Supro Lap Steel guitar when I was 6. My dad showed me the places to have the bar and told me when to move. After a few weeks, when I got a little bored whlie he was playing, he would gently kick me and nod, like, hey get in the right place! That was around 1962.

When i was 12 he fixed up a old harmony hollow body with F holes. I put a pickup on it and use to get in front of his amp and just let it feedback. I played his Gibson ES135 as well as his 1950 Martin. Then he helped me to get one of those early 1960's Epiphone Wilshire Deluxe with a tremolo. Used that up till I was 17 when i bought my first brand new Strat. Had 2 VOX Super Beatle amps that I played through (between the ages of 16-19).

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Xhefri's Guitars
www.xhefriguitars.com

Started the first time in 1973 on a brand new Léro Model 58 Dreadnought, which I still have. I was 28. Life interrupted about a year later, and I started up again in 2006, when I was 61.

This time I using electrics, but I still drag out the acoustics, and I'm about to turn 65

But I'm having fun, even if I'm just re-learning.

Gil

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Where ever you go, there you are

1998 Ovation 1861 Standard Balladeer Natural
Taka - 2005 Squier '51 Black
Yume - 2006 Squier Strat Cherryburst
Houbi - 2008 Fender VG Strat Blizzard Pearl - won here
Fender Super Champ XD; Vox DA-5

started at 12 on bass , a kay 3/4 size then about age 14 i got a hondo lp copy and that all started about 31 years ago

I started playing when I was in grade 10, so about 16 or 17 I guess but due to school and then going to university and the post-university "socializing" I couldn't really focus on it. 5 years ago when I started to settle down I was able to put alot more time into it.

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Tune Low, Play Hard & Floor it!

Started at age 10 ( 51 years ago ) on some cheap acousitc. Sorry I didn`t stick with it all those years......but the guitars I have now are an `08 MIA Strat - `09 MIM Tele Blackout - `63 Gretsch Anniversary Ed. - and a `69 LP Deluxe.

I started playing music when I was 9 on the clarinet, switched to trumpet at 11, learned bass at 17, and started guitar at the ripe old age of 41.

I started at the age of 13 with a Gianinni acoustic guitar, now, with 15 years I use an Am. Std. Telecaster

On piano when I was 8, on guitar I believe when I was 17 or 18. I am 25 now. My first guitar was a copy of a Les Paul, I believe it was Melodija Menges, manufactured in Poland or former Yugoslavia, something like that. I am from Serbia, so... It wasn't much of a guitar, it had great clean tone though.

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"If you're on a path that's beaten, it's not your path." Joseph Campbell

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

"All that is impossible remains to be achieved."
Jules Verne

www.stratcollector.com

I started when I was 13, got a cheap Silvertone Strat copy a little Kustom 15 watt solid state amp, played for like 7 months and said screw it I suck! Then everything sat in the case till i was about 15 1/2, I all of a sudden got the urge to play . Now at 19 im playing everyday and always learning something new while playing my American Vintage '57 RI Strat and Super Champ XD

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American Vintage '57 Strat
Super Champ XD

i start playing in nov. 95 in the age of 27 with an ibanez js-100, hughes & kettner attax 40 amp. both are sold during the years.

cheers

9 years old, properly when I was eleven. Thanks to my uncle John's Tele, Brian May and Izzy Stradlin!

CC

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Fender Stratocaster (parts build)
Fender Telecaster 72 Custom RI
Fender Telecoustic Deluxe
Gretsch Electromatic Pro-Jet
Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
Gibson ES-135
Zenith Type-17
Marshall 70's JMP Superbass 100w
Blackstar HT-5

Started playing in 1993 when I was 12. I got a Goya dreadnought copy for Christmas that year. I have been obsessed with guitar ever since.

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Live guitars: 2009 LTD Truckster, 1989 Strat Plus, 2001 Am Standard Strat, 1996 MIJ Jaguar, 2007 Gibson Explorer 76 reissue, 1999 Ibanez RG7621, LTD MH-301, LTD FM400, 1999 Jackson Kelly, Mystery Les Paul, Hamer Chaparel, Fender FM 62SCE A/E Mandolin

I started last year at age 25. My first guitar was a very old accoustic "lady" size guitar of unknown origin and last year I bought my full size guitar which is a Fender CD-60 accoustic.

The first time i started was when i was 8 with a Roy Clark no name begginers guitar. It didn't last but a few months if i remember correctly. Then 11 years ago i got a Jasmine by Takamine acoustic and taught myself what little i know now at 37. Since then i've bought and sold a few guitars not really worth naming. Now I have a Takamine EG334ce and a 50's Silvertone that i play through an Ibanez Troubadour T35 and a VOX VT15. I'm still waiting to get my first Strat or Tele which will be soon i hope.

I began gigging when I was 15, I was a singer in those days. The band fell apart when I was about 18, great days though. It was just a few years ago a friend got me in to guitars, I'll be forever in her debt. The best thing that could have happened to me, so Katie, if you're reading this THANKS