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So would never sell it.
Everything else has a price...
I admit to changing the pickups - they were as crap as I remember the originals! But that's a reversible mod if necessary - and the switch (for a 5-way, which is difficult, since it's an odd size - luckily I found the correct one to do it) but apart from that this one will *NOT* be getting altered in any other way.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Bought my American Standard Strat new in 1989.
Too many memories, I'll never sell it.
https://i.imgur.com/sZpuMdi.jpg
https://imgur.com/gallery/7wqb4
I don't have a picture of the only guitar I have vowed never to sell, because I sold it
It was a cherry (sienna?) burst 1983 US Telecaster.
I have pictures of all the guitars I've sold!
My early 70's Strat, ive been told its 72, serial points to 71, not much sentimental value , possible birth year, but its way too lovely to sell, unless I really really really have to. Lovely one piece neck, 7.25 radius, tiny vintage type frets , weighs a ton.
Its had a bone nut and a five way sourced from a very kind forum member, a few things left to do, saddles and maybe pick ups, but its the nicest playing guitar ive ever tried.
I've owned this guitar since I bought it in the early 90's and it has been around the world with me.
It has been refretted twice and had about 10 different sets of pickups in it- currently has Harmonic Designs but I am about to put Kinmans in it.
The guitar in the top right of the photo is another Kinman that I bought many years later that isn't as good as the black Kinman but still pretty nice.
There are only 50 of these made and I own two.
I'd happily buy If I could find any for sale but they almost never come up.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
My 06 Anderson Classic.
I've swapped pickups several times, currently has Suhr HSS (SSV+, Fletcher Landau singles) but it is lightest, most resonant solid body I've ever owned.
The neck is perfect for me- I have 4 other Andersons and they are all great but this is something special.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
My "Born to Run" Esquire. It's a Partscaster, & has become my go to guitar.
I can't really play this strat anymore due to hand issues (the neck just gives me pain), but it will never go.
Years ago when I had nothing at all, I worked for months putting aside what cash I could. I'd been playing guitar for nearly a decade by that point, and had wanted a strat since a kid staring up at them in shop windows.
Once I had enough I went to Denmark street and played every strat there. This one spoke to me, and was the realisation of a dream.
Of course its been modded and currently sports different pickup covers with radiused edges, purely cosmetic, but an improvement on those supplied and which cover at the Bridge, a Bare Knuckle Sinner, Midddle is a Creamery Single Coil Size P90, Neck is another Sinner...works for me, switch was replaced by a three way and the tones work on bridge and neck, middle is untoned, Trem is decked, sticker still covers the trem arm hole..........Schaller strap locks complete the picture.....a definite keeper....
https://i.imgur.com/pUuabyE.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/6hv4r3S.jpg
The incredible olive green PRS MiraX
I've owned more expensive and exotic guitars but this one just feels incredible and sounds like nothing else I’ve ever tried. Currently running the Seymour JB/Jazz and it’s just an unstoppable force.
its everything that most PRS guitars aren’t, it’s plain and ugly but it’s by far the best of the 8 PRS that I’ve owned.
I've got a few other guitars in the collection and others on occasion are my favorite but I always come back to this.
I have an 89 PRS which will never be sold but that is just for sentimental reasons rather than it being an excellent instrument.
Bought it 40 years ago, and gigged with it more than anything else. Recently went to Feline for a refret, new tuners and electrics, and also a Railhammer Hyper Vintage pickup:
Here, as it was a couple of years ago, with the SD Invader I fitted in 1980, speed knobs, and bits of glue behind the bridge from the Roland guitar synth I'd added in the late 80s:
If if never ever comes fuengi I call first dibs on your burns one of the best sounding guitars I have ever played.
https://musicstreet.co.uk/products/used-hahn-model-228-vintage-amber-tint
just arrived yesterday my first Hahn..liked it so much bought this today
https://musicstreet.co.uk/products/hahn-model-c-white
fantastic telecaster the 228, brilliant pickups, brilliant neck could be around for a little while
I thought "I've blown the money now so I'd better persevere" so I put all my other guitars away for a month to make myself learn how to use it, now I can't really bond with anything else.
It's done hundreds of gigs, had a refret and a few pickups swaps, I've hit two punters off the stage with it, my singer whacks it with her tambourine most nights, but is the only guitar I've had over the last 40 years which honestly feels like home.
Here's are recent pics and one from the day I bought it.
http://i67.tinypic.com/6yksjn.jpg
http://i66.tinypic.com/308a61h.jpg
http://i57.tinypic.com/50paj6.jpg