Selling gear question

[ClintN667]

Let me ask you guys about selling your gear. Would you keep something that you like but dont love? I only have 4 guitars which two are Solar guitars, an LTD Sparrowhawk, and an Epiphone Koa Les Paul.

I absolutley love my Solar and my LTD but my Koa LP I like a lot and it looks beautiful but I dont really play it much. I usually gravitate to either to one of my other ones. I have somebody offering to buy the Epi and I'm on the fence. The price is fair but I dont know if I'm going to regret it later. Like from a scale of 1 being I hate it to 10 love it I'm about at a 6.5 or a 7.

I'm tempted to sell it and put those to something I will love 100% but I kinda feel like keeping it just to have it.

How do you guys determine what stays and what goes?

 

[maddnotez]

I personally don't I used to but these days I have the bare minimum. Too much money to be just sitting around collecting dust for me.

 

[ClintN667]

That's kinda what I'm feeling. I just sold the VTM60 I just bought because I really just love my KSR Orthos. Even though I really enjoyed having one again I wasnt going to use it enough to justify it laying around. I'm feeling that way about my guitars here lately. Like my Solar guitars and my LTD there aren't any questions on whether I should keep them this one is the exception. I like it but dont love it and it's not really doing anything special for me.

 

[stratjacket]

I'd say if you got a buyer and it's a fair price, sell. You can always buy again for about the same fair price.
I have way too much right, the most gear I've ever had. But mainly it's because I kind of dread the act of selling.

 

[napalmdeath]

Go with your gut. Gear is easily replaceable, and sometimes. I find, more than not, you're not really happy until you get what you want.

 

[ClintN667]

Thanks guys! Im at a point where I have a few pieces of gear that really gets excited to play, there isnt much of a point in keeping gear I dont absolutely love. Especially since its not my only guitar. Im meeting the guy tomorrow morning. I really appreciate the feedback.

 

[skullfxr]

if its the right price, and you are not passionate about it and would rather have something else, sell it.

most of the time there is always another. for me, money talks most of the time, but not always.

i have two or three regrets regarding things i have sold, but oh well, i have new things that i like more and they may go and i may regret them some day.

my biggest regret was getting rid of my music man HD130 2x12" i profited a lot off of it but i miss it. but i have another music man, an RD100 so i guess i am fine. the one the MM i traded didn't do anything better than my various vintage fenders or other music man.

 

[cardinal]

If I’m not using it, Im always happier after selling it even if I really did like it

 

[PBGas]

I have 6 guitars. I used to have 20 of them. Not a large collection at all compared to many but a collection nonetheless. I literally sold all of them over the past 8 years to get to the 6 that I have. Of those 6, I bought 3 of them used and would not hesitate to buy used again. The savings is amazing compared to new. I regularly circulate them all in pairs playing live and take a different one every week or couple of weeks for rehearsals.

That being said, I would easily like to pair it down to 2 of them or at least 3. 4 of the 6 have stainless frets. I was going to put stainless on the remaining 2 over the rest of this year.

I would really not mind pairing down to only 2 or 3 guitars....however, I am really attached to each of them. It would be so hard to decide on what to sell and move. I would probably regret it.

 

[cardinal]

I have 6 guitars. I used to have 20 of them. Not a large collection at all compared to many but a collection nonetheless. I literally sold all of them over the past 8 years to get to the 6 that I have. Of those 6, I bought 3 of them used and would not hesitate to buy used again. The savings is amazing compared to new. I regularly circulate them all in pairs playing live and take a different one every week or couple of weeks for rehearsals.

That being said, I would easily like to pair it down to 2 of them or at least 3. 4 of the 6 have stainless frets. I was going to put stainless on the remaining 2 over the rest of this year.

I would really not mind pairing down to only 2 or 3 guitars....however, I am really attached to each of them. It would be so hard to decide on what to sell and move. I would probably regret it.

Yeah, I would love to get down to just 2 guitars and 2 basses. But I just don’t think I could stay there. But I was happier in the days when I just had the one or two to grab and go. Often now I fuss over the set up or tone of this or that guitar in comparison to another one instead of just playing and having fun. Which is totally missing the point.

 

[ClintN667]

My Solar S1.6 has stainless frets and I absolutely adore that guitar plus it only set me back $1000. I think my next guitar will be a Solar A1.6 with evertune now that they have stainless. I would like to get another Les Paul type but probably go with ESP/LTD instead of Epiphone since they are easier to access the upper frets. I dont have a lot but I'm really feeling like I need to love it and use it often if I'm going to keep it. I would rather have 4 guitars that I love than 10 that I kinda like. I've bought a lot of gear the past two years but I was taking lesson and I've been working on improving so I've found that things that worked for me a couple years back dont work for me now and things I thought I needed I found I really dont need them.

 

[PBGas]

I have 6 guitars. I used to have 20 of them. Not a large collection at all compared to many but a collection nonetheless. I literally sold all of them over the past 8 years to get to the 6 that I have. Of those 6, I bought 3 of them used and would not hesitate to buy used again. The savings is amazing compared to new. I regularly circulate them all in pairs playing live and take a different one every week or couple of weeks for rehearsals.

That being said, I would easily like to pair it down to 2 of them or at least 3. 4 of the 6 have stainless frets. I was going to put stainless on the remaining 2 over the rest of this year.

I would really not mind pairing down to only 2 or 3 guitars....however, I am really attached to each of them. It would be so hard to decide on what to sell and move. I would probably regret it.

Yeah, I would love to get down to just 2 guitars and 2 basses. But I just don’t think I could stay there. But I was happier in the days when I just had the one or two to grab and go. Often now I fuss over the set up or tone of this or that guitar in comparison to another one instead of just playing and having fun. Which is totally missing the point.

This is VERY true! No question about it!

 

[psychodave]

I keep stuff I like. Many times down the road I’ve been better off keeping it.

 

[JMP2203]

if its common gear, i just sell it later you can get it again if i need it, but the more rare stuff i keep it

 

[ClintN667]

I just sold it. It was basically just an epi les paul but it was Koa. It was a decent guitar just not something I cant get something comparable. I met the guy at Sam Ash plugged it in showed it to him then he preceeded to haggle. I eventually had to say I gave him the lowest costs possible. It was a $650 guitar that I bought new 3-4 months ago and I installed Fishman Modern pickups and a battery pack which was another $300. I sold it for $450 which is what I would consider fair to me and a deal for the buyer. I believe I could have charged $1 dollar and he would have complained.