New love for old gear.

[Dr.Pain]

A few days ago I got out my old Washburn MG-70 and gave it a play.  It was like finding an old friend again and it made me smile :)  I haven't played it for years and even posted in a thread here I regretted getting it.  I must be getting old and my ear can appreciate it's tone better now days.  It's an alder body, maple neck, rosewood fret board with a coil tapped humbucker, two single coils and a Floyd Rose trem.  It sounded sweet and sang so nice. 

It's got frets lifting at some ends and the Floyd is cr@p being a licensed copy, electroplating wearing off, its corroding, the thread for trem arm stripped a long time ago.  But these things that really bugged me now seem nothing and they can be fixed so easy.  It took 17 years to go from being an ok guitar to being hated and now appreciated and loved.

A long time unloved but now I'm really going to enjoy owning it.  I don't regret getting it :)

Anyone ever had this happen?  Hated something but them found a new love for old gear?

[WeAreNotGentlemen]

I picked up my dad's 70's Fender Musicmaster 1 pup and plugged it into my Blackstar. Those two are a match made in heaven. I thought the thing didn't even work, and I did have to fix the tone knob, but after I did it really sings. Fits me really well for a contrast to the Blackhawk'd Schecter.

[Stevepage]

Ive got a japanese reissue strat that ive had for about 12 yeara now. Great sounding guitar but never played quite right. Its with feline guitara at the moment after just having some major work done to it. Looking forward to collecting it this saturday

[add4]

the guitar i started playing with, my father's, is still living at my parent's house.. it's an old yamaha acoustic from 62 or 63.
everytime i hear it ring, i remember why i played guitar in the first place..
i'll steal it one day
 :)

[TheyCallMeVolume]

Well, I bought some guitar made by some company named Gibson in '59 and didn't like it so I stashed it away. Cleaned out the attic and found it and gave it another shot. I guess it's a decent guitar  :lol:

No such stories for me yet, I think I need to play longer and buy more gear first!

[HTH AMPS]

My '72 Tele Custom reissue is such a guitar.  Bought it unexpectedly in Turnkey, totally blew me away.  Got it back home and couldn't get on with it for gigging - just never had the balls I wanted.  Changed the pickups, put on a steel baseplate and brass saddles, upgraded all the pots/caps, had it professionally set up - still couldn't get on with it, though it did sound great at home. 

It sat at home from 2005 through till earlier this year as my noodling on the couch guitar.  I've now found a recipe with an EQ pedal and an amp where it just has loads of guts to it and sounds perfect for my hardcore punk band. 

I had it up for sale quite a few times, but there was just no interest other than people wanting to pay peanuts for it.  Glad it never got sold now, its just SO versatile with the P90 neck pickup and Esquire/Broadcaster type bridge pickup.

[38thBeatle]

My Tele was a bit neglected up until a year ago when I accidentally took it to a gig ( it has an identical case to one of my Strats though I have added a sticker to one case to distinguish it now).

I realised how much I loved the Tele tone- especially with Country Boys. Since them it has been used for just about every gig- though mostly I do take another as an alternative/back-up usually my old USA Strat or my Gibson 339- depends on the venue as to which. Every time I play the Tele I get off on the tone.

[HTH AMPS]

I keep getting the itch to try some BKP Tele pickups, but every time I plug mine in it sounds so perfect it would just be changing the pickups for the sake of it.

[Telerocker]

I should refurbisch my 34 year old Hondo II strat. The strings must be 15 years old.

[HTH AMPS]

I should refurbisch my 34 year old Hondo II strat. The strings must be 15 years old.

Sell it to Ry Cooder, he'll piss his pants with strings that old - he apparently loves the tone of old strings.

[Telerocker]

I should refurbisch my 34 year old Hondo II strat. The strings must be 15 years old.

Sell it to Ry Cooder, he'll piss his pants with strings that old - he apparently loves the tone of old strings.

They're as dead as Churchill. I hope he loves plywood too.   :)