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After reading Lenbone's post about selling his vintage babies (59' 175,and his 63' Tele) for very little. I bet there are quite a few of us that have let go some REAL current high dollar guitars for very cheap. But sometimes even when the deal was going down you might have had an inkling, a quezy stomach. Just something that told you...I shouldn't be doing this. but you did anyway. now this may pertain mostly to the (ahem) older members of this Forum, but i'm sure there are some of the younger members that have had similar experience.
Here is mine.
Back in about 74'-75'. I traded a 57' Tele (all original) that I paid $175.00 for, for a 59' dot neck ES-335 in a original custom colour (Candy Apple Red). Pretty good eh? But a few months later, I was lusting after a Gibson Explorer. The originals were so rare, most people had never heard of them let alone seen them. I had only seen two of them. Rick Derringer with the Edgar Winter group and Eric Clapton. I had to have one. As things would have it, Ibanez came out with the Destroyer. a 50's gibson Explorer copy. Kalua Music in Scarborough (remember them?) got one in and (here it comes) I traded the 59' 335 for the Destroyer. I was pretty happy at the time. The Destroyer was a $400 guitar and mine only really cost me $175.
Now the Ibanez was a good guitar and those original models are getting to be sort of modern vintage now and command a healthy price. But dot neck 59' 335's are approaching 30K now. And add to that a custom colour and it sends that price north quite a bit.
So what guitar(s)/amp(s) did you let go, only to kick yourself in the ass, time after time for selling them ?????
cheers
Pete
Here is mine.
Back in about 74'-75'. I traded a 57' Tele (all original) that I paid $175.00 for, for a 59' dot neck ES-335 in a original custom colour (Candy Apple Red). Pretty good eh? But a few months later, I was lusting after a Gibson Explorer. The originals were so rare, most people had never heard of them let alone seen them. I had only seen two of them. Rick Derringer with the Edgar Winter group and Eric Clapton. I had to have one. As things would have it, Ibanez came out with the Destroyer. a 50's gibson Explorer copy. Kalua Music in Scarborough (remember them?) got one in and (here it comes) I traded the 59' 335 for the Destroyer. I was pretty happy at the time. The Destroyer was a $400 guitar and mine only really cost me $175.
Now the Ibanez was a good guitar and those original models are getting to be sort of modern vintage now and command a healthy price. But dot neck 59' 335's are approaching 30K now. And add to that a custom colour and it sends that price north quite a bit.
So what guitar(s)/amp(s) did you let go, only to kick yourself in the ass, time after time for selling them ?????
cheers
Pete