Does the guitar you learned with fit your playing the best?

Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 1289 Location: FINLAND

Do you have the guitar that you used to learn how to play? How does it feel?

I feel that my Jackson Kelly still fits my playing the best, the guitar that I used to learn to play. After many, many guitars I always come back to it and say: This is the best.

How about you?

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 14458

You never forget your first love.

Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 1289 Location: FINLAND

Also, I could mention that even if my Jackson Warrior is made decade later, ( Kelly '98, Warrior '08 ) it feels very similar to my Kelly...

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:18 pm

Hell no. It was cheap Harmony piece of crap that looked like a 335. I hated that guitar so bad. Damn bridge would always shift on me while I was playing. Remember those funky stickers you used to get when you bought bubblegum? Well there was a company that made off color stickers of normal products. I had one that said "BLANK CROWS." aka Black Crows. Put that on the headstock, and best friend nicknamed it "The Mockingbird."

It died a Ritchie Blackmore death in the carport after I bought my first Gibson SG. Wish I still had that SG. But I traded it for 57LP TV, another guitar I wish I kept.

Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 1289 Location: FINLAND

After reading that I think the question should include the words: "if the first guitar was any good" Very Happy

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:27 pm

Darth Jester wrote:

After reading that I think the question should include the words: "if the first guitar was any good" Very Happy

You know now you'll possibly going to get allot of stories like mine. But the guitar only cost me $10. I bought it from a friend around the block from me. It did the job for the time being.

Laughing

Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Posts: 1827 Location: KY

ML Tib wrote:

Darth Jester wrote:

After reading that I think the question should include the words: "if the first guitar was any good" Very Happy

You know now you'll possibly going to get allot of stories like mine. But the guitar only cost me $10. I bought it from a friend around the block from me. It did the job for the time being.

Laughing

That's what I was thinking when I read the topic. Most everyone I know started on some cheap POS.

My first was a pawnshop kay. It wasn't a bad little starter guitar, but it was by no means a serious instrument.

Joined: 19 Dec 2011 Posts: 421 Location: Northern Arizona

Same exact thing about the Kelly. Still my favorite.

Joined: 02 Aug 2010 Posts: 1002 Location: Virginia

No way.

Cheap Peavey guitar. Floyd on it was a piece of crap! I don't even like floyds now because of that guitar.

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:10 pm

Not remotely. Lyon by Washburn shaped like an idol. It plays great with an awesome neck and heel , but it's not even close to comfortable to play.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 6645 Location: Hawaii

My first 2 guitars were cheap Hondos, and I loved the explorer way more than the V

Then I got a BC Rich Mockingbird, loved that axe until I got Jupiter...

That was my first Dean and first true love, since then I've been a Dean-o-phile, nothing else even comes close.

Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 2431 Location: Midwest, Sweden

hell yeah

It was a stratcopy and since I'm mainly doing '70s blues/rock, it's still good Smile

Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 7418 Location: Backenforth, USA

Not really. I like strats.

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:54 pm

my first guitar was/is a yamaha eg112 , and although i lost it at an ex, it got back to me over the years, same stickers an all, her parents mailed it to me one day..so after that day i've kept it in the house, that thing aint leaving

My gibson knockoff i got for 50 bucks, and that thing plays better then any BC rich out there,only got 1 bc left, but not sure where that one is gonna end up

and god i love my washburn slime

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:06 pm

My first guitar was a 83 Dean ML Baby which I still have. It was great while I was growing up and still is has a nice V neck. I still play it every once in a while and it is as good as it was in 1983 when I got it, just it's now battle scarred. It's fits my playing fine, it just doesn't fit me since I'm 6'5" 295 now it looks like a toy on me.. Wink

Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 247

@mesa I hear you on that, most guitars don't quite fit me any more. My first guitar was a Danelectro and that thing was a piece of junk. The bridge bent, I had to super glue two of the frets back in, and the pickups sometimes fell out while headbanging and thrashing around.

