What was your first guitar?

[killdeer43]

On the other hand, selling it would give me a chance to look for another Guild (I’m thinking 12-string) that I really need.

Thumbs,
That's a great looking little Gibson.
I see in the old Blue Book that yours, in 'average condition' ranges from 850-1,050. In 'excellent condition' 1,400-1,750.
Just wanted to give you a touch of GAS for a Sunday. :wink:

Joe

 

[5thumbs]

On the other hand, selling it would give me a chance to look for another Guild (I’m thinking 12-string) that I really need.

Thumbs,
That's a great looking little Gibson.
I see in the old Blue Book that yours, in 'average condition' ranges from 850-1,050. In 'excellent condition' 1,400-1,750.
Just wanted to give you a touch of GAS for a Sunday. :wink:

Joe

Joe, thanks a lot! :? Those Blue Book prices jive very closely with what I’ve been seeing on eBay. I just can’t bring myself to selling it.

I guess I’ll just have to resign myself to the idea that I need a third guitar, huh? :twisted:

…And I’ve been on this forum long enough to have the GAS, don’t worry! I have discovered that McAfee Security Center doesn’t protect against that.

 

[killdeer43]

Joe, thanks a lot! :? Those Blue Book prices jive very closely with what I’ve been seeing on eBay. I just can’t bring myself to selling it.
I guess I’ll just have to resign myself to the idea that I need a third guitar, huh?

And why would you stop at three? That would be very unGASlike! :wink:

Joe

 

[5thumbs]

Joe, thanks a lot! :? Those Blue Book prices jive very closely with what I’ve been seeing on eBay. I just can’t bring myself to selling it.
I guess I’ll just have to resign myself to the idea that I need a third guitar, huh?

And why would you stop at three? That would be very unGASlike! :wink:

Joe

Yeah, I guess that was a pretty dumb statement.

 

[jcwu]

Not one that might have been given or handed down to you, but the first one you bought for yourself, with your own hard-earned.

Well, I owned many guitars before buying one with my own hard-earned cash. My very first guitar was a Yamaha classical guitar, CG-120. I had given up on learning piano, my parents insisted I *should* learn something musical, I chose guitar, they bought me the classical. I still have it, 22 years later, and I just brought it out of the case last week and put new strings on it. Brings back memories. It has "I love Julie" lightly scratched on the top finish (and no, Julie is not my wife... she was a 7th grade crush).

The first guitar I bought with my own cash was a partscaster off of eBay. The parts are still around, but not as a whole guitar.

 

[killdeer43]

Yeah, I guess that was a pretty dumb statement.

Patience, Grasshopper. :wink:

Joe

 

[Paddlefoot]

My first "bought it myself "guitar was my D-35sb. I took a friend who was a good player to California Musical Instruments and had him play every Gibson, Guild and Martin that was in my price range. We picked out the one of each brand that sounded the best and then I played them to see which one I liked best. I walked out with the Guild and never felt bad about my choice. That was in '79 and I still have that guitar, though my daughter commandeered it when she outgrew her Baby Taylor. When she was little she called it my "sunshine guitar" because she couldn't remember sunburst. That was the best $550.00 I ever spent.

 

[Carol]

The first one I bought myself was a S.L. Mossman Tennessee Flat Top (like this: http://www.elderly.com/items/20U-9534.htm). It was an awesome instrument... long story about why I no longer have it. But it was a gem!

But I'm really proud of the first guitar I ever had - bought by my MOTHER -- I still have it! I played it for all it was worth, but there isn't a mark on it -- here's a link to one just like it:
http://www.tommysguitarshop.com/product ... cite6c.jpg

 

[spiderman]

Carol
That is one heck of a guitar, never seen a lucite body before, although all I know of electrics is you need an outlet.
The luthier who works on my Guilds started out with Mossman back in the day. At his shop he has the neck he made with a vine inlay that was to be attached to a Braz rosewood body he also made, the body went up in smoke during the fire at Mossman that eventually killed the company. He still gets a Mossman in once in a while to work on, and I believe he has one or two of his own. Wouldn't mind having a Mossman myself.

Harmony H-173 bought in 1960 (retired)
Alvarez AC60S
Eastman AC320ce BOOKMATCHING BOOKMATCHING WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BOOKMATCHING!
http://www.massstreetmusic.com/store/sh ... id-Cutaway
GAD-JF30E(blonde)
JF55 1997

 

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[GuildFS4612CE]

Dan Armstrong?

 

[fronobulax]

I believe that "Gloria" was probably the first song I learned also. :lol: :lol: A three chord wonder.

I'm thinking it was either "Louie Louie" or "Wild Thing". Pretty amazing what you can do with just three chords

 

[fronobulax]

The first guitar in the house was a Harmony but it was my sisters, so I ignored it. My first bass was a no-name Japanese solid body. That was followed by the JS II. My parents were professional musicians and so it was pretty easy to get a cost sharing deal with an agreement to practice, which I usually did. Thus the first guitar I know I bought with my own money was the Starfire I which was purchased used in the late 1970's.

 

[Ridgemont]

My first guitar was a Sigma classical (the one in my signature). I still have it even though I hardly ever play it. The thing is probably plywood with a thick triple coated lacquer of industrial strength. It looks mint after all these years, and I don't take care of it. It was a great guitar to learn with. Nice thick neck to practice with. It will work well as a hand-me-down learning guitar.

 

[adorshki]

Yep, the usual, folks wouldn't spring for amplified drug-influenced electricity in '69 so they tried to placate me with a classical. ("If this works then we'll buy you an electric") Funny thing is, I still remember the very first thing the teacher taught us was "ergonomics", and I still play in classical position to this day. Tried to play rock on that guitar, even stuck a speaker into the sound hole and wired it to a tape-recorder for an amp! :lol: The first guitar I paid my own hard-earned cash for was actually another classical, I think it was about $90.00 in 1979, not a bad little piece and I still have it. Then a "Carlos" (anybody remember those?), my first steel string for $115.00 in '82. Still have that one too, even though it is unplayable. But my first "real" guitar was "Hally" in my sig, purchased new in mid-'97, although there was an '83 Fender F-210 gifted to me by my younger brother before that. Helped him brother select it, then he decided he wasn't going anywhere with it...it was stolen in late '95 and with a little advice from a buddy I found Guilds!

 

[comradebob]

First with my own dime, in '74, was an Ensenada 12-string flattop (well, it started that way), about, oh, 3.5" deep & who knows what (or if) wood. Made in Japan, & not too much luthiery was exercised. $65 at a farmer's market sale. I still have it in case the wife needs a planter. It was the only guitar I had for over 20 years & was ace at callus-building, but it was inaudible past 10 feet away. (Not an altogether bad thing considering who was playing it.) However, with a soundhole PU & a slide, one could produce some interesting noises.

First ever was a Monkey Ward Airline 6-string flattop from the folks in about '64, probably a Harmony. Actually a better guitar than the 12, but it finally self-destructed sometime in the early '70s. You shoulda heard me trying to ape Clapton lines on that puppy... or not.