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Quoting myself from the 'Chase A Guitar For Years' thread:

I've been begging to buy back a guitar I sold to a buddy twenty years ago - late '60's ES-355, mono, non-Varitone - refinished, yes, and all the gold hardware swapped out for nickel, but nothing sings like that guitar!

Thing is, he no longer plays and it just sits under his bed. He won't sell it because, even though he no longer plays it, if he sells it he feels he no longer will be a "Guitar Player." I've offered to trade him something just so he'd have something under the bed, but nothing doing.

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I let this T-51f get away once, and I DID regret it. I bought this one for $500 soon after discovering the HFC in the late 90's from a shop in Nashville that was blowing out their inventory. I've owned lots of T-51s since, and this one is still hands down my favorite.

A few years back, I sold it to Peso. He had admired it from afar for years, and I just had to let him have it. A few years after that, he was ready to move it, and thank goodness offered it back to me. I jumped on it, and have was pleased to discover that it came back with some Peso-mods that made it even better than before. He added a tone control and different pickups. It's still my favorite Hamer of all that I own, and that's saying something.

My nephew Paul manhandles the guitar in this pic from the recent August HFC jam at the 4-3-2-1. This was just days before Paul left for college in Madison.

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I went for many years without selling any guitars, I finally came to my senses and began to move a few. This is the only one I've ever really wanted back, though.

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BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a guy looking for his first Standard, I'm speechless. I am without speech.

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I had an old pointy ibanez I bought around 1985 or so. I don't even remember the model. I loved that guitar but I couldn't afford it and had to sell it. I don't even have a picture of it. All my other guitars (except the Hondo II) I still have.

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:rolleyes::lol::lol:

seriously... you dont have enough room here for me to show pics of the shit i let go cause i was young and stupid... heres a partial list...

75 lp deluxe gold top

76 lp custom black

kramer gene simmons bass # 25

#250 hamer standard bound & crowned

few specials and sunbursts

my first blitz /cry

im gonna stop now cause im gittin emotional... :lol:

Randy

edited cause i couldnt spell through the tears

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