What was your first electric guitar?

[markg9]

Originally Posted by whytheflyband

I had a lucite strat copy made by Samick. Terrible guitar! haha soooooooooooo heavy!

Other than weight, how did it play???? I always wanted a see-thru axe.
I currently have a Samick RL4 semi hollow and it's pretty decent.

Thanks
Mark

1990 LP Studio black
1991 American Tele
50th Anniv Strat Reissue
Samick RL4 LTD
Mustang bass reissue
Ibanez RG 1570

[boycey]

Mines was the mighty Marlin Sidewinder.
I was about 14 or 15 and my parents were on my case to cut my hair. My two sisters were accordian players but had given it up, so in one of my few ever flashes of genius I convinced my Dad to sell the girl's old accordian to buy me a guitar and amp. So, off went the hair and the accordian and in came the mighty Sidewinder accompanied by a 10 watt 'Gorilla' practice amp to accompany it. Forget the Les Paul and Marshall combination, nothing rocks like a Sidewinder through a 10 watt Gorilla, nothing ....

[TeleDog]

My first electric was one I bought myself. Didn't have no such thing as guitar centers back then at home, so I went to the music store and told the guy I wanted a "Jimmy Page guitar", the guy just laughed at me (and with good reason).

Some time later, I returned and bought the cheapest electric I could find! It had no name on it, had the stink to death if you know what I mean, the finish was obviously crappy (dark blue), but I didn't give a shit, it was an electric and that was all I wanted.

I then "refinish" (destroyed) that guitar, went from blue to natural (with all those wood filler spots showing), then it went to yellow and then it got a "professional" paint job from a friend who used to refinish furniture. Thing is, he applied the thickest coat of poly you can imagine over the fretboard!

Still have it, in pieces, don't have the heart to get rid of it!

[Grand Pappy in Chandler]

My Ma bought me a $49.00 Strat type guitar w/ a black cardboard case @ Woolworths in about 1967. P.O.S.! Next I got a Univox Les Paul that was all nat. including the fretboard. Another P.O.S.! Never stayed in tune, horrible intonation. Then I got cool and got a black Ovation Deacon. The body was made of partical board and had as much balls as my Grand son's Sponge Bob guitar. Took me about 6 years, but I finally got a used Gibson Les Paul and never looked back!

[leftyguitarman]

My first guitar was an 2005 Epi LP Standard. Not too bad I suppose!

[Wolff]

I'm pretty sure there is another thread like this already but here goes again. My Aria Less Paul Custom copy bought new in 1976. DiMarzio p'up added about '77. I still have it.

[hobbyman]

A Harmony strat copy. I still have it and I love it! Here it is:

[beanoburst66]

a white Drive guitar that was 100$ which i sold for $200 and bought my epi les paul which is still my favorite guitar that i own.

[nbeersiii]

mine was a grey with black pickguard strat copy called a byscane six made by palmer. I dont remember how it sounded cause i sucked at the time it was 20 years ago but im sure it was crappy.

[MRJ5]

My first electric was a Harmony Rocket kit by Heathkit. I built it in about 1965 when I was 14.

The guitar in the pictures is not mine but identical. I wish I still had it.

It was a great sounding guitar but I sold it because I wanted a solid body.

I recently bought another that I am restoring.

[Brian Krashpad]

Originally Posted by Grand Pappy in Chandler

Then I got cool and got a black Ovation Deacon. The body was made of partical board ...

Haha, nope.

Deacons are made of mahogany, as are Breadwinners.

My first electric was a Sears POS, seen here on the right after I painted it checkerboard to use it as a wall hanging:



The guitar to the left was my first playable guitar, a 1960 Fender Duo-Sonic. The one I'm holding is my 3rd electric and my first giggable guitar, an Ovation Breadwinner.

[Grand Pappy in Chandler]

Sorry, but I thought the Ovation electric I had was a Deacon. It had the same shape as the Deacon and Breadwinner. It was flat black color w/ a rough textured finish and the body was some sort of pressed wood. It had either a rosewood, or ebony fretboard. The pickups were plastic and metal. Butt ugly!
In any case it sucked and I got rid of it as soon as I could.

