My stomach started to turn when I read your post. I’m speechless.
Well, at least your buddy owns one. I say, let it collect dust. Our gear mostly consist of piano, keyboard, recording gear, acoustic and electric guitar, Fender P, trapset, and a heck of a whole lot of percussion instruments, etc. Back in the day, a drummaker hand-carved a Koa wood djembe for us. One of a kind. It was a beauty. My better half sold it when we moved along with a lot of other instruments. I try not to think about it.
Our son is a huge Reed fan. I showed him some Gatton, Lee, Red, and Hiland videos. He wanted to sell his sunburst MIM Strat for a Tele. I told him to not to. He’s 16 yrs old. Bought his Strat when he was 15. I had found a great used MIM Tele maple neck, blue w/white pg. it was a score, but he was set on the Strat. To this day he regrets that decision, but the Strats nice. Great action. Sweet tone. When we had it setup, the gtech said it was a score. The neverending gear story continues. :^)
He should hang on to his Strat! When he’s 60, he will still have his first guitar, and will be glad he has it!
I’m thinking of selling my newer stuff, that has no collector’s value. Hang onto the old stuff; 47 Gibson Br-1 amp, 52 Pro, 56 Pro, 58 Bassman, 62 Super, 64 Vibroverb, my steel amp that started life as a Quad Reverb, but is now a split-cab Twin with a JBL 15. Will sell the Dr’Z Prescription with Celestion Blues, and the Deluxe Reverb I got from Neil Zaza, guitar maestro. Also will keep, for now, the 72 Princeton Reverb that was highly customized by my best friend tech. It’s 21 watts of clean power that is small. 12” Celestion in it. But guitars? Too many to even talk about!