What's your guitar (hi)story?

[CentaurPorn]

1. Stage Electric ( I have never seen one since)
2. BC. Rich NJ Warlock
3. USA Gibson Gothic SG (Still my main 6)
4 Agile Interceptor pro 25

I have had a few others on the side but never liked them enough to have them for more than a week or 2. (epi LP, Peavey Hollow body)

 

[distressed_romeo]

1) Cheap strat copy from Argos, that was soon sold to get...

2) A slightly better strat copy by Tanglewood, that was later sold to my brother, and brought back a year or so later to turn into a fretless guitar, which I still own...

3) Tanglewood four-string bass. This actually played really nicely, but was later sold to a friend to buy my brother's five-string.

4) Jackson PS2...my first decent guitar. Needed a fretdress when I got it, and the trem was a pile of wank that I eventually swopped for a gotoh unit that rules. Still, my first nice guitar, and one I'm looking forward to playing again when I get home to my parents tomorrow. I want an X2N for the bridge, but have no cash for it at the moment...

5) Dean semi-acoustic. A gift from my mother when I started getting into jazz, in the hope that it'd turn me into Larry Carlton. An awesome guitar, that I often use for open tuned riffs, as well as my fusion stuff.

6) Yamaha acoustic...a birthday present when I started getting into Nick Drake and Jimmy Page. Probably my most played guitar for a loooooong period.

7) Les Paul Standard. Pretty self-explanatory...

8) LTD M207. Pretty self-explanatory. Not the greatest PUs (they were eventually swopped for the Dimarzios I got off Hal), and the trem always sucked compared to my Jackson's Gotoh unit, and is now blocked with a tremol-no. Still, gets loads of practice time logged on it, and sounds sweet with the Dimarzios in it.

9) Yamaha Drop 6 Baritone. Awesome guitar for the price, and will hopefully have an Air Norton/D-sonic combo in the near future. Really great trem unit.

10) Seneca classical. Currently logging in lots of practice on this one, due to my attempts at improving my reading, and current love of old classical guitar studies.

11) Tacoma 12 string. 21st birthday present. Absolutely stunning-sounding guitar. Another one I'm looking forward to playing again tomorrow.

12) Schecter C7 Hellraiser. A pure impulse buy, but one of the best things I've ever purchased. I originally wanted a Stephan Carpenter 'til I tried this, and bought it on the spot.

13) Aria fretless acoustic bass. Brought during a drunken day out with my best friend from uni.

14) Hohner headless. Another impulse buy. Best trem system I've ever tried, and plays and sounds great for the cash.

 

[awesomeaustin]

First I have to pay back my loan. My gf would kill me if I bought another guitar anyway

What about your Illustrated 8? How come that wasn't in your (hi)story

 

[cataclysm_child]

^I'm adding it right now! Just didn't have enough time when I made the thread...

 

[Luan]

1st: a luthier custom parker with the parker shape, it's really from my dad but I started with that guitar. and I had a cheap 12 string acoustic.
2nd: ibanez rg270, my first guitar
3rd: takamine acoustic, awesome, but I had still the 270, then I sold it and still used the parker one, and then
4th: ibanez rg1527 fuck yeah

 

[awesomeaustin]

^I'm adding it right now! Just didn't have enough time when I made the thread...

Man, Jesse brought that in to the shop i work to get a hardcase for it, he let me try it out , and man that thing rocks, lucky lucky

 

[RXTN]

I bought my first seven (2027) couple years ago from Finnish eBay, some chick sold it to me. And the another 2027 i bought from Rich via SS.org for 1100€, not bad!

 

[Makelele]

My first guitar was my moms old Yamaha nylon string acoustic. After about a year or so of playing I got my first electric guitar, which was a Ibanez Gio (which had like the highest action ever). Then 5 or so years ago I bought my Ibanez 540SLTD, which I still own, and love. In February 2005, while I was still just a occasional lurker over here, I bought my first 7-string - a Jackson DX7 (which I also still own).

In September of 2006 I bought my second 7-string - a Ibanez RG2077XL. Which is nice.


Here's a crappy pic of my guitars:

 

[Scootman1911]

First I have to pay back my loan. My gf would kill me if I bought another guitar anyway

Hahah yeah paying off your loan would be a good thing to do first. And girlfriends lol

 

[MikeH]

Technically it goes in this order:
1st-4th: Ovation Pinnacle, Les Paul Custom, Charvel Model 4, and Kramer 700st bass.
Unfortunately this was a very bad day for me. The day my father died.

