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12-09-2017, 08:14 AM
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12-09-2017, 08:22 AM
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I still have my FG335II I purchased new in '81 when I was in college, only guitar I had for 10 years, still gets played regularly. Would not get rid of it, but then I don't tend to get rid of stuff that work well. When my son was about 2 in '93 or so, he called it 'tartar' couldn't pronounce guitar, the name stuck. He just asked me last week when he was visiting if I was going to pull out tartar.
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#95
12-09-2017, 07:09 PM
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My first guitar, bought new 1979 Hummingbird Custom
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12-09-2017, 07:29 PM
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My Stratocaster, bought new in 1980 for $514.80 (I still have the receipt) from Wonderland Music in Oak Park, Michigan. I was 15, and had saved up the money from jobs babysitting and washing dishes at a local restaurant. It's still in good shape given the age and long years of heavy playing, bands, gigs, etc., but the frets are shot for most people, and I continue to get by only because I like my action pretty high, and because there was a long gap from the late 90's through a couple years ago when I very rarely played it. Has a brass nut and a maroon Seymour Duncan hot stack pickup by the bridge, both popular metal mods back then, and I recently swapped the trashed original bridge for a Callaham replacement. It's a keeper.
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'17 Tonedevil S-18 harp guitar '16 Tonedevil S-12 harp guitar '79 Fender Stratocaster hardtail with righteous new Warmoth neck '82 Fender Musicmaster bass '15 Breedlove Premier OF mandolin Marshall JVM210c amp plus a bunch of stompboxes and misc. gear
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12-09-2017, 07:40 PM
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After Christmas in 1975 I walked into a small luthier "J. C. Penny" and bought a cardboard box containing a slightly better crafted "Checkmate" nylon string guitar, which I intended to learn to play.
[IMG]  [/IMG]I still have it, though I rarely even look at it, much less play it. It still has a transducer stuck on the bridge that I used to use to amplify it (sometimes through a fuzz box!). I did take it out of storage this year, tuned it up, and played it as part of a piece that a fair number of folks listened to on my website. Kind of funny to hold it in my hands again then. This was the piece: https://frankhudson.org/2017/07/16/a...-to-gallipoli/ Funny how even this cheap and now worn out all-laminate instrument can still make affecting music.
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12-09-2017, 07:43 PM
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Martin D-35 1975.
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12-09-2017, 07:54 PM
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'64 Gretsch Double Annie, bought brand-new...
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12-09-2017, 08:02 PM
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My 1968 Gibson Hummingbird that I got used in 1972. We've been together longer than the wife and I.
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12-09-2017, 08:19 PM
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Suzuki Kiso J-200 knockoff. Probably early 70s vintage, I inherited it off my sister who tragically died (along with her husband) in a car accident in '78.
I sold or swapped an old Japanese nylon string (may have also been a Suzuki?) that I learned to play on to one of my best friends many years ago. If I still had it then it would be the longest owned. He still has it & his son plays it regularly, happy to say it still plays well & happy to know it's still used & appreciated.
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#102
12-09-2017, 08:54 PM
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I've had the Blonde Fender Strat since I bought it new in 1976, at the guitar store where I was teaching, while in my mid-twenties.
 I had a Martin D-35 at the time, as well. Don't ask me how I feel about having sold it way back when.
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#103
12-09-2017, 09:13 PM
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Technically, this one.
It was my dad's Kay that I broke the neck on, but a few years back it re-gained a rightful place in my corral by joining the body up with a re-purposed Taylor GS Mini neck I purchased cheap off Reverb. I sawed the broken neck off the body and then carried it around for almost 50 years before it dawned on me what it really wanted to be, an octave mandolin! 
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12-09-2017, 10:12 PM
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I do not play it much anymore, but when my mom and step-dad got married in 1966 (I was 12) they took me to Manny's in NYC an wanted buy me a present to calm me down for my mom getting remarried. Back then divorce was not very popular.
Anyway, I fell in love with a brand new candy red Fender Mustang and still keep it around even though my parents have passed. It is still in good shape. My brother bought a Rickenbacker 6-12 interchangeable guitar. He was cooler than I.
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at 4. No more for awhile. Moving soon. Less is better until I settle.
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12-09-2017, 10:41 PM
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The guitar I have owned the longest is a (retired) ‘79 Ibanez Dread...38 years. I owned a vintage ‘58 Strat from ‘76 until ‘02...26 years. The guitars I’ve had the longest that I play are my ‘02 Taylor 814c and ‘02 ‘57 Strat RI, both which I bought at the same time (and other gear and stuff) with the proceeds of the ‘58 sale. So those I’ve had for 15 years.
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