First off, welcome to the board ...good to have you here!
Personally, I would never ever sell a guitar in order to fund another. Yes, I have done so, on more than one occasion, and eventually regretted it (not always, but at least twice, well maybe a third time...I'm a slow learner but at least now I get it
). Of course we cannot all afford all the guitars we would like to own. But my point really is a simple one: you don't
truly know which guitar is the better guitar until you live with it for a time.
There is the obvious honeymoon period: things change over time and the initial "love" for a guitar can easily wane. Then there is our aural memory: imperfect, to say the least, and often colored by the room we played it in. Guitar specs: heh, that's about the most deceptive way in which to judge a guitar's worthiness. Then there's the good ol' fashioned emotional content: again, a huge variable that time and circumstances clearly influence. And we all know that relying on others' tonal reports are, at the end of the day, just
their opinions; when ya think about it, how does that really help the prospective owner? All to say this:
only once you live with both contenders,
and play them over a span of time under the terms you normally play them can you best judge which will reign as the keeper. And once that determination is made, it really does make selling the other guitar easier since you have zero doubt over the superior guitar you've kept.
The downside to this, clearly, is the cash outlay and the time you're "in hock," so to speak. But if one can swing this, it is worth every penny knowing you own the better guitar. All of this, of course, IMHO. But heck, you asked
Edward
