My Previously Owned Guitars

A guitar can never dump you, but you can still dump the guitar. The guitars pictured below once made me happy for a while, but none of them were “the one.”

First row: Hohner Les Paul copy with after-market Schaller locking tuners, Seymour Duncan mini-humbuckers, and Bigsby vibrato; Vantage ES-335 copy also with after-market Schaller locking tuners (not pictured) and Schaller fine-tuning tailpiece (not pictured); Danelectro U-2; Epiphone Les Paul Florentine.

Second row: 1997 Gretsch 6121 Roundup; 1973 Gibson Les Paul Recording; 1998 Fender Hot-Rodded Precision Bass; Squier Vintage Modified Telecaster Custom II; Lindert Conductor; Schecter Hellcat VI.

Third row: Shine SPB1008NT 8-String Bass.

The Hohner, Vantage, and Dano were traded in for my Guild D30. The Hohner was last seen hanging on the wall at Warp Drive Guitars, Cream City Music's old location on Milwaukee's east side. The Epiphone was traded in for my Les Paul Recording, and the Gretsch Roundup was sold to a lawyer in New York City. The Les Paul Recording was traded in for a Les Paul Standard. The Fender Hot-Rodded P-Bass was sold to help finance the purchase of a used Fender Custom Shop Bass VI. The Squier, Lindert, Schecter, and Shine were all traded in along with my Peavey Ultra 60 head and Crate 4x10 cab for a new Hagstrom H8 and a hefty bit of store credit.