was gone. I never shopped there again, and may have said a few off color remarks to the repair guy that may have come off as a threat to his well being and possibly very precious parts of his anatomy.

I don't really remember it that well.

 

[nobozos]

My uncle's 1972 Blonde Telecaster Custom. He died when I was about 4, and my Grandma kept his guitar in a back bedroom in her house until I was 17, at which point she gave it to me. The finish was checked, and she had written his name on it with a sharpie, so I had it re-painted like any dumbass 17 year old would have done. It was a professional paint job, and looked cool, but it completely ruined the vintage value of the guitar. Even though it was re-painted, it was probably still worth some scratch, but I had no idea at the time, so when I was about 20, I traded it for an Epiphone Les Paul, even trade.
I get sick every time I see an original Tele Custom in Guitar Center for about $3200. I keep thinking, "Man, that would have bought the EBMM/EVH I've always wanted." I don't feel bad because the guitar was a great guitar or anything, in fact, it played rather poorly. The high E string would tend to slip off the bottom of the neck past the twelth fret, and the stock bridge pickup was extremely trebly. Great for country music, but not much good for what I play. So, I guess I don't really regret getting rid of the Tele, I just regret not getting out of it what I should have.
Oh well, live and learn I guess.

 

[aaronb]

my trans-red quilt top axis.....traded for an SG about 4 years ago ( i was 13 and stupid)

 

[Mick]

Oh you poor guys...
I kept all guitars I´ve ever owned exept a Gibson L 6 S deluxe which is a crap guitar btw.
I feel sorry for you.
Mick

 

[blackspy]

Man, I had an Elite Stratocaster with a silver-burst finish way back, I wish I still had that. I traded it for an Ibanez RG-something in my shredder phase. Had the roller nut, locking tuners, pushbutton pickup selectors... sigh.

 

[Raz]

My very first guitar, it was a Fender Musicmaster, with the one pup in the neck position...I just gave it away...ok lets hear it.

 

[louisgtr]

Loch Ness green Jem777 I bought back in '87.

 

[SteveB]

no regrets

I don't miss any of my former guitars. But then I'm not really a gear whore, either, so my purchases are deliberate and infrequent. (No offense to the gear whores of this board, which would be most of you.. )