What was your first guitar?

[Mattayus]

I wasn't sure which section to put this in but i guess it is general music discussion as it's neither 6 or 7 string specific!

Mine was this sucker right here -

but in white. Some tiny British company called Marlin that doesn't even exist anymore!

i had no clue about locking nuts and had to get a mate to come round everytime i needed to tune it

It's gotta be the heaviest fuckin guitar i've ever held in my life! But it did me well for the first couple of years until i got a Jackson!

 

[Pauly]

Tanglewood Strat copy, bought it off my cousin. Action was high and he'd set it up with 11's, what a way to start!

 

[stuh84]

A Squier Strat which played suprisingly well, which I sold to a mate, then a few years later offered to buy it back......but despite the fact he doesn't play it, he says one day he'll do something with it......

 

[Stengah_2012]

$120 Yamaha acoustic. It actually wasn't a bad first guitar, but some bastard stole it later.

 

[jaxadam]

I think it was a Hondo explorer shaped type deal, or maybe one of those cheap ass sears guitars with the speaker built in. It was a really long time ago, but I think the hondo explorer may have been my first "real" guitar, that my brother decided to put his foot through right at the neck pocket.

 

[distressed_romeo]

A plywood strat copy from Argos. It was a piece of shit, but I loved it!

Played it for a few years, then upgraded to a slightly better strat copy by Tanglewood (which is still in the collection, minus its frets), and then finally my Jackson (which I also still have, and is about to get an X2N slapped in the bridge).

 

[DelfinoPie]

Aria STG strat copy...which has since changed colours twice (first dark metallic green, then bright fucking orange) has had a killswitch installed and the neck replaced with one that has a maple fretboard instead of rosewood ...

In short, it looks fuck all like it did originally

 

[HamBungler]

My first guitar was a Silvertone Paul Stanley Apocalypse Special, and surprisingly was a pretty decent guitar, though I had to sell it to get my Samick, which was an infinitely better guitar. I wouldn't mind picking another one of those up and modding the hell out of it, though.

 

[Makelele]

A now about 40 year old Yamaha acoustic (it's my moms). My first electric guitar was a Ibanez GRX20, which was an okay guitar for its price. The thing that sucked about it was the action, which was really high. I sold it to my school, and bought my beloved Ibanez 540SLTD.

 

[Triple-J]

Mine was a strat copy(Hohner i think?) i hated it cause it had a weak sound so i gave up playing but 2 years later I bought a Aria Pro 2!
It was an incredible guitar that I modded the hell out of with a Wilkinson trem a Hipshot D-tuner and Duncans the end result was something akin to the Page Hamilton ESP...................................I miss it so much!

On a side note I have a friend who actually collects Marlin guitars!

 

[hairychris]

Squire Bullet.

It was horrible.

 

[Labrie]

Mexican fat strat was my first sixer and an ibanez ax7221 was my fist seven. I still own both and love them very much. I don't think I'd ever sell any of my guitars.

 

[thesimo]

this

 

[st2012]

First guitar was a Sears acoustic that was destroyed in a fight with my brother when I was probably 8 or 9. My first "real" guitar was a cheap Peavey Telecaster copy when I was 12. I actually kinda miss it.

 

[voiceguitar]

72 fender strat with a different year skinnyer profile fender neck similar to a 335. twas my pops- im not a dinosaur btw, im only 17 ahahaha

 

[FYP666]

Well, the first instrument i ever even called guitar was my dads 26 year old acoustic Yamaha, that i still have, though now it's tuned to standard B since i don't know how to change nylon stringed acoustic strings It's my main ERG!

For first electric guitar it has to be Esp Ltd Viper-100FM. I'm still looking for a cheap Ltd like that, since for some strange reason i loved that guitar to pieces Me and my great plan, i went and changed it for a Marshall G50RCD solid state 50w combo that i still have... I'm thinking of getting a Ltd H-50, and change EMG 85 (in white) to bridge and rip all the other electronics out

 

[Clydefrog]

Ibanez GIO something or other. It was red. Not RG shaped, more the AX type.

 

[The Breakdown]

I dont know if they make these anymore, or where to get them because i've never seen one since. About 13 years ago I bought my first guitar for $140... it was a PREMIER..I do remember that. It was a strat style...it was like dark cherry red with some sparkles..hahaha

rediculous

 

[canuck brian]

I had a Hyundai (as in the car company) superstrat. Transparent green burst over veneer and plywood. Floyd (single locking), HSS, 24 frets ....i put a dimarzio fred in it within 3 months because that's what Joe Satriani had so it had to be good. Somewhere I have a photo of me sawing the headstock up and doing the ESP logo on it.

 

[Darth Zeppelin]

Shitty Harmony strat copy. Now I'm trying to modify it a little bit.