What was your first guitar?

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It was a 68' gretsch anniversary model in vintage sunburst, My older brother who was heavy into Chet Atkins convinced my dad that it was the best thing since sliced bread. You should have seen me pounding out AC/DC and Aerosmith on that thing. Anything that had to be played past the 12th fret, you had to pull your thumb underneath because the body joined there and it is about 3 inches thick. It was hard work but sounded great!! I still have it.
 
Hixmix is older than I am? We sure don't act it!

Yamaha 3/4, steel strings, that sucker went on a million drug induced camping trips and is still going, 34 years later. The intonation is getting bad on it, but then look at me! ;)
 
My first guitar was a Penco SG copy.

It had gorgeous mother-of-pearl inlay as fret markers, DiMarzio humbuckers, a bone nut and a flame-maple headstock with the "Penco" name in mother-of-pearl on it.

Man, I sure wish I still had that guitar... it was sweet. :(
 
Giannini....actually, I think it was a Giannini knock off since it was had on the African coast for about 5 bucks. My dad picked it up when he was out shrimping.

Insane action...and not in a good way...haha.

Still have it though. I guess I played it for about a year before I 'stepped up' to the classic Squier Strat+Rage 158 teenage angst machine. :D

Dont ask me why its still around.....no good can come from that guitar. Sentiments a bitch....the Strat is long gone...haha.
 
A student size Harmony acoustic. I put little stickers all over the fretboard to learn the notes. Sounded like ass, but I didn't care. I was cool because I could play the guitar.
 
-=?willhaven?=- said:
which button is puree? ;)

I don't know, but I do distinctly recall one of the pushbuttons was marked "shred". ROTFLMAO!
:D
 
I played on my grandmother's Silvertone acoustic for a while before I got a Squire Strat.
 
Can't remember the model name... but it was the rock bottom of the line Ibanez. I think they still make it.

Now i've got an unidentifed Ibanez. Its pretty damn nice, so I took the time to track down the numbers to find out what it is.... pretty hard to do, since Ibanez doesn't have much support for older stuff.

But according to what I found (and you can tell me if this is bullcrap), It looks like it should be an Ibanez 'Radius.' Someone said they had that guitar for a short time before signing Joe Satchriani (spelling), at which point they just stuck his name on the thing.
 
The one I first started wanking around on was my Dad's Harmony arch top. The first guitar that was mine was my Gibson Melody Maker and I still have both.
 
My first one was a mid-60's Ventura V75 flattop jumbo. It was shaped like a dreadnaught with a couple of inches spliced into the middle. I paid $35 for it used, and a couple of years later I ordered a new case for another $35. High action (the previous owner had strung it up with flatwounds in an effort to make it playable), thin neck, 3/8" thick pickguard, cheap tuners. The top looked like nice spruce, but that was just the veneer. Underneath was Philipine mahogany plywood and floor-joist bracing. Over the years I learned to inlay on its peghead, carved a piece of cherry wood to replace the white plastic heel cap....At one point I had a single-coil steel pickup in the soundhole and I used it as a lap-style.

After many years of playing electric, I decided I needed an acoustic again, so I had a luthier replace the plywood top with an excellent bearclaw spruce top, add a Guild-style bridge (compensated) and reset the neck. That turned it into a 6-string piano! Finally, I changed out the tuners to Gotohs. I use it for bottleneck, tuned to G (D-G-D-G-B-D) and in fact I had it out last night, playing some new material with my stepson. It's an amazing sounding guitar, and still has the original Ventura label inside the body for baffling visitors.
 
my initial POS's

Lotus Les Paul copy, that doubled as a bow for hunting.

Second, shortly after was a Hondo flying V. Packed it in the backseat of my buddy’s car, fender bass amp behind it. Took off at a high rate of speed trying to get to practice. My stoned friend didn't see the car stopped in front of him as he plowed into it at 45mph. The amp in the seat behind me slammed me forward (stopped my from flying through the windshield). He had the cover off of his dashboard, and I was eating a snickers bar at the time. The sharp points of the dashboard made nice serrations in my face, the blood mixed with half chewed and semi-liquefied snickers bar. My guitar was trashed.

I got my Kramer the following week, and still have and play it to this day. That was 17 years ago...
 
Now i've got an unidentifed Ibanez. Its pretty damn nice, so I took the time to track down the numbers to find out what it is.... pretty hard to do, since Ibanez doesn't have much support for older stuff.
But according to what I found (and you can tell me if this is bullcrap), It looks like it should be an Ibanez 'Radius.' Someone said they had that guitar for a short time before signing Joe Satchriani (spelling), at which point they just stuck his name on the thing.

I know exactly what you mean, my friend just bought his first guitar and he got that exact same kind. It took us hours to find something on it and you're right it is a radius, and it is the same as the js signature which came out a few years after the first radius, only the radius has a middle pickup.
Anyways I was quite jealous of my friend who got this as a first guitar, its quite the shredder guitar.
 
Levin acoustic that made my fingers bleed. I painted it white and smashed it to pieces as a revenge. After that there was a Hondo II, I really think that guitar was made of fibre board. Awful, really awful.
The first one I could actually make some noise with was a Harmony Les Paul copy. I traded that one in for an Ibanez 2370 semiacoustic that I still have but never use, got an Aria Hummingbird 12 string around the same time. Still have that one too. That sums up the 70's...
 
first started to learn on my dad's 1970 somthing Yamaha classical, but first guitar i got was an epiphone special. Sold it to some kid in the dorms my freashman year at college. Still have my first amp though; a 15w crate that came with it. Gotta love the Guitar Center Chritmas specials.

-bradly
 
My first was an Ibanez RX 60. Still have it, though it's heavily modded now.
 
A Chess Nylon String guitar. I think my dad bought it at TG&Y and I destroied it on new years. :confused: It still had all the masking tape I put on the frets to learn scales.

First Electric was a Hondo All-Star strat copy with two humbuckers and a wammy bar that looked with the Red / Black pick gaurd guitar Brad Gillis played in Night Ranger and Ozzy.
 
My first was a non-descript nylon string acoustic from a garage sale. Not knowing any better, I put steel strings on it. Eventually the bridge pulled off it.

My first reasonable guitar was an Ovation Viper and I believe I still have it somewhere. It was also the first guitar I did surgery on ... it came with these soap bar single coil pickups and they were good for what they do, but I wanted more crunch ... so I mail ordered a Carvin humbucker and carved the pickguard to bits, and slapped that bad boy in there.

Many followed, but she was my first :)
 
Got this when I was 11. Long gone, but I loved this thing.
Broken truss rod, so virtually unplayable above the 5th fret, but I still thought I was George Harrison :rolleyes:
 

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My first was a lil red Ayar back in the early 60`s. It had rocker switches to turn the pickups off and on. After the little strings broke it became my first bass.
 
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