Just curious as to what everybody's first guitar was. It's an interesting thing to reflect on.

I got my first guitar when I was 13. It was a cheap acoustic that I borrowed from a friend who had pretty much given up on guitar. After a few months I was able to buy my own acoustic guitar and I have worked my way up ever since.

I got my first guitar for my 10th birthday in March 1964 after seeing the Beatles on TV the previous month.It was a hand me down from my uncle and originally had a cowboy motif on it that he had sanded off by the time that I got it.The action was about 1/2 inch but it really built up my fingers so when I got my first "good" guitar-a Harmony Archtone-for Christmas '66 my fingers just glided over the neck.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Gibson Epoch Les Paul. Paid $180 for a guitar I could have got for $90 at target. I was 18 at the time and sold it for $75 around 2 years ago I want to say. Same store that recently replaced the transformer on my Ampeg free of charge (Around 350 bucks) ^^

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I traded my car in for a microphone.

I started on an old $5 flea market acoustic that my mom had laying around. My first guitar was an '87 SquierII Strat that was black and chrome. I loved it. I got it from my uncle who gave me my pick between that and a Fender Performer and I chose the Strat. Looking back I think I shoulda taken the Performer, seeing how they are so rare. But I loved that Strat and I pulled a lot of weeds to get it. In fact, I wish I still had it.

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My first guitar was an all black strat copy. I think the brand name was Vox or Univox... something like that. I've tried to find one like it but no luck.

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Tune Low, Play Hard & Floor it!

It was a Epi that was kinda shaped like a strat. I got it used in the earley 70,s with a used Ampeg tube amp that I wish I still had.

Bought my first guitar at a hock shop when I was forty years old. It was an Alvarez acoustic. I had been playing it about a month and one afternoon after work I was playing and heard something rattling around inside the guitar and turned it up and shook it thinking there was a pick inside and behold out fell a rattlesnake rattler. I was telling some guys at work about it the next day and one of them said hey that was my old guitar. He was a herpatoligist (hope that is the right spelling), any way he messed with snakes. He told me the old timers used to place a rattler in the box guitars as it was supposed to make them sound better. I guess I should have written a song about that.

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OK, I'll hum a little bit, got it now?

i was 10 years old when the beatles came out too.

my first guitar was a fender musicmaster

2nd- a strat. when beatles came out i wanted a ric like john played. never happened

A Yamaha FG700S acoustic, then a Fender Telecaster Deluxe Blackout

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Blues with a feeling.

GUILD GUITARS: MADE TO BE PLAYED!

Mine was pretty similar. 1964 plywood with the same 1/2" action and Black Diamond barbed wire strings. After it floated around the family, I got it back. I plan on restoring it to its former brown with white pin stripe glory. Did I mention it was made in the good old U.S.A.? My first good guitar was my 63 Supro which I still have today.

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Life...... It's sexually transmitted and always fatal

And all this time I thought you were named after an amplifier.

My first guitar was an accoustic from a local Western Auto store for Christmas. It had an action like a dobro and was untunable, but I kept on until I could get something better. I think my dad got that thing for me out of desperation late on a Christmas Eve and never thought I would ever play that piece of crap. Guess I fooled him, ahhh the good old days

My first was an Epiphone Les Paul

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Current Gear: Ron Kirn Barnbuster Tele,
Marshall: 1971 SuperLead 100>1997 1960-TV, bunch of pedals
and a 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera coupe named Veronica

These are truly days worth remembering and in checking I found one on EBAY and I guess it varifies what I thought it was. A 1972 National E335 with sliding volumn and tone controls. I kept it for a year and then they got me my first Stratocaster.

A small music store opened in my home town when I was about 13. I remember aggravating my dad into buying me a Cort double cut electric that was black with gold stripes and had 2 humbuckers. I didn't even get an amp but managed to get some 1/4" female to male RCA connectors and plugged it right into the component in on my Fisher Stereo. About a year later dad bought me a Peavy Backstage amp that I thought was the s$$t. I sold that guitar to a friend a few years later. I'd love to look him up and see if he still has it. It would be fun to try and set it up and play it now.

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