[MrWrong]

My first electric was a Harmony/Kay Bass, like this one



wish I had it back, it was a pretty good bass - got it in around '63. I played 6-string and 4-string tenor accoustic prior to that playing folk music. I later traded the Harmony for a VOX bass.

[Mark H]

Originally Posted by Wolff

I'm pretty sure there is another thread like this already but here goes again. My Aria Less Paul Custom copy bought new in 1976. DiMarzio p'up added about '77. I still have it.

Wow thats cool, My first one was an Aria Pro II apx 1977? BB Custon too.
Ahhh you still got it too! You da man!

[GS STRINGS]

Mine was a Sears strat shaped thing with real crapy humbuckers, I remember hooking it up during a bicentenial minute so it must have been 1976.It came with a little POS amp that I soon cut the wires to the speaker and ran it through the cut wires of the stylus of a Pioneer stereo turntable. The turntable position had the most watts to get that squealing feeding back distortion, it sounded terrible but I loved it. I think my parents where thinking what have we done!!

[mizer357]

76 lp deluxe goldtop i still own. a bit beat up, the bridge pickup has been swapped a couple of times, but still plays wonderfully. to this day, my favorite axe.

[Brian Krashpad]

Originally Posted by Grand Pappy in Chandler

Sorry, but I thought the Ovation electric I had was a Deacon. It had the same shape as the Deacon and Breadwinner. It was flat black color w/ a rough textured finish and the body was some sort of pressed wood. It had either a rosewood, or ebony fretboard. The pickups were plastic and metal. Butt ugly!
In any case it sucked and I got rid of it as soon as I could.

If it had a textured finish it was a Breadwinner. Deacons had gloss finishes and diamond inlays, Breadwinners had a textured finish and dots.

They were made of mahogany.

I guess butt ugly is as butt ugly does.

[SFK]

My first Electric 6 string was a 70s Memphis Les Paul Jr/Special copy.

Ity looked like a DC Jr with an extra P 90. It had a nice big neck but played horribly. I didn't know about set ups back then.

I thought it was the greatest because it appeard to have a set neck like a real Gibson. (It was actually bolted from the inside)

That guitar started my love for Juniors which continues to this day.

I gave it to a buddy several years ago. Wish I had it. (nostalgia n all)

It looked just like this:

[4Boogie]

not my first but one of the first....circa 1980 at 7 years old

[Bjorn Stravinsky]

A 2008 G&L Legacy Tribute my brother bought me for christmas. 3 tone sunburst with rosewood fingerboard.

[Peripeteticqs]

Squier Standard Strat. It has been rewired soooo many times. It used to have all Seymour Duncan pickups, but I once had to sell the middle one to pay for something. Two of the pots are push/pull, and there is a mini switch. They have been used for many different functions. Right now they are wired as a coil splitter, phase switcher, and neck-on switch. I'll probably wind up putting a dano style lipstick pickup in the middle just for a completely different option.

I don't play it as much now that I have my Burny LPC

[Rikochet]

Peavey raptor. Basically just a strat knockoff. Came with a little amp. I still have it, its been to hell and back lol. I attempted to take it all apart and tried to make a metal pickguard for it, but I now realize I should have just left it alone lol. It's also got a crapload of green pick scratches on it from the crappy picks that i used to have.

[jo07]

a Honher les paul custom black beauty copy,that thing had feedback oh god too much ,I paid it 100$ in 1996,play very well but at that time I didn't now about waxing the pup's

[captcoolaid]

[Hyper]

Fender Bullet 1982-83.

[BEDLAM_1]

Mine was Kay SG for 15 uk,,in 1979..im 39 now.
i wanted to be angus!, but i was crap so to make ME sound better i painted it with my dads car paint!,,i stopped trying to play i tafter the paint never went off!

didnt give up thpough

[John the Revelator]

Think it was one of these; 500 dollars back in '90...

[dlmorley]

A Maya Les Paul copy (circa 1978). Good guitar. Used it for quite a few years. Fitted a Dimarzio X2n and a Might Mite HB in it at some point. Found the original pickups a while back and surprisingly, they were Ibanez Super 70's

[rick13]

1974 El Degas Les Paul copy.....
There really wasn't much to choose from, if you didn't have money in those days.
Rick

[d41]

Mine was a Columbus Semi Accoustic Japanese made guitar bought in 1967 for £34 and I stil have it today.