GUITARS I WISHED I STILL HAD

[Burtog]

This is nerdy as hell but I'm bored with work and waiting for the xmas hols to kick in. I got to thinking of the guitars I've owned and sold, a number which I had wished I'd kept .

This is the list of what I can remember owning,...............bet I forgot some!

I got number one in '88 to number 22 which is my next purchase.

1. Frontline Telecaster Copy
2. No Name Chinese Stratocaster Copy
3. Ninja Les Paul copy
4. Encore classical guitar
5. Aria pro II
6. Squire Japanese Stratocaster 80's
7. Ovation Bowl back acoustic copy
8. Fender Japanese Stratocaster 62 Reissue
9. Epiphone LP100
10. Fender American Standard Telecaster
11. De-Armond Starfire Special (Red)
12. Epiphone SG Custom 3 pick-up
13.*Yamaha Acoustic
14. Micro-Fret Calibra II
15. De-Armond Starfire Special (sunburst) I missed the first one so bought another!
16. Gibson Les Paul Standard 2002
17. Fender Mexican '72 custom Telecaster
18.Tanglewood TW15CE acoustic
19. Fender Mexican Highway one Telecaster
20.*Fender '50s Roadworn Telecaster Blonde
21.*Richwood Bass guitar
22.*Danelectro 59 DC 12 string (on order)
* = Still got these.

[Wiley]

I have kept most guitars I have had.  But two come to mind!!  I sold my Hagstrom Red colored bass to buy a  Les Paul Triumph recorder!!  I wish I still had that Hagstrom bass!!  It is the reason I bought the LP bass that I did slim line neck and short scale!!  Ahhhh.  Then I let someone use my Fender mustang!!  Never got it back... thinking it was just a cheap Fender.   I would love to have it back now!!  And my very first bass guitar was called a "Beatle Vox"" I have no idea if a fake or otherwise.  LOL  OK enough!!  Great fun thread on it's way!!
PJ

[peterp]

Still miss this one, Genuine MiM strat, traded it for an American Deluxe strat.
the alumitone pups sucked but that would have been an easy change.

[Ferryman_1957]

These two:

(mine was in burgundy)



Cheers,

Nigel

[Oldrottenhead]

i had an old framus not unlike this one but in red, i picked it up in the barras for £25 in 1977 and was my first electric guitar, my daughter sat on it and snapped it in two in 1998, so i binned it, bad move, looks like it might have been worth a lot more than i paid. i loved that guitar, cant find any pics of the model i had, but this one looks very like it apart from colour.

[Tony W]

I think Guitars are like past girlfriends, there must have been a reason for letting them slip through your fingers, and the memories are probably better than the reality.

[Ferryman_1957]

Nah, unlike girlfriends past, I wished I'd kept those two. Sold them because I could never afford more than one guitar. So when I moved from bass to guitar in the band I was in, I had to sell the Ricky to get a guitar, couldn't afford to buy a guitar straight up. I sold the Iceman to get a more modern and "neutral" Ibanez (the Iceman was a bit heavy metal), wish I'd kept it. I really still wish I had the Ricky, because it's my fave bass of all time.

Cheers,

Nigel

[Blooby]

I had a neck-thru Hamer Sunburst (model name-not a flame) that played and sounded great.  It was too similar to another neck-thru I own that my parents gave me, and I will never part with that.  Anyway, I sometimes pine for that Hamer.  I also had a Sigma 12-string that was nothing special, but it sounded great.  Don't know why I got rid of that one as I couldn't have fetched too much for it.

I would say my larger problem is I don't get rid of things.  I think I have 15 guitars right now and tend to play my cheapest ones.  Weird.

Blooby

One that got away...

[Vanncad]

...I sold the Iceman to get a more modern and "neutral" Ibanez (the Iceman was a bit heavy metal), wish I'd kept it. ...

Cheers,

Nigel

I jam with a guy that plays an Iceman. You're right - a little to heavy metal looking (Paul Stanley is the only one I can think of that plays one), but that thing rocks!!

That's one of the best sounding guitars I have ever heard. Sustains like a bee-yotch, and sounds great for all types of music. I can see why you miss it.