Members Northstar Posted March 20, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 20, 2010 The finish on that guitar is very ugly. I paid $3,000 for that guitar and sold it a year later for $1,200. Funny, I sell it for $1,200 and then somebody emails me a week after I sell it offering me $2,750 for it. Oh well. And those guitars are not collectible. It seems 3000 is your magic number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JTEES4 Posted March 20, 2010 Members Share Posted March 20, 2010 Thread winnar. Ouch, it hurts just to read that. Thanks....One of the few threads I didn't really want to win! What really sucks is that If I had just kept the parts etc. it would still bring in a considerable amount of money. Young and dumb, that's my only excuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members photon9 Posted March 20, 2010 Members Share Posted March 20, 2010 It's a toss up between my MIM Tele Std. and my Crate Palomino V8. I never learned to like the feel of the neck on the MIM Tele and the bridge PUP was either a trebly icepick nightmare or a muddy inarticulate blob, with no in between using the tone knob. I like the sound better now since I butchered the bridge cavity to drop in a SD antiquity but still just can't really bond with the neck. The Crate Palomino V8 I just never got into the tone of it. I liked the simplicity of it but it only has one tone, and I never really learned to like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jessexxx Posted March 20, 2010 Members Share Posted March 20, 2010 Buying two late 70's MIJ Ibanez Iceman guitars (one black with cream binding, the other a set neck beautiful violin sunburst, both with DiMarzios in them) back in the band daze, and then later selling them/trading them for some junky bass guitar. Jeebus, wtf was I thinking? i'm with ya brutha,..sold my ibanez iceman for $120...because i didnt think it would take the move/drive from california to maine,...then to top it off...i took the $120 and $200 more and bought a usa fender lead 1,...loved it,..but sold it to buy a univox bass so i could be in a band,.....butchered the univox with an original xl500 lawrence pickup,...(i thought i would revolutionize bass playing..ha!)...ended up giving the univox away before a move to florida,..and the worst gear regret i have,..i sold a SUNN 6x12 for $100....!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jessexxx Posted March 20, 2010 Members Share Posted March 20, 2010 selling my Fender Lead2...never able to find THAT again... lol...i just posted about selling my fender lead 1!!!...it was the only fender that i could bond with!,...i have no idea what there worth today,...but i did love that guitar....very cool guitars,.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ihavenofish Posted March 20, 2010 Members Share Posted March 20, 2010 biggest mistake? hmmm. buying an agile. then another... and another... then some gibsons, a few squiers, more agiles, sx's.... now im poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hush Posted March 21, 2010 Members Share Posted March 21, 2010 Trading my Guild S-100 for a Fender Blues Jr back in 95. Still have the Jr. still like it. But miss the S-100. It was my first quality electric. Sold my comic book collection to buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dbsens13 Posted March 28, 2010 Members Share Posted March 28, 2010 OMG...you win hands down. THE BIGGEST guitar mistake. Yep, it was a pretty bad screw up. I can only learn from my mistake though. Now I only trade for better stuff. And I do this crazy thing called research before I make any trades. Still, I would love to find my old Martin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tiltsta Posted March 28, 2010 Members Share Posted March 28, 2010 Wasting too much time of gear with blinking lights and digital displays. Things that need programming and tweaking to get just right. This is such a time waster for me, that I will never own anything guitar related that is programmable. Give me knobs any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tiltsta Posted March 28, 2010 Members Share Posted March 28, 2010 Wasting too much time of gear with blinking lights and digital displays. Things that need programming and tweaking to get just right. This is such a time waster for me, that I will never own anything guitar related that is programmable. I used to spend 3-4 hours to get the 'perfect' tone for a song, when I would have been better served practicing the solo of the song. Give me knobs any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mosiddiqi Posted March 28, 2010 Members Share Posted March 28, 2010 In the 80's, having a ADA MP1 pre-amp, Alesis Quadraverb and a pair of H&K MOSFET power amps.....actually the ADA and Alesis were probably ok, but by the time they got through the H&K amps..it just sounded like a muffled mess...I spent hours programming horrible chorused distortion sounds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Apple Slim Posted March 28, 2010 Members Share Posted March 28, 2010 Id only been playing a couple of months, this was 1973-74.I traded a nice little concert sized Yamaha acoustic for a crappy Univox elec and Silvertone amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hoddyman Posted August 21, 2013 Members Share Posted August 21, 2013 I'd say my biggest guitar mistake(s) involved selling guitars I should have kept- Like the amazing Kay chambered/hollowbody Strat-shaped instrument I had for a while, or the 1968 Stratocaster that I sold because I was moving and didn't