The one guitar or piece of gear you wish you'd never sold?

A Fender Custom Shop Jerry Donahue tele. Sold it when I "quit" playing guitar. That lasted about two years.

For some reason, the guy I sold it to won't sell it back to me.
 
telecaster911 said:
Cool. I always think that if I ran across one that I'd buy it. P90 version would be awesome.
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I've been VERY happy with it, definitely in my top-tier 5 or 6. The P-90 Specials have Seymour Duncan P-90s (though not branded on the covers) stock.

Any guitar that can elicit "metal horns" (see upper right corner, below) with my Chuck Berry/Steve Jones/Johnny Thunders abominations is worth checking out!

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1964 Fender Mustang. Natural blonde with black pick guard.

It was, and will always be the single biggest piece of shit guitar to be included in my revolving inventory.

Truly awful. Completely unstable dynamic vibrato, could not maintain tuning for more than a few seconds despite the best efforts of multiple skilled techs. Fretboard radius that almost semi-circular (but would provide Capt. Hook a killer slide platform), otherwise an unplayable turd that I (like an idiot) traded a KILLER MusicMan amp for.

So, why do I wish I had never sold it you ask?

Because had I kept it, some clueless asshole would undoubtedly offer me a metric shit ton of cash for it now.
 
A mid 60's Fender Duo Sonic. I loaned it to a friend for a gig (35 years ago), he put the guitar on the ground and backed over it with his car. No more Duo Sonic. I do still have the friend! In fact, he's in town of two weeks and we're getting together tonight! I'd also like to have the late 50's Gibson Skylark amp I had. Some roommate stole it. End of story.
 
There are a lot of guitars I wish I never sold. The top spot would be a fight between my surf green AVRI '62 Telecaster Custom and this 70s Guild Bluesbird:

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Tweedledee said:
There are a lot of guitars I wish I never sold. The top spot would be a fight between my surf green AVRI '62 Telecaster Custom and this 70s Guild Bluesbird:

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SWEET! I own its nephew. Or cousin. Or grandson. One of those.

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telecaster911 said:
Marshall artist 30 head with jubilee 212 bottom cab. Best 80s head ever.
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I gigged with an Artist head in the early 90s, through a 2x12 cab. It sounded killer - as long as it was cranked up (at which point, my other bandmates wanted to kill me, because it was so loud! :rolleyes:). Unfortunately, it sounded kind of thin and weak at lower volumes.


micwalt said:
Marshall 50W solid state combo that I got when I was a sophomore in HS.
Thing sounded pretty damn good.
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I had a Marshall Mosfet 50 for a while in the late 80s, after I graduated from college.


For moi, the one I miss, is my old Paul Rivera era Princeton Reverb II. With its boosts, it had some teeth to it soundwise (definitely shades of a Mesa Boogie), when you cranked it. At full volume, it even did convincing 80s metal tones. Put a boost in front of it (I ran a Chandler Tube Driver into mine), and it would do some serious full blown death tones! :cool: Why did I get rid of it in 1990? Well, I thought that "it wasn't loud enough" for use with the band I was playing in at the time (not!!!). Also, it used 6V6s for power tubes, and those weren't very common at the time (and the tubes were starting to go). So, I traded it towards a '62 Fender Tremolux (a decent amp in its own right, but not as versatile as the Princeton Reverb II was). I'd love to have another Princeton Reverb II, but like all Rivera era Fenders, they're going for stupid money nowadays. So, it's not happening anytime soon.

Fender Princeton Reverb II
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Oh nom. Back when they still looked like the Aristocrat.

dmn23 said:
SWEET! I own its nephew. Or cousin. Or grandson. One of those.

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DMN, did they call that a "Blues 90?" I had a chance at the humbucker version Bluesbird with the same cutaway, a plain ebony one, for 5 bills, but unfortunately it was just after I'd bought my Hamer and I was brokedy broke-ass broke.
 
Brian Krashpad said:
DMN, did they call that a "Blues 90?" I had a chance at the humbucker version Bluesbird with the same cutaway, a plain ebony one, for 5 bills, but unfortunately it was just after I'd bought my Hamer and I was brokedy broke-ass broke.
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That is indeed a Blues 90. Mine was made in 2000 at the Westerly, RI, plant. They made them for about 15 minutes and then Fender closed the shop. After Fender moved the production to California, they did produce a P90 version of the Bluesbird. The Blues 90 is different from the Bluesbird in that the body is almost completely hollow and the necks are nice and fat. Also, there's no binding on the neck and there are dots instead of block inlays.

I bought mine about five or six years ago. The previous owner swapped out the stock Duncans for a set of Rio Grandes and it sounds great.
 
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