Conference napalm::guitar

    
    Nope, you'll probably always wish that you had kept it.  I hope that
    you at least took a picture of it!
    
    Kevin
    

    I sold the first good guitar (an Ibanez ST-55) I owned last year and I
    did feel kind of wierd about it for awhile.  I'd had the thing for
    years and even though I didn't play it much anymore, I still missed it.
    
    But I didn't feel anything about a lot of the other guitars and amps
    I've sold over that same time, I guess I just had some sentamental
    attachment to that one. 
    
    Greg

    I felt the same way when my Kramer was on the way to it's new owner,
    but my new guitar is already becoming a member of the family ...
    
    Scary

    I have gone from one to another to get where I am now, but they were
    always stepping stones - I might have enjoyed playing them but it went
    no deeper.
    
    However - last November I bought an HD-28 and last month a 1977 Guild
    12-string.
    
    I've told my wife this is it - there is now nowhere else to go as far
    as I am concerned, so these I *do* expect to get emotional about. I
    look forward to hearing my Martin when it is 18 years old. I'll be 65
    then so I hope the old fingers will still be working :-)
    
    
    andy

    My parents bought me a new Gibson Firebird when I was about 10 years
    old, so that would be around 1965. I kept it until around 1972 when
    I foolishly traded it for a Fender acoustic (which was really just a
    Japanese import bearing the Fender name). I've always wished I had
    kept that guitar. Around 1984 I sold a 1971 Strat which I came to
    wish I had kept. I ended up buying a new American Standard Strat
    recently but for about 6 years I was "Strat-less".
    
    By the way there is an artical in the latest Guitar Player about a
    Schonberg limited edition Martin guitar which is a reissue of the
    famous pre-war OM45. Only 14 of these will be made and will sell for
    $10,500.00 each. Instant collectors items !
    
    Mark

This is why I now have 8 guitars. I can't seem to let a decent one go!

dbii

Re: Schonberg limited edition reissue of pre-war OM45 for $10,500.00 each.

I don't see this as such a good buy.  Gruhn has THREE 000-45's for about the
same money.  Only difference is that these are the real thing.  For much less 
money you could get a new Martin OM45 to the same specs.  I don't expect there
will be a rush of collectors to snap up the Schoenberg guitars.

Jim

Yes, this happens!

Right now there's only two that I either regret selling, or would never
sell.

Regrets:  My 69 Telecaster.

Never Sell:  My 79 Ibanez MC400

I don't think your nuts.  I become attached to all my musical
instruments.  My wife might think your nuts.  She sold her only
electric (a NICE ibanez) to pay her damn rent once.  Sheeessh.
She'll never live that down...She should've let me have it;
Bollocks to the rent ! ;)

Am I nutz for naming all my guitars ?  At one point I had nearly the
whole Honeymooners crew; Ralph, Norton, and Alice (As in Allicyn Hell)...
Now I've just got Ralph and Allicyn Hell...A Charvel Model 4 and an 
Ibanez RG550 (the 550 is Allicyn Hell - Appropriately named !).

Now I face trading my Charvel for a 71 Gibson Les Paul Custom.
I will be VERY sad to see that Charvel go.  I've had some
great times with it.  Hopefully I'll enjoy the Gibson as much.

jc

	I got a rush of real grief the moment I pressed "enter note" when
	putting in the ad yesterday to sell my Rickenbacker. That's my
	first guitar and it'll be sad to see it go. If I didn't have plans
	for the money I'd never do it.

	Oh - it's name is `Little Ricky' (as in Ricky Ricardo) & the
	Fender is named `Hic' because of the bacony smell it had for the
	first few weeks.

    Since this is kind of a "ones that got away" note, here's my list of
    deep regrets :
    
    1. White Les Paul/sg 
    2. White early 60s Strat with tele neck
    3. Late 50s flat-top Les Paul double cut away with "soap bar" pickups.
    4. 60s 3-pickup firebird with soap bars
    5. 50s epiphone Les Paul Junior type
    6. early 60s Gretch Corvette
    7. Guild acoustic - don't recall the model but it had maple back and
    sides
    

    
    	I regret selling/trading;
    
    1)	1963 Gibson Reverse Firebird VII w/gold hardware, 3 pu's,
    	ebony fretboard w/block inlays and Fretless Wonder frets.
    	Like the one Brian Jones played in the early Stones.
    	I paid $375 for it and a year later traded it (like an a$$)
    	for a 1972 Reissue '58 Sunburst Les Paul (Norlin piece of $#!T)
    	which had the P-90's replaced w/humbuckers and a fat neck I
    	thought I would get used to and didn't. It did look pretty
    	though, with some curl to the (five piece) top. I ended up
    	trading the LP for a 1963 Strat (with a bad pu) plus $175.
    	
    2)  1966 Gibson SG Special w/P-90 soapbars which mounted through
    	the body, not like the later models that had the pu's mounted
    	through a huge pickplate which practically the whole top of the
    	guitar. This gee-tar screamed. I paid $150 and sold it for $175.
    
    3)	1970 Les Paul Professional. I hated the clean sound of this
    	guitar, and it weighed a ton, but I don't think I was thinking
    	rationally when I traded it for a $75 Gibson dble-neck steel
    	(no pedals) even if it was made in 1943 and had a Charlie
    	Christian pickup in it. I paid $350 for the LP.
    
    	Neal-who-wishes-he-had'em-back
    	

    
    regarding .7   Maybe I am mis-quoting the article, I believe the
    Schoenberg's are copies of the OM45. At any rate, the article claims
    that only 14 of the originals were made, and that only about 10 have
    been accounted for. There was also a problem that caused many of them
    to crack on the top of the soundboards. The Schoenberg has incorporated
    an extra brace to prevent this. Only 14 Schoenbergs Deluxes will be
    built, which will double the number of these guitars in existance.
    Check the article for yourself. There are three differant luthiers
    involved with making these....Martin, Schoenberg, and another Luthier
    from Colorado that does the purfling.
      
    Mark