What Was Your First Guitar?

[Daniel]

What was the first guitar you owned?
Do you still have it?
Would you buy it back if you had the chance?

[LSchefman]

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i332/lschefman/DavyCrockettGe-tar1_zps5b5bf481.jpg

Edited: Earlier attempt at humor removed. But I really did have one of these when I was 5.

[geese_com]

Some cheapo Samick Strat copy that I still have. Replaced the switch and volume knob, and it still sounds great.

[Gnal]

My first Guitar was a Peavy Predator when they had maple boards... I want to say 1994 or 1995. It was a nice strat clone (usa made to boot, IIRC) and much better then the similarly priced Strat > Squire > Bullet Series of the time. I didn't get on too well with the single coils nor the trem and thus, if I recall correctly, sold it to fund a 4 string bass which I kept until about perhaps 3 years ago.

As to weather or not if I saw it today would I buy it back? Maybe, quite honestly I didn't really have any attachment to it but I also did not have as diverse of musical interest either. I suppose if the price was right I'd consider it.

Right now, the few PRS I own completely trump any previous guitar I've ever owned so even the ones I used to miss I don't even think about anymore, outside of threads specifically asking about such things.

[Twinfan]

I saved up my paper round/Christmas/Birthday money for about a year and bought a 1983 JV Squier Strat in 1989 and I still have it. Unfortunately I'm not a Strat man so I never play it, but I wouldn't part with it.

It's had a few mods - new electrics, replacement pickups and a Callaham trem (as the original stripped) - plus the black plastics I added as I liked the look of the Fender USA "International" series of guitars from the late 70s.

I still have the original strap I bought with it, and the really dodgy/cheap hard case I got for it at the time:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r267/junkacct/Guitar%20stuff/2011-07-07170328.jpg

[bluefade]

What was the first guitar you owned?
Do you still have it?
Would you buy it back if you had the chance?

tiesco del ray...sold it many moons ago...my buy back would only be for use as a kitchen sliceing tool or as a bow for deer hunting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It did have four pickups. Lots of switches of all flavors. And golly gee batman! A metal pickguard with a sunburst finish!!!

[CoreyT]

A Teisco electric I got for Christmas when I was around 13, so that was back around '70.
Do not have it anymore.
After I got a Univox Les Paul copy in gold for my 15th birthday, I took the Teisco to school and stipped it down in woodshop to refinish it.
Some punk took a chisel to it when it was stored there overnight and destroyed it.

It was very similar to this one I found with Google.
Same color too.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ur1Ta2uqWWY/UIp_955KslI/AAAAAAAADGo/U3ynBix1BtU/s1600/teisco1.JPG

[Mikegarveyblues]

It was a Sunburst Squier Standard back in 1995 (I think). I had it maybe 6 weeks and never learned how to tune it or even play any basic chords on it. Sold it and immediately regretted not giving it a chance. Got a Yamaha Pacifica a few months later and did the same thing but I at least put some effort in that time!

Wouldn't buy any of my first few guitars back except a British Racing Green Squier Strat that I played in bands through college. Shite guitar but I realised it meant more to me than I thought once it had been sold.

[jfine]

I started on acoustic in the fall of 1962 at 12 years old. That first guitar was a Mexican-made flamenco model with blonde sides and back--thankfully, it had geared tuners rather than friction pegs! Sounded pretty good, as I recall. I tripped over a stool backstage at my junior-high (they call it "middle-school" now) talent show in '65 and landed on the poor thing--smashed it beyond repair. It's tough to get a 14-year-old boy to cry, but I sure did then.
I talked my dad into getting me an electric guitar for my 14th birthday in '64. I got a St. George solidbody, probably made by Teisco or Kawai--two pickups, vibrato--and a little red Melody amp to run it through. In '67 I gave it to a kid at school. He wanted an electric guitar, his family had no money, it had some wiring problems by then, and I'd replaced it with a Vox Phantom 12-string. The kid knew a bit about electronics, and I told him that if he could fix it he could have it. Just a couple of years ago I ran into an identical guitar at a vintage guitar show, same finish and hardware, including the nuclear-yellow tuner buttons, and I hadn't seen a guitar with that exact combination of features since I got rid of mine. For all I know it could have been mine--the vibrato bar and the nameplate were missing, but you could see where the old plate had been, and it was the right shape. I'd have bought it if the guy hadn't wanted too much for it. He wanted $250, for a cheap guitar that was $85 new, and it hadn't improved any between '67 and 2010. Sorry, but nostalgia's not worth that much!

