What was your very first electric guitar

[g6120]

here is my very first guitar

harmany bobcat -

which i still have and it was a xmas present in 1965 - one pickup and i believe its a dearmond

g6120

[ejb222]

A silver Yamaha strat look alike. It was used but what did I care... I had spent years asking my folks for a guitar until I finally got one on my 16th birthday. I beat the crap out of it...colored it black with a sharpie then lit it on fire...burnt my rug :P I wouldn't dare do the same to my American Deluxe Tele...shes a doll :)

[AnArmyOfJuan]

Mine was a Hondo. double cutaway with short asymetrical horns, one humbucker, bridge was adjustable for height only and it had some odd sheetmetal tailpiece that was shaped like a D. wasn't a very good guitar, but it got me started.

replaced it with a Aria Pro II super-strat type guitar that had Jackson style inlays and was very Ibanez-y. traded that for a '72 Fender Musicmaster a year or two later, and got hooked on the vintage thing.

[zoppotrump]

my first guitar was a cheap, bright yellow "asco" stratocaster copy, but i was hell proud of it.

zoppotrump
:O)

[Joe Chaney]

i don't have any immediate photos, but it's a maya stratocaster exactly the same as this one just white, and it's worn out, too many bits need replacing and the pick ups are ****e, if i could i would

[robt57]

A Guild Thunderbird with the stand built into the back. ;)


Looked like this: A guitar only a Mother could love...

[KC]

Harmony Meteor:




wish I still had it . . . the one I got next, though, was a Fender mutt, a Duo-Sonic neck on a 50s Esquire body, original bridge, pickup, etc. I really wish I had that one back.

[robt57]

Originally Posted by Turtletwang

A Les Paul Deluxe Goldtop. My mom helped me buy it in 1976. I still have it!

Is it a Deluxe with the mini buckers ????


No, don't tell me

[kingofdogs1950]

I bought my first electric in 1968. I've always called it an "SG Standard" but it may have some other name. It looked like this one in the picture I borrowed from MF. Price (new) in 1968: $275

Mark

[kp8]

1978 Musicmaster

[studio1087]

I don't really know the Ric model but here we are in 1975. Rented it for months and then bought a Tele Custom. I kept the Vibro Champ until I was about 17.

[Pvee]

Supro guitar, 1956 I think..

[superbadj]

The year was 1989 or 1990. My older bro had a strat, and I wanted something different than that (duh).

I had NO idea what I wanted until I saw a 1985-model MIJ '62 custom telecaster. Beautiful double-bound sunburst with rosewood fretboard.

I drooled over it for a few days as I contemplated the purchase. One day, I went in and played it for a lil' while. As I re-hung it on the wall, I learned a very valuable lesson about tele headstocks and wall hangers.

I just remember letting go once I thought it was securely hung and stepping back to admire the thing....and then seeing it move a little before (seemingly magically) sliding through the hanger and starting its vertical journey towards the floor.

With a mighty thump, it hit the floor and clanged onto its back.

"Holy ****" was all I could think.

I waited for the shop owner to come storming in...but nobody did.

Seems no one noticed (how, I'll never know).

Anyway, the guitar landed on something hard (I forgot what) and had a fresh gouge in the binding at the very bottom. I felt like I had to (a) go tell the owners what had happened, or (b) buy the guitar.

So I bought it.

Still have it. Will never sell it.

That gouge, now, is just a love mark.

Reminds me of my younger self...

[Rombel]

Mine was an early 70s Lero copy of a LesPaul, black with w/bw binding and chrome hardware. It sounded ok through my Ford ss amp (and Little Big Muff and MXR phaser), and it was a long time before I realized that the action on it was mile-high. By then, I'd developed gorilla hands and calluses thicker than the school books I stopped opening when she came into my life.
I had it until I bought my first real LP, in '79.
Black, cream binding, chrome hardware.
Oh, and low action.

[Rocks]

A white Kalamazoo that looked a little like a strat, but not quite.

[gaddis]

My first guitar was a Tele. I got it in 1968 from my brother's friend. It was only a few months old and I got it for $75. Pretty good deal even for then! I still have it.

[TeleDrifter]

70's Ibanez Les paul TV. The neck-only P-90 was weak so I never played it all that much over the years but now I got a Bad-Ass bridge, Gibson Original Lead HB at the bridge. Moved the P-90 to the neck. Only thing left to do is put two DPDT pots in to get parallel/series and in&out phase and seh'll be finished............Glad I kept her all these years........................

[Kebmel]

A second, third or maybe fourth hand black

Carlos Les Paul through a 10 watt Gorilla amp

I didn't know a thing about guitars way back in the day

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And today:

[Strawfields]

A piece of crap [from Woolworths I later found out...maybe a Diasonic ..that's all my research could gather]... it was a 335 or Gretsch copy with crap bigsby thing...I thought it was geat ...It wasn't .. bought it for £5 when I was 17


Second guitar was a Yamaha se300 strat copy Black with white scratch-plate which I later painted with car-spray and masking tape to emulate Eddie Van Halen

My 3rd Guitar is the one I use now... 1987 Japanese Tele.