What was your very first guitar??

[j2379]

an aria pro II, cat something....i think.

[Larz]

1984 Washburn A20V, black with red binding....think Carlos Cavazo in QR with his black model.

Still have it, grandaddy of the speed neck, probably the best playing guitar I have, regardless of the sentimental value of having it since age 14.

[MetalHeadMat]

Started with a Jay Turser bass guitar based off the Fender Precision. Then after a while I got bored and stopped with it.

Eventualy my friend wanted to sell his LTD M-50 and I bought it off him for $100. Never owned an amp for it either, learned with that thing all by ear

[Hellbat]

My very first guitar was some cheesy no-name (literally there was no brand mark on it at all) bastard child of a strat and a jaguar that my brother left lying around the house. It was a nice tobacco burst paintjob and had a chrome plated tin pickguard hehe.

My first actual guitar I had was an Aria Pro-2 Knight Warrior. I pimped it out good though. Removed the finish on the neck and used gunstock oil on it back then. (Totally by fluke, my friends dad was a hunter and thats what was lying around his workshop.) I even put in a Fury brand pickup. They were apparently made and wound in the Canadian Guitar Mecca, Saskatchewan.

It was a decent cheap guitar but I ended up trading up to a new white Kramer. I don't even remember the model. It was the pointy headstock single slanted pickup model with chrome hardware. I think a Japanese Focus 1000 or something like that?!? I forget because I traded that in for my brand new model 5 that I still have. The Kramer was nice but I liked all the specs on the Charvel so much more and liked the versatility of the stock electronics.

[m2pmd70]

A tobacco burst '68 Holiday (similar to Harmony H14/H15 Bobkat, American made back then) with three DeArmond gold foil pickups. It's similar to a Jazzmaster with short scale and has a very round but comfortable neck. String spacing is uncomfortably tight compared to most guitars. I love the sound of the pups, except for the noise.

I "played" it for several years through an old '70s stereo, even "writing" a song on it... turned out to coincidentally be the bass line to Am I Evil. lmao

I traded a bicycle frame for it in about '88. Always thought it was POS and treated it as such. I somehow managed to replace the crumbling nut and glue the splintered (yes it's made of wood) bridge back together. I threw the 6-on-a-stick tuners in the trash, a couple of which needed vice grips to turn lol. Stays in tune pretty OK with Jackson tuners I put on it. At some point in high school I put a piece of masking tape over the logo and painted the headstock hot pink and the body flat black, then covered it with a bunch of stickers. I realized it was my complete lack of skill that made it seem like a crappy guitar after one of my buddies grabbed it and rocked out a pretty good rendition of Crazy Train.

Looked a lot like this: http://harmony.demont.net/model.php?id=562 before I defiled it. I figure I'll redo it some day, I even have the original cardboard case.

[Jayster]

A white Cort strat copy, I saved money from mowing lawns and was proud as anything to have it. My first amp was some unamable piece of junk that sounded horrible and was quickly replaced with a peavy bandit 60(IIRC).

And that's when the guitar buying insanity began

[Sinistas]

Epiphone Les Paul Special II Vintage Sunburst. Actually sounded pretty good for what it was.

[cornstar70]

Gremlin red guitar

[jinx]

half size harmony when i was like 8 yeah i didn't learn much. then at 12 i got a cherry red peavey preditor and amp. didn't play much again till 20 when i got a squier, funny thing is i still have the squier its been sanded down has a super distortion.....

[Drake S.]

I was 16 ,RR copy out of the Sears Christmas catalog that was 22 years ago!

[VitaminG]

Mine was called a Johnson Strat knockoff. I think it was johnson actually, but not completely sure. It sucked ass, and I FUCKED up the tremolo unit SOOOOO bad.

did you play with your Johnson a lot?


my first was a classical that my mum had bought on the cheap from an actor friend. The guitar had been painted gloss black for a stage production (with a brush) and had a silver moon sticker on the front of it. Some had strung this poor thing with steel strings. I remember messing about for a few weeks with the open chords in the Ernie Ball music book that she gave to me with the guitar and then gave up because it was just too hard to play. If I had known anything at the time, I might have worked out that a set of nylon strings might have settled the neck and made the guitar at least playable.

It was years before my dad bought me another (new) classical and I started taking lessons.

[JACKSONFREAK]

My first guitar was an Epiphone FT140 acoustic. Still have it and still sounds great and plays great too. My first electric was a Global LP std copy. It was crap but i liked it back then. The neck pocket was so bad on it i could stick a medium pick in between the neck and the body on the bass side. But i tossed a Gibson paf in it and thought it was the shit.
LOL boy was i wrong. knowing what i know now anyway.
Gil

[SEAN RAF]

Mine was a Christmas present. Me and my friends at the time couldn't decide between getting a leather biker jacket, an Amstrad tower stereo or a black Kay Les Paul copy (one of my friends got all three...only child...twat). I wanted the Les Paul copy in black (John Sykes had just joined Lizzy and despite years and years of guitar greats, I decided then that the pinch harmonic was the future).

Christmas day arrives and my dad presents me with the biggest parcel I'd ever seen, I thought he'd bought me a flat pack kitchen. I unwrap it to find a red Columbus 335 copy...wish he'd got me the fucking kitchen. I was nick named Chuck Berry for the next six months. I never played it, think I swapped it for a Rush collection. Four years later, I decide that maybe I should have another go at playing and bought an Ibanez Roadstar which was ace...

[Bri]

My first was a no name acoustic that stayed in tune for about a minute. A few years later I got Hondo II Les Paul copy that stayed in tune for a few minutes. I sold that for a Gibson Firebrand The Paul Deluxe. I got sick of Gibson flat frets and traded it for my Nagoya Bich. That was all back in the '70's and '80's. I still wish I could have held on to that Firebrand Paul and refret. Jump forward 20 years and I finally get to enjoy the greatness of a Jackson USA Select.

[Trem]

1984 Hondo Rhoads V metallic orangish/bronze with the traditional white pinstripes. neck thru with a standard trem which back then was the coolest thing haha, weeeeooooowwwwiiiiii.