What was your first good electric Guitar?

[andyman95023]

My first REAL guitar is a 77 hardtail strat I traded for a motorcycle. I still have it complete with 3 bolt neck and 5 way switch.

Andyman95023

 

[AngryDeli]

My first electric guitar was a real piece o' crap J.B. Player with shitty pickups, warped neck and even worse Floyd Rose-copy whammy bar. That's what I got for letting my parents surprise me. About 3 days later, I took that POS guitar and traded it for a Fender Stratocaster (Korean model).

My first REAL guitar was my Les Paul Studio Baritone, which I still use to this day.

 

[wkcchampion]

my 08 Parker Fly Mojo. I still have it.

Also worth considering a Gibson SG with Bigsby tremolo I had years ago but... umpf no match to the Fly at all, period.

 

[thrawn86]

I had a black Epiphone LP that was really nice. This was after a lousy Squire...... Ugh....sickening to think about that thing. My Gibson LP is the best yet.

 

[Fcal124]

1970 Cherry Gibson SG with Maestro Trem about $450-500 new. Man I wish I hadn't sold that guitar.

 

[RobS]

My first guitar was a Yamaha RGX312 which I still have, only because all original members of KISS signed it. Then I was lucky enough to buy one of Paul Stanleys PS10CL's and I see that as the 1st real guitar I got. I have also an Epiphone LP Custom which is a great guitar as well and used to have a Gibson LP Custom which I recently sold and now also have a 08 Gibson LP traditional which I put on par with the Ibanez. The Ibanez feels very much like a Gibson Explorer to play and the Traditional is like a tank and really sounds great on both clean and dirty channels.

Rob

 

[Gtrman58]

It was 1971-72. I had been playing for about 6 years. I started out with a Norma and stumbled upon a mint condition 1951 telecaster with mint case and a 51 fender deluxe amp. ALL FOR 50.00 DOLLARS!

I still have the amp.....and dreams about the guitar!

I have photos of many of my past babies and I am still trying to figure out how to get them on the forum.

 

[StootMonster]

My first electric was some pawnshop special called a Checkmate. Then I "upgraded" to a much better sounding guitar. It was a japanese import Les Paul copy called a Lotus. I played that one for quite a while until I got an Epiphone Les Paul. So somewhere in there was my first REAL electric.

 

[custom53]

My first guitar was a "no Name" with switches and knobs, 4 pick-ups, weighed about 40 lbs...! Had a couple more cheapos than I got a Hofner 6-string around 1973. Sold that for $75.00 (with case....!) Then I got got a mid 60s Strat around 1974. After that it was a blur....

 

[zslane]

1996 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, pictured below. Purchased new from Guitar Center thirteen years ago. Clearly, my LP collection has grown since then...

 

[HOT TUBES 70]

1996 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, pictured below. Purchased new from Guitar Center thirteen years ago. Clearly, my LP collection has grown since then...

sweet set up ZSLANE !!
where's the 6100 ??

 

[MacMan]

The first great guitar I ever bought was my black Peavey Wolfgang Special Deluxe the neck is beautiful as is the feel. You can probably tell I really really like them.

 

[zslane]

sweet set up ZSLANE !!
where's the 6100 ??

That photo was taken before I got the 6100. Rest assured, though, it sits atop the DSL-100 head.

 

[Benito]

Little bit unusual this one.........
Gibson Nighthawk Special 3-pickup.....nice

Slanted bridge 'bucker, middle single coil, and a mini-bucker in the neck,
5-way switch gives 1) bridge bucker full, 2)both neck and bridge 3) neck full bucker
4) bridge bucker and middle single...super strat i guess, 5) neck and bridge singles (tele mid position) and pull the tone pot up and you have classic strat 5-way switching!!!
It's a Gibson but it's fender scale and strings through body like a tele....Mental
Mahog body and a maple top the same thickness as an SG overall, it knows not what it is...... but i love it and i still have it despite pawning it to buy an engagement ring
All i can say is 1 year later i still have the ring, still have the guitar, but got a different girl... he he rock 'n' roll!!!!

 

[tubes]

My first guitar that really sounded good was a Fernandes 'The Function'.
Bought it about 20 years ago.
On the day, in the shop, I tried a USA Strat, USA Tele, and the Fernandes. For about 5 hours.
They were all about the same price.

I knew very well the good reputation of the Strat and Tele. I had lusted after them for years.
But I couldn't get past the fact that the Fernandes sounded better than either of the Fenders - and very versatile, which was one thing that I was looking for.

Now I still have the Fernandes. It's worn - but still interesting with some good sounds.

However, I evidently didn't make the best investment decision that day.

 

[kernal]

An '82 Les Paul Custom, tobacco burst w/ gold harware. Paid $900 for it new in '82, sold it for $400 in '85.

Although it would have been worth so more now, I never really liked playing it that much. It was an "impulse" buy, from which I saved up my paper route money and went into a local music store and seen the LP. My guitar teacher had one similar to it, and I figured I couldn't go wrong...I was wrong.

I picked up a Fender strat and the LP went bye-bye. Been a strat guy ever since.

 

[BluesDisciple]

My Fender American Deluxe Strat HSS w/rosewood neck.

 

[watchtheskies]

well my first ever electric guitar was a black les paul copy which I got for my 15th birthday,
I had been playing an acoustic for a couple of years before that, but that was my first electric, I think it came with a crappy little practice amp, but I thought it was the best thing ever,

my first decent guitar was an Explorer made by a Yorkshire luthier named Pete Back Pete Back Guitars www.peteback.com, I bought it second hand for £270 in 1982, I was at college doing my A levels at the time, so where I got the cash I have no idea?

when I got my Gibson Explorer in 84 I sold the Pete Back, actually thinking about it I traded it in for a Marshall 4x12, It was a great guitar and I wish I had managed to hold on to it,
I've had some awesome guitars over the years, so why the heck did I sell them!!!, needed the cash I guess, but would love to have some of them back for sure

 

[Ken]

Mine was a Made in Japan Kimbara Strat copy that I got for my 18th birthday from my parents. They were made in the same factory that Fender later used for their models.

I still have it but it got a Kahler in the mid 80's

The Kimbara was followed by an Ibanez Moderne copy that I bought at Kitchen's Music in Leeds, half price to clear. It's a '74 (= no serial No.) and is currently leaning against the wall about four feet to my right Unmodified by very very well worn.

OMG. I'm the ultimate Moderne fan. There was the Ibanez you have hanging next to the Les Paul Standard I bought in 1977. Both were the same price but much as I loved the "Moderne" I wanted a Gibson, not a "Japanese" guitar.

Then in 1983 my local guitar store had a Gibson Moderne and wanted like $800 for it. I didn't have the money at the time, so I missed that one.

Today there was the cheesy Epiphone copy on eBay with a Buy It Now of $399. I thought about pulling the trigger but it got bought. I don't regret that as much as it wasn't the korina model and it had a bolt on neck. But still....

So SOME day I'll have to pony up the $6k a 1983 Gibson costs...


Ken

 

[Lespaulnmarshall]

A Gibson Les Paul studio, don't have it anymore, it was an awsome guitar for the price, I was dumb by selling it.