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Thomas Bancroft Member From: Matawan, New Jersey, USA |
posted 08 December 2004 11:47 AM
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O.K. forumites. Tell us about the guitars that you sold or traded that you wish you had never let go. I bought a 1969 Dan Armstrong Plexi guitar in 1972 for $150 from a guy who didn't like it. Traded it for a cheapo univox Ric 4001 copy in 1976. The Dan Armstrongs are going for upwards of $2000 nowadays. I still wake up screaming at least once a year over this one! ------------------ |
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Mark Metdker Member From: North Central Texas, USA |
posted 08 December 2004 12:03 PM
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A great old '66 Strat. Great guitar and a very early MSA S-12 with no serial number! ------------------ Band Pics |
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Jim Phelps Member From: just out of Mexico City |
posted 08 December 2004 12:12 PM
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You asked! In order that I got them: 1. $15 used '50's Harmony Stella flattop acoustic
1. early '50's Oahu Diana lapsteel Just remembered my Epiphone Sheraton and Broadway, and 2 '80 Gibson Les Paul "Heritage" models, one had a quilted maple top, one had flame maple top, and a Les Paul Recording...Also a sonic-blue Hagstrom strat-type, forgot the actual model name, a Goya Rangemaster, Baldwin with "wild dog" sound....I'm sure there were more [This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 09 December 2004 at 10:25 AM.] |
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Michael Johnstone Member From: Sylmar,Ca. USA |
posted 08 December 2004 12:28 PM
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A 1958 Gibson Explorer. They're rare enough but this one was a prototype and had a "V" shaped headstock like a modern Dean guitar and this particular guitar probably inspired the Dean design. I bought it in 1973 from a guy from Kalamazoo in a top 40 band who was traveling thru Norfolk Va and needed the money. I got it for $750.00. I had never seen one before but I liked it's backward shape and Les Paul on steroids tone. About 6 months later I sold it to my buddy Randy Pope for what I had in it to raise money for my upcoming move to L.A. Not long after that,he sold it to George Gruhn for $3500.00 who sold it to Rick Derringer for a lot more than that and he kept it for years. The last time I heard,it was part of an exhibit in the Smithsonian called "Guitars of the 20th Century". Guitar collecter types all know about that guitar and have told me it's worth upwards of $100,000.00 - and that was back in the 80's. Yep - the one that got away.......FAR away. -MJ- |
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c c johnson Member From: killeen,tx usa |
posted 08 December 2004 12:58 PM
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1941 oahu tonemaster. 1946 national new yorker, 1947 rick panda, 1958 sho bud, 1960 msa. epiphone electar amp and shobud xmas tree amp. tears tears CC |
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Richard Bass Member From: Hendersonville, Tn |
posted 08 December 2004 01:23 PM
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Ah, where to start: 1950's: Stella Harmony D-0018 Martin Early 60's Gretsch Duo Jet Fender Jazzmaster Fender Jaguar Gretsch Tennessean Gibson 335 Mid 60's to present: Gibson 150 Gibson L7 Mosrite Gibson Les Paul Casio Synth-Waste of money ESP Stray copy Fender Telecaster Fender Stratocaster Ovation Gut String Ovation Steel String-Thanks Joe Casey Takamine EC132SC Gut String Traveler Guitar Fender 3 pickup American Telecaster Wish I still had them all. But like many players I had to trade guitars most everytime I got a new one. Richard PS Adding guitars as my memory kicks in!! RB [This message was edited by Richard Bass on 08 December 2004 at 06:57 PM.] [This message was edited by Richard Bass on 11 December 2004 at 06:27 PM.] [This message was edited by Richard Bass on 11 December 2004 at 06:31 PM.] [This message was edited by Richard Bass on 15 December 2004 at 08:08 AM.] |
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Bob Tuttle Member From: San Angelo, Tx, USA |
posted 08 December 2004 02:10 PM
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1953 Fender T-8 Custom (Brand new) that my Dad bought me for Christmas when I was 13. 1967 Sho-Bud fingertip. 1951 Telecaster. 1958 Fender tweed Bassman amp. 1957 Fender tweed Twin amp. Late '50's (or very early '60s) Standel tube amp. The piggy-back version with one D-120 12" JBL in a small ported cabinet. If we could only have foreseen the future value of some of these instruments.....sigh.