[veinbuster]

Gunn classical. The headstock snapped off when a daughter fell off the couch onto it - but we patched it up so she wouldn't be depressed and still have it, though it isn't really playable.

[WEDGE]

3/4 size nylon string classical. Still have it and it is playable. Every once in a while I plink around on it.

[11top]

In (the summer of *) 1969, after badgering my mother incessantly, we went to a music store where I picked a blingy royal blue Magnatone over a Fender strat. I haven't owned that Mag for decades, but man I sure wish I still had that strat I didn't choose.










"I got my first real six-string, bought it at the five-and-dime." :cool::rock:

[RedGuitars]

First guitar was an acoustic Sigma by Martin - by cousin's son still has it.

It looked something like this:

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Sigma-by-Martin-Acoustic-DR-1ST-with-Hardshell-Case-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjAw/$T2eC16RHJHIE9nyseIKbBQhu44p)Nw~~60_35.JPG

First electric was an Electra MPC Les Paul clone. Sold it after ~20 years, shortly after my PRS experience began...

Not mine - but it looked just like this (maybe this is my old one):

http://cdn1.gbase.com/usercontent/gear/2867712/p1_u1o5hdfll_so.jpg

[markie]

A Fender Acoustic. Can't remember the model number. Pretty sure it was an import model though. No longer have it & don't want it back....


After I got to the point where I still couldn't play it ........... I treated myself to a Squire Strat & a box that made really /cool sounds.

[John Beef]

Hondo 2 bolt on neck Les Paul copy. Got it for $45 in 1988. I don't think I have a picture of it, but it looked like this:

http://0.tqn.com/w/experts/Electric-Guitars-3419/2011/12/hondo-ii-les.jpg

[ezkahuna]

A Teisco electric I got for Christmas when I was around 13, so that was back around '70.
Do not have it anymore.
After I got a Univox Les Paul copy in gold for my 15th birthday, I took the Teisco to school and stipped it down in woodshop to refinish it.
Some punk took a chisel to it when it was stored there overnight and destroyed it.

It was very similar to this one I found with Google.
Same color too.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ur1Ta2uqWWY/UIp_955KslI/AAAAAAAADGo/U3ynBix1BtU/s1600/teisco1.JPG


Me too! I remember going to the store (anyone remember Gemco) and looking at this Teisco guitar for months before my mom let me get it. Probably around 1974 or so. Mine came with a small amp with an 8" speaker. Here it is in all it's glory (I'm the one on the left) at my Jr. High School Talent Show as we played Takin' Care of Business!

http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd499/ThatShotsHot/facebook_-324611294.jpg

[sergiodeblanc]

A Silvertone Mosrite copy made by Kawai.

[Sekunda]

My first was a mid 80's Hondo Strat copy in black with a white pick guard. I no longer have it...

My second was a 1984 Takamine GX-100 electric with a destroyer/explorer type body. It is turquoise and black burst. These were one of three models made for about one year I believe and are very rare (So the tech at Takamine tells me.) It is a mahogany neck-through body axe that plays like a dream. I will try to get a pic of it and post it. I sold it a few times and always bought it back. This was one my mom bought me so it will be staying with me from now on.

Here is a pic from Google, mine has a Les Paul bridge on it with a Seymour Duncan JB4 or JB5

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g86/sekunda2003/Gear/gx-100_zps9bdf7e38.jpg

[carpincowboy]

Mine was a Axe strat copy. Bought it as a starter kit way back in 1986 with my first wage. £78. Plywood body. I got rid of that thing years ago.

[Steph]

When I was 5 or 6 yrs, I got a mini plastic made acoustic guitar that I wish I still had.
Got my first real guitar at 15 yr. It was a japan made fake stratocaster, black lacker finish on a laminated body of unkown wood type. The previous owner had a original german Floyd Rose and a Seymour Duncan humbucker fitted. I changed the neck for a 22 frets and renewed the electonics. I still have it.

