Selling guitars with sentimental attachments

DulcetJones

Keep it if you can.  I had a near mint vintage Fender Mustang that I had stopped playing and eventually sold.  That was ten years ago and I have missed it ever since, I just discovered that Fender has released a Squier version, mine just arrived last week.  The one at this link is the exact color I had and now have the Squier version of.  This one is a very good guitar, I am really happy to have it, but I didn't need another guitar right now, keep it if you can.  http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/squier-vintage-modified-mustang-electric-guitar

Sassafras

Maybe I'm a cold blooded son of a bitch but I find it hard to get sentimentally attached to any guitar. The only attachment I do feel is if the guitar plays well and sounds great. Nothing else matters.
That said, it sounds like you might not want to get rid of it.

impmann

Keep it, you'll regret selling it.

Stevepage

I'd deeply regret selling my Strat. It's not the easiest to play but it sounds fantastic and has over 16 years of memories attached to it. The money just wouldn't be worth it

richardhomer

I've often said how much I regret selling my '63 Strat 20 years ago. The equivalent of my Blackie - I loved that guitar.

I sold it as I wasn't playing much and I needed the money.

I really wish I hadn't....

Blaendulais

I used to keep stuff like this but I know what happens when you die. It gets passed on or chucked out with no chance to give it away or sell it imparting some of the memories.  Gave away a korean strat in 2001 that was my first guitar and my mate learnt on it and passed it on.  Gave away my first fender acoustic similarly.

Sitting here happy that they got used.  Not sitting in a box while someone says whats this piece of shit its not worth anything 

In the words of the Coral 'Pass it On'

Bucket

My first ever guitar was my Dean, and I still don't play it much but at the very least, it looks badass now I've refinished it.

Sham61

My wife bought me 2 guitars when we got married a few years ago. A Fender Pawn shop Strat and a Fender Resonator which she presented during the ceremony. Hated both of them. I have since sold the Strat but she had had the Resonator custom painted on the back so I have kept it, but rarely play. Coincidentally I have tuned it to DADGAD today and been having a play about with it. She said she should have bought a Les Paul as she originally intended. 

usedtobe

Sold my first proper guitar, that I'd had 33 years, at the beginning of this year. I'd hung onto it for years and years after I'd stopped playing it, for sentimental reasons, and I just couldn't get on with it anymore.
Best thing I ever did. Get it sold, and buy something you like and will play!

hassleham

I sold a lovely guitar today and I regret it already it wasn't getting played and I have another, better version of the same model but still, I can't help feeling sad about it! 

Neil

I haven't played my '89 US Strat for ages but I will never sell it.

The first good guitar I ever bought new  and only a year younger than my son.

 It has some lovely memories attached to it which the "a guitar is just a tool" lot will never understand. 

In fact I might give it a run out this afternoon.

TTBZ

Fwiw I sold my first guitar and regret it, I don't think I was really that attached to it but it was a really good epiphone lp and sounded/played awesome, better than my current guitar. I just neglected it when newer and shinier guitars came along and thought I no longer needed it. Didn't regret it for a few years but now I really do!

Kinda regret selling my other LP as well but I know with that one the neck was a bit too fat for me. I just feel a bit naked without a les paul in my collection haha. Just biding my time til a nice cheap one comes along I think, I want an Epi cause they tend to be lighter than others ime.

gingerbbm

Pretend you've got rid of it by lending it out.

TheMarlin

As I've gotten older, I'm much less sentimental. 
Out of 15 guitars, I only have one that would hurt to sell. 
Its been through two redundancies, and two years of unemployment.  It survived that, it'll be with me until I leave this place.  

mark123

I used to be like this ,,but then I realised They are just bits of wood and metal ! ,its "YOU" the PLAYER that does it....... give me claptons" Blackie" and him a Yamaha pacifica and he will still p&ss allover me give me, Pages les paul and him a Chinese epiphone les paul and he will P&ss allover me ,jeff becks strat and he gets a squire affinity and he will .....you get the story ...I used to be so hung up on" its got to be vintage" ,"its got to be usa built ", untill I have seen bands blow me out the water using mexico fenders, epiphone les pauls ,vintage (jhs) guitars,its a cliché but its "tone is in the fingers "and if you are hanging on to a guitar because of sentiment then have a think and get rid because..... A you are not playing it and ....B someone could be playing it who loves it and you can have cash to buy something you love playing its a win win !!!!

thebreeze

Don't sell it.  I think the associations you have with you and your Dad just marvelling at it all those years ago and saving up for it etc. are more than enough to mean that this is perhaps the most important guitar in your life.  It may not sound and feel as good as other guitars but I bet it's good enough.  Keep it because its a testament to your guitar history and to marvel at it some more, with your Dad or your children.

dirty_p90

I'm in the same frame of mind about my 81 Ibanez artist. I bought it when I was 18, I had to get a loan to buy it. it was the first decent guitar I owned. now 34 years later, my back aches every time I play it, and for that reason I was going to move it on.

axisus

Some you think you'll miss but you don't
Some you don't think you'll miss but you do

It's pot luck

At the end of the day though, no-one has died

toescantalk

I've just upgraded my first guitar (70s Epiphone semi acoustic) - new pickups, harness and bridge etc. But I always liked the neck, or that's what I got used to. I was going to get rid of it and buy a Casino but now it's getting as played almost as much as it did 20+ years ago.

usedtobe

Lots of people die every day!