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Chris Bauer Member From: Nashville, TN USA |
posted 08 December 2004 02:37 PM
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My blond lacquer '74 D-10 p/p. I'd say what other steel I traded it for but I'm just as happy to keep those partiuclar details of my eternal shame to myself... |
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Larry Robbins Member From: Fort Edward, New York, USA |
posted 08 December 2004 05:30 PM
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68 Sears Silvertone Red ElecticW/three pickups, 1971 Gretch Country Gent,and one FINE 63 Tele....  |
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Bill Hatcher Member From: Atlanta Ga. USA |
posted 08 December 2004 06:32 PM
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59 Gretsch 6120 with white cowboy case with tooled leather banding. Had some guys name on the case I can't remember in BIG letters. Paid $60 for it in 1969, sold it a little later for $125 and was proud of doubling my money---right. I changed out the machine heads on it and kept the old ones. A year ago I sold them for more than a hundred bucks. Give you a good idea of what that thing is worth now?!?!?!? |
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Don Joslin Member From: Trapped in Minnesota and longing for New Mexico |
posted 08 December 2004 06:35 PM
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'68 Strat - sold for $175 to pay rent '60-something Gibson ES125TDC '58 Gibson ES125T '70-something Ibenez George Benson And the Hot Rod Jackson Soloist (fastest neck I ever played) that I traded for my current Tele Don ------------------ |
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Tim Harr Member From: East Peoria, Illinois |
posted 08 December 2004 06:50 PM
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1951 Gibson ES-5 (pre Switchmaster) 1952 ES-150 Electric 1966 Gibson J-200 Acoustic (cherry burst) 1954 Telecaster Blonde/Maple neck 1968 Telecaster Thinline(factory sngle coils) Buck Owens Telecaster Custom Shop R/W/B 1993 Gibson ES-165 Herb Ellis Sig Model Ibanez George Benson GB-10 Blonde 1955 Fender Tremlolux Amp (tweed) |
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Jim Peters Member From: St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
posted 08 December 2004 07:40 PM
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1. early 60's brown Fender Pro(traded for PV Bandit) 2. 60's solid body Richenbacker 12 string (sold it for $175, supposedly bought by Steven Stills JP |
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Colm Chomicky Member From: Prairie Village, Kansas, USA |
posted 08 December 2004 07:48 PM
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Sold my mint 1930's National Style 3 through Gruhns guitars back in about 1986. Bob Brozman bought it and it was pictured on some of his albums, used in many of his recordings, plus severval pages in his National book. Sometimes I think I should have hung on to it. Be kind of nice to have, but I probably would have sold it at today's prices. Just too much liability keeping vintage guitars around. It was just wanting to be set free. |
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Jim Cohen Member From: Philadelphia, PA |
posted 08 December 2004 08:16 PM
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My black mica Fessenden D-10 that I bought from John Lazarus and sold, in a bout of temporary insanity, to Bob Blair in Canada, who won't give it back. What a mean guy. |
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David Mason Member From: Cambridge, MD, USA |
posted 09 December 2004 02:00 AM
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HA HA HA! Can you remember the names and dates of your old girlfriends as well as you can remember your old guitars? I'll bet not! |
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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 09 December 2004 04:37 AM
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To top my list is my '77 ShoBud S-12 in which I installed an Emmons pickup and although it's been gone for 13 or 14 years now I still miss it... my 1952 Telecaster, ser #1429 Pat.Pending which I sold for $100 in 1971 as no one really wanted them then. I bought a '68 sunburst Tele with white binding and a rosewood fingerboard. After I sold the '52 I went back and conned the guy into letting me switch necks on the guitars. He was into it as he got a newer neck. I wound up trading the sunburst Tele with the '52 neck for a damn Mosrite Ventures model. A ShoBro 7 string resonator square neck which I traded for another Tele which I don't have either. A Gretsch Country Gentleman around '63 or so which I traded for a Gibson ES-225T which was a natural finish with P-90's and Bigsby Vibrato. In my hippie phase of life I took the Gibson and redrilled the headstock and made an electric 12 string out of it and bought the paint at an auto parts store to paint it candy apple red. I should have been shot for that one. I've got more but I'm gonna quit after that one, it made me sick just thinking about it!!!........JH ------------------ |
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Mark Metdker Member From: North Central Texas, USA |
posted 09 December 2004 05:30 AM
