Your biggest gear regret...

[HTH AMPS]

I regret selling my '67 Plexi in 2006 for £1600, it was SO nice - was perfect at any volume, just the sweetest tone ever.  I could cry thinking about that amp, but I was skint - really skint  :(

Sold my Epi Japan LP junior a couple of years back for a little more than I paid for it, but it was a gorgeous guitar - should have sold my Tele instead, but I stupidly thought that I should keep the Tele as it offered more tonal options across the range of guitars I owned.  I still have the Tele, its a great guitar, but my heart is with Gibson-type guitars.

Lastly, the 50w Silver Jubilee head I had back in the early 90s - it was my first valve amp and sounded amazing.  The other Silver Jubilee amps I've had since never had the sweetness of the first one.  I was into bl00ze at the time and sold it for a '63 Twin - also a great amp, but I'm not arsed about having the Twin back, whereas I'd crew off my left bollock to have the Jube back  :lol:

[Ian Price]

The Silver Jubilee is on my list of amps that I really want to try out one day!

[nfe]

Man one of my biggest gear regrets is NOT buying a 50w Jubilee. A friend had three up for sale and two mates and I were gonna get them but I couldn't find quite enough so one of the others bought two. I've managed to borrow it a couple times but I wish I'd gotten it proper.

[HTH AMPS]

a Silver Jubilee should be on my list of amps to build - I'll put it on my white board for a some-day project.

[Philly Q]

Sold my Epi Japan LP junior a couple of years back for a little more than I paid for it, but it was a gorgeous guitar

I suppose the only upside is that you made a profit on it... they do still show up on eBay occasionally, there was one a couple of weeks ago in fact.

[Dr.Pain]

I regret buying a Washburn MG70 in 1995 as it's given me trouble since 1997.  Haven't used it for 11 years now.
I regret not buying a Japanese Boss heavy metal HM-2 pedal for $50 as I just gotten an MT-2 metal zone.  16 years later I want one and I don't use the metal zone nowdays.

[Mr. Air]

I don't really have any major regrets. Seen in hindsight I should have picked out a different first guitar than the Ibanez RG I chose. I have bought a few pedals spontaneously which I have moved on immediately or which sits in the dark doing nothing. Maybe I should regret byuing two cheap strat copies, but they have really turned me on the strat sound so I don't really regret those buys.

[Madsakre]

I regret not buying a fender baritone jaguar :(



I REGRET SELLING:



Such a wonderful guitar :( But i needed money for my drivers license back then :( :( :(

[gwEm]

regret buying:
MIC Hamer Vector (a perfectly nice guitar which I never play)

regret selling:
Roland TR-707 drum machine

[Zaned]

Regret selling:

Mesa/Boogie Studio preamp, rackmounted: I was too 'green' at that point and didn't realize well enough how good a piece of equipment that was. Sold it to fund a Line 6 Pod 1, no less.

Regret buying: maybe that Line6 Variax 700. I grew to dislike it, just didn't work for me in the harder rocking things.

Nowadays, if I like something I very rarily sell it :)

-Zaned

[James C]

Regret buying: Vigier Excalibur Custom (£2800 for a guitar with a nut cut so poorly the strings had cut into the headstock)

Regret Selling: Fender mex richie sambora strat (1st really good guitar, never thought i'd have the money to replace the rusted floyd, now i spend that much on pups)

I also regret selling my Signature Les Paul, but i found it (or its evil twin) on ebay and bought it again

[mecca777]

My major regret was letting go of a Boss DC-3 Digital Dimension chorus pedal. I got twice what I paid for it, but I didn't even really need the money at the time; just a stupid spur-of-the-moment decision that I've regretted ever since. It was easy to get a nice distinctive tone with that pedal and I've never found another chorus that worked as well for the sounds I'm after.

On the other hand, I resisted the temptation to sell my 50w Silver Jubilee head for four times what I paid shortly after I got rid of the DC-3, even though that money would have been very handy at the time, so the lesson obviously served me well.

[Alex]

I have lots of regrets:

Dunlop Slash Wah - overpriced piece of junk
Ibanez RG550EX, made in Japan and all.... not my thing. Lost a lot of money on that one.

Selling my cheap Ibanez strat which had a much more vintage flavor than the RG and a lovely, well-sized maple neck. That guitar was just much more worth than its price tag suggested.

Buying a Vox Valvetronix. No matter how many awards guitar magazines give them, it is a horrible amp. Dark, muffled and overly bassy with far too much gain.

[dragonfire709]

Mines going to sound a bit mental, but I had a beautiful Maison superstrat in the early 90's that had a gorgeous birdseye maple top. It was a real looker and (from what I remember) played really well. It wasnt a particularly expensive guitar, but I've been trawling the internet for a while to find another  :(.

[roland_rat]

Mine has got to be a Gordon Smith tele biggest load of rubbish ever produced.  It looks rubbish ands sounds it too!