I sold my 93 MIJ Telecaster fotoflame for $400 and have regretted it ever since. I liked it better than my Hwy 1 for sure. At the time I needed the cash to fund a Guild acoustic I bought and in hindsight I love the Guild so it was worth it, but damn I would trade my Hwy 1 in a heartbeat to get my old MIJ back. I took a $100 loss on the MIJ and I would gladly pay $100 plus trade my Hwy 1 to get it back.

I've been unemployed for a little over 19 months. (I finally found a new job and I start this coming Monday). In that time the subject of selling my gear had come up several times, but I refuse to part with my Tele. My Dad bought it for me in 1970 and has a lot of memories attatched to it. It is the only guitar I have that I've named. My wife didn't understand it. I told her that if I ever did sell it, I'd only use the cash to buy more guitars. I asked her if she'd ever hock her wedding rings... that was the end of that discussion.

We've all done it. You see something in the music store you want. You don't take the time to try it out, or do a little research, or think about it, and you wind up selling it and losing money, trading it and losing money, never use it, or just hide it. I bought a new Gibson Faded Brown Mahogany Les Paul when they first came out. I had my tax refund just burnin a hole in my pocket. I played it in the store for a total of 10 minutes, plopped down the change, used it once or twice, traded it off for a Fender Strat with the piezo pickup whatever in the bridge to get that acoustic sound, used it once or twice and put it up for sale , couldn't sell it for months. Needed the cash one day and sold it to the pawn shop for $200 (I was broke!). Funny thing is that I saw that same Strat at Music Go Round about a month later, checked the serial #, it was the same Strat. They wanted $649.00!!

Stratmansteve, I can only imagine if you haven't sold anything from 1975 on, the strats in your collection must be VERY nice. Am i correct?