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?

[J-Doug]

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.