Your biggest gear regret...

[bucketshred]

So, we all fawn over our own and each others new gear here on the forum, but what items of gear do you most regret buying/selling to date?

For me:

1. Selling/swapping my HBE Big D for a Boss Noise Gate when I was skint and playing in a metal band.
2. Buying a Fender Light Ash Strat. It just sounded thin and tinny, even with BKP's. Put me right off Fenders to date.

Yours?

Paddy

[Dmoney]

I regret buying loads of amps for various reasons, but I guess my most notable loss has been my Gibson DC pro (gold top double cut with trapezoid inlays). That was a cool geetar

[Pete24v]

selling a boss DM-2 and an Ibanez AD-80.... to fund buying a Boss DD5.... :?

it was about 1995 i think, and i needed tap tempo, figured setting up the DD5 was easier than using both the analogue pedals set to different delay times.

[Philly Q]

I regret selling:

Hamer Vector
Ernie Ball/Music Man Axis Sport
Edwards "Jeff Beck" Les Paul
Pete Townshend Signature SG
Orville by Gibson LP Goldtop
Hamer Eclipse
1964 SG Special (don't regret selling, just that I didn't get a better price for it)
.... and several others

I regret buying:

PRS Singlecut Satin Standard
Tokai Love Rock Goldtop (1954 LP style)
Tokai Love Rock II
Fender Classic Player '50s Strat
"Rat" modified Harley Benton amp
DigiTech GNX4
Lots of other things which I bought on the spur of the moment then sold at a loss.  :(

[darkbluemurder]

Sales: I swapped a Gold Top Les Paul with humbuckers built by a local luthier for another Gold Top with P90 because it sounded better unplugged. I figured that guitar would sound even better with humbuckers - wrong ... the first one sounded much bigger. Should have kept it.

Purchases: Diezel VH4 bought used. Turned out to be the wrong amp for me. Traded it in later. Should have bought a Bogner XTC in the first place.

Modifications: had a MusicMan RD 65 112 which sounded OK. Was talked into a modification which should have made the amp a bit brighter so that it cuts better in the band. Sounded like a f***in mosquito after the mod. Traded the amp in later.

All in all not too bad for 30 something years playing.

Cheers Stephan

[Twinfan]

I've just gone though my (rather large) past and present gear list and there's not one item that I regret buying or selling.  Every piece of gear I've owned has helped me work out what works for me.

No regrets  :)

[shobet]

Not having enough money to buy all the shite that I want!

[Stevepage]

I regret selling my JVM
Regret selling my 1990 PRS Standard
Regret selling my limited production RG for another RG that turned to out to be pretty fire wood.
Regret part exchanging my Gibson Gothic V
Regret swapping my Laney VH100R

[Madsakre]

Esp guitars x3

[JacksonRR]

Regret selling my Laney GH50L and an Ashdown Mag300 combo.
Regret buying a PODXT and the Seymour Duncan Twin Tube Mayhem. The Duncan preamp is so horrible that it's still for sale at the music store I sold it to. 3 years have passed and no one will even spend $80 on it. Saw it last week and laughed.

[Oli]

Doing a trade of my Sovtek Mig50 for a JCM900... what was I thinking?!

[d1dsj]

3 pieces for me  :(  ....... I sold the following
'65 JTM45 in excellent condition
Ibanez AR300 mint
'92 Gibson L.P '59 R.I Flame top built by Tom Murphy himself for NAMM '92, said to launch the Historic series.... AWESOME

[Transcend]

Both my regrets are sales

1982 Ibanez Rocket Roll...
MIJ Jackson Kelly

[d1dsj]

Dohhhhhh.... double post

[MDV]

I regret selling my JVM

Ner ner!

Closest thing I have to a regret is my, afterwards lews 89 RG560. Nothing special about that in and of itself, but it was a niec guitar, played beautifully and generally a keeper. Until I used it in part-ex for my pittbull CL. I adore my CL, and dont regret it, but I miss the guitar.