Joined: 23 Nov 2009 Posts: 521

No.. PoC \m/

Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 1127 Location: New Jersey

Roboblaze wrote:

@mesa I hear you on that, most guitars don't quite fit me any more. My first guitar was a Danelectro and that thing was a piece of junk. The bridge bent, I had to super glue two of the frets back in, and the pickups sometimes fell out while headbanging and thrashing around.

haha tell me about it, I think you and I are the same size and I love jackson kellys but they look like mini guitars on dudes like us.

Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 5320 Location: DOA #07-01193

Nope, my first guitar was a junky no name 3/4 acoustic. The body was caving in on it, no truss rod, and the strings were so high I could store a complete set of the world book between the strings and the fretboard.

Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 1528 Location: PAris, France

My first guitar was a strat knockoff probably made in china which probably was good for something but certainly not thrash metal as I was into at the time.
Over time I evolved to like Jackson RR specs and Les Pauls not exclusive to each other.
I've tried a lot of guitars these recent years and have come back to that, I'm using my LP and Amfisound exclusively these days.

Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 5598 Location: phoenix az.

i used to be a strat guy in the 80s but now if its not a v im hatin it!

Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 10200 Location: New Jersey USA

My first electric guitar was some japanese jaguar knock off I bought from a school mate for $15 when I was about 12. But that was short lived. My dad bought me a Peavey T-60 shortly after that was my learning guitar for the next decade. It was a great USA made guitar, and sounded killer. Still have it. But to answer the original question, it doesn't fit me. The neck shape is very wide and thin. And the looks of the T-60 aren't my style. But I couldn't think of a more solid and capable guitar for a teenager to have in the early 80's given my budget at the time. Couldn't afford a Gibson sg or les Paul back then. And I also had 78 Strat in high school, but that was quite a suck ass guitar, so my Peav was still my main guitar all the way up to the early 90's.

Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 2501 Location: Houston, TX

Eeeeeeeh... Hondo Black Beauty LP copy: weighed a ton, never stayed in tune, setup was poor...

NOPE! Laughing

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 2:42 pm

no way my guitar came from otasco had a metal pickup that eventually the chrome came off.it was piece of crap then i got a lp copy that was great guitar.my first decent guitar was a jackson super strat dont remember the name of the model.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 5:38 pm

My BC Rich Warlock still is great to me. It's really comfortable neck-wise.

Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 11990 Location: Louisiana

first guitar was a sammick strat. couldnt play worth a crap and sold it.

second guitar was an Epiphone explorer. still have it. still play it (its tuned to Bstandard right now for crowbar type stuff) still love that guitar and will never part with it (its too cheap and banged up to get any money for it anyways!

3rd guitar is the Brazillia burst TCML in my avatar picture. friggin love that guitar. Live, studio, rehersal, thats the guitar i use 90% of the time. love that thing. its the guitar i really got up to a performable level with.

Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 6291 Location: Jacksonville, TX.

Mine was a White BC Rich Warlock. No I do not still have it. I wish I did and yes It still fits my playing style. But My G&L is much more versatile. Cool

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:59 am

Eh.

My first was a terrible knockoff stratocaster that I pretty much took from my cousin when we were 9. Laughing

Then I got a pos acoustic. THEN, finally, a Schecter Tempest I wish I still had.

12 years later, I think I finally have what I need.

Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 1457 Location: Colorado Springs

Very first guitar was an acoustic Yamaha FG400. Still have it and love it. Great sound for a cheapy. My first electric was a JB Player tele copy with a wilkinson style bridge, HSS configuration. That thing has never been set up right, but it was damn fun to play. I still have it, and wouldn't mind "restoring" it to hand down to one of my kids.

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:24 am

The answer is a huge yes to me. I started on a 1979 "The SG". It's still my main guitar and I have yet to play a guitar that is IMO its equal.

Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 1859 Location: Belgium

I still love the neck of my first electric guitar (Aria Pro II STG w floyd), but never liked the horrible pickups or the plastic feel of the plywood body.

I might take it of the case again now Wink