[JMintzer]

Harmony Dreadnaught Acoustic. No longer have it. Wouldn't want it on a bet...


Jamie

[tiboy]

My first guitar was purchased circa 1968 from the local Two Guys store. It was a no name guitar. I remember that the guitar and amp cost $30 total. I had to deliver a lot of newspapers to afford them. I soon formed my first and only band with two friends. Our set list consisted of playing the opening riff of 25 or 6 to 4. I played on the high e string and my buddy played on the low e string with his thumb over the top. We graduated the 4 note Twilight Zone riff before disbanding. Forty-five years later, I'm not much better.

[Desperado]

My first guitar was an old and battered acoustic. There was an old school punk that lived in a flat across the hallway, he'd had for around 15 yrs. He never played it and was having a clear out and was about to throw it on the tip. I asked to have it and he was happy for me to take it.

A friend of mine helped me to get it strung and playing ok. I used that beast for about 3 years before buying one of my own. What a difference it made to my playing when I actually had a decent instrument to play!

[WishICouldPlay]

There is a long backstory to this which I shall expunge in the interests of brevity and everone's sanity.
Back when I was about 15, my Dad got this notion in his head that he should learn to play the mandolin. So were sitting chatting one day when he pipes up and says "Son, I want you to teach me how to play the mandolin." Now, I wasn't any Jesse McReynolds or Bobby Osborne, but I could play a bit so I said "OK Dad, I'll try". So we started. Now, I have to give him credit, he did work at it and really made a legitimate effort. After about a month, when he had progressed to the point where he could kinda hold the pick and make some kind of scratching noise across the open strings that made the dog howl, I looked at him and said "You know Dad, this isn't going very well, maybe we should do something different". Looking incredibly relieved he said "Well I don't really want to give this up, what do you have in mind". Trying to look contemplative (as best a 15 year could do), I said "Why don't you and I build me an electric guitar".
He pondered for about two seconds and said "Yes, I think we could do that". So we did ... ergo my first electric guitar. 'Course I didn't do any of the work and it turned out quite well. LP clone. Played it for years.

[cjmwrx]

An Early 80s Gibson SG faded I got in 89. Walnut with a repaired headstock break. I sold stuff during lunch breaks in highschool to buy it for 200.00. I was a bit of a hot head when I was a kid, and it had the neck and the headstock broken off again when it went against my brothers head a few years later.

[sergiodeblanc]

I sold stuff during lunch breaks in highschool to buy it for 200.00.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiX2Aj76OIM


Bhangin'

[Albrecht Smuten]

Encore strat copy:

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/$T2eC16d,!ygE9s7HKLOkBQ,+gpk,0g~~48_79.JPG

And eventually a 20kW B.C Rich combo...

Neither the guitar nor the hair nor the stripped sweater made me Kurt Cobain surprisingly...

[enigma]

My first guitar was an Ibanez Artist that I bought from Sam Goody in 1979. Here's my 2nd guitar that I still have from 1984: Guild S281 w/ Kahler tremolo that was replaced with a Gibson hardtail and currently loaded with Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l199/mergetrio/Guild_S281_SeymourDuncan/S281-3.jpg

[Mike Duncan]

1987 Squier Stratocaster MIJ in Dakota Red - basically a '62 RI with Gotoh tuners. I did terrible things to that guitar. I used to go Southworth Guitars in '88 or so, I was 16, and wanted a real 60s Strat. I loved how they looked - all beaten up - loved it and loved SRV. So, again in '88, I began the relic process. I bought a lefty trem and installed it myself (bought it from Brian Meader in '88), burned cigarettes in the headstock (my parents smelled the cigarette smoke and thought I was being a rebelous teen and smoking, I had come clean and tell them I was a hardcore guitar nerd and was aging my guitar!!), began denting / scrapping the body up...I was a teenager, but I knew what I wanted, a Strat that appeared to be vintage. I wish we had the Internet back then. My Dad though I was nuts. Sadly, about 10 years ago I thought I'd refinish the guitar. I used a chemical stripper on a hot day, left the body on my deck too long, and the glue seams popped. I still have everything, just in pieces in the case.

