What was your first guitar, and do you still have it?

I had a no-name violin-shaped bass that I smashed for fun. Looking back, especially with the old Japanese guitars popularity, I wish I hadn't. Probably could have got a few bux for it....

 

I doubt I woulda sold mine due to both it’s condition & sentimentality but,...it would just be so cool to still have around. Tacky as it sounds I’d hang it on my wall.

 

It was a black Les Paul copy. Either by Satellite or Columbus I think. Despite probably being MIJ it was a pile of crap from what I remember of it. The frets ended at undetermined distances from the edge of the board, were sharp, and very unlevel.

Knowing what I do now, with a bit of work it would probably be respectable enough, but for a 14 year old kid in the 80s it was just a bit crap. Still played the hell out of it though... And I can't actually remember what happened to it!

 

A Japanese single pick-up guitar that would have been better used as a cheese slicer!

If I still owned it I would have to destroy it so that no one would have to torture their fingers.

 

Back in 1982, a Les Paul copy with a bolt-on (!) neck by a japanese company called Kasuga. The neck was actually okay, so I changed the horrible tuners for some good Schaller ones. But it still was a plywood piece of (insert explicit wording here). I still have it, as nobody would have bought it secondhand anyway....
It wasn't like today, where you get surprisingly good stuff for budget money. But hey, I got started!