I didn't want to sell my F50, but I feel good about where it went

[Muckman]

I went to the Cincinnati Guitar show this weekend with my F50, in tow. It was a much smaller show than I remember from years past, but I haven't been since the early 2000's. After a full lap around the show, an older gentleman noticed the case I was carrying and asked what I had in it. After I told him it was a Guild F50 he asked "a newer one?", when I told him it was a 70's maple he stood up to come check it out, in a hurry. He seemed thrilled to have found one(after the negotiating was over, of course) and told me a good friend of his owns an F50R that he loved, but he really preferred the maple on a jumbo and had been looking for one for years. That made it much easier to deal with the regret selling a guitar always brings with it.

 

[GGJaguar]

Glad it worked out for you! If I feel any regrets, that means I shouldn't sell the guitar. Following that paradigm, selling guitars is easy for me.

 

[Muckman]

I usually have some regrets about selling anything that is of the handmade/vintage persuasion. The jumbo was the guitar that got the least play and I have just bought too many new guitars and amps this last couple of years. I'd like to keep them all, but...

 

[richardp69]

Confucius said "Never take anything to a show you wanted to keep".

Never met this Confucius fella but that seems to make sense to me.

 

[Muckman]

Glad it worked out for you! If I feel any regrets, that means I shouldn't sell the guitar. Following that paradigm, selling guitars is easy for me.

Confucius said "Never take anything to a show you wanted to keep".

I definitely took it to the show with the intention of selling it. It was a matter of being realistic with the number of expensive acoustic guitars I own when I'm back to playing electric much more than acoustic. Restarting projects and investing money in new electric gear for said projects made it necessary to sell something, in my mind. I'm not getting rich playing music so, lateral moves for new gear - "staying in the black" - helps me justify buying/getting to try out new and different equipment.