Wish I had bought it!

[prorocker]

I passed up a Dark Red Heavy Metal Strat today at a swapmeet...
$50.00, it was missing the nut, the bridge pickup and the kahler posts...I so should have bought it...but I went for the Jackson Pro DK2 Dinky Eerie Des Swirl for $180.00 instead, I was so stoked on the Jackson I blocked out how good that Strat could have been with a little work...now I'm crying...thought I'd share a little pain with the rest of you guys...
btw: turns out the pickup and nut from the Strat ended up on the Jackson.

[nickwellings]

Eeek! An HM for $50 and you turned it down?? Damn dude. Just...damn!

[heem6]

GREAT deal on the Dinky...

...but you should get your damn ass back down there and see if he still got the HM!

[prorocker]

I knew there was no way that HM Strat was still going to be there...This guy sells every week mostly storage locker buyouts.
I get there at 7-8 in the morning looking for deals...by 11:00 the swapmeet is picked out....someone is stoked right now...I just have to stop beating myself over it and move on...
I could also cry about the Schon guitar I passed up for dirt cheap years ago....but I've gotten and sold some great guitars over the years from the swapmeet, some I still have and probably never sell...like my antigua Stratocaster....

[heem6]

Sounds like some really good bargains come along once in awhile!

[gerryl98]

$50!!! Because of $50 you had to pick between the two?

[prorocker]

Call it a brain fart-I had the money...It wasn't a choice I had to make ..just a choice I didn't make...but it was missing the kahler nut, it was missing the bridge pickup, it was missing the tremolo posts...I also underestimated the popularity of the HM Strat as well...I'm a traditional Stratocaster player....believe me if I could have gone back in time...it was a no brainer...
Live and learn!
;D