Members richey888 Posted November 24, 2009 Members Share Posted November 24, 2009 Long gone sadly (sniff!).....a '61 w/ Les Paul on the truss cover. Dumbass kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alex9152 Posted November 24, 2009 Members Share Posted November 24, 2009 My first good guitar was (is) the Epi in my sig.My first is the Squier that I tried to make a project out of. It too is in my sig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cephus Posted November 24, 2009 Members Share Posted November 24, 2009 I had been playing guitar for 8 or 9 years when I got my strat. It was my 6th guitar.I had a lotus less paul (not a typo. that thing was lacking)A peavey t-60 (which I still have and like, but few consider it "good")A Saga strat (still have. I just ordered some tuners and am putting it back together)A kramer Focus (which was OK with an OFR. Just a gimmick thing)A late 70s tele deluxe (or custom. The keith richards guitar. Worst piece of {censored} ever. Sold it to bill crook in like 1990 for $175. He unloaded it on someone else for the same price because it was so {censored}ty)Then a '62 RI strat from '87 or '88 that I think I got for $600 new.I still buy junky guitars and love them. I spent $750 and bought an epi es-295 a few years ago, which I really like. But that doesn't count as a "good" guitar really.I have another t-60 that I bought from samash for $100 with case. It had a bad bridge pickup so I put retrotrons in it. that thing is a really nice guitar, i think. Just not a "good" one.I guess the rambling point is: Don't get so caught up in "good" guitars. I like the way the {censored}ty ones make me play. If I had some really nice pieces, then I might come to rely on them. And then I'd never be able to have a sweet afternoon beating the {censored} out of that squier strat that I paid $76 for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeanoBoy Posted November 24, 2009 Members Share Posted November 24, 2009 After starting on a Danelectro (yes, the one with the amp in the case) , then a Hagstrom, my first 'real' guitar (although I wish I still had the Dano) was my '64 Strat that I bought used in '67 for $60. I played friend's Kays and Guilds as well, before the Strat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members prolog Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 My Yamaha: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BetaCarotene Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 Get a load of this: Youth is wasted on the retarded. While i am only 19 i can defiantly agree with this statement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members prolog Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 So the other guitar player let me use the guitar he inherited from his father: A 1955 Fender Stratocaster. ALL ORIGINAL, down to the case. I used that guitar for a year and we complained up and down about it because it wasn't "metal enough." Youth is wasted on the retarded. Ha, nice! But you were right. It wasn't "metal enough". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cratz2 Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 I got a Teisco hand-me-down something funky with the slider pickup selectors when I was probably 8. It only had 2 strings for about a year and I got a full set when I was 9. When I was about 10 and a half, I got a Squier or a Fender strat without a pickguard that was creamy white and a black headstock. I always thought it was a Squier, but I've never seen a pic of that guitar with a Squier logo, but I've seen a few with a Fender logo.Then when I was 13, I got a Kramer Beretta and a full setup. Looking back the Fender/Squier was probably a fine guitar, but we didn't get a set up and of course, I was totally clueless about such things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jerry_picker Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 I traded in a Univox HiFlier (Phase 3), now collectible but not a particularly good guitar, for an Aims Tele-style (MIJ by Hoshino?), not collectible but very decent player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alex_SF Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 Get a load of this: When I was 15 years old, I joined my first band. I had a hunk-of-crap Hondo Flying V that had as many dead frets as good ones. So the other guitar player let me use the guitar he inherited from his father: A 1955 Fender Stratocaster. ALL ORIGINAL, down to the case. I used that guitar for a year and we complained up and down about it because it wasn't "metal enough." Youth is wasted on the retarded. Ha -- that's about the mirror image of me with the '63 Jag and the Hondo Rhoads. The Jag was definitely not metal enough.The Hondo actually played pretty good in stock condition, but I messed up the action pretty badly when I installed a Kahler "Flyer" whammy on it. Thought I'd done everything right -- drilled the holes for the little trem post studs so they sat exactly flush with the guitar's top when I installed them, but the action came out way too high, even with the two height adjustment posts screwed all the way down flush against the studs. That screwup was one big contributing factor to my shortly-thereafter 14-year hiatus from playing. But I was later able to finally adjust it to just-about playable condition so I could eBay the guitar a couple years ago ("Needs a setup."). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Monkeybot Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 I bought a '97 CIJ Jazzmaster and a '97 American Standard Tele within a year of breaking up with someone I'd been with for 5 or 6 years. I didn't have to think about buying furniture anymore, so I ended up spending money on the guitars I wanted. Still have both and play them every day. My first "real" guitars and I hit a home run with both (both are still stock - except for the pickguard on the JM and are my favorite things ever - 20 other guitars down the road).Yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GuitarMasterNot Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 1991 Ibanez RG550, bought in 1991 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members deadwax Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 I received a Western Auto acoustic guitar for my 12th birthday in 1965.Those were the days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 Amazingly, my first good guitar would have made me rich if i had kept it and sold it for its vintage market value later. This Gibson SG custom was already "old" when I bought it in the early 70's. I was about 17 years old. I paid something like $500 CAN and sold it for as cheap a couple of years later because... i didn't like the neck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kellanium Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 Amazingly, my first good guitar would have made me rich if i had kept it and sold it for its vintage market value later. This Gibson SG custom was already "old" when I bought it in the early 70's. I was about 17 years old. I paid something like $500 CAN and sold it for as cheap a couple of years later because... i didn't like the neck. *strangles* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cortfan Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 After taking lessons for 6 months, on a Sears Silvertone archtop acoustic, that had about a 1/2 inch action, my Dad bought me a slightly used '63 Gretsch 6119 "Tennessean" and a Univox amp. I was so inspired, that within a year I was asked to join a well known local band. We gigged every weekend for 4 years at least twice a week. I still have the guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bubbluz Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 My '79/'80 Matsumoku LP copy. Bought it new,still have it,still play it regularly. It's in my lap right now actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Maess Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 1987 MIJ strat wih kahler, bought new. before that I had a bullet and a hondo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stanfield Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 '83 Ibanez Roadstar 335 : $185 used + $50 for NOS trem. Wicked strat-style that I still use constantly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Josh S Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 My first was an '89 Clapton strat, in the wonderful 7-up Green....I've still got it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members realtree71 Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 I had a 1963 Fender Tele that I paid $50 for in 1979... I sold it in 1982 for $150:facepalm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alex W Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 For my 15th birthday (back in '95) my dad took me to the local guitar shop and told me I could get any electric in the store within reason. I picked a Fender Jaguar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members killerbeez Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 80's Tokai Strat Copy, white on white with a maple fretboard. I'd give my left nut to get that one back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members k_strat Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 This was my second guitar and my first good guitar, actually very good. It's an Ibanez RS 450. I purchased from Sam Ash In NYC in either November or December of 1986 during a blow-out sale IIRC I paid about 250 bucks for it. It's had a few pickup swaps over the years & a couple of other mods. A few years ago I replaced the neck with a neck from a later model RS 440 mainly for cosmetic reasons. I really disliked the earlier Roadstar headstocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Philphine Posted November 25, 2009 Members Share Posted November 25, 2009 i was an adult (more or less) when i started. first on an acoustic my father had gotten from somewhere, that folded up when i put all six strings on it and tried to tune it up, then a cheap sears electric from the catalog.i was looking at a book on electric guitars and saw an ovation breadwinner. i just liked it and a year or so later found one. still have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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