Do you sell stock/original parts during upgrades?

[Shades of Blue]

I'm currently upgrading my Taylor GPs saddles to bone and tuners to different finishes. I'm just curious what you guys do with your original parts after you confirm you are happy with the upgrade? Do you sell and offset a portion of the upgrade, or do you keep and have it to include with the guitar if you ever decided to sell it?

[Mycroft]

Unless it is vintage I'll try and flog tuners, less to offset costs than to keep from having a box of old parts rattling around. If the instrument is vintage I'll keep the original parts.

Selling an old saddle? Good luck with that one.

[Silly Moustache]

I'm a hoarder I keep everything.
Anyb0dy want a dozen UST, a box full of saddles and nuts, a LARGE box full of picks, some antique capos, and and a LARGER box of old strings - which I'd really like to pass on to someone that could make use of them.

[Jim Owen]

Same logic as Mycroft here. Why keep a drawer full of tuners?

[rokdog49]

I changed the tuning buttons on my J45, kept the originals.
The ones I used are the Tortoise look and I like them w-a-a-y better.
I also have swapped out a saddle and some bridge pins. I kept everything.
I doubt if I'll ever need to sell it which is the only reason I would.
It's got my grandsons name on it when I depart this earth.
If he wants to restore it to original, he will be able to.

[Ed66]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

I'm a hoarder I keep everything.
Anyb0dy want a dozen UST, a box full of saddles and nuts, a LARGE box full of picks, some antique capos, and and a LARGER box of old strings - which I'd really like to pass on to someone that could make use of them.

Same here. Anything I swap out, be it tuners, saddles, nuts, etc., I hold onto. Exception being old strings which I generally throw in the recycling bin - although I've seen them used for jewelry so I may have to explore that option. I've used old tuners in a pinch when needing to swap just one out. This way I've always got some parts to work on a project guitar.

[Nick84]

Tuners and stock pickups I’ll sell to offset cost plus don’t need them lying around. Nuts, saddles and bridge pins I just keep as not worth moving on/no value in them

[Nctom]

I didn't vote/choose an option because I tend to sell the electronics I take out of guitars and keep most everything else. I'm not sure that I will ever have a use for the cheap old tuners or slotted, plastic bridge pins but I've got plenty of room and the boxes of parts don't take up much room.

[vindibona1]

It's always a good idea to keep the stock stuff. Taylor replacement one saddles can be purchased for $15. So what's the point of the effort of selling the original micarta saddles? If you go to sell it, perhaps the buyer will want the original saddles.

I used to mod Stratocasters and always kept the original parts. It seems that I was able to sell the Strats with the original parts and sold off the upgraded parts separately, actually making a few $$ more than had I left the Strats modded.

[colder]

I always keep the original stuff, so I can always go back to stock. Sometimes I find that I want to go back to stock after a little while, but of course any mod that isn't easily reversible (without additional expense) devalues the guitar and I don't want to do that even if I intend for now to keep it forever. The buyer almost never wants your mods, they want a stock instrument that they can mod to their choice, if they desire.

[Rev Roy]

I always keep the originals so a new buyer can have the option to go back to standard. I have no idea why anyone would want to downgrade the upgrades...but you never know what’ll be in a potential buyers head.

[jseth]

I learned, the HARD WAY, to keep track of the original equipment parts of guitars I'm upgrading... trust me, somewhere, sometime, far down the road, you are gonna wish you had saved them!

[Pnewsom]

For me, the value of a stock(untouched) top end electric guitar, (Gibson, Fender, etc) is greater than a modified one. In fact, I generally don't consider advertisement for a modified instrument that's for sale.

So yes, I keep the original parts, and I won't change anything that requires cutting wood.

Mind you, I still have almost every guitar that I've bought over the years...

[Pnewsom]

Originally Posted by Rev Roy

I always keep the originals so a new buyer can have the option to go back to standard. I have no idea why anyone would want to downgrade the upgrades...but you never know what’ll be in a potential buyers head.

Not every mod turns out to be an upgrade... There's a lot of hype in the replacement pickup/tuner market.

[C-ville Brent]

I've changed saddles, bridge pins, and nuts in many of my acoustic guitars, always keeping the originals. I don't think the cash derived from selling plastic bridge pins or saddles worth the effort . . . and you never know. I've upgraded pick ups in several electric guitars with DiMarzios and SDs, but I have the original pickups because again I'm not sure the cash derived from stock Ibanez, Squier, or Epiphone pickups is worth the effort. My 40th Anniversary Am. Std. Strat and (120th Anniversary) Gibson LPs are stock.

Old/used strings get tossed, although my cheese cutter has an electric B string that has worked for over two decades.