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Fellow guitar players! What was your first guitar?

Invisible Evil

Invisible Evil

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I'm feeling some nostalgia and really missing my 1st guitar... My pop bought it for me back in 84. It was a bright red Peavey Predator. Man that was a great guitar.

They built it just like a strat, but it was American made. I miss that guitar allot.

I have bought and sold more guitars than I can remember, but that one I miss the most.

I actually am bidding on one right now on ebay. Hope I get it for a good price.

Just wondering what you all had, or still have.
 
First acoustic was a Yamaho Eterna. That was their cheapo line, but it played better than the Martins I've played. First electric was a Strat. I can't remember the exact model, but it was Japanese, with a floating bridge, and locking nut. I learned I fuckin' hate locking nuts on a guitar. I sold it, and got a 63 reissue Strat. I still have that one.
 
A 1969 Gibson B-25N short scale student guitar. I bought it used from an individul out of the newspaper around 1976. I think I paid $225 for it and I still have it, they sell for $1500-$1800 now 🙂
It's now a well aged fantastic sounding little guitar. It has a narrow neck so its perfect for small hands and ladies. But I still love to play it with my big ol nubs. For years iv'e used it as my campfire axe, but since I've found out how valuable it has become I leave it at home now and take something of less value
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lxskllr said:
First acoustic was a Yamaho Eterna. That was their cheapo line, but it played better than the Martins I've played. First electric was a Strat. I can't remember the exact model, but it was Japanese, with a floating bridge, and locking nut. I learned I fuckin' hate locking nuts on a guitar. I sold it, and got a 63 reissue Strat. I still have that one.
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Those old cheapos are better than lots of expensive guitars now. Lots of the cheapos had solid tops and quality.
 
Gibson486 said:
Those old cheapos are better than lots of expensive guitars now. Lots of the cheapos had solid tops and quality.
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Sometimes you get a magic guitar too. I dunno where mine falls on the list. Acoustics can be especially variable. That might have something to do with my dislike of Martin. I may have gotten duds when I played them. If I were to buy a high end acoustic, I'd probably go with Taylor. I haven't played one in 20 years or so, but they immediately felt at home in my hands, and I dig the sound.
 
Martin guitars age well. I don't know what you played, if they were new or old.
Any one I have ever picked on was old ones my dad's friend had from the 70's or earlier.
I thought they sounded fantastic.
With that said my dad handed me down his old Alvarez acoustic made in Korea and I love its tone, maybe its because it was my dads I don't know, but I will never get rid of it and I have not found another acoustic that can replace it.
 
lxskllr said:
Sometimes you get a magic guitar too. I dunno where mine falls on the list. Acoustics can be especially variable. That might have something to do with my dislike of Martin. I may have gotten duds when I played them. If I were to buy a high end acoustic, I'd probably go with Taylor. I haven't played one in 20 years or so, but they immediately felt at home in my hands, and I dig the sound.
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Yep acoustics can be very hit or miss especially older ones, and how they have been kept and stored makes all the difference. I can't tell you how many old Martin and Gibsons I've picked up at guitar shows that sound like absolute shit because they were exposed to heat and allow to dry out. And since Martin didn't start putting truss rods in the necks until the 1990's many of the older ones have horrible action with out a fresh neck set.

I was also never a really big Martin fan until in 1996 my wife surprised me by special ordering me an MTV-1G from the Martin custom shop for my birthday. It was a limited edition that they only made a few hundred of, it's basically a D-28 with two tone back and side with rosewood on the bass side and mahagony on the treble side and fancier fretboard and soundhole inlay than a regular D-28.

It sounds and plays "holy bejebus" good, it is absolutely the best sounding acoustic I have ever heard. I've pitted it against D-45's J-200's and all kinds of other high end guitars over the years and none compares. Everybody that plays it or hears it seems to agree, I don't know how I got lucky enough to get this particular guitar. It looks like this
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Mine was a 1982 Ovation round back. I still have it, but it's warped and unplayable.

My first electric was a 1978 Les Paul Custom w/ blonde finish. Paid $500 for it. Sold it for college in 1992 for $1500, now I'm kicking myself. Never sell a high end instrument. You'll always end up regretting it.
 
Squire Les Paul-ish guitar:

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Still have it. It's actually pretty killer still and I can experiment on it with all sorts of weird wiring.
 
Some old Yamaha steel string acoustic. I don't even know the model number. Don't have it anymore, but it played pretty well. It was actually my mother's guitar that she never learned to play, so it had been absconded by my uncle (her brother). One time we were visiting and I discovered it, and spent the weekend picking at it. I convinced my mom to talk to my uncle into letting me take it home (it was hers, after all).
 
I got one of those electric guitar starter packs. Mine was by Dean, I don't remember the name of the guitar, but the included amp was called the "Dean Mean 16." I gave it away to a friend whose son wanted to learn how to play.

I still have my first acoustic: a Korean Fender grand auditorium.
 
An old beat up acoustic with no name on it that never kept tune from a garage sale. I played the shit out of that guitar until I could afford something better.
 
My first couple of guitars were rented solid-body electrics. If memory serves the first one was a Yamaha, and I later had a Hohner Telecaster Custom clone (it wasn't the kind Prince used - this had humbuckers).

First guitar I actually owned was an early-80s USA-built Fender Telecaster in cream with a maple fingerboard. I wish I still had that . . .
 
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