I was about to post the FS thread for it, when I started to wonder. I mean, this guitar has been one of my main instruments for the past four years, and I have played it for so many hours. It has never let me down, even once, and I've always found it to be a great-sounding, great-playing, versatile and cool guitar.
It's also very rare and I quite like the thrill of having something that no-one else has, or has even seen or heard of before.
But then reality sets in - my Blackmachine does just about everything this does, differently but in a way that I prefer, on balance. It has barely been played at all since I got the BM a couple of months ago, and realistically it is just taking up space here and doing me out of a good few hundred quid I could put towards other purchases I want or need to make.
But then I remembered that it was the guitar I used for every single recording and every single gig with my recently defunct band - save our very last gig, which was on the day I bought the Blackmachine, so I used that and it nailed the sound, and then some...
I used it to record what remains my favourite solo I've ever done, at 3:18 here:
And for a live-in-studio session, where it looked great, sounded great and played great:
It's beautiful, isn't it.
https://imgur.com/au3ULskAnd it's an amazing instrument, and no-one else has one, and I keep thinking I would actually miss it if I sold it, even though it hasn't been played for more than an hour in total in the last couple of months. I know I'm being ridiculous, but this is the hardest decision I've ever had to make about selling a guitar.
- "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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(edit that was meant to be a tongue smiley not a grumpy face...!)
I sold my PRS which was my main working guitar though almost the whole lifespan of my last band (more than five years), was used on every recording, actually had quite a lot of the songs written on it, and which fitted me more perfectly than any other guitar did before.
But when I got my Rickenbacker 381, and despite that being such a completely different guitar, I just never played the PRS any more. After two years debating what to do with it, I sold it and I haven't missed it once.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Badge snobs will always have more respect for a real PRS - even a Korean-made SE model - than for a copy, even if that "copy" is of higher quality than the PRS SE.
If the BM is your main guitar, the smart move would be to obtain a suitable back-up for live performances.
I could always use the money, of course, but it's not the end of the world.
If sentiment makes you happy with something then by all means keep it, but it is just sentiment. You don't actually need a possession to trigger that feeling, you know.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I do need to do something to give it more distance from the Blackmachine - not that it sounds the same, but it's another 24-fret fixed bridge guitar with two quite hot humbuckers. I guess a pickup change could do the trick - some more classic-voiced humbuckers.
Last week I sold a tele that was, at the time I put it together 6 years ago, "the one" with perfect specs.
However, after buying my Musicman and Gretsch it has not been played for at least 9 months. I never thought I'd sell it but don't miss it now that I have as it simply does not do what I want any longer.
I speak, of course, as a hoarder with zero guitars I actually need, but I'd say unless you really need the money and/or the space, hang onto it. It clearly has sentimental value and I don't think there's anything wrong with that (at least until you get to my age and start thinking hmmm, I'm not going to be around that much longer and this is going to end up in a skip).