What was your first electric guitar? - Page 5

Dee · #61 10-26-2007, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Mission1979

Sunn mustang, originally cream Seemed alright until I got my first Ibanez. Resprayed it blue. Can't play it now, it buzzes past 14th fret and high E is nearly off fretboard.

I threw one of these in the trash 2 months ago. it was my girlfriend's first electric but to be honest it was pretty much unplayable. These are legendary for having terrible necks that end up about as straight as a banana. Also, what the hell are they made from? I swear the body is concrete! LOL. I have never picked up a heavier bolt-neck guitar!

andy7jem · #62 10-26-2007, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Dee

Not really. I'm the only one with a drum kit, have a 1988 Tama Granstar but I can't set it up at home. It's too loud for the neighbours and there's no room for it here.

Maybe if you cleared up that huge rubbish mountain you had in your room

mike570 · #63 10-26-2007, 12:34 PM

Kramer Striker. 100ST I think it was. Pointy non-banana headstock. I think it was the cheap Korean version as it had a trem like the old Floyd that only went down. I thought it was cool because it was configured like Ed's 5150 guitar, only black in color. I drew on it in that squigly silver and burgundy two-tone marker to make it look like Satch's Black Dog. The copy-catting has yet to cease, I guess. :P
After a year or so I got tired of it falling out of tune and wanted a floyd that pulled back too. I saved up for the 570 and have stayed with the brand since.

JJEMMER777 · #64 10-26-2007, 12:49 PM

My first electric guitar (complete with attitude

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80's Fender Squire. It played really nice (wish I still had it)

Dee · #65 10-26-2007, 12:51 PM

Lake Placid Blue?

JJEMMER777 · #66 10-26-2007, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Dee

Lake Placid Blue?

Iron Maiden Blue

HSH · #67 10-27-2007, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by jemplayer55

Some P.O.S. out of the Sears & Roebuck catalog back in the early 70's......

Me, too. $79.00 cherry sunburst LP copy, the carved top was actually hollow underneath (pressed plywood, I imagine), the pickups were single coil in double coil covers, action was stupid high, nice little butterfly inlaid on the headstock. Complete POS.

evolvedmb · #68 10-27-2007, 06:38 PM

Epiphone strat copy. Metallic flake blue with a white pickguard. I eventually stripped down the body and painted it like a Jem777, but it turned out like shiznit. I was only 15 at the time. Ah, twenty years ago it all started.

rob777vdy · #69 10-27-2007, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Dee

I had a Marlin Sidewinder (just a stright ahead Strat copy) in 1984. It sounded pretty bad, I seem to remember. When I got my Squier Katana (remember those!?) I threw the Marlin out of a bedroom window and it smashed.

yeah marlins were a insult to guitars.bad bad.i swapped mine for a les paul copy the guy ripped me off by writing les paul in tipex on the headstock.i knew nothing about guitars at the time hehehe.

Kii · #70 10-27-2007, 06:51 PM

Abilene ALS 100-T

I still have the damn thing, but at the moment, it's in pieces. I plan on doing something to it in the future.

Jaden · #71 10-27-2007, 06:54 PM

mine was a marlin slammer - an even cheaper version of the sidewinder !!!
but I still have it ands now it looks like this:

I recorded the entire transformation here http://www.jemsite.com/forums/showth...ghlight=cometh

sick-boy · #72 10-28-2007, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Jaden

mine was a marlin slammer - an even cheaper version of the sidewinder !!!
but I still have it ands now it looks like this:

I recorded the entire transformation here http://www.jemsite.com/forums/showth...ghlight=cometh

Are those pyramids real? Because in the pic they look like magic marker

EDIT: Nevermind, I guess I should have clicked on the link you provided. Does it play better after all that work, or is it just a conversation piece to hang on the wall?