Ok guys, so here's the thing. I never sell stuff. never done it. I buy heaps of stuff, and it ends up just sitting around, and then I look for opportunities to give it to friends on a long term (forever?) basis. I figure its all good karma right?
Now recently, I played a historic Gibson les paul and I'm smitten. Gonna have to get one. But these bad boys are (to be honest), out of my league unless I sell some stuff.
So I take a look around and see a bunch of gear that quite frankly hasn't seen hardly any play time over the past couple of years. And it's kind of sad in a way, because the gear is all good quality stuff (gibson les paul 70s tribute, Vox ac4 head and cab, electric drum kit etc etc).
Logically I'm thinking, hey, you don't use this stuff, in-fact, it really is just taking up space in your already tiny flat. Why don't you sell it all, and buy the one thing that would get tonnes of use.
But I'm still struggling!
How the hell do you guys do it???
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Unless you can trade your old gear for the LP, you will need to sell, and at the moment it is not easy to sell music gear for decent prices. Still sounds the way to go though.
/2p
EDIT: But write down your serial numbers, you might be able to track it down again!
I sold everything except my very first US Strat and my Tokai ES-170 in order to get my Suhr Custom made... 6 years later, I have a bass, a bass vi, a custom tele, an acoustic, my first strat, the tokai and a suhr... a fender twin, a cornell romany and 4 pedal boards... and a pignose amp.. a zinky camel cigarette amp and a metric shit load of diy pedals.
Also I've discovered I buy and sell these things regularly Jen Wah pedals, Guyatone ST-2, Malekko Omicron Phasers, Ibanez phase-tones, Arion SCH-1, Whirlwind Orange Box, Zendrives, Danelectro Tuna Mayo Trem, Zoom M5s, Fulltone 69 fuzz mk2
There is no escaping, you're signed up for life, sell stuff, buy stuff, sell stuff, buy stuff... get in a band and you'll prioritise differently but you'll sell stuff and buy stuff.
Ride the tiger: think in terms of want, not "scared to lose".
Last year I sold my Marshall 30th anniversary head and 4x12 cab. It funded new guitar which is now my go to and a raft of pedals as well as a cub 12 which is my new gigging amp. Sure the Marshall was nice but I hadn't touched it for 5 years. All in all a good choice.
I've had some great gear over the years but truthfully I miss none of it.
As mentioned above it's also very cathartic. Once you start it becomes tempting to sell everything and start again