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The coolest guitar I ever found: I work for a fire department in the Dallas area. We get called out on a heart attack call. The address is an older apartment building here in town. We get inside....and there are probably 6 of us firefighters and a cop there for this call. So there are a lot of us inside working on this guy. In fact there are so many of us, that I just step back and let the young boys go to work on him. The guy is having chest pains, not really having a heart attack. So while my boys are working on the guy, I start looking around the apartment. I see lots of pictures of this guy as a young man playing guitar with some huge big bands of the 40's and '50's. I see a picture of him with Frank Sinatra! Come to find out he was a big band guitarist in New York back a long time ago and played with some big acts. In several pictures I see he is playing a D'Angelico New Yorker. Arguably, the best guitar ever made. I start getting excited wondering if he may still have the guitar. So I start looking around and stick my head in the back bedroom....and there it is...the old New Yorker on a guitar stand. I almost had to get my paramedics to come work on me! So, to make a long story even longer, once he got out of the hospital, I went back over there and ask him if he wanted to sell it. He said he needed to sell it to pay for doctor bills. It was either a '50 or a '51 year model. According to this guy Mr. D'Angelico made very few single cutaway New Yorkers that year. His dad was good friends with Mr. D'Angelico and he built the guitar for him after hours and on weekends when he had time. I ended up brokering the sale. I found a buyer that came and bought the guitar for $30,000 dollars. That was the first and last time I have seen that much cash. It looked just like this one http://www.seriousacoustics.com/dangelico-1_copy(1).html [This message was edited by Mark Metdker on 09 December 2004 at 05:33 AM.] |
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Darvin Willhoite Member From: Leander, Tx. USA |
posted 09 December 2004 05:38 AM
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I had a Mosrite 12 string Ventures model, and a Mosrite Bluesbreaker that I let get away. At that time I couldn't afford to have more than one or two guitars at a time. I also had a nice Williams D-10 Lacquer keyless that I wish I still had. Other than that, I've pretty much kept everything I like. I have 70 guitars and basses, and 5 D-10 steels, plus a fiddle or two and a mandolin. I keep telling my wife, these guitars are an investment for retirement. And truthfully, I have done much better buying and selling guitars and amps in the last few years than my stock portfolio has done. ------------------ |
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Roy McKinney Member From: Imnaha, OR |
posted 09 December 2004 05:52 AM
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"Bob Tuttle---Late '50's (or very early '60s) Standel tube amp. The piggy-back version with one D-120 12" JBL in a small ported cabinet." Bob, that would be one of them "S80" amps I believe. Had two separate inputs with volume, tone control for each of them. Wish I still had mine!
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Joe Casey Member From: Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9) |
posted 09 December 2004 05:53 AM
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1960 Danlectro single pickup to which I stripped down took off the laminate sanded and put a humbucking p/u. I gave it away.Martin d-41 stolen from my van. |
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Mark van Allen Member From: loganville, Ga. USA |
posted 09 December 2004 09:54 AM
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Honestly I wish I still had most of the guitars I've let go. But the one that really hurts- I traded an 8 track player(it didn't have a record function) even for a 50's orange-label dot neck 335 in a beater Gretsch case to an old gospel musician in Michigian around 1973. I eventually sold it to a jazzer friend of mine for $250. I try not to think about it... ------------------ |
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Jack Stoner Sysop From: Inverness, Florida |
posted 09 December 2004 02:02 PM
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A 1961 Gretsch PX6120 "Chet Atkins" model, that I bought new in mid 61. The model with a single cutaway and real F holes. |
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Rich Weiss Member From: Woodland Hills, CA, USA |
posted 09 December 2004 03:04 PM
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I wish I still owned my first 2 steels. The first was called a BeJay, and I bought it from Bo Diddley in 1968, for $150. The second was a single neck ZB, # 0014. It had a white pickup, and boy was it sweet. |
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Mark Butcher Member From: Bucksburn, Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
posted 09 December 2004 03:10 PM
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Those are some lists! So what did you guys keep? ------------------ |
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Jim Cohen Member From: Philadelphia, PA |
posted 09 December 2004 07:08 PM
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Bupkis. |
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Rick McDuffie Member From: Smithfield, North Carolina, USA |
posted 09 December 2004 07:24 PM
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'58 Gretsch 6120, white cowboy case. 50's Gibson ES295 '57 ES175 |
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Leslie Ehrlich Member From: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
posted 09 December 2004 11:46 PM