have a case, or the Ibanez Iceman with the triple-coil pickup, and a long, chrome tailpiece. Then there was the Fender Electric XII that I got. I had been looking for a Fender Electric XII for a while, and had pretty much given up on ever seeing one, when I stumbled upon one in a San Francisco pawn shop for really cheap. I got the guitar home, and found that all the intonation screws for the bridge saddles were bent, making it hard to set up. I got the thing playing, but found that it didn't play or sound any way I had expected, and the action, though seemingly low, was quite stiff. I was disapointed, and within a couple of months, I traded it with a friend for a brand-new (1977, then) Stratocaster. I enjoyed playing the Stratocaster a lot, and my friend used the 12-string to play some slide guitar on. About three years later, however, I ran into my friend in the local pub, and she told me that she was going to sell the Electric XII, and did I want to buy it back? I said yes, but how much?, and she said that the price I had originally paid at the pawn shop was good enough. I raised the money to buy it back by selling the Stratocaster for a little more than that, and I got the 12-string back. This time, I replaced the bent screws in the bridge, and I adjusted the truss rod, and, magically, the guitar played amazingly sweetly and smoothly. I still have it, and I've recently had it re-fretted, even. A guitar mistake, finally corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SaintJames Posted August 21, 2013 Members Share Posted August 21, 2013 Selling a mid-nineties MIK Epiphone LP...for $75. I needed to eat that week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gitter Posted August 21, 2013 Members Share Posted August 21, 2013 Thinking that Pre CBS Stratocasters had magical powers, then actually buying one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bubdude Posted August 21, 2013 Members Share Posted August 21, 2013 Selling my 1930's steel body guitar, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scott Abene Posted August 21, 2013 Members Share Posted August 21, 2013 Two things actually In the mid 80's I just had to buy this blueburst Hamer Flying V... I just had to have it. From the moment I owned it I knew that It had to go. What a piece of crapola it was. Oh it was a fickle bitch. The other was selling my uncles old Harmony guitar to Chelsea music because I needed rent money. I regret that to this day. Here are the guitars side by side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SamRussell Posted August 23, 2013 Members Share Posted August 23, 2013 I put off finding a guitar teacher after my secondary school teacher for over 5 years. Huuuuuuge mistake. All my gear choices have worked out pretty well though... apart from my sonic maximizer, might sell that hah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted August 23, 2013 Members Share Posted August 23, 2013 Not buying a used old LP in the 70's is one of my regrets. I like all of the guitars I have bought. I miss my 60's Mustang... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bucksstudent Posted August 23, 2013 Members Share Posted August 23, 2013 Trading my Univox guitar, which I had for one day, for a bass. I'm not a good bass player. It was a piece of junk, but I like old, weird guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members twotimingpete Posted August 23, 2013 Members Share Posted August 23, 2013 there aren't a lot of "bought the wrong guitar" mistakes, because it's so easy to return them -- particularly if you buy from something like MF.my biggest mistake was being careless and getting my hamer usa mirage 2 stolen. never had another guitar as good as that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted August 23, 2013 Members Share Posted August 23, 2013 Buying too many Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buttcrust Posted August 24, 2013 Members Share Posted August 24, 2013 if there are any parents on here, listen up (kids too) this is my story. When I was 9-12 years old (1963-66) I took lessons. I could read music, play fingerstyle from songbooks..pretty good for an 11 year old kid. Well, in the summer of 66 I stopped lessons and went on vacation for most of the summer with mom and dad and I left my guitar back home. I stopped the lessons (teenager). Looking back on it, I wished I had kept up with them as due to lack of practice for a few years, I lost the ability, due to lack of interest and practice. My biggest musical mistake. I coulda been a contender lol That is why the internet is so great, free lessons.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bucksstudent Posted August 24, 2013 Members Share Posted August 24, 2013 For some reason, it never registered with me that I could look up anything, including guitar lessons, online. When I was eleven, there was no Youtube, but for some reason, I thought that I HAD to have lessons in order to play. I think I would have at least had a headstart had anyone explained that you have to fret notes. For some reason, I thought you played guitar by muting the open notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bluesmann Posted August 27, 2013 Members Share Posted August 27, 2013 Doctor Morbius wrote: Buying way too many guitars and amps. Should have bought one nice Strat and amp and left it at that. Yeah! me too but hey! its a addiction. Some collect cars and motorcycles , We buy guitars and tone machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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