What was the first electric guitar you bought yourself?

[Snowstorm]

Mine is an Epiphone Les Paul plus top. I still have it. I could never let it go. Just a nostalgia thing I guess. I thought I would sell it but just never have and I like keeping it. It's from 2001. Not a bad guitar. I broke it out the other day just for shits and giggles. I wanted to see what kind of shape it was in. I haven't broken it out for probably a few years. It's still in pretty good shape. It's fun to have it around. What was your first electric? Do you still have it?

[sleewell]

my black strat w emgs. gigged with it all through college, still have it and will never sell it.

[phrophus]

Ibanez RX170. Look(ed) like dis. I still have it, but it's in pieces. I scalloped the fretboard at some point too. I kinda want to put it back together, and put some better pickups and components in it, but that's going to happen anytime soon.

[BleedingWhiskey]

PRS Santana SE w/ tremolo bridge. I bought it the first year they came out. Great guitar. The stock pickups were pretty good and it played like butter. I ended up selling it 9 months later to fund a Gibson Les Paul Gothic Studio.

[atrox]

Japanese Squier back in '86. Had HSS, 24.75" scale and black headstock. I still have it, but it's a fretless now

[GuitarBilly]

mine was a Fernandes super strat (I think it was called Revolver or something). Nice guitar but I no longer have it.

[Devin]

1986 Peavey USA Impact 1

Crappy pic but it looked just like dis



It had a phenolic fretboard and was a badass guitar; shoulda never sold it

[JohnB]

new electra mpc

idk why i got it - many better options at the time w/ much better longevity. decent guitar, but after a year i sold it to a dentist for roughly what i paid.

up to that point was playing my bro's SG. yea. the electra made no sense.

[Chops Malone]

My first electric was some cheap LP copy. I had that for a little bit, but then I got a beautiful wine-red Les Paul Custom.

I decided to pull a Pete Townsend and smash the cheap LP copy. I slammed it down as hard as I could and that damn thing would not break. I was like, WTF?

I got so pissed, that I made like Jimi and set that fucker on fire.

[Dave]

My first guitar was a squier II strat my Dad bought me but first guitar I bought myself was an epiphone les paul standard. I still have the strat but the les paul was stolen years ago.

[Johnny'sGotTheBlues]

My first guitar I bought myself was my first guitar. It was a POS Chinese copy of a Telecaster. A Raven.

Traded it in for a real Telecaster a year or so later. It was a used 68 Tele. (this was ca 1969). That Tele too, was a POS.

I finally got smart and bought a new 1970 Les Paul Deluxe at the end of working all summer and saving every cent.

[J.R.]

my parents bought me my first guitar. A BC Rich After that I paid for them in one way or another (working, birthday/holiday cash,etc). The Les Paul I got a few months back cost me basically all of the money I made working over the summer. Worth it.

[ZEEGLER]

My first electric guitar was some shitty strat copy from Sears or something. I bought it from one of my older brother's friends for $40. That thing wouldn't intonate or stay in tune worth a shit.

My second electric guitar, and what I consider my first REAL guitar, was a BC Rich NJ Series Bich. I loved that thing.

[rleechb]

Parents gave me money in high school, and I bought a black Ibanez RG470. Man that floating trem was horrible. I remember I got into my first band in college, and the thing would be horribly out of tune after every song. Been a fixed bridge kind of guy ever since.

[SouthpawGuy]

A Melody Maker copy by Avon. Made in Japan for Rose Morris UK.

Don't let the made in Japan fool you, it was total junk, wouldn't stay in tune for five minutes and the pickups were garbage. The only reason I bought it was because it was all I could afford and the symmetrical shape was easy to restring and use left handed.

I don't have it any more, it's been so long, 1980, I can't even remember what I did with it, it's probably in a landfill somewhere

[abouttreefitty]

A $79 Kramer Focus.

[metalguy]

My first electric guitar was a Squier Strat that I still have. Would never get rid of it ever. Same reasoning, sentimental, was a gift from my parents for my 16? bday.

The first electric I bought myself though was a Jackson DXMG



Have considered selling it but still haven't done it yet. Doesn't hole as much sentimental value as the Squier does to me.

[100 watt]

mine was a Fernandes super strat (I think it was called Revolver or something). Nice guitar but I no longer have it.

Some of those Fernandes Starts are badasses. I'd love to have a Fernandes 70's style Strat


I think Kirk Hamster used Fernandes Strats for a while

[SuperFlyinMonke]

I bought a Yamaha pacifica that had some stickers on it that the previous owner put on.

[dickysofa]

ES335

[Chris Z]

1995 PRS CE 22 it was only $900 then.

[magh8]

late 89's platinum series warlock

[III]

My first guitar was a Black Ibanez EX140 ( or something like that) that my Dad bought me, at the OC Guitar Center, for my 14th birthday... still have it...

First guitar I bought myself was a, Blue and Black Crackle finish, BC Rich NJ Warlock a few years later at a pawn shop here in Alabama... still have it...

I get both out occasionally... but both could use some better grounding type of work...

[Elessar [Sly]]

My dad bought me my first guitar, but the first guitar I bought was... well I put money towards a black Ibanez S series way back.

[soundgardener75]

The first guitar I paid with my first paycheck was a Peavey Reactor (like Ovid9's). My younger sister wanted, and I kinda wanted my Ibanez GAX70 back too, so we traded.

Mine is an Epiphone Les Paul plus top. I still have it. I could never let it go. Just a nostalgia thing I guess. I thought I would sell it but just never have and I like keeping it. It's from 2001. Not a bad guitar. I broke it out the other day just for shits and giggles. I wanted to see what kind of shape it was in. I haven't broken it out for probably a few years. It's still in pretty good shape. It's fun to have it around. What was your first electric? Do you still have it?

Put some Gibson pickups on 'em, they'd sound killer!