Dumbest Guitar Trade

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I'll start this one. I was 16 years old. Traded my mothers beautiful flame red Guild hollow body electric (forgot model #) for a well worn Yamaha 12 string acoustic at a pawn shop. Thought the 12 string was really cool and the Guild was hick. She went back the next day and of course it was gone. No telling what it's worth today. Cut a lot of grass around the neighborhood that summer.
 
I traded a Fender Band Master amp for a twelve string guitar (a Framous). I traded the amp because it was only like 25 watts. Not enough power for a 17 year old punk wanting to play stadiums. Shoot, that thing was an all-tube amp head with a 2 x 12 cabinet with Celestion and Jensen speakers. Not even made today and it was in mint condition. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Jim
 
Don't know if this is considered dumb,more like desperate! Rent was due on the apartment/shack i was living in and in an act of desperation sold my '79 Fender Jazz Bass( had modified to the hilt,new p/ups ,maple neck even replaced the bass and treble pots) for $150.00 to some guy who lived about 200 miles from me and had driven to my house to pick it up. After a tearful goodbye, my axe was gone! But at least i could pay my rent! The next day, My IRS refund check was in the mail box. Man was I pissed! If that damn landlord could have waited 1 mo' day; if that check was del'd 1 day earlier. I still get pissed just thinkin'
about it! :(
 
I had a mandolin, it was Gibson knock off but played pretty well. I hocked it for cash to go on a fishing trip to the Sierras. I didn't catch a single fish...serves me right.
 
Another one. I had ripened to the old age of 17. Traded my Yamaha YZ125 motorcycle to a "friend" for his Gibson SG original (baby blue) and Fender Bassman amp. To me that bigass speaker cabinet was it. The SG was just iceing on the cake. I didn't know what I had and neither did he. Anyhow, a month later he wanted to trade back. I wanted the bike back so I traded (being the nice guy I am). He sold the guitar and amp to a guy for $100 and a bottle of Bacardi 151 rum. Did I mention when I went out to ride the bike a couple of days later he had blown the engine? That's all my sob stories. Next??
 
Misterque's rent story reminded me of another dumb mistake I made (man, I can't believe I am revealing my second guitar blunder--may Leo Fender forgive me). I was in college and needed money for books now. I had a '64 Precision Bass that i finally had to pawn to get my books. I pawned it for like $200. Two days later, I got my student loan check, went to the pawn shop and my bass was already sold. This was before I learned that pawn shops also loan money and use the items pawned as collateral and will not sell them if you pay the loan back in time. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb.

Peace, Jim
 
I actually traded a Gibson Double neck for a Westone back in the early 80's. Seemed to me to be a brilliant move on my part at the time. Now looking back I'm just glad I survived being that FREAKIN STUPID!!!
 
Not a trade but along those lines...
back when iwas first getting tolerable at guitar, I remembered that my mom and dad each had a beautiful mandolin from their days of trying to do stuff together... I grabbed one out of the attic, restrung it, and was well on my way to loving it...

then I got in a fight with my mom over something dumb, and she went out and sold both mandolins for $50 at some flea market...

so, be nice to your mothers...
 
My uncle was on the good end of a bad trade once (does that count?). He once saw a Gibson SG bass at a yard sale. The guy running the sale claimed it had sat in a rain barrel for a couple of years. My uncle offered him five bucks for the machine heads. The guy replied he'd take ten for the whole thing. My uncle takes it home, repaints it, fixes up the electronics, and has a perfectly good Gibson bass.

A couple years later he comes across a guy who is desperate for a bass and trades him a Strat for it heads up. To this day my uncle still has his $10 Strat...

MikeDog
 
Years ago my mom found an old Danelectro with a matching amp in a garage sale.
Oooolllddd, and in perfectly mint condition.
I traded it to a buddy for a sack.
Who brought this up?
Kick that guy!
 
Yeah, who brought up these painful memories? I recall being desperate for money about 20 years ago. I sold a cherry red Gibson SG, Fender Rhodes 88 electric piano, Hohner clavinet, and Roland synthesizer. I think I only got a few hundred dollars for all of it, then quit playing music for several years. How that I'm back into it, I could just kick my own &%$*&^%!!! At least I hung onto my Roland JC120 jazz-chorus amp. Phew!!!
 
About 15 years ago a friend of mine traded his dads 62 Sunburst Strat for a Ibanez Rg-550. That dealer should be shot for allowing a 14 year old to be so stupid.In the same time frame I traded my 50s gibson acoustic that my grandfather gave me for a Crate practice amp (duh!).
 
Geez. I thought I'd never confess this but about 25 years ago I traded my Guild jumbo 12 string for an Ampeg B-42x amplifier. That was dumb.
 
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