But as for order of the guitars actually being played:
1st - Synsonics Strat Knock off
2nd - Ibanez RG120
3rd - Ibanez RG320FM (above 4 guitars acquired shortly after this guitar)
4th - Ibanez Prestige S5470SOL

 

[tie my rope]

1st: country man acoustic, still have it. my only acoustic.

2nd: squire strat.. i still play this badboy though, i'll probally never get rid of it.

3rd: gear for music metal x guitar. got this one as a present when i was 13 and hated it to shit. bad pick-ups / bad trem / ply body. except the neck profile was actually pretty sick.

4th: schecter hellraiser fr (sixie) loved that guitar but sold to get my loomis

current: LOOOOOOOOOMISHHHHHH. love this guitar so much, no complaints.

 

[eightballhemhorrage]

i can't even start in this thread. i currently have 54 guitars and basses in my possession, let alone what i have gotten rid of!!!!

 

[Variant]

I'm not one for taking gads of photos of... well, anything, so there are quite a few stock / other peoples photos here.



First axe, a shitty Synsonics Terminator ("Get to tha choppa!!") with awesomely bad built-in speaker / distortion circuit. Terrible axe, worst tremolo ever, but hey, you gotta start somewhere:

My first real guitar, an excellent Jackson Dinky Reverse, dark metallic violet, excellent maple neck & fingerboard, great sound after switching to a Seymour Duncan JB set:

[NO PICS AVAILABLE... BUT IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT IF YOU SEARCH "PURPLE JACKSON DINKY" IN GOOGLE IMAGES YOU GET MICHAEL JACKSON AS A RESULT ]




Next, came a gaudy orange Ibanez RG550, which played wonderfully, but sounded mediocre IMHO... and my neon phase begun :

Then, the hiddiousness continued (seriously, I hate neon guitars, I just kept finding great, cheap guitars that were neon... probably because they were neon ). Anyway, the Ibanez Jem 777 was awesome as any of the early ones:

Then, thanks to Dream Theater, Morbid Angel, Steve Vai, and not F'ing Korn, I ventured into the world of seven strings, buying one Ibanez RG7620 and trading "The Migraine" 777 for another. One was tuned to standard, the other a whole step down:

Also, during this time period, I inherited a beautiful Ibanez Prestige RG3120 from my then girlfriend who owed me a good sum of money. Never played it much though... it sounded too different though my rig to bother with, and it was missing a string.

I also managed to add one of these babies to my stable, the phenominal and rare Ibanez SC500N solidbody-nylon hybrid. It sounded and played so F'ing great:

Unfortunately, all four of the above guitars were stolen when some soulless fucktards broke into my house and jacked all of them. Insurance covered them all, and but the only one I miss and haven't been able to replace is the SC500.



The rearmenant of my studio began with the addition of a Conklin GTBD7 Bill Dickens sig model... now subcontra tuned to E0 :

Then came the Ibanez Prestige RG2228, promptly tuned down a step to compliment the Dickens one octave above:

Finally, my last (and best ever) guitar purchase was the surprisingly phenomenal Steinberger Synapse TranScale ST-2FPA. It simply pwns... and can hang on to a .110 sting tuned to A0 for subsonic devastation

Bow down to The Black Oar of Doom, +2 to hit and damage, +5 against emos.




Well, there it is. Dunno what's next. Time to shut up and play.





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[King_cactus]

First guitar: Tanglewood acoustic
Second guitar: ESP-LTD M-50
Third guitar : Fender 50's reissue stratocaster
Fourth guitar : Breedlove King koa acoustic
Fifth guitar : ESP SV

 

[cataclysm_child]

First axe, a shitty Synsonics Terminator ("Get to tha choppa!!") with awesomely bad built-in speaker / distortion circuit. Terrible axe, worst tremolo ever, but hey, you gotta start somewhere:

Well, there it is. Dunno what's next. Time to shut up and play.

I've beent hinking about that myself actually, I just don't know where to start, it's so many striiiiiings

 

[Diogene303]

Ok ,

Here go's with my little collection and how i got started with guitars !

