Found my first Rickenbacker in the register...

[Funky Chicken]

Poking around the register and lo and behold there is C38753, bought new at Rudy's Music Stop in NYC in the summer of 1990. I let that guitar go a few years later (don't remember what I did with it)-glad to see it ended up in the hands of a collector/forum member. I guess you can file this under "should have kept it" along with many others...

[libratune]

PM sent.

[sloop_john_b]

[rickaddict]

Looks like its in very nice shape, too!

http://www.rickresource.com/register/vi ... lebrity%3D

[JakeK]

That'd be something else if Ron plays a factor in getting it back to Tom...

You gotta love this place!

[libratune]

That'd be something else if Ron plays a factor in getting it back to Tom...

You gotta love this place!

Jake, my PM to Tom was to tell him I had one just like it that I would be willing to part with. I bought it 10 years ago from some guy in Canada who won it in a fundraiser raffle but didn't play guitar. It's in mint condition -- still has the MIA sticker on the 'guard. Tom has taken a pass on it for the time being.

http://www.rickresource.com/register/vi ... =index.php

[Funky Chicken]

I think this kind of thing speaks to the kind of forum you fine folks have here, and I truly appreciate
Ron's offer. Right now my next Rick purchase will be a 12 string, although if Ron's guitar was in fact
C38753 I feel like I would have to buy it to keep the universe cosmically in tune. That would make for a pretty crazy
story-guy joins forum, finds a guitar he hasn't owned in 18 years, and buys it back, all in 24 hours.

I actually got a guitar back earlier this summer that I received for Christmas in 1979 and had not seen or played since around '85. It's an Ibanez ST-50. Not much of a guitar but the first real guitar I ever owned. I was focusing on bass when I left for Berklee in the fall of 1983, my family moved while I was away at school, and I though the guitar was gone forever. A drummer friend from high school had kept it in his parents' basement and after we reconnected on Facebook he told me he had it-he is living in New Jersey and I am in North Carolina, but we had grown up together in New York State. I had a wedding to go to in NJ and we met at a rest stop on the Garden State Parkway and I got it back. It is in need of some restoration and was missing some parts but I have been able to source most of what I need. I should have it race ready in the next couple of weeks.

[cjj]

That would make for a pretty crazy
story-guy joins forum, finds a guitar he hasn't owned in 18 years, and buys it back, all in 24 hours.

I do believe that very thing happened right here on this forum a short while back, though it might have taken a bit more than 24 hours...

[Ain'tGotNoPokemon]

I looked in the register a month ago, and was disappointed my 2010 360 has yet to be seen.

[Ain'tGotNoPokemon]

I looked in the register a month ago, and was disappointed my 2010 360 has yet to be seen.

Sadly, I just found my old 360 in the register, and have found the username of the owner isn't attached... I would have loved to get it back for sentimentality.

[Ivan3000]

I'm never going to sell my first Rick when I get it...good luck!

[brian_l]

Stranger things have happened in the world of guitars. Back when I was in high school, I played a 1969 Les Paul Deluxe gold top at an area music store. It had been routed for full-size humbuckers but it sounded and played fantastic. It turned out to be priced way higher than I could afford. I was so bummed that I couldn't afford it with my meager high school income and I had to walk away. That guitar was the subject of numerous "the one that got away" stories. Well, to make a long story short, 16 years later, I found that very guitar in a music store 30 miles away from where I first saw it. Amazingly, the owner was selling it on consignment (I had no idea where the guitar went after the first time I saw it) and it wasn't priced much higher than it was when I saw it back in high school. Needless to say, I bought it. I wasn't about to let it get away from me again. The really weird part about this is: I hadn't set foot in that particular store in at least 10 years and since it is located way off the beaten path, I was just going to forget about going there while I was in town, but something told me to just go there anyway. I am REALLY glad I did!

[Ain'tGotNoPokemon]

Stranger things have happened in the world of guitars. Back when I was in high school, I played a 1969 Les Paul Deluxe gold top at an area music store. It had been routed for full-size humbuckers but it sounded and played fantastic. It turned out to be priced way higher than I could afford. I was so bummed that I couldn't afford it with my meager high school income and I had to walk away. That guitar was the subject of numerous "the one that got away" stories. Well, to make a long story short, 16 years later, I found that very guitar in a music store 30 miles away from where I first saw it. Amazingly, the owner was selling it on consignment (I had no idea where the guitar went after the first time I saw it) and it wasn't priced much higher than it was when I saw it back in high school. Needless to say, I bought it. I wasn't about to let it get away from me again. The really weird part about this is: I hadn't set foot in that particular store in at least 10 years and since it is located way off the beaten path, I was just going to forget about going there while I was in town, but something told me to just go there anyway. I am REALLY glad I did!

Wow... That's one of those stories, whether its about finding your highschool sweetheart, your old car, or your highschool sweetheart riding in your old car, that just astound!

[jingle_jangle]

How about my high school sweetheart, riding in my old '55 Chevy, carrying a summons?

That would have been my first wife...

[Ivan3000]

How about my high school sweetheart, riding in my old '55 Chevy, carrying a summons?

That would have been my first wife...

Whats a summons? (I tried looking if up, but was then lost...)