Gear you sold and now miss

Stevepage

Been scrolling through some old pictures of my photobucket account and realised there's a lot of gear I wish I'd kept. Due to problems with finding permanent employment during the crappy years of the last recession I had to sell a lot of stuff to be able to afford bus fares, running a car etc. I'm lucky that I now have a good steady job and a supporting Wife so I'm now building things up again but I still miss some old stuff.

 Here's some pictures

Post some of yours!

dindude

Very little really. I've bought and sold, like most on here, an inordinate amount of gear but once I've decided to move it on I lose the connection with it. Having said that, this DC Les Paul Goldtop was a great guitar, I just wish I could get on with the LP shape!

http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/dindude/d905213bf667f4898ca41d53f700eb3c_zps366f8dfc.jpg

ESchap

My 1953 Martin 0-18 ... Stupidy, stupid .... didn't even need the cash at the time.  3 years and still looking for an acoustic as good.

Not forgetting my 1969 LP

Very, very early Deluxe, one piece neck, no pancake body .... routed for humbuckers and came to me in shoreline gold!  Had it refinished by JXG, superb job .... traded on a whim  ... Stupid!

ICBM

1957 Gibson Les Paul Special

1961 Gibson J45

1968 Gibson Les Paul Custom

1965 Fender Jaguar

1966 Fender Mustang

1961 Gibson EB-2 bass

stickyfiddle

2003 Gibson SG Faded. Worn brown, ebony board, dot inlays. Keep looking for it but no sign of it ever coming up for sale. It had a hiscox case and graphtech saddles if anyone ever spots it... Bah!

1999 (i think) MIJ Jazzmaster, ex @camf, SD antquities, graphtech saddles. The coolest guitar I ever owned, sold to fund a Burny only to find I don't really click with Les Pauls. I shall have another JM one day.

camf

1999 (i think) MIJ Jazzmaster, ex @camf, SD antquities, graphtech saddles. The coolest guitar I ever owned, sold to fund a Burny only to find I don't really click with Les Pauls. I shall have another JM one day.

That was a nice guitar. I've ended up back with Les Pauls though... and Telecasters... and a Strat.

camf

Actually, the only one I regret in recent years has been letting the white JLX Esquire go back to @shugz. I really liked that guitar. I've a couple of others just now that do the job but they don't come close to the lovely ebony board.

MtB

Musicman Albert Lee (with a gorgeous birdseye maple neck)

Laney L20H

D*A*M Tonebender Mk2 (with Mullard OC81Ds) - sold to Thorpy many years ago

shugz

camf;761239" said:

Actually, the only one I regret in recent years has been letting the white JLX Esquire go back to @shugz. I really liked that guitar. I've a couple of others just now that do the job but they don't come close to the lovely ebony board.

Yours any time you need it Cam

Sold a few in my time but the only regret is my old 1960 ES 355. Beautiful guitar, sold in not so good times.



cheers
Hugh

lasermonkey

Late 70s Ibanez Artist. I don't know what I was thinking at the time. Stupid, just stupid.

TTony

I've sold some nice guitars, but I don't think that I've ever sold anything that's completely unique and irreplaceable - so it's always a bit of comfort that I could probably find another one if I did really miss it.

That said, it'd be a while before I managed to find another of these JJs;

Bought from Mr @CloudNine and sold to Mr @monofin when I was having a bit of a clear out a couple of years ago.  

littlethoughts

I never should've sold my old PRS SE soapbar.

stickyfiddle

camf said:

1999 (i think) MIJ Jazzmaster, ex @camf, SD antquities, graphtech saddles. The coolest guitar I ever owned, sold to fund a Burny only to find I don't really click with Les Pauls. I shall have another JM one day.

That was a nice guitar. I've ended up back with Les Pauls though... and Telecasters... and a Strat.

Splitter!

Coolest guitar ever. See?

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stickyfiddle

I also sold my Taylor 214 today (formerly @Niallmo and @Guitargeek62). Don't miss it *yet* but it was a bloody marvelous guitar that saw me through many a sweaty pub.

Sassafras

I regret having sold a Gordon-Smith GS 1. It sustained like no other guitar I've ever played yet still retained clarity on chords.

I regret having my '64 Telecaster stolen.

Jookyjr

It was part of my dad's guitarstream and is long gone, but I loved this one. Reckon it was a Hofner or Egmond (?) and had a lovely big neck on it. I'm really into old and quirky things though. 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MYFe2vWks3E/U01HAyRzTBI/AAAAAAAAHH4/sjxYNAyQgCQ/s1600/IMG_5559.JPG

meltedbuzzbox

Jookyjr said:

It was part of my dad's guitarstream and is long gone, but I loved this one. Reckon it was a Hofner or Egmond (?) and had a lovely big neck on it. I'm really into old and quirky things though. 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MYFe2vWks3E/U01HAyRzTBI/AAAAAAAAHH4/sjxYNAyQgCQ/s1600/IMG_5559.JPG

biggest neck ever!!!!

It was a pretty horrible guitar but it had its charms. That Vinyl wrap finish was definitely unique 

camf

camf;761239" said:

Actually, the only one I regret in recent years has been letting the white JLX Esquire go back to @shugz. I really liked that guitar. I've a couple of others just now that do the job but they don't come close to the lovely ebony board. 

Yours any time you need it Cam 

I'm going to pretend I never heard that. 

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shugz

Genuine offer @camf

Borrow it any time you need it.

Cheers
Hugh

chrisj1602

Getting rid of my Gibson Les Paul R7 Darkback... what a dick I am sometimes.

Jookyjr

meltedbuzzbox said:

biggest neck ever!!!!

It was a pretty horrible guitar but it had its charms. That Vinyl wrap finish was definitely unique 

You have definitely played it then. It sounded like a bag of nails. Funny thing is I picked up a 'History of Electric GGuitars' type of book in a charity shop and it was in there and the finish was original! lol