Hot dang, its a Poll!

a 1960s Harmony acoustic. Barely playable... but it served me well. I'll never part with it, although I haven't played it in at least 20 years now.

$50 P.O.S steel-string made in China. A present from my uncle that made me give up learning guitar TWICE. (First time was just lack of teaching. Second time was sheer pain from the high-gauge strings and lack of interest in what I was learning.)

After I changed the strings to a lower gauge, it became more tolerable to play, but the neck was glued on poorly, and it was cracking near where it was put together. I had already moved on to my lovely electric guitar at that point. The $20 I got for selling it to my local shop covered a much better purchase - a Los Lonely Boys songbook. :D

-Brian

A Washburn strat copy

A Walden Steel String Acoustic. I still play her sometimes...when my electric's strings break...

Stage electric, 3 single coils, all are starting to go :(

I borrowed my cousins acoustic for a couple of months because my parents were not sure I'd keep up with the guitar. That next christmas I got my black Cortez les paul copy. Still have it!

friggen sears silvertone 12 string :? (my dad bought it for me without asking)
it's amazing i still play at all :wink:

technically my first guitar was a no-brand nylon from the 60s, wit ha cracked headstock which was glued back on. Borrowed an electric (which I later bought) the week after. That electric is long gone and replaced, but the nylon one is still around. Will NEVER leave the house though. :D

1974 Ibanez 12 string acoustic. Had to restring it as a lefty. And my deepest sympathies to Twisted. Truly glad you're here with us!

Peace

Nylon stringed Yamaha classical. I had about $100 in change that I had emptied from my pockets every night, so I bought a guitar. Had no idea what I was doing. It's got about three frets that don't buzz, which is why I let the kids play it now (see my avatar).

Steel String Aria something or other!.. gift from my uncle... when he gave it to me i thought it was an electric (before i'd opened the box obviously), he gave me a photo copy of guitar payer volume 1 and a cassette with it aswell, i did not like the songs in the book so it went into the loft where it stayed for a few years before a work college introduced me to the blues. he taught me a little blues progression.. which made me get that guitar out again... so it's his fault i now have 2 electric guitars and a hole in my account... can't decide if i should thank him or not!

the first guitar that I bought (well, got as a present...) was a Hona Strat Copy. I still have this one.
the first guitar that I played was a steel string. I can't remember what it was. But as a lefty I just (ab)used the guitar upside down. As I didn't know anything about the instrument it really wouldn't have been of any difference which kind of guitar (lefty, righty) I messed around with.
Well, speaking of it, I guess you really can't count that as playing...

So the first guitar I played and got ist the Hona electric :D

i have only one... an accoustic... an alvarez aj60sc

My first guitar was an electric guitar in 1997. It was a black w/ white pickguard Peavy Raptor (strat copy). It came with a Peavy Rage Trans Tube Amp (10 watt) in a beginners combo pack. The real fun came a year later when I purchased a Zoom 505 multi-effects pedal! :)

Excellent choice in my opinion as a first guitar! Didn't know anything about playing, so I learned a lot with it and played that combo for 4 years before I upgraded. I still have it and play it from time to time.