1. Old classical guitar , nylon string rubbish i had when i was six ...in my parents loft somewhere i think!! ....played it for a couple of years !
2. My fathers old Vox teardrop 1960's guitar my first electric when i was 10 (got my first marshall amp then also)
3. Again another vox guitar my dad had .... strat style 1969
4. A left handed fender 1978 strat black beatup as hell ....made into a right handed guitar
5. A cheap fender strat ...still have this mid 1980's sunburst (parents brought birthday gift)
6. Tokai super strat ...white ...with OFR ...brought second hand ...my first REAL purchased guitar with my pocket money
7. Ibanez RG ..can't remember model ( h/s/s ) config and it had a left trem arm and was like a worn white , also a PINK GTX guitar second hand at the time ...with SD pickups
8. Charvel guitar with a amazing koa top ( sold it to buy my first expensive guitar in 90's ) wish i'd kept it !
9. Washburn Steve Stevens with graphics ( smashed the guitar in a fight with my father , throw it out the window of my bedroom at the time ) BOY REGRET that even to this day ..plus cost £1300 at the time !
10. Custom shop washburn N4 ...still have this and got signed by extreme in 95/96 ...one of a kind colour/paint job ..... got this with my first good paying job.
11. Fender Richie Sambora strat ...white one , and a cheaper mex one brought at the same time .....
12. A couple of fenders brought in one year ...7 in total , mex and japan ones ( got into working in IT and started then collecting guitars )
13. Not going to list everything as i do have way load's ...but really spent time and money buying guitars over the last 10-18 years and amps working for music companys and getting discounts.
14. I also collect vintage stuff and bands kit .... I have guitars owned by Richie Sambora , Eddie Van Halen , Jimme Vaughan and one or two others thanks to vintage and rare when they where based in earls court in london.
15. Only got into using 7 - 8 string guitars two to three years ago now ( remember down tinpan they had the uni's in the 90's ..wish i had got a 7 string back then as i was a big vai fan - what with passion and warfare just come out at the time ) but now have a s7320 and a rg2228

Anyways over the years i've collected and played all my babys ..... I'm tending of late to want some more custom stuff in my collection but my other half will not let me buy like crazy anymore.

 

[musicman2879]

I have had to many 6 string guitars and I just started playing a 7 string about a year ago.. Its taken that long to find a 7 I am comfortable with.. These are the order I got them in..

Six strings-

1. 1981 Peavey T-60 (still got it!!)
2. 1975 Pan classical Acoustic I refinshed (still got it!!)
3. 2005 Samick Greg Bennett acoustic (broken in half!!)
4. 1985 Ibanez X series I refinished (sold it!!)
5. 1968 Yamaha D-120 acoustic (still got it)
6. 2004 Ibanez RG320/FR clean ass guitar (shouldn't have sold it!!)
7. 2007 Washburn Pro custom (shouldn't have sold it!!)
8. 1998 Fender Squier ,my fretless project (still got it!!)
9. 2001 Epiphone SG Special (sold it!!)

7 strings-

10. 2007 Schecter Hellraiser C7 (shouldn't have sold it!!)
11. 2007 Custom Raines 7 string maple/FR (sold it!!)
12. 2001 Ibanez 7620 (sold it!!)
13. 1999 Ibanez 7420 (sold it!!)
14. 2000 Ibanez 7620 (sold it!!)
15. 2005 ESP 207 (sold it!!)
16. 2007 Ibanez S7320 (sold it!!)
17. 2006 Jackson DX7 (still got it!!) my main axe now..

I use the Jackson cause it fits me perfectly.. i gig with it and the Peavey T-60.. I do not have a backup for either!! Hopefully I wont get in that situation at a gig..

 

[loktide]

i've actually kept all my guitars except my first one, which was a crappy samick strat

so, here we go:


1998 - used red-transparend samick strat (sold on '99 or so)


1999 - Ibanez RG3120. bought brand new during a vacation in the US (i used to live in chile at that time). supposedly a twilight blue, which in fact looks more greenish

2002 - Ibanez RG7680-LTD1. Bought brand new on my first year in Kiel, Germany.

2006 - Schecter C7 Hellraiser (black). I ordered this guitar from the US while it was still unavailable in germany. I haven't got many pics of this one actually, but you can see it on on of the rg7680 pics


2008 - Ibanez MTM1. I bought this guitar as a live guitar for a band i play in. Both PUs replaced by a 81/85 combo. Ebonized fretboard FTW

2008 - Ibanez RG2228. Just got this guitar last thursday and i absolutely wub it

that's it

 

[msherman]

Diogene303,
Post pics of that N4 please? I`m pretty sure I made that one

 

[musicman2879]

I like the look of the 8 string.. but to me it was like playing a 2x4...