What was your first guitar?

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This is just out of curiosity, but what was your first guitar? and do you still have it?

Personally I still have my cheapo washburn acoustic, plays like hell, high action and everything but sounds really nice and was good for building finger strength I guess.
 
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my first guitar was bought for me for xmas about 2 years after i started playing. it was a black fender squier, that is now beat to hell and still serves me well. put an invader pickup in it.
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I got a nylon-string accoustic in 1964 for $3.00. About a year later, I got a cheap solid-body electric for about $20. Both used. I put the guitars away when I got out of high school in 1967, and didn’t pick up another one unit about 1985, when I took an adult-ed guitar class. This was another used one, a Kay accoustic, which I got for $30. I still have it. Unfortunately, it is no longer playable. Plus, I am 20 years older, and I don’t know whether I would have the strength to wrench any music out of it. (Seriously high action, and, I believe, fatal intonation problems. I took the guitar to a guitar workshop, and Bennett Hammond, the workshop leader, looked out from the stage and said, “Boy, we have some funky guitars here today.” He coultn’t see the fingerboard, but at some point someone with some long and strong fingernails owned the guitar, cause it had these gouges between the frets...) I have quit my lowdown ways, and now actually have a couple of playable guitars.
 
An Airline guitar from MONKEY WARDS.Can you guess how old I am.
 
a 50s fender duo-sonic that was refinished in an appalling orange color. maple fretboard :(

the next guitar my parents bought me one christmas was a 66 fender mustang in dakota red. that guitar was lovely and kept me pacified for quite some time.

then i started to save and bought an 80s ESP Horizon custom... and from there it all went crazy. :)
 
my first guitar was a 3/4 classical. i learnt my first three chords on that guitar (E A and D ) i gave it to my niece and it's still somewhere in the family.
 
this may not suprise some folk but it was a brand spanking new four pickup teisco with a whammy bar. Purchased at Two Guys in Middletown N.J. for my 12th birhtday in 1964. I dont have it but I did have a picture of it recently that I cant find now, my father is pretending to play it in the picture.
My second was a 59 strat, to bad I dont have that either.
 
a black squier strat witha white pick guard. Still have it, for screwin around
 
Hi All,

First guitar was/is my Yamaha classical G-55, the cheapest in Yamaha's lineup 26 years ago, bought through the school music program.
Wide neck, high action, but it is still the one I reach for when I want to 'noodle around'. I am thinking of having it set up professionally to improve its recorded sound.

Best,

CC
 
The custom Koa OOO sized guitar my father made me when I was eight.

It can be a hard life being the son of a luthier. :rolleyes:


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
My first nice guitar was an '82 Ibanez Blazer, brand new.

That's the best guitar out there, folks. ;)
 

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This was my first guitar....

My first *real guitar was a Fender Squire Strat. I still have it somewhere around here, but I don't play it any more. Just can never bring myself to get rid of it.

H2H
 

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No-name Nylon string from Manny's music in Manhattan. Brand new, $35 in 1970. Bought a Gibson SJ dreadnought a year later and never looked back. The old classical was smashed by my brother during a bad acid trip. Those were the days.-Richie
 
Going back to 1964 or '65.

A Stella red burst acoustic when I was around 8 or 9.

My first electric when I was like ten was from Two Guys(the same Two Guys as yours dragonworks) or Sears(a couple miles north on 35). It had all these pickups, push buttons, switches, knobs and a whammy bar. It was a piece of junk that never stayed in tune but it was so kitschy I wish I still had it. I had a little Fender Champ Amp to go with it.
 
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Started learning on a POS nylon string . . . I put steel strings on it, but the bridge only came halfway off :eek:

First axe I bought was a c. 1985 USA P-Bass . . . sold it in 1988.
 
1964 Tiesco, still got it and it's still playable. Mostly it just hangs on the wall unless I get on a nostalgia kick.
 
when i was 6 or 7 i got a cheap ass kid size acoustic......later as a teen i bought my first electric, a Peavey T-15 with a Peavey BackstagePlus amp.......
 
Bought in 1980, a "Segovia" brand steel string made of korean plywood with 2 inches of action, that buzzed like heck. Still have it, crap then, crappier now, from Simpson's department store, now Sears. Almost made me give up on guitar as it was so hard to play on it, and had a tinny tin sound. Just goes to show.....when starting out, get as good a quality a guitar as you can get so garbage like this dont turn you off the instrument altogether.
 
It was a Harmony Acoustic "F" hole. Bought at Wallach's Music City in 1965. I have no idea what model it was. Although at the time I thought I was the coolest guy in the world for owning it, lol.
 
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