What was your very first guitar?

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I got mine from a place called the Music Crib in 1985. It was a Cortez Les Paul copy. It looked Just like Jimmy Page's. $125. and it came with a hardshell case.
 
Washburn WR-150. Picture a gloss black strat with pointyer horns, ebony fretboard, black HSS pickups, and a black headstock. I still have it to day and still use it!
 
My first guitar

My first guitar that I can remmeber was a Franchescan drednought. That guitar sat in my buddies room closet for 5 years with one string on it. The neck was really warped. It never stayed in tune. I learned to tune with that guitar. I ended up smashing that guitar on my pourch one day. Lost the head stalk, wanted the tuners. I miss that guitar.
 
My very first guitar was an original 1958 Fender Strat that I bought off a guy in 1976 for $350. I couldn't play a note when I bought it, but was determined to learn and figured a fine guitar would motivate me. It did. For various reasons, I sold in on ebay in 2002 for a very handsome profit. I replaced it with other guitars (including a '57 Strat Reissue, which I love) and other things and paid-off bills. The '58 was a great guitar, but with the $ I got for it and what I did with the money, it was the right thing to do. I really don't miss it.
 
My first electric guitar (bought in 1985) was a Mako knockoff of a Randy Rhoads flying V. White with a black pickguard. I loved that guitar, and for a knockoff it was a great player. My first amp was a 35 watt Gorilla, with a switch called "tube stack" for distortion. I hated that amp. It's "Tube Emulation" Sounded like "Ass Emulation".
 
1970's Daimaru electric. Have yet to see another one - or even hear about that company again for that matter.

What a piece of crap.
 
My first acoustic was an old Kay that I got from my aunt when I was about 10 years old.

My first electric was a Hondo II Les Paul copy when I was 12. I really miss that guitar.

Ahhh...fond memories.
 
My first guitar was a $99.00 guitar from the Sears Wish-Book. It was a strat-style body, black with red binding, 2 humbuckers, vibrato bar and a Jackson-style headstock.

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My first acoustic, in the early '60's was a Stella. And I belive my first electric was something from Sears or Wards or Two Guys. It had like four pick ups, and all these push buttons, knobs and toggle switches.

Any you guys remember the music section pages in the Wards catalog. They had pictures of this semi-well known band(can't remember the name) from the time with the caption "We use Wards!". Pretty funny stuff.
 
First one I bought was an American P-Bass, which in the end I really didn't like. Cool first axe though.
 
my first guitar

My first guitar was a hohner acoustic I bought from a friend when I was still in the Marine Corps. He needed beer money I wanted to learn to play, I gave him 20 bucks and my roommate taught me to play. I gave it to another good friend right before we got out. All our buddies including me signed it in the hopes that one of the signatures might make it worth more than the 20 I paid for it one day.
 
My first was a 1940 (or there about) Melody King, I have no idea who it was made by. I inheirited it (1959) from an uncle who also started me on guitar by showing me G, C, and D. My first electric (1967) was an Ideal, sort of looked like an SG with one pup, imported from Japan by Electra (I think). My first real guitar (1971) was an Epiphone hollow body, it looked just like a Gretch Country Gentleman.
 
My first acoustic guitar was an El Dorado--at least that's what it said on the headstock. I bought it for about $100 in 1976. My first electric guitar (purchased about two years later) was an Electra MPC. It had plug in effects modules that popped into the back and was hawked as a major innovation by the music store dude that sold it to me. I bought it in Columbus, Ohio at a place called the String Shoppe. Don't look for it. Like the Electric Banana, it's not there anymore!
 
ibanez rg series with a neck that had a 4 inch woop along the hole thing. had a 1.5 inch gap between where the neck and body meet. missing bridge humbucker. am i forgetting anything..... oh yeah had a floyd rose tremelo that i could never figure out how to set up. so it consistently sat up like 2 inches from the body. bigger and better things came after that (won't bore you with a weird story)
 
1964 Teisco Del Ray, 4 pickups with a whammy, I have a picture around somewhere with my now gone dad fooling around with it.
He bought it for me in Two Guys department store in Middletown N.J., I think it cost about 60 bucks.
 
If one doesn't count the Roy Rogers toy guitar I had at six, my first guitar was a Gibson LG-2 I inherited from my older sister. She bought it new (in '62) with her first paycheck and lost interest, to my very great gain. I still have it.
 
Had a Sekova LP copy that I got for $50- didn't know that the neck had been reglued after falling out of a window :) Also got a $50 acoustic that warped in a few months.

Then I went to a 'real'music store across the river in NJ and got an Ibanez Roadstar II and an orange Boss Distortion. The sound? Put your teeth together and go bzzzzzzzzz. But I learned to play...
 
I bought a no-name LP copy with bolt on neck in 1981 -- it had to have been several years old already...what a piece of crap.

My first "real" guitar as a G&L SC-1 bought new in 1982. I kept it for about 23 years and sold it not too long ago.
 
My first guitar was a SG lookalike, not even anywhere near a copy. I don't know what the name of it was, I bought it with a Kustom V transistor amp 50 watt. I still have the amp but the guitar went many years ago, it's the only guitar that I have ever sold. I wish I still had it just for nostalgia purposes.
 
I'm a lefty. My first was an Aria Pro II, sunburst. It was a bad strat copy, looked kinda cool. I bought in 94' when i was 15. I played it for awile, eventually i bought a gibson SG, and i gave the Aria Pro to a coworker, who gave it to his daughter to learn how to play. I put it too good use, last i heard she was too.
 
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