Do you still own your first real guitar?

[Guitar Rod]

Better than that, I acquired my father's first....

YOUR FATHER IS ACE FREHLEY?!! Does he know that?

 

[Soul Tramp]

No. Problem is I don't know what my first "real" guitar was.

My first electric was a first generation Univox Highflyer. At the time it was a cheap good beginner electric. However, they are now considered a collectible and fetch a higher than expected price.

My second electric was an old Fender Jaguar.

So, what was my first "real" guitar? A Highflyer or a Jaguar?

 

[LtDave32]

I wish I did. Though it's not considered much more than a "one trick pony"; I bought a brand-new Ric 325 in 1977. Cost me $424.00 including HSC.

Great for early Beatles stuff. Horrible for much anything else. But it had a vibe and introduced a nostalgia every time I picked it up.

So much so, that I chose to build a 1958 Ric 325 for my very first build. It came out great, but again, not something I pick up and play every day. That damn short scale makes it difficult. But I wanted to build it as a reminder of my past, and I sure love to look at it on the wall over there.

I had two horrible copies before the Ric, so I consider the Ric my first "real" guitar.

 

[LeftyF2003]

That was like 30 guitars and 40 years ago but it was one of these:

1967 SG Jr with a Vibrola. I removed the tremelo and replaced the bridge with a Badass so 1) it would intonate and 2) stay in tune, as though the Vibrola looks lovely a gentle wind will knock it out of tune.

 

[Cozmik Cowboy]

Over the last 37 years I have acquired 7 guitars, 1 bass, 2 harmonicas, an autoharp, and a Third Man Zither Junior; I still have them all.

No, wait - I lie. The first real instrument I bought was a Supro Comet lap steel, at a pawn shop for $25, several years before I started to play. Never worked it out, so in '82 or so I gave to a friend for his 30th b-day; he still gigs it.

 

[dennis g]

Sadly, no, I don't own it, or even have any idea where it might be at this point. It was a Gibby LG-0, that Dad financed at the time for $85 (early '60's).
Worth about five times that today, but at the time it became the down payment for the next guitar, which became the down...well, you get the idea. Would like to have it back for nostalgic reasons, if nothing else, but c'est la vie, no?

 

[Al Walker]

Unfortunately not! My first real guitar was a brand new Tobacco burst ES-335 TD, that my dad bought for me in 1966. $350 with a hardshell case.

 

[wwit]

Nope long gone.

Was a hand me down early 70's Tele Korean import. Nice player. But age wasn't good to it. The multi piece body completely fell apart and the neck took a pretzel warp. My last look of it was @ 15 years ago when I was dropping the mess into a dumpster.

Somewhere in some box in my attic is the only photo I have of me playing it.

Photo taken by MLP member Flickoflash when we were @ 14 years old in his parents basement.

 

[SteveC]

Yup... my 1981 LPC. I bought this brand new in January of 1982, for $650.

 

[zendriveseven]

Yes. A 1979 Gibson The Paul that I got brand new for my 15th birthday. Still plays and sounds great. All stock.

 

[The Peacemaker]

Better than that, I acquired my father's first....

Me too. Acquired it when my Dad died 3 yrs ago.

1956 ES125

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[justmark]

Yes. A 1979 Gibson The Paul that I got brand new for my 15th birthday. Still plays and sounds great. All stock.

i had one of those back in the early 80's for awhile. it was a real decent guitar, but i never "bonded" with it. i think it was because i really wanted a stratocaster.

 

[zendriveseven]

i had one of those back in the early 80's for awhile. it was a real decent guitar, but i never "bonded" with it. i think it was because i really wanted a stratocaster.

I owe that guitar an awful lot. Had my Dad bought me something cheap and hard to play I may not have stuck with it. And my first Strat came many years later in 1989. Gotta have a good Strat!

 

[madmusicltd]

Still own my first guitar... 1960's Kimberly EJ-1 (Tiesco) Only seen one on the internet..

and my first real guitar... 1980 Firebrand, got mine at about age 15 as well~

 

[Mr Insane]

Peavey Firenza

 

[elephantrider]

i'll bump this thread.

94 ibanez talman with kent armstron lipsticks.
bought it brand new in 94.