What was your first electric guitar?

Vim Fuego · #1 10-25-2007, 10:04 AM

Sorry if this question has been asked already!
Mine was a black Satellite Les Paul copy, bought in 1979 from a local tobacconists that also sold a range of cheap guitars.
The body was a sort of plywood although you couldnt tell because of the thick black finish, the neck was a bolt on but eventually had to be glued as the screws stripped the screw holes!
I later discovered that the covered humbuckers were really single coils made from a piece of bent metal shaped like a tent with a magnet on the bottom and polepiece screws in the apex!
I soon replaced the pickups with proper humbuckers which had the wires for coil tapping etc.
I spent many hours re-wiring the pickups so I could split any coil and have the pickups in or out of phase via mini switches.
I had a really rubbish plastic 10 Watt amp to plug it in and I later built my own fuzz box from a circuit from a book by RA Penfold called "Practical Electronic Music Projects (I Think!)
Jim
'98 Jem7VWH
'91 Jem77BFP with GK-3
RG470FMR
Charvel EVH Art Series (red/white/black)
Burns Brian May
Epiphone G-1275 double neck
Epiphone Sheraton II

Laney VH100R
Boss GT-8
Roland GR-30
Roland VG-88
etc. etc....

**GilkyBear** · #2 10-25-2007, 10:13 AM

My first electric was a Hondo flying V. Plywood body. Sounded great and played great at the time

I still think of her from time to time. You never forget your first...

rob777vdy · #3 10-25-2007, 10:14 AM

my first was a marlin sidewinder.21 years ago thats all i could afford back then.cant even remeber what it sounded like.(crap probaly)

**jaxadam** · #4 10-25-2007, 10:14 AM

Hondo Explorer that my brother decided to drive his foot through the neck joint.

jemplayer55 · #5 10-25-2007, 10:22 AM

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

jem20thlover · #6 10-25-2007, 10:23 AM

Candy Apple Red Kay Starter Series (strat look alike)

ScottB · #7 10-25-2007, 10:25 AM

Mine was a Tele Star Satellite MIJ.

southpaw_lefty · #8 10-25-2007, 10:27 AM

Mine was a Fender Lead III. It was actually a very nice guitar, but it was heavy as hell. I still have it, but it's gutted right now , and needs to be refretted.

IbanezFreak777 · #9 10-25-2007, 10:33 AM

Anyone ever heard of a LaGrange Ranger Deluxe made by a company called Texas Guitars. It was metallic red and gold hardware, i loved that thing... Wish i could buy it back, just for the memories !!

Hutch34 · #10 10-25-2007, 10:36 AM

I've only been playing for about 3-4 years so I got into it just as the Squier craze was taking off, so I had a red Squier Strat, complete with the 15 watt practice amp =) I got it from my dad(my parents are divorced) for Christmas.

Distantshore · #11 10-25-2007, 10:45 AM

Harmony Flying -V courtesy of Sears catalog.

nuno · #12 10-25-2007, 10:55 AM

the very first electric guitar that entered my place was my brother's RS530:

she got me hooked on Ibanez and started my "tech" interest on guitars (used to tinker her while bro wasn't home

).

but my very first own guitar was a Pre-RG RG410:

still so in love with her...

scotte_za · #13 10-25-2007, 11:18 AM

a cheap strat copy, stagg i think. my band's other guitarist using her coz she can't afford her own guitar. still plays pretty well considering

funkdubious · #14 10-25-2007, 11:23 AM

Mine was a Columbus tele.I got it from the brother of a girl I really liked.
It was just as G n' R were getting big and I wanted to be Slash.The way she descibed it,it sounded like an LP so I had to get it.When I went over to her house to pick it up I saw what it was,but as I really liked her I had it anyway!
After that I got a Kramer XL2,what a load of crap! Still have it though 16 years later