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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...

PM sent.

Looks like its in very nice shape, too!

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

You gotta love this place!

JakeK wrote: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.

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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.

Funky Chicken wrote: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...

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

Ain'tGotNoPokemon wrote: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.

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

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!

brian_l wrote: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!

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

That would have been my first wife...

jingle_jangle wrote: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...)