[Mikegarveyblues]

Encore strat copy:

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/$T2eC16d,!ygE9s7HKLOkBQ,+gpk,0g~~48_79.JPG

And eventually a 20kW B.C Rich combo...



Neither the guitar nor the hair nor the stripped sweater made me Kurt Cobain surprisingly...

I had an Encore Strat. By far and away the worst guitar I ever owned. After a week or so the neck seperated from the body and I had to glue it in.

[Albrecht Smuten]

I had an Encore Strat. By far and away the worst guitar I ever owned. After a week or so the neck seperated from the body and I had to glue it in.

Same here, bro. No problem with the neck, but the switch and the bridge started to fall apart very quickly. Not that I cared back then (I was 14 and played the electric guitar!) ;)

[rugerpc]

Ambitiously, this:

http://altomusic.com/shop/images/product/0961522021-f7d0ba6cbbe928a0f75494ca9c47a22e.jpg

I had high aspirations.

The next one was this:

http://guitarcleaning.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cherryburst_fender_strat.jpg

I still have both.

[AP515]

My mom's 58 Martin parlor guitar. Still have it. All opriginal except for the bridge.
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii126/Pecospup/TheFamily-1.jpg

[RickO]

I received this "amp-in-the case" Danelectro/Silvertone July 5th, 1966, (traded it for a ES-330TD in '68).

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn16/dumbleods/silvertone_may_67darka1_zps969270fd.jpg

[]-[ @ n $ 0 |v| a T ! ©]

I received this "amp-in-the case" Danelectro/Silvertone July 5th, 1966, (traded it for a ES-330TD in '68).
I want one of those!

[Hopeful Sinner]

My first was a blue Harmony something or other... I remember it being in really bad condition and the highest action EVER! I do not miss it, but I am thankful for the fire it lit...

[Texas_minor_blues]

An Aria Pro II
Don't recall the model
It was ugly but it played really nice

[gush]

I didnt own my first guitar. It belonged to my uncle but my dad had it. It was disassembled in its case kept under mom and dads bed. I was 15 and had started learning guitar on my dads POS acoustic when I found it. I put it together and started playing it. It was a fender duo-sonic with a very very short scale.

I purchased an old fender amp that was a combo but somebody had built a cabinet to put the amp section into. speaker cab was a music man 4x12 that I still wish I had. I was on top of the world I was. My mom told me not to buy that amp because it was just a phase,hmmmmmm.

[Texsunburst59]

Here's my very 1st "Real" guitar my dad bought for me in '79. It's was gigged to hell for over 20 yrs.
I still have it and will never sell it.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d7/Texsunburst59/DSC00322.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d7/Texsunburst59/DSC00323.jpg

[vchizzle]

A National LP copy, black w/gold hardware that belonged to some dude in prison that traded it in to a local store - I hope that thing was sanitized before I got it:vroam:
At any rate, I didn't catch anything from it:p

No, I don't have it and wouldn't want it back...although it seemed pretty solid and well built for what it was.

[Texsunburst59]

A National LP copy, black w/gold hardware that belonged to some dude in prison that traded it in to a local store - I hope that thing was sanitized before I got it:vroam:
At any rate, I didn't catch anything from it:p

No, I don't have it and wouldn't want it back...although it seemed pretty solid and well built for what it was.

Did it look something like this? I picked this up at a pawnshop about a year ago for $65 w/ OHSC

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d7/Texsunburst59/DSC00385.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d7/Texsunburst59/DSC00386.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d7/Texsunburst59/DSC00387.jpg

[LSchefman]

In truth, this was my first guitar; my brother's '65 SG Special, bought new. I got it in 1967. Still have it.

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i332/lschefman/photo-5.jpg

[daa2202]

My first guitar was a crappy "Univox" Les Paul goldtop copy, with a bolt-on neck. I think it was 1976 when I got it - I was 15. $90 if I recall, with a chipboard case.

After a year or so it was replaced by a Gibson L6-S, which was an enormous step forward (even if they aren't all that great in absolute terms.) But it had pretty good action and played easily. I wore out the frets on the thing in about three years, and traded it for a 1979 Hamer Sunburst which I still have. But that's another story.