Repurchasing a guitar you'd previously owned...

[Pickcity]

Originally Posted by 67goat

Worse, I bought a guitar and then realized after it was delivered that I currently already owned one.

Originally Posted by Jim Owen

I think you just won the thread.

I believe he did!

[martingitdave]

Originally Posted by Jim Owen

I think you just won the thread.

Ha! Yes he did.

[67goat]

Originally Posted by RP

You're right. That is worse....

Originally Posted by Jim Owen

I think you just won the thread.

Originally Posted by Pickcity

I believe he did!

Originally Posted by martingitdave

Ha! Yes he did.

Between acoustics, electrics, basses, and resonators, I own 198 guitars (plus the parts and top/back & sides for a couple dozen more). It gets hard to keep track, even with a spreadsheet.

[martingitdave]

Originally Posted by 67goat

Between acoustics, electrics, basses, and resonators, I own 198 guitars (plus the parts and top/back & sides for a couple dozen more). It gets hard to keep track, even with a spreadsheet.

Holy cow! I mean that’s something. [mouth agape]

[L20A]

A few years ago, I sold a great sounding Guild D-55 due to some cosmetic things that happened to it after I installed and then later removed an Arm Guard.
The glue from the guard softened to finish on the guitar under where the guard was placed. It left an ugly scare on the finish.

Every time that I saw the ugly spot, I got upset and finally sold the guitar so I would not have to look at that scare again.

About 2 years later, I tried to buy the guitar back.
By then I had settled down about the issues.
The guy had already traded it off for another guitar and had no idea where it wound up.

I would love to have it back now.

[67goat]

Originally Posted by martingitdave

Holy cow! I mean that’s something. [mouth agape]

If they would stop making things I want, I would stop buying them. At least it's cheaper than cars.

[Guitars44me]

Originally Posted by 67goat

If they would stop making things I want, I would stop buying them. At least it's cheaper than cars.

Cheaper than most cars, and guitars never need smogging, registration, etc.

Insurance, I will pay for.

Bought a few back but John Kinnaird #99 I bought three times and sold it yet again! But I keep having him build me more, does that count?

Cheers

Paul

[Mandobart]

Originally Posted by ljguitar

Hi RP…

We probably should not confuse 'shared experiences ' in this group with 'normal'…(just sayin'). And I have one of 'these' in my collection.

Yep. I play and have played with hundreds of musicians over the years (and guitar players too ). Never talked with them about the stuff we discuss here.

Originally Posted by Methos1979

Curious as to whether you (and others here) are talking about buying the exact same model guitar you once owned and sold or buying the exact same guitar you used to own and sold.

I have the same question. Same make/model or exact same serial number?

Like a few others noted already, it's also kinda moot for me as I've only sold two instruments ever.

[FingahPickah]

I traded off an Eastman E2OM-CD that I now wish I still owned. I would consider buying another one.

[dave42]

The Epiphone story....

https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...d.php?t=560956

There was a Nashville deluxe Telecaster that I sold. A couple years later I found it on Craigslist. I bought it back for what I sold it for. About 6 months ago, he wanted to buy it back but I had just sold it few weeks before.

[abn556]

Originally Posted by RP

To be clear, for me it's anything but an emotional attachment. It's more like realizing that a particular guitar met my musical needs...

All guitar buying and selling is not about meeting a musical need. Its about a want as much as a need. There are some guitars I definitely have an emotional attachment to. As an example, I have a Strat that my wife bought for me new on our first anniversary in 1986. Is it collectable - nope - but it means something to me. My daughter has already asked that I leave it to her.