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Post subject: Im Looking for Advice on Selling my Strat
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 8:43 pm
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Okay, here's the situation:

CIRCA 2010-2011: Thirteen-year-old me saved up and bought a left-handed MIM Strat and strung it righty, fixed the bridge, flipped the nut, switched the strap button to the other horn, and even replaced the stock pickups with Fender custom shop '69s to essentially make it a right-handed guitar a la Jimi Hendrix.

Fast forward to 2015: I am about to leave for college and I am considering swapping out this strat for something not as impractical (i.e. a right-handed Strat more than likely). Im just looking for any advice for how to go about trying to sell or trade something this modified.
*I would rather keep the 69 pickups (I do like how the guitar sounds, but i think its all in the pickups) and sell the guitar with the stock ones, but would you guys think i would be better off selling it as is (price and interest wise)?

I know many of you would say to keep it if I like how it sounds and plays, but the upper horn gets in the way of playing higher on the neck, and the control knobs are also right in the way of my arm. Its flat out impractical.

P.S. Please don't get angry with me, I bought it when I was thirteen and unable to see the consequences of buying and doing what i did

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks


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Post subject: Re: Im Looking for Advice on Selling my Strat
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 11:10 pm
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Don't beat yourself up over it.
I had a friend that carved a hole out of the back of his guitar to fit a battery .... that was back in the seventies...the guitar which he still owns was a genuine 64 strat.
Swap the pickups out then sell it for what you can but bear in mind it is modified and left handed so you will take a hit on it. You never know there might be someone out there just after such a thing , after all you were for a while! :D


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Post subject: Re: Im Looking for Advice on Selling my Strat
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:46 am
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I agree with j_j on the pickups; keep the CS69's if they are what you like.
Other restoring-to-lefty work probably won't raise the price significantly. So even if you don't count your work hours on the guitar, it's not very lucrative.

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the upper horn gets in the way of playing higher on the neck, and the control knobs are also right in the way of my arm. Its flat out impractical.

I wonder how Jimi would have responded to that statement :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Im Looking for Advice on Selling my Strat
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:59 am
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jmattis wrote:
I wonder how Jimi would have responded to that statement :lol:


He would've replied, "no problem, man......here, try this windowpane."

:mrgreen:

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Post subject: Re: Im Looking for Advice on Selling my Strat
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 3:04 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
jmattis wrote:
I wonder how Jimi would have responded to that statement :lol:


He would've replied, "no problem, man......here, try this windowpane."

:mrgreen:

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Post subject: Re: Im Looking for Advice on Selling my Strat
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:02 am
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You might even hit the sweet spot where some one wants a RH Jimi. This is what I would aim for as that may give you a premium.

If you miss the target buyer you run the risk of getting so little for the guitar that it isn't worth selling as one and might be better in parts.

All that aside I can guarantee that in ten years time you will regret having sold such a notable memento of your growing up. In 20 years that regret will be even deeper to the point that you will consider recreating the guitar. If you possibly can don't sell it. We only get one go at this life and, as you get older, links to your past become more and more precious.

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