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I think there were three, in order of preference: 1) A late 1970s Gibson Les Paul Standard. It had lots of laminations on the top and the neck, but it was much more solidly built than the vintage models or the high-priced junk that Gibson is making today. As for late 1970s Fender guitars, I never had the displeasure of owning any of those pieces of junk. 2) 1994 Arctic White Mexican made Fender Stratocaster with a maple board. It looked a lot like the guitar Jimi Hendrix played at Woodstock. That guitar had a neck with flatter radius at the back than most Strats I've played, and it felt just right in my hands. 3) And believe it or not, a Fender Telecaster. But it was no ordinary Tele. It was an early 90s Telecaster Plus - on the surface it looked pretty much like a Tele, but that was where it ended. It had a double red Lace-Sensor pickup in the bridge position, and in double coil mode it'd make any old tube amp scream. It was a rock 'n' roll machine, and it weighed as much as a Les Paul. |
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Darvin Willhoite Member From: Leander, Tx. USA |
posted 10 December 2004 05:19 AM
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Leslie, I don't really agree that the current Gibson stuff is "junk", I have an '02 ES135 and quality wise, its just as good as my 1980 ES347. Also, I have a couple of Strats from the late '70s, a '77 Strat Plus, and a '79 Strat standard, and both of them are also well made guitars and well worth the prices I paid for them. ------------------ |
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Bob Blair Member From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
posted 11 December 2004 07:50 AM
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I wish I hadn't sold my MSA Classic SS D-10 about 10 years ago - those were among the best guitars they ever made. Jimbeaux, I'll e-mail you about the Black Fessy! |
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Don Sulesky Member From: Hernando, Fl. usa |
posted 11 December 2004 08:08 AM
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A 1958 Fender strat with blond neck.Ouch when I think what I could get for it today. The same for the Gretch below. An early 1960's Gretch Country Gentleman and a ShoBud S-10 Blond Curly maple steel. I don't know the year, but I'd say early 70's from the teardrop knee levers. Don |
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Lefty Member From: Grayson, Ga. |
posted 11 December 2004 12:49 PM
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1968 Fender Coranado III "Antiqua" (holy Charley Pride) 1980's Fender "The Strat" lake placid blue Both of these were right handed. I played the Antiqua upside down. Both of these would be nice guitars for my right handed wife. Sorry honey. 1972 Marshall super lead 100 and two cabinets 1971 Fender Twin Reverb (non-master volume) 1974 Fender Vibrosonic Reverb Lefty [This message was edited by Lefty on 11 December 2004 at 02:24 PM.] [This message was edited by Lefty on 12 December 2004 at 04:10 PM.] |
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Jim Phelps Member From: just out of Mexico City |
posted 11 December 2004 01:30 PM
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A '77 Strat Plus? I thought they came out in '87. According to The Strat Collector, "1987 was the year Fender established the Custom Shop. An early job for the Custom Shop was to develop a Stratocaster for Jeff Beck. The design intended for that purpose developed into the Strat Plus. The Strat Plus adopted a roller nut and locking tuners and was the first Fender guitar to get the "Lace Sensor pickups". And Leslie, one man's junk is another man's treasure, and vice-versa. |
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Darvin Willhoite Member From: Leander, Tx. USA |
posted 11 December 2004 08:19 PM
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OOps, I guess mine must be newer than '87, I didn't look at my list, and thats what happens when I try to go from memory. It is definitely a Strat Plus, with Fender "noiseless" pickups, roller nut, and locking tuners. ------------------ |
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Tom Gorr Member From: Three Hills, Alberta |
posted 11 December 2004 10:41 PM
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So many guitars...So little time...Jim-you must be a heartbroken miserable man to have parted ways with so many great guitars. My deepest condolences (hah!). Those are some great stories, pals. I only wish I had enough money to finance the G.A.S. that I could become accustomed/addicted to. My story - I had a 1985 Yammy SBG 200 stolen from me in 1997, forcing me to rebel against personal decency and buy the Yam SG1996 Anniversary Edition.. Got the last one sold in Canada (#101). Had to finance it and hide it in layaway at the local store for a year to alleive the fact that I was supposed to be saving for a wedding ring. In hindsight - no regrets on the loss of the SBG 200. I got a great girl and a great guitar. NOw if the two could just get along better [This message was edited by Tom Gorr on 12 December 2004 at 01:11 AM.] [This message was edited by Tom Gorr on 12 December 2004 at 11:36 AM.] |
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Jim Phelps Member From: just out of Mexico City |
posted 12 December 2004 03:00 AM
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Tom - "Heartbroken and miserable"... Not at all. I admit I sure wish now and then that I'd kept certain ones, but I consider myself really fortunate to have had so many great guitars and experienced them. I've also found that it's not the guitar that matters as much as what a person can do with it. PS: That said, I still wouldn't part with my '72 Tele Custom for anything! [This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 12 December 2004 at 03:02 AM.] |
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