Goodbye, sweet prince
I just got back from Nashville Used Music, where I sold my old Oscar Schmidt acoustic/electric guitar. It was my first guitar, and for its time, I loved it. Me and the old Oscar Schmidt have spent many hours together, but I barely ever pulled it out out anymore since I got an electric guitar about a year ago. I figured rather than lug it back to Chattanooga with me so it can just sit in my closet there, I'd see what I could get for it.
The pickup in the back had been ripped out and the action on the neck was really high and would probably have to be lowered a bit, so I wasn't expecting too much for it, and my low expectations were were pretty much met: $40 in trade for the guitar and the case together. If you would have told me back in 1997 after I paid $450 for both of them together that one day I would trade them in for $40, I would have wept. I ended up getting a Danelectro Fab-Tone pedal, some cables, and a few picks for the trade (I couldn't quite talk myself into using the trade toward an Epiphone Casino). Also, I'm selling my Boss DS-1 (distortion) and OC-2 (octave) and I got a Digitech Whammy pedal, so now my setup looks like this:
Anyway, parting with my old Oscar Schmidt was pretty sad, but I guess that's the way of things. In a way, selling that guitar was like selling a son of mine that I used to love, but had recently had a cooler son, so I didn't love or need the first one anymore.
The pickup in the back had been ripped out and the action on the neck was really high and would probably have to be lowered a bit, so I wasn't expecting too much for it, and my low expectations were were pretty much met: $40 in trade for the guitar and the case together. If you would have told me back in 1997 after I paid $450 for both of them together that one day I would trade them in for $40, I would have wept. I ended up getting a Danelectro Fab-Tone pedal, some cables, and a few picks for the trade (I couldn't quite talk myself into using the trade toward an Epiphone Casino). Also, I'm selling my Boss DS-1 (distortion) and OC-2 (octave) and I got a Digitech Whammy pedal, so now my setup looks like this:
Anyway, parting with my old Oscar Schmidt was pretty sad, but I guess that's the way of things. In a way, selling that guitar was like selling a son of mine that I used to love, but had recently had a cooler son, so I didn't love or need the first one anymore.
posted by Matt @ 4:13 PM
2 Comments:
At 9:12 AM,
Anonymous said…
This is Michael - Thinking about this guitar made me think of Michael, our old guitar teacher. But seriously...How long did it take you to make this picture?
At 12:33 PM,
Matt said…
Oh yeah, our old guitar teacher. I remember his lessons usually involved a whooooole lot of random bullcrap about his personal life. He was also basically the reason that I went with the old Oscar Schmidt.
The picture didn't take too long... I got all the icons and cables from www.guitargeek.com and just had to do some adjusting for the cables. After I finished this I realized that the Whammy should go in the front of the signal chain, not the very back. Not like anyone cares...
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