What was your first guitar?

A Transparent Red Washburn D11. Still have it. Very nice sounding and playing dreadnought.

A really cheap nylon stringer my parents got for me when I was 9 or 10 years old.

After being taught Twinkle Twinkle and Michael Row The Boat Ashore I was bored, and told my teacher I wanted to learn some rock songs. He said something like, "Sure, we'll get to that, but this other stuff comes first." So I quit, and the guitar sat under the bed for years collecting dust. Then it got lost during a family move.

A Rickenbacker 4000 and something bass. The one with just one p/u. Used, with a form fitted case: 250 bucks! I sold it for the same price about 5 years later. Never picked up a guitar again until the winter of '05. And that was a Squier '51. :wink:
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At age 15, one of these Teisco Del Rey thinline hollow bodies:

Within six months I'd broken and repaired the truss rod, added a Tele switch, metal tuners, made and added wood control panel and pick guard. But it was still just a humble Teisco.

Two years later, I had finally managed to buy a lawsuit Ibanez SG. Then I built the Teisco a new neck carved from a block of curly maple, and eventually abandoned my first axe in some attic at university. Wish I still had it.

Johnson acoustic. Made from a kit by some guy. Bought for $40 with a gig bag. It fell apart a year later. Literally. The fretboard came off and the neck came loose. Oh, and the strings tore the plastic saddle to pieces.

So I bought a Martin.

1962 Harmony acoustic. Still got it :)

A no-name brand acoustic from Sears. It was a Christmas present from my parents. The action was so high, you could stick your finger between the strings and the fretboard!

In 83 I got an 82 Fender Bullet. Of course I don't have it anymore. I really wish I had that Sunn amp that I had with it. I know better now.

My dad had a '57 tele that I restrung to see if I'd like playing guitar. Strung it back when I got my first one - a 1974 Ibanez 12 string acoustic that I worked two jobs one summer to buy. It was right handed and I restrung it lefty. Seems like a million years ago...

Peace

A black C.F. Martin & Co. Stinger (ST2). That guitar was never meant for me, never felt right, never seemed right, but I kept it. My mom struggled to help pay for the guitar and over the years I felt bad because of my poor progess.

My first guitar was a generic nylon acoustic that my parents bought me when I was around 8 years old. My first songs were mostly christian school songs of the time. The first songs I learnt in earnest were "Leaving on a jet plane" and "Streets of London". A friend of my parents' had a full size Yamaha 12 string that I loved to play, I used to fingerpick "Vincent" by Don McLean. My parents explained the relevance of the song to me and I understood it. After that my parents organised 3 years of Classical Guitar lessons and it killed it for me. I stopped playing when I was 12 and it's taken 25 years for me to start again.

My dad had a '57 tele that I restrung to see if I'd like playing guitar. Strung it back when I got my first one - a 1974 Ibanez 12 string acoustic that I worked two jobs one summer to buy. It was right handed and I restrung it lefty. Seems like a million years ago...

Peace

It was, my friend, it was. :wink:

My first guitar was a Sears steel string acoustic that my parents bought me when I was 9. I took lessons with a guy whose idea of great songs to teach children was El Manicero. I ended up quiting after a while. I didn't pick up a guitar again until I was in my mid-30's. When I did my next "first guitar" was a franken-335 - an FD30 (FatDawg 30) made up of an old Coral Firefly body and random parts. I've still got it but it doesn't see much use these days.

Like a lot of people, I started with a no-name nylon string acoustic bought for me by my mother. Always struck me as strange that all my friends who had guitars had something similar - why is it parents always buy a classical guitar for their kids, when 99% of those kids want a guitar they can play ROCK music with?

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Vic