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    RANT:Why John Mayer is a total Douchenozzle. .

    in Electric Guitars

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    Steve, I want to apologize for thinking I was Above The Law in criticizing your blues. After reading your post, I now feel Under Seige and On Deadly Ground. Now that you're Out For Justice I can only hope I'm not Marked For Death. If I have to I'll head Into The Sun to be Out Of Reach of The Patriot and Mercenary For Justice. I realize you're probably Out For A Kill but I'll even brave the Belly Of The Beast to elude your Urban Justice and the threat of being Pistol Whipped or shot. I'm already Half Past Dead and the Exit Wounds would probably put me Out Of Reach of The Glimmer Man since my Ticker is no longer able to fight Against The Dark against A Dangerous Man like you. But, I was Born To Raise Hell so I'll take up my Machete if need be in my Flight Of Fury if you choose to be the Shadow Man of The Keeper of the blues. You'll never throw the Kill Switch on me or utter the words "Today You Die" as long as you wield a guitar in vain!
    :)

     

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    January SPAM Thread! Happy New Gear!

    in Electric Guitars

    Posted

    FOR SALE OR TRADE:
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    LTD Truckster James Hetfield signature guitar.

    I won this brand new, today from Sam Ash in Manhattan. It's really not my thing so this is going up as feeler spam for a possible sale or trade.

    Guitar retails for $900 new. New it doesn't come with a case but at Sam Ash I bought an Ibanez case that mostly fits it (would ship with towels for support and to fill the space). Case has a hunk taken out of it on the side but works fine and once boxed would be fine to ship in.

    I'm flexible on the price.

    For trades, I'm flexible too. Off the top of my head, I'd consider an American Tele, Gibson LP Vintage Mahogany, Gibson SG faded (plus cash probably).

    Not 100% on selling but let's see what you've got to offer.

    Cheers,
    Josh

    To sell or not to sell... That is the question (Gibson content)

    in Electric Guitars

    Posted

    I'll provide a different perspective. I've had lots of guitars that fall into the "whenever I play it, I like it" category, and I do NOT think that that phenomenon (by itself) means you should keep it.


    I had an Epiphone Sheraton that was a really nice guitar, but it tended to sit in its case. A few times a year, I'd think, wow, I should play that Sheraton more often, and I'd pull it out and play it, and think to myself, "Wow, this is a really nice guitar." But then it would go back into its case, until the next time a few months later when I thought, "Wow, I should play that Sheraton more often." I finally recognized this pattern, and when I needed some money I put it up for sale. I was worried that I'd have regrets, since it had some nostalgic value, but that was a year and a half ago and I have not missed it at all. I'm sure if I still had it I would pull it out a few times a year and play it and think what a nice guitar it was, but there's not some big empty void in my life because it's gone.


    Hopefully, as a player you get to a point where you can tell good guitars from bad guitars. At that point, ALL your guitars should be good guitars, guitars you like. That certainly doesn't mean you should never sell another guitar! If you have a guitar you absolutely love, by all means keep it. If you have a guitar you need to cover something you play in a band, well, you probably shouldn't sell that unless you can immediately replace it with a new guitar that will do the same thing. But if you have a nice guitar---a guitar you like when you play it---but you just haven't bonded with it and/or you'd really prefer to have something else, why not sell it?


    In fact, I'd say all the people oohing and aahing over it in this thread just indicate that it's a popular guitar and you'll probably be able to sell it for a good price without too many headaches. All these guys who claim they'd never sell it---hey,
    this is their chance to buy one!
    Bonus for you! Also, don't get too caught up in the "don't sell it in this economy" business. I don't want to be too conspiracy-theory, but there's enough uncertainty out there that there's no guarantee that things are going to get better anytime soon. If you can sell the guitar at a good price (indeed, at a profit!), don't look a gift horse in the mouth!

     

    Very good points... I'm honestly sitting right in the middle here and not sure how to proceed. It's up in the spam thread and if someone offers me the right thing (a LP Custom would do it or a really nice Standard) I'd do the deal. If not, it's nice to know that there are people interested. In the mean time, I'll keep playing it more.

    To sell or not to sell... That is the question (Gibson content)

    in Electric Guitars

    Posted

    So I was surfing Ebay the other day and found that someone was selling the same Explorer I have (Guitar of the Week #43 Explorer w/short vibrola). I watched the auction (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300370231451&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT) and it ended at $1902.99! I bought mine for a great deal of $1200. So now I'm on the fence about selling it... I don't play it too often but like it a lot when I do play...

     

    If I sell, I'd seriously consider getting either a used standard Gibson Explorer in natural color or a used Gibson SG Standard in nautral burst or black.

     

    I do like playing it when I pick it up. Will it continue going up in value...

     

    Thoughts? Should I sell?

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