This is a purely theoretical exercise for me: I’d never willingly let all but one of my guitars go. I suspect that’s true for most of the rest of the folks who’ve posted in this thread.
But the one guitar I’d never ever let go is the 000-42 that Scott Baxendale built for me back in 1989. Technically it’s a Mossman - Scott owned the Mossman brand name at the time - and so far as I’m aware it’s the only Baxendale Mossman Triple O in existence.
It’s a great-sounding guitar, and plays beautifully.
Anyway, even if I wanted to I couldn’t get rid of it: one day when my daughter was about five I was playing the guitar in the living room, and she came up to me and said: “Daddy, when you’re dead I want to have this guitar.”
I said: “Well, I’m not planning on dying for a long time.”
She said: “Oh, I know, but I want to get this guitar when you do.”
Out of the mouths of babes…
So, anyway, that guitar is promised, and has been since the early 90’s.
Wade Hampton Miller
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