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My first guitar was a red starfire acoustic steel string...that looks like it was converted from nylon... ???
The bridge looks VERY much like a nylon bridge and the tuners too...lol...
Got it 3 - 4 Xmasses ago (can't remember if it's 3 or 4 hehe) and I still have it...

I bought a squire strat and peavy rage 158 amp about 6 months later...
Gave the squire and amp away when I bought new gear...
    My first guitar was/still is a Cort AD860 acoustic. Don't play on it that often anymore since I have developed a liking towards electric. Lovely guitars, sounds really well but still have bad memories and get nightmares about that 0.12 gauge strings it had on when I got it. Oh, the agony.
      Mine was a Guyatone Mosrite copy bought in 1969. Sold it and bought a Perfecto.Swapped that for a Hofner 12 acoustic.Then came my first REAL git .....a Fender Mustang with an AC 30. Paid R750.00 for both and lost it in a pawn shop for R150.00 in 1972. Thats what you call progress.
        Some obscure nylon acoustic.. First one I bought for myself.. my beloved but broken Gibson LP
          Still got the Gibbo? Still needing a fix (neck or headstock broken?)?
            Still play it, my Cort MR 720 F
              I just realised, I never posted my first guitar: An "Angelica Strat". Horrible thing - made me go out and get a weekend job working a till at Spar for six months to buy a real Strat.
                Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Still got the Gibbo? Still needing a fix (neck or headstock broken?)?
                Jip.. still have her.. made some progress to get her fixed.. but I've got studio GAS, so I'm on the prowl for a Focusrite Liquid Channel plus a nice Ribbon mic..

                Headstock is stuffed.. but it can wait.. Ive got me modded Squier and the Strat is on the mend.
                  9 years later
                  Still have mine. Must have been about, can't remember, 12 years old? Small, half size? Scale about 515 mm. Plywood body ("laminate..") with probably meranti neck, fretboard looks like masonite. Horrible action when new, still has. Almost unplayable, very hard on fingers. The bridge and saddle is a recent addition, original was a black plastic thing. Needs new nut, split saddle to fix intonation, and thinner strings. However bad it was, I played some, and it must have convinced my parents to buy me a real guitar a few years later. Still have that one too....
                    3 years later

                    I finally found a pic of the first electric guitar I owned, no name Japanese fender lookalike

                    Here I am at age 14, 1976, on the left. The shadows were the flavour of the day at that time


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                      Man I love this thread 🥰

                      I have my 1st, 2nd and 3rd guitars. I actually have just about never gotten rid of a guitar since I sold my 4th (Ibanez RG470) and regretted it!

                      I'll get some pics on the weekend and post 'em!

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                      morph , no name Japanese fender lookalike

                      Nice! Looks like a hawk/teisco knock off? The "bigsby: aside, when I run into them today - turns out that they are actually a hell of a lot of fun with a cooooool tone 🎢

                          Wish I still had this one, actually belonged to my older brother and it has disappeared over the eons

                            My first guitar I sold in hard times Washburn T14 Bass.. and my second..Ibanez Gio Cheery red

                            but the funny thing is the first guitar i actually strummed. ( about the only thing I ever did with it) I now own.. an old Encore Classical

                              First guitar is a St John Classical Guitar (think just some random shitty brand from the 80s?)
                              First Electric is my Squier Affinity Strat - replaced pick guard and added Seymour Duncans (she's a beast now)

                              Still have both and use the Squier Regularly. Squier used here and the nylon string is partially visible on the wall behind me:

                              The Squier plays so well - neck is top notch quality, fretwork is great and the action is unrealistically low with no fret buzz (only downside is that with the action so low, I struggle to play it when I forget to cut my fingernails haha)

                                Wow.. my first guitar was a pawn shop buy classical guitar with no name. The neck was damaged at the heal so the action was 1cm high or something.. i played that heap for 2yrs. 13 to 15yrs. My dad finally saw that it wasnt a fad and bought me an electric. I wanted a hohner strat copy at 1200 but he wasnt happy to shell out that dosh. I saw him half way and got an electric that was 3 digits. It had 2 single coils and a small body. Named ZZTop oddly. No idea where it was made. The body is long gone. The neck i still have. It has some 10yrs of honest wear.. my dad built my amp. He was great at electrical stuff. I still have that amp. I cannot bring myself to part with it.

                                My 1st grown up guitar i bought at a cashconverters after i moved to the big city. Twas 800ronts. I almost never bought it because it was literally that guitar.. or petrol/ food money. I figured.. to hell with it.. i can do bread for 3 weeks. It was an Ibanez Luke from 84. I didnt even know what it was until a few years after . That was 17yrs ago.

                                guidothepimmp i played that heap for 2yrs. 13 to 15yrs. My dad finally saw that it wasnt a fad and bought me an electric.

                                Bwahaha, I've exactly the same story! Including the dad built amp 😸

                                  13 days later

                                  My first was a Yamaha nylon slinger my dad bought me, probably when I turned 10 or so. Went for group lessons - them was a thang back then back in the early 80s.

                                  About a year or so later, we bought a Yammie 12 string that was about 10 times too big for me, but I bit the bullet and learned to deal with it. Had such a great sound. Played those two to death.

                                  My first electric was a Washburn N2 from the late 90s. I bought it and a Peavey amp (can’t remember the model, but it was solid state), formed a little two-man band, put together a five-track EP wherein I wrote the music and my mate wrote the lyrics, oddly, and we went nowhere. 😁

                                  But that guitar was the biz...

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