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03-20-2018, 06:57 PM
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Edit: disregard. I see that you still have it, and all is still right in the universe.
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03-20-2018, 07:59 PM
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'73 Martin D-45
'76 Hagstrom Swede '82 Fender '52 Tele reissue (one of the first batch) - and a few "not-exactly-guitars": '67 Epiphone Rivoli bass '90 Deering Intermediate 5-string banjo '78 Music Man 410-65 combo amp '86 Peavey Bandit 65 combo amp '91 Fender Champ 12 combo amp
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03-21-2018, 07:13 AM
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The one I wish I never let go, easy....a Buffalo Brothers house custom Taylor 710. No C, no E, just pure powerhouse acoustic tone! The BB 710 had a stunningly beautiful red spruce top and AAA grab EIR back and sides, a lovely green abalone rosette and black buttoned / gold taylor tuners. That 710 had power and tone in abundance.
I sold it to make way for a Taylor Ltd. 14 series in cocobolo / engelmann spruce. A lovely guitar but i never bonded with it and ended up selling it a few months later but the BB 710 custom was gone never to return. 
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#79
03-21-2018, 07:27 AM
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Probably my '77 Guild D50 amber sunburst. If for no other reason than to hear it again and see if was as great as I'm thinking it was.
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03-21-2018, 07:49 AM
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1. Ovation Folklore - in retrospect maybe not a great guitar or anything but I had it for a long time and eventually traded it in for not much $.
2. Taylor 910C - This was my first really nice guitar and I think that I traded it in on a Goodall which is #3. Bought this when Taylor was just starting to get bigger and not many people had even heard of them and had an email exchange with Bob Taylor about it. 3. Goodall koa grand concert - A really nice guitar that again I traded in on don't remember what anymore.
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03-21-2018, 08:27 AM
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A 1973 Martin D-18. In the thirty years I had owned it, I never really bonded with it, so after getting a reset done under warranty I sold it to a guy whose D45 was getting some finish work done at Martin and who wanted a "junker" for a year until he got it back. I sold it because my Taylor was getting all of the playing time and the D-18 actually played worse after the reset. In the ensuing 15 years I have become much more interested in Martins through the Authentic line, and kind of wished I had kept it. Probably would have Kimsey-fied it and had a pretty neat 45 year old guitar. Of course, with a 1 11/16" nut I probably still wouldn't have played it much...
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03-21-2018, 04:41 PM
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1989 Taylor 812 (Santee built)
1994 Olson SJ EIR/Cedar 2003 McAlister Nick Lucas 13 fret Why? Superb guitars all, including the little Taylor whch, at the time, inspired me to change and massively broaden my playing style. I can’t get my head round why I let them go, being honest about it. I’d have them all back in a heartbeat.
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03-23-2018, 07:22 AM
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Hi, I started this thread for fun, but also because I was in "reflective" mood, about some of thin nstrumwents that have passed though my hands.
way back in the early/mid '70s IO saw an ad in the weekly music paper for a Gibson L-3 - I didn't kn ow much about guitars back then but I wanted to see it. A call was made - they guy was close to me so I went over (with a guitar case in the boot/trunk of my car. He showed me this Gibson small body 13 fret round soundhole archtop, and i instantly fell in love with it. He suggested that it was about 1915. The other thing he had was a 1917 Martin 2-17 which was a little delight but needed some work. I had no money, but I did have a very worn out Gibson J-200 which had been sunburst, badly treated, and had been stripped and not very well re-finished. It was probably a '50s-'60s - I didn't know. We arranged a swap. I should say that he was an American, and said he had brought them in from the US (Hawaii?) I asked him three times if he had paid import duty and taxes on them and he said yes, and wrote that on the hand written receipt he gave me. A couple of weeks went by , the Martin was with my luthier havng some minir work done, when I got a call - at work. A very convincing person asked if we could meet up as he's really like to see the guitars. I agreed and got the Martin back, with some re-gluing still not finished and dried, and then two large men arrived, inspected the guitars and my receipt, then pulled out their HM Customs and Excise ID and confiscated them. Apparently they had caught the American who also had a room full of smuggled in electrics, and found my details in his possession. after some months, It was suggested that if i turned "queen's evidence" on him, I might get my property back. I wrote a truthful statement saying that I'd asked about them being legally imported and then they offered me my guitars back IF i paid the duty and taxes. Which I did, however, it broke me and I had to sell the 2-17 as soon as I got it back in order to continue to eat and pay rent. These aren't the guitars but these are the ones I kinda wish i still had. Later that year (must've been '75) I moved and bought a flat with100% mortgage and had to sell the Gibson. I got £150 each. Still miss the Gibson.
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03-23-2018, 07:41 AM
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A Wards Airline, painted on pickguard. Bought for $25 but it was very playable. Gave it to someone that liked to play but didn't own one. Two years later he still didn't own a guitar and had no idea where the one was that I'd given him.
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#85
03-23-2018, 08:31 AM
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I sold my 90's sunburst Fender American Standard Telecaster in a fit of pique with Fender over my piece-of-garbage matching Strat. I still miss that Tele. It was my first "good" guitar. All the others meh, especially the Strat. Can't say I miss them at all. Here's a list of the goners:
Sears Silvertone P-bass copy (candy apple red) Radio Shack amp El Degas Les Paul Custom copy (white with maple fingerboard) Ross guitar amp Cort P-bass copy (white) Ibanez Musician bass (cream sparkle) Phoenix Strat copy (black) Fender American Standard Tele (sunburst) Fender American Standard Strat (sunburst) Marshall JCM-900 100w half stack Fender 800SX Yamaha BB bass (red) Gibson ES-335 dot (cherry red) Mesa/Boogie Studio Caliber Martin 000-28EC Gibson J-100Xtra Gibson J-50 plus a pile of pedals, recording gear and pro-audio gear Last edited by Guest 33123; 03-23-2018 at 08:47 AM.
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