What was your first Guitar?

Nick and the Noise · Post by **Nick and the Noise** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:22 am

I've found a (blurry Instagram type) picture. I still have that Stingray bass!

Maggieo · Post by **Maggieo** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:16 am

Despot wrote:
Maggieo wrote:
1981 Hamer Special And Swart Atomic Space Tone, July, 2009 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr

Quite possibly, the best trade ever.
Oooh nice Maggie.
Also the Swart!

Thank you!

noisepunk · Post by **noisepunk** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:39 pm

I had a late 80's-early 90's japanese Samick strat copy in dakota-red. I wasn't too into it at the time- my step-dad found me a kramer focus 2000 at a thrift store for $20 after 3 months later that I bonded with way more than I did with the strat.

I wound up giving the guitar to one of my oldest friends, and when I played it after dropping it off it sounded better than I ever remember it sounding.

It was a pretty nice guitar in retrospect. It was a lot better sounding, and more playable then any new squier would've been at the time, and it was my favorite color.

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I still have the kramer, which has been painted, stickered and pretty heavily modified and is one of the only guitars I'd never sell, even though it's a super-strat

InLimbo · Post by **InLimbo** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:05 pm

Hahahaha

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 6:47 pm

Satallite Les Paul... Bolt on neck plywood job.

ruraldave · Post by **ruraldave** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:03 pm

InLimbo wrote:

Hahahaha

Are those pants or a dress...?

InLimbo · Post by **InLimbo** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:08 pm

Tripp pants, man. That was my 'show' uniform, but the necklace and bracelet were always worn, along with Jnco pants a tee from Hot Topic.

noisepunk · Post by **noisepunk** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 9:32 pm

InLimbo wrote:Tripp pants, man. That was my 'show' uniform, but the necklace and bracelet were always worn, along with Jnco pants a tee from Hot Topic.

Those were the days... Im glad I got over that quickly.

FloralGreen · Post by **FloralGreen** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 12:58 am

My first guitar was an Epiphone LP Junior, sunburst with a black guard and a zebra humbucker. Cutting it into a double cutaway now. It was a hand me down from my cousin. The first guitar I had that was mine was a Squier Telecaster, which I just modded today, put a Mustang pickup in the neck, because the Jazzmaster would cost more than I expected.

Luthier-Atlanta · Post by **Luthier-Atlanta** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:17 am

Here's mine, I still have it and it is in all but mint condition as well.
1980 Yamaha HE700SE

Axeman52 · Post by **Axeman52** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 6:32 am

Nothing remarkable.

Started out on a £35 nylon string acoustic that was actually bought for my brother. he liked guns 'n' roses at the time so my parents bought him a guitar. he got bored with it but I used to sit and watch my mum playing finger picking blues on it and eventually I decided to pick it up. It was the only guitar I had until I was about 10 when my cousin loaned me his old Ovation Celebrity KMD-110 super strat thingy and a little amp. I found the guitar a bit too complicated, electronically and mechanically, it had a locking floyd rose style trem that I didn't understand. It also had HSS pickup configuration, with a high output staple magnet humbucker and a little coil split switch. of course, my un-trained ears had no idea what the hell any of the controls did and how or why the sound changed.

When I was 15 I saved up enough money to buy myself an epiphone SG - not sure why I chose it, it just felt the most comfortable to me at the time. Since then it's been heavily modded and currently features tone rider HB sized P90s, a graphtech nut, a roller bridge and a hipshot "will ray" B-Bender, but I have no pics unfortunately. At one point it had a push-pull pot to invert the phase of the neck pickup, and a really industrial looking tremolo unit built by a guy who was filing for a patent who wanted me to test it out for him. It was one of about 10 prototypes. Never heard anything about it since, but that doesn't mean progress on the design has ceased, the designer is extremely reserved and reclusive and I just haven't seen him for years.

lucas · Post by **lucas** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 11:06 am

My first guitar ..... 1995.... was an ancient SG - made by someone called SAXON -I've never seen another one....

It had a ropy Bigsby type device attached, a bolt on neck and the woolliest pickups ever... you could bend notes by moving the neck back and forth...

I had no money for an amp so I pulled my cassette walkman apart and soldered a jack socket into it -- you could then play the guitar through the walkman as long as "play" was pressed.
This actually sounded better than the first amp or two that I had....

I sold the SG a couple of years later to a mate and bought a Korean Squier Strat... it was in a nasty nasty pinky red colour which i hated - so it got refinished and various pickups added

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Once I tried single coils, I've never really liked humbuckers since....

Neil.C · Post by **Neil.C** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 3:05 am

dezb1 wrote:

Avon Rose Morris Les Paul... Bolt on neck plywood job.

Ah, a pic!

Exact same first electric guitar here too.

Neil.C wrote:No pic, but a Japanese Avon Les Paul copy in the early '70's.

Bolt on neck, plywood body with bent ply top to look "carved" and humbucker covers that hid cheap single coils.

pj · Post by pj » Sun Jul 12, 2015 3:29 am

It was a les paul shaped monstrosity that had a black painted fingerboard which would leach onto my fingers. Yuck. It was not at all a good instrument.

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