What was your first electric guitar?

[Ian111]

Fender Standard Telecaster MIM mid 2000 model

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by kramster

Late 60s SG... single pickup though.

That must have been the SG Junior (the Special has 2 pickups). Those are tone rockers! Do you still have it?

[warfrat73]

A Kent Les Paul knockoff from the late 70s or early 80s, like this one:



Have no idea where my parents got it, maybe the classifieds or a friend.

[BoneDigger]

I think the one I had was like this one. Suzuki something or the other. I think I paid about $100 for it. I didn't keep it very long. Bought it maybe around 1988?s-l400.jpegnew0exnbc6yq0ivcq7n8.jpg

[kayakman]

1964 Fender Strat,16th birthday gift,I`m 68 years old now and its long gone..

[PTony]

A Harmony H-802. My father ordered it from JcPenny’s. It took about 7 weeks to arrive. It came in a cardboard guitar box with a pitch pipe, pick, cord, and 5 watt amp. Oh, maybe a strap.

The strings sat a mile from the board. I didn’t know anything about guitars. My father was self taught and got me started. But he could barely change strings so in then many years I had it...it was NEVER setup properly. But, I learned.

My next guitar was soooo much “better”. A Lotus Strat in white with a white pick guard. Idk about “better”...maybe a little.

Funny how I’d love to have both those back now. Maybe I need to hunt both down.

[Jeff Scott]

First electric guitar that I bought new was a Carvin SC90 with lots of options on it, in '00.

First one I owned used was a 1978 Gibson RD Artist in Ebony that I got in the early '80s. I ended up with two of them (same model year and color), and probably should have kept at least one of them.

[packmule]

First electric guitar (and my first guitar as well) was a '60's Epiphone Coronet that I bought at the pawn shop when I was 11 years old, got a wee '70's Fender Champ amp that day as well (sold my Raleigh BMX bike to get the money).

[Craviola]

Cheap no name Cherry Sunburst Les Paul copy then a Cream colored Hondo Strat which I traded in 1981 plus $100 for a neck through BC Rich Mockingbird which is still my main electric to this day.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by Craviola

Cheap no name Cherry Sunburst Les Paul copy then a Cream colored Hondo Strat which I traded in 1981 plus $100 for a neck through BC Rich Mockingbird which is still my main electric to this day.

My black BC Rich Warlock Platinum series I bought in 1989 was my second electric. I GASed over that guitar for a couple of years. I still have it, put a SD Invader in the bridge, but I haven't played it in years (other than a few minutes here and there).

[talister106]

1972 New Gibson SG with a Bigsby tailpiece.

[Borderdon]

Mine was a Burns Tri- Sonic, bought it used in ‘64, phew, so long ago now !!

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by talister106

1972 New Gibson SG with a Bigsby tailpiece.

Sweet! do you still have it?

El Degas (MIJ) Les Paul Custom copy. White with maple fingerboard. Not the greatest (had some issues with the electronics) but not the worst either.

[SpruceTop]

Mine was a 1965 Zenon Dual-Pickup Japanese-made Electric Guitar with the gold-foil pickups. It was a $30 Christmas gift bought at Kresge's downtown Rochester store and didn't sound too bad given its price.