kholmes
First a Bellini, made in Pinetown in 1964 cost R6.50. White with smokey rings all over.! Would have bought the Gallo but it was R7.50 and I couldn't raise that kind of tin.
First apprentice salary went to a Yamaha FG180 ( which I still have) for R72.00 in 1968. Bwhahaha
Explorerlover
'twas a Suzuki acoustic my dad had that was lying around the house. After that, I got a "Concorde" strat copy....could 've been such a nice platform for upgrades, but alas,if only I knew what I know now...
flatfourfan
Warlock that I made in High school (24 years ago) from being a massive sep fan...........still have it.
Garysandstorm
chris77 wrote:
"I think it was a Hondo acoustic , or something with a similar name. Action high enough to use as a tightrope"
Haha, I started off with one of those high action acoustics too when I was about 8 years old. Man as a kid it i couldnt play the first few frets, fingers too weak hahaha. My cousing won it in a local bueaty pageant and gave it to my father since he was a musician in his young days. He ended up giving it back on her wedding day many years later.
But my real "first" I got about 20 years back aged 10 or 11, was a cheapo black Cort Strat with ryan amp I got after some months of nagging to my father, he lay-by'd it from cash crusaders. Still have it ?
I miss that acoustic though. The frustration of having to use g-clamps to press down the strings to play. Good times ?
Chocklit_Thunda
Cort X-1.
To this day the most comfortable guitar I've played ?
You guys had it rough..... I got mine set up and man oh man it was like a slip n slide covered in butter.... It's so smooth! ?
Chris-Mason
60's 12 string Hofner paid r400 for it.
Saddle and Nut
studmissile
Brand New Ibanez EX series for about 6 weeks, then came across a 2nd hand Hohner Proffesional L75 (R400), and sold the ibanez.
very good guitar!
LooneyAtTheGate
Wormwood wrote:
Technically it was a nylon acoustic lent to me by my grandmother, which my friend broke over my elbow after i attacked him duiring some roughhousing, we were 10 or something like that.
My actual 1st guitar was a Hondo "blackie strat" type guitar with a wayward G string that I bought mice elf with what felt like a million years of pocket money. I visited the shop every week while I saved up to check it was still there.
I liked that guitar, I got it when i was 13 i think. It made it through my 1st serious band and i lived with it in my hands.
I sold it when i was about 24 for R100 more than i bought it for.
Pretty much the same story as me..
Nylon string from my dad, age 12, then black Hondo electric with white scratchplate and and strings 2cm off the fretboard (second hand), took a million years to save that R600!
Lent it to a friends who had it claimed by her landlord when she didn't pay the rent ?
Malkav
I got an acoustic made by a company called Horugel, the thing was basically a rip off of a Gibson Hummingbird, even had the kitsch flowers and hummingbird motif on the scratchplate, at some point I got the bridge replaced when I learnt a bit about how to not make a guitar sound like crap and it turned out to be not the worst guitar ever but I still ended up selling it to move onto better things.
palaughton
I see somebody else on the forum had a Ryan Guitar as their first electric. I too had one and a Yamaha Amp. We all have got to start somewhere, that was about 19 years ago.
treefrog
Way back in 1964, my mother bought me a no-name acoustic (steel strung) for my birthday ... it cost R8.50 from Bothners in Durban ... I played it till my fingers were raw! ... by the time I could play "House of the rising sun" all the way through, no-one in my family wanted to hear it anymore .... "not that bloody song again" they would say!
I moved on to a 12 string Framus with a soundhole pickup, and eventually a solid Framus strat copy, which got broken on the way home from a gig when our dopy drummer fell on it in the back of the Kombi!
I've since had a les paul custom, an SG, and a telecaster, and currently have about 8 axes (the ultimate being a Heritage les Paul, hand-made by the good old boys at the old Gibson factory in Kalamzoo Michigan) but my go-to guitar is a SX tele copy in American swamp ash .... I just love it!
Foottapiologist
Yamaha G-231 back in the 70's. A hand-me-down from one of my brothers. 3rd son pecking order in a musical family.
I had a burst of nostalgia a while back and sourced one for my collection for old times sake
nazarene
My first guitar was a Icon strat copy. Icon was the in house brand for Music Fest SA if anyone remembers them.
It was basically one of those cheap Chinese guitars wit their (Icon) logo on the headstock. It was terrible quality, think it was made from recycled toilet paper. I actually still have parts of the guitar (body, pups, some pots, bridge and some of the machine heads.).
I thought it was the best guitar ever haha and only noticed its flaws as I progressed on the guitar, but it got me into playing guitar and that is all that matters.
My amp I got with it was a silvertone smart 3s or something like that.
el-guapo
My first was a 3/4-sized (I was 8 or 9) nylon string that I'm happy to say both my niece and nephew learned to play on.
First decent guitar was an Ibanez Vintage-series steel string I got about 2 years later. Still have it and it still sounds gorgeous, but it was only about 10 years ago that I finally had the action sorted out: I can't believe how determined I must have been, at 11, to have played with such high action. Pain!
First electric was an Ibanez EX-series entry level superstrat job. None more black. ?
Hasie
Pearl River Piece-o-crap acoustic
IceCreamMan
Hondo strat copy strung the left way round
(was more of a hond though)
first real lefty was an Ibanez 160qm lefty...
Ibanezguy
A Hofner. My dad used to joke and say hes never seen so many knobs and switches that seem to do NOTHING hahahaha. He later gave me a '68 Telecaster to put me out of my misery or i would have given up then ;)
Werner232
My first guitar was a cheap Johnson Strat copy. I've since retired it because the body crack at the bridge recess and it won't stay in tune. I replaced it with a Ibanez Gio and will probably have it sorted out one day. ?
domhatch
i was an all-yammie guy. my dad bought me a yammie nylon string to learn on and paid for lessons (he was a mean folk guitar player in his day). when i'd been playing for about a year and a half, he upgraded me to a yamaha 12-string. it was gorgeous. but, oh, that octave g. played it for about 6 months, got tired of shelling out for singles and double-the-dosh for full sets when necessary, so i traded it in on an ovation copy with a lovely green top. unfortunately, the damn thing was pretty much unplayable. not the setup, but a) the sound of the thing was, i'm certain, the inspiration for the soundtrack to psycho, and b) sitting down and playing it was a feat of gymnastic impossibility.
after that i turned to electric and had a breakthrough. washburn nb2, some peavey 50w solid state with a whole whack of knobs, switches and channels. lordy. i had fun with that and regret selling it to this day. but sell it i did, and thus began my love affair with les pauls.
so a great loss, yes, that washburn, but it lead to greater things, as guitar journeys often tend to do
dh|
Tonedef
Cash Crusaders Fong Kong Sanchez stratoturd.
