What was your first good guitar?

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Author Message   Ibanezkid Username: Ibanezkid Registered: 6-2007 Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 8:24 pm:    Hey ICW I was just wondering what your first good guitar was and how old you were when you got it.Mine was a 2002 Ibanez sa160 and I was 7 years old.   Ibanezkid Username: Ibanezkid Registered: 6-2007 Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 10:13 pm:    I won it in a contest.   Allears Username: Allears Registered: 6-2007 Posted on Sunday, July 01, 2007 - 6:13 pm:    Hi IBanezkid: In 1963-64 when I was 13 years old, I raked leaves and cut lawns and shoveled snow and saved all my lunch money (and my older brother who was in the Air Force at the time gave me the rest) for a Gibson Firebird III probably a '63/'64 that -- with the hard shell case and New York State Sales Tax included -- sold for a whopping $209. I still have that guitar today at the age of 57, years old (and it still smokes). Allears   Tbplayer Username: Tbplayer Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Sunday, July 01, 2007 - 11:23 pm:    hey I-K, for me it was a '76 ibanez concord 684e cherry sunburst "hummingbird". got it new, and still have it.   Guitarwhisperer Username: Guitarwhisperer Registered: 6-2007 Posted on Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 10:39 pm:    I learned on my dad's 1967 Gibson ES-335.   Peterdryan Username: Peterdryan Registered: 6-2007 Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 9:10 am:    I began learning to play on a rented guitar. Somewhere around 1974, the first guitar I actually owned was a Univox electric, double cutaway. I got it for about $100 new because it was damaged during shipping and it had a small chip in one side. About 2 years later I traded it for a brand new Gibson Marauder. The one with the "normal" 3 position toggle switch. About 3 years after that I traded the Marauder for a mint condition, but used, Ibanez Korina Destroyer which I had until the early 90s.   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 9:51 am:    I started at the age of 9 on an Ariana classical guitar stained mahogany back and sides, laminated cedar top. The first one, we brought back, because it had a buzz problem at the first fret, the second one was quite good for such a budget guitar. The next one was bought when I was 14 or so: an Aria AC-20. Both guitars were made in Japan. In the music school band I played a 1962 Fender Stratocaster Sunburst, a school instrument. The teacher who bought it had an option to buy it when he left, and he did. It was replaced by a white Ibanez Roadstar. But by that time I was no longer there, because I went to university. The AC-20 was always under my bed. My first own electric guitar was a black MIJ Fender Stratocaster with a factory installed Kahler Spyder. I was 23 then. Ginger   Jchester Username: Jchester Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 2:35 am:    First guitar = Kalamazoo (Gibson) SG with 2 single coil pups (in 1967) First GOOD guitar = 1956 Telecaster (in 1971)   Mr_roadstar Username: Mr_roadstar Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 3:24 am:    In 1988 I bought a brand new Ibanez RS1400SS. $376 including HSC. The Bear   Sixvsix Username: Sixvsix Registered: 3-2002 Posted on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 6:36 am:    Mine was a 78 2619...in 1978. Sold many years ago. Didn't like it that much as I actually ordered the 1975 version of the 2619 cause that's the one that was in our shop catalogue. Victim of evolution was I. I found out years later that this 'model evolution' is an annoying Japanese manufacturing trait. Like changing something just for the sake of it. It's still happening isn't it although maybe Hoshino have finally come to realise that they really had something back when they were producing those early original designs. Hence the current trend for reissues. Or maybe they are just 'copying' the Fender and Gibson reissue thing. Who knows? six   Sixvsix Username: Sixvsix Registered: 3-2002 Posted on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 6:40 am:    Oh yeah... I was 18 but had already been playing for 8 years. I guess the other 'proper' guitar before the 2619 was a Kasuga 57 STrat copy but that got chopped in for the 2619...DERRRR! . six   Ibanezkid Username: Ibanezkid Registered: 6-2007 Posted on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 8:53 am:    Oops I forgot to mention my BEST guitar is my 2006 Parker fly deluxe.I was 12 when I got it. I'm still 12 so i've had it less then a month.The cost was $2000 with HSC.   Craigjc Username: Craigjc Registered: 11-2002 Posted on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 1:07 pm:    1977 Ibanez 2350 Les Paul - brand new. I was 16. Still own and play that guitar.   Tonedef Username: Tonedef Registered: 3-2004 Posted on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 6:15 pm:    A Roadstar something-or-other that I traded to Mr. Roadstar for a one-of-a-kind hot rodded custom RoadBear that is still my best guitar... Tonedef   Emzc Username: Emzc Registered: 9-2004 Posted on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 7:24 pm:    An AM50 in 1984, I was 19. My guitars before were... not so good.   Texasbob Username: Texasbob Registered: 11-2006 Posted on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 7:52 pm:    I had several guitars before what i consider my first "good" guitar. I bought a "CLAYBORN" acoustic, mij, looks just like the ibanez concord, sold to a friends daughter who really wanted it. my first good one was an ibanez cn250cw, traded in for a martin when i turned 40. really stupid mistake bob

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