Your first guitar

PeterIanStaker

Very lucky in that my dad gave me his 70's Yamaha F335 acoustic when I was 13. "Yours this is now, young Padawan. Play Stairway on it, you will." I still have it. Sounds great.

First electric was a early 80's Westone Concord I "borrowed" off one of my cousins until I got an Epi LP.

Malice

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Old thread buzz.

I was going to post pretty much the same thing .

Orando Broom

Learned to play on a couple of guitars, a Fender acoustic and a Samick acoustic, my first guitar was a BC Rich Warlock. One of those pack jobs. Never improved a day with it. It was almost like my guitar education stopped when I bought it.

Things improved greatly when I bought a Big Baby Taylor. I freakin' love that guitar.

novarock

first guitar was a 3/4 size spanish guitar that i saw being made in the factory. Still have it!

First bass was a squier p-bass special. Woeful guitar...

Gaspode

Still have my first 2 guitars and playing both all the time 28 (acoustic) and 25 (electric) years later. Pics somewhere in the show your gear thread.

Ostrom

Alanstrainor wrote: »

it was bought when epiphone had gibson on the truss rod cover

I had an SG bass with 'Gibson' on the truss plate! When/why did they stop doing that?

First bass was a tanglewood p-bass, with a cardboard shim under the e-string to control fret buzz

First guitar was a cherry burst epiphone les paul

punchdrunk

this tele was the first one I paid for!

hon pa

Yamaha Pacifica like two years ago...
Still have to get my second though..:(

rgt320q

My first one was a black Samick something or other I got when I was 12 (jesus, nearly a decade ago now). Did the trick in those aul formative years. Would post a picture, but I took it apart a while ago to tinker with (repaint, scallop frets etc.), still a "project in progress" though, however.

stephenshields2

I played my father guitars since I was about 7 or 8 (not that I appreciated the fact I was playing Gibson Les Pauls and USA Strat Plus, under very careful supervision I maight add!! )

But then when I was about 12, the folks got me my very own a BC Rich Mick Thompson Warlock, and I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread!! :rolleyes:

It has action that leaves alot to be desired, painfully average pickups, and the one knob on the guitar (master volume) fell off.

But I still play it to this day, and I would never, EVER sell it. To much of that sentimental value stuff. (As opposed to monetary value )

Adyx

First acoustic was a Century (?). Rubbish really, It had steel strings but was obviously designed for nylon strings. No truss rod so really thick neck, the bridge was the type you'd find on a nylon strung guitar. It's still around but the body is completely warped.

First electric was a Samick Les Paul copy. Again it wasn't great but I still have it.

First bass was a Squier Affinity Bass, which still gets a look in now and again.

Banjo

Borrowed my sister's Hohner nylon-stringed acoustic at the start - it was slightly bigger than a ukelele and felt like it was made of Lino. NEver sounded right playing Metallica on it. First guitar of my own was a 2nd hand Marlin loner, strat-a-like in glittery silver with red binding and red marlins up the neck. The pickups were rusty, the locking nut was busted and it stayed in tune for a maximum of about 3 minutes at a time but I loved that glamtastic beast. No idea if it was any good but it sounded good to me through my 10W Park-by-Marshall Don't have it any more, gave it to my wife's cousin out of a misguided sense of lefty solidarity.

Guitareaxe

A crappy spanish guitar with 2 strings, both G, and both steel. cost me 20 pound, robbing feckers.

anyway it was worth it as I learned alot on that piece of junk:P

Ash.J.Williams

My first ever guitar was an aria pro II JS series. Brand new in Music Maker capel st, for £127 irish pounds!!
Compared to the hand me downs a lot of my friends had it was a beaut, looked pure metal and played great, just cheapo pickups and light body.

i used to make people believe the JS stood for Joe Satch!
a few weeks later i bought a samic 10w amp.....

savage!!

Quillo

1981 Suzuki Strat' copy.....with a very crackly Vox amp..

Eventually, and 4 or 5 guitars later, bought a real Strat' (albeit of Japanese manufacture) in 1996 and have had it since.

First classical was an entry level Yamaha back in 1980.. now have a nice Manuel Rodriguez MCR11.

First bass was an Ibanez SR300 bought on 2007 - now have a SR700, a Ministar Basstar travel bass and a DIY-defretted Vintage V940......saving for an SR4000e.