Guitar Seller's Remorse

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A purple Ernie Ball Axis. Sold it because I wanted something more versatile and regretted it every since. The neck was gold. Intonation was fantastic up and down the neck, played great and hardly ever had to tune it. I've not had a guitar before or since that would stay in tune like that thing did.

Whatever it was about the construction of that particular guitar, it was right.
 
2001 American Standard Strat. Sold it to buy an EJ strat, and have missed it ever since. One of the best playing guitars I've owned. The EJ was nice, but that thing had some kind of mojo. :aww:
 
63 Daphne Blue fender Mustang. Rosewood board, white pearl guard term, og case.... mint.1st git.
Traded for a candy red sg firebrand... cause I had to have buckers :no: ....
 
I only have one guitar selling regret.

1988 RG750 - Five Alarm Orange finish :cry: :cry: :cry:

I parted it out to pay my rent.

FWIW, it didn't sound that great. :thumbsup:
 
USA Wolfgang Special.
Sent it to Peavey, they replaced the pickups with hand-picked ones.
Shimmed the neck, super set-up.

I thinned the herd, sold off parts of the Wolfgang collection. Shoulda kept that one.

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ESP M-II Deluxe in black with maple board.

Fender 62 Tele Reissue. Pretty much just got, then traded it for a relic'd MIJ strat...Looked great, did the trade. When it arrived it STANK of rubbing alcohol or something. Stunk my house out, stunk my communal hall in my flat out, I emailed the bloke telling him.... his friend told me to clean it (I followed his instructions to the letter), didn't help, so I sent it back.

Now he tells me I've "vandalised" it and won't give me my Tele back. I haven't even got the Strat back yet, it's been about 2 weeks...
 
lot of wolfgang angst on here, there really was something about those guitars.. funny thing is, got this axis now:

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i always thought having a wolfgang would be a second to owning one of those, and don't get me wrong, i would never part with it, i love it, but the wolfgang was a different beast. i don't even want a first year quilt, just another black one
 
'07 Gibson R7 Goldtop and a '06 Heritage H150-CM. Those were the two best guitars I've ever owned...and of course, sold 'em both. :no:
 
All of our losses hopefully have made other people very happy.

I regret selling a couple I've had. The biggest lose would be selling my 1965 Fender Mustang in absolutely mint condition because it wasn't metal enough for me at the age of 16.

I also had an O'Hagen Shark that I never should have let go.

Third would be my CF Martin E-18.
 
theecricket":nidom0ys said:
I regret selling a couple I've had. The biggest lose would be selling my 1965 Fender Mustang in absolutely mint condition because it wasn't metal enough for me at the age of 16.
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this.

You know i love metal, but it's been the bane of my guitar playing existance for years.. i could had a 59 strat for the same money i bought the esp for in 95, but it wasn't metal enough..
 
yeah the only thing i hated about my wolfgang was the upper fret access - i had a special. i know the upper end models had more of a cutaway feel that fit great in the palm of your hand but mine reminded me of a les paul at the 15-22 frets (which i hate les pauls)

if i can find another peavey wolfgang but with a better rounded neck pocket, it would be gold. because so far, nothing i own now - tone wise - competes to the clips and tone i have of my wolfy.

hey tek - how is the fret size on your EB compared to wolfgangs? are they smaller?
 
i would really like to have back the jackson Y2KV that i sold 4 or 5 years ago.
 
an old japanese fernandes revolver..

it looked alot like the brad gillis guitar.. probobly wasn't the greatest guitar but the sentimental value was there and it was my first "pro" instrument
 
glpg80":qw6uc9v0 said:
yeah the only thing i hated about my wolfgang was the upper fret access - i had a special. i know the upper end models had more of a cutaway feel that fit great in the palm of your hand but mine reminded me of a les paul at the 15-22 frets (which i hate les pauls)

if i can find another peavey wolfgang but with a better rounded neck pocket, it would be gold. because so far, nothing i own now - tone wise - competes to the clips and tone i have of my wolfy.

hey tek - how is the fret size on your EB compared to wolfgangs? are they smaller?
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I can't remember what the wolfy had now, but i'm pretty sure the axis is 6105 jumbo wire. i'll say this though, the neck feels narrower for some reason than the wolfy, i think the wolfy was a little looser to play too, but the axis is way more reasonant, lot more mid range growl than the low end thump the wolfy had. i'm not saying the wolfy was better, but i will say that it's a completely different sounding and feeling guitar, which i would have thought was quite odd, given the same guy designed them to do similar things.

haven't played the fender one yet, think it's much overpriced and like every VH sig the quilt you get is never a patch on whats in the promo materials
 
the whole fender vs peavey thing is pretty gay IMHO.

i have heard stories of a few guys ordering fender wolfgang (damn that sounds wierd...?) quilt tops and get A quality quilts, or A quality flame maple tops which is just outrageous - they turn around and return them for another model. when you're spending that kind of money and get that kind of quality - it shows their QC control is not up to par.

i still havent had the chance to play one either. but i dont have any high hopes, and honestly, i dont like the new headstock design. i also even had a GC store tell me they werent making the fender models anymore which is a complete lie - so there is alot of mis-information out there. but im more concerned about the new EVH wolfgang pickups compared to the peavey pickups - since dimarzio designed the EBMM axis pickups and the wolfgang series are also dimarzio designed - and seymour duncan was and has never been in the picture until now.
 
glpg80":hvfaek8x said:
i have heard stories of a few guys ordering fender wolfgang (damn that sounds wierd...?) quilt tops and get A quality quilts, or A quality flame maple tops which is just outrageous - they turn around and return them for another model. when you're spending that kind of money and get that kind of quality - it shows their QC control is not up to par.

i still havent had the chance to play one either. but i dont have any high hopes, and honestly, i dont like the new headstock design. i also even had a GC store tell me they werent making the fender models anymore which is a complete lie - so there is alot of mis-information out there. but im more concerned about the new EVH wolfgang pickups compared to the peavey pickups - since dimarzio designed the EBMM axis pickups and the wolfgang series are also dimarzio designed - and seymour duncan was and has never been in the picture until now.
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the dimarzios on the axis are excellent, havenever been tempted to change them, and are still after all these years exclusive to it which is great, the wolfgang pickups were killer too, just in a different way. i didn't know the fender PUs were dimarzios too.

what about seymour duncan? was it them producing those relic'd evh pickups i was seeing for a while?
 
the fender wolfgangs dont use dimarzios - fender went to seymour duncan to design the fender wolfgang EVH pickups - which is what i was saying - im skeptical that they will be as good as the other dimarzio designed EVH pickups of the past (wolfgang, EBMM)

wish i could do a back to back test.

i wonder if anyone here on the board has played an EVH fender? :confused:
 
ah when you said wolfgangs i thought you meant the fender wolf gangs and not the peavey wolfgangs.

too... many.. wolfgangs...

right so i propose we call peaveys PWG and fenders FWG.

i did not know that about the PWG's

is the seymour duncan connection maybe due to the one of the custom shop duncans claim to be basically the pickup seymour wound for eddie years back in the late 70's? which he then didn't use?
 
I sold my 2nd Suhr Modern because I wanted to order another one just like it, without the Floyd and with a larger radius. I still miss that guitar though. Since I've sold it, I've seen it come up for sale at least 3 times. Each of those times I was tempted to buy it back but didn't.
 
In the mid '80's, bought a beautiful used Gibson Flying V. Natural wood finish, gold hardware, played great. I then proceded to fuck it up, tried refinishing it, had a Kahler installed. I don't really regret selling it after that but I shoulda just left the damn thing alone and kept it! Lesson learned.
 
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