Rarest piece of Music Gear you've Owned?

[unix-guy]

Back around 1985-ish, I found some crappy Japanese guitar at a garage sale for $35.

The lady selling it "threw in" an amp for free.

Turns out the amp was a vintage tweed Fender Champ (late 50's, I think)... I had no idea what I had!

The only thing wrong with it was the jewel cover was cracked and held in place with tape.

I used it at home with my BOSS ME-5 but it wasn't "metal" so mostly unused.

One day I visited a used gear shop in San Francisco where they had an Ibanez guitar with a well repaired neck crack.

I traded the amp + $200 for that guitar (which I still have).

Later I came to find out that even at that time (maybe '90) the amp was worth $1000+

The guitar actually turns out to be quite rare - it is a 1987 RG665 in white with a white pickguard and maple fretboard.

I remember searching ibanezregister.com and coming up short, so I submitted it to them. It took about 6 months for them to figure out what it was.

The neck is like the thinnest Wizard ever and also narrower at the nut. I've played and owned dozens of late 80s Wizard necks and this one out-Wizards them all!

This site says it's only from '89 and Japan only but I think they got the year wrong because the serial number on mine is definitely 1987:

RG665

The RG665 is a Roadstar II series solid body electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez in 1989. The Roadstar series would later become known as the RG series. The RG665 features a basswood body bolted to a maple neck with a 24-fret rosewood fingerboard with dot position markers. Components...

ibanez.fandom.com

Also, apparently known as RG462.

You can see one just like it here:

Interesting and obscure models I've come across...

www.jemsite.com

Edit:
Found a picture on my phone (note my high end custom graphics from Walmart auto section back in the early 90s):

 

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[TSJMajesty]

Other than being rare, and special to me, my JP15, (currently in my avatar, since I'm playing it now.)

They only made the one, and it has some features not on any other JP15's:

• The top color
• The PU's are Dreamcatcher & Rainmaker (only in the Majesties)
• 15" radius (all others are 17")
• Rosewood fretboard

But I'm under no illusions that I could sell it on Reverb for a grand more than it cost me, like some people do with their EBMM Vault purchases.

But I love it, and am glad I was in the right place at the time to buy it!

 

[metropolis_4]

Definitely my Hullett amp.

It was the one that belonged to Reggie Young that he talks about in this interview:

Reggie Young | Vintage Guitar® magazine

Reggie Young passed away on January 17, 2019. Here is an extensive interview he did with VG in 2001. Reggie Young is one of the most recorded guitarists in history. His tasty style has opened doors for him to play onstage and in the studio with every style of music possible; early rockabilly...

www.vintageguitar.com

 

[Diary Of An Axeman]

I have an Acoustic 270 amp and a 4x12 road case that I bought from Frank Zappa's estate sale in 1995. He used two of these throughout the 70s, blended with his Marshalls. One is pictured in the Zappa Gear book, and I own the other.

Back in the mid 1980's, my JCM 800 took a , so I got an Acoustic solid state for cheap until my Carvin X-100 B arrived.
It was a pedal platform.
We used to play big "Kegger" party's to make money and play.
Luckily, my X-100 B arrived because my Acoustic amp eventually blow up at a rehearsal.