Regrets
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Yes. A custom order for a Hamer salesman.
Sculpted heel, curly maple, humbucker in the bridge...
One of a kind.
So of course I sold it.
One comes to mind. It is delayed regret it was a pretty good deal in the mid 70’s. I got a 1964 SG just like this one at the flea market. A seminary student was selling all kinds of stuff and had this on his table. I forget any negotiations but ended up with it for $165. A year or so later I saw a Marshall 50W and cab in a nearby town and I was jonesing for Marshall. The guy was going in the Army and would be in Germany where he couldn’t take the amp. So we traded. Nobody much wanted an SG at that time and Marshalls were expensive.
I’m very happy to have the amp. I still remember how well the SG was built and the beautiful mahogany that you don’t see these days.
I’m very happy to have the amp. I still remember how well the SG was built and the beautiful mahogany that you don’t see these days.
About 15 years ago I could have picked up one of these for $1250 but passed:
Since I picked up some Tallys, I'm mostly good.
I sometimes regret selling the Korina Standard. I was blaming a guitar for a player issue. I regret trading a seafoam green PRS DGT for largely the same reaason and a smidge of wanting to own a Cali. Turns out, I prefer other brands for super strats and got rid of the only PRS I ever really liked to find that out. Pretty unlikely that I'll drop $2k plus to have another one. I do miss the pagan gold SoCal Charvel I had from that first batch of USA production models they did back in 2008. That was a cool guitar that I bought for nothing in 2012 or 2013 before super strats with Floyds got hot again.
That's really about it. There's a couple of other things that were cool to have just to have that I will probably never have again, but I never find myself heading to a gig and thinking, "Man, I wish I had that to play tonight!"
The only guitar-related kit I ever sold that I really regret is a Mesa Mark III I had. I'd had the R2 mod done and had it recapped and everything. It was an absolute beast of an amp and did everything I hoped a Mark IV and V would do but never seemed to. I think I may have had $1000 in that amp, including shipping back and forth to Petaluma and paying for the mod.
But here I am talking amps in a guitar thread.
I sometimes regret selling the Korina Standard. I was blaming a guitar for a player issue. I regret trading a seafoam green PRS DGT for largely the same reaason and a smidge of wanting to own a Cali. Turns out, I prefer other brands for super strats and got rid of the only PRS I ever really liked to find that out. Pretty unlikely that I'll drop $2k plus to have another one. I do miss the pagan gold SoCal Charvel I had from that first batch of USA production models they did back in 2008. That was a cool guitar that I bought for nothing in 2012 or 2013 before super strats with Floyds got hot again.
That's really about it. There's a couple of other things that were cool to have just to have that I will probably never have again, but I never find myself heading to a gig and thinking, "Man, I wish I had that to play tonight!"
The only guitar-related kit I ever sold that I really regret is a Mesa Mark III I had. I'd had the R2 mod done and had it recapped and everything. It was an absolute beast of an amp and did everything I hoped a Mark IV and V would do but never seemed to. I think I may have had $1000 in that amp, including shipping back and forth to Petaluma and paying for the mod.
But here I am talking amps in a guitar thread.
Kerry Marchman
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My 4 digit Standard... That one still hurts... I had $650.00 in it, sold it for $1500.00 and thought I was the greatest guitar salesman in the world.
Until I sold my 1960 Gibson Doublecut Jr. for $1500.00 that I had $500.00 in. Then I was the greatest salesman. SMH....
Until I sold my 1960 Gibson Doublecut Jr. for $1500.00 that I had $500.00 in. Then I was the greatest salesman. SMH....
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