Would you sell the first guitar you ever had?

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Imagine you bought a guitar as a kid to learn, time passes, now you have several or many guitars. You still have that first cheap guitar you learned on, maybe it's stock, or maybe you modified it to play well.

Now that you have a bunch of guitars, would you sell your first love to make room for newer/better guitars?

Also, what's the first song you learned front to back?
 
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Sold my first one a long time ago, it was a pos Cort that came w a small 10w crate, one of those package deals. Never even thought about that guitar until just now.
 
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i did and kinda regret it but only for sentimental reasons. would i play it? nope. would it do anything but sit in the corner in a case collecting dust? nope.
 
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I sold my first guitar ever. I didn’t start playing until my early 20’s. I bought a Squire Japanese 62 re-issue that looking back was a really nice guitar. I traded it in for a Strat plus, which had problems they couldn’t fix from day one. They ended up giving me credit towards a first year SRV signature Strat, that I still own. I love the big neck on it, but I wish it was one of the early ones that had a rosewood fretboard. Those ones are fetching really good money.

Looking back I didn’t realize how nice the Japanese Squire was. I also recently sold my first ever Les Paul because I bought a couple more Les Pauls and my wife was annoyed. I guess rather than missing what I no longer have, I can appreciate what I do have.


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Me personally? No. My Epi Dot is an awesome guitar and sounds amazing every time I plug it in. The frets are pretty shot though, so I'm going to try my hand at re-fretting it shortly. Assuming that goes well, it should be good to go for another 20 years.
 
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My first guitar was a cheap Ibanez, I gave it to my brother in law. My first decent guitar is my Epi Les Paul. Modded, upgraded and played all the time. I’ll never sell it, both for sentimental reasons and because I’d get peanuts for it at this point.
 
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I still have mine, it's an '83 ish Squire MIJ. It's had countless pickup changes, has a Wilkinson bridge, numerous nut changes and has had the frets reshaped 3 times. It plays OK, but I'm realizing how the fret board is kinda done. I was thinking of changing it over to a HS config and getting a Warmoth neck, why? I have no idea lol.

I think it's going to become wall art, but I can't see myself ever selling it, that guitar started it all for me.

Separate question, what was the first song you ever learned front to back?

Zeppelin The Ocean for me.
 
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walk dont run. first the rhythm while my dad played the melody, then we switched once i was good enough
 
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First guitar I ever had was a Tanglewood star (LP copy) it was reasonable enough to learn on but got rid of it the second I could afford a Gibson (actually could get credit to buy a Gibson) which was a '74 20th anniversary LP Custom, who's frets were so low they were unplayable.

Eventually traded it for a brand new LP standard around '97/'98 which I still have to this day, I'm probably more attached to this than any other as it's the one I actually learnt to play 'properly' on, so attached I'm now seriously considering getting it recapped & refinished (at considerable expense) or trading it for a R9.

Back when I had my tanglewood I played through a korg G3 & crappy practice amp, when I saw a G3 on ebay I picked it up for old times sake, it sounded awful & cured me of nostalgically looking back & recreating old guitar & rigs for good.

I always wanted a White Falcon & managed to pick the exact one (mid 70's double cut stereo block inlays & big headstock) I wanted up relatively cheaply around 20 odd years ago, needed a neck reset & the electronics were shot, I haven't played it in 5 years but it will be the last possession I ever sell.
 
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I did. No strings attached. It was a terrible instrument.

It is different in the case of the first decent guitar. I still have it.
 
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I still have my kid's size classical, from when I was 9. The next guitar I got was a Strat, and I still have that, too (1982).
 
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I still have my first guitar, dont play it much cause it needs refretted and there is no one around me that i trust to do it, but other than that its still sweet as ever.

Many of my friends who had junk first guitars let them go, and i can see that, not all are worth keeping.
 
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No, I would not.

I still have it, and it's still killer.

It's an '85 MIJ '50s reissue Strat that bears little resemblance to its original orientation. I got it used, early '90s, I think (possibly late '80s, though), with EMG SAs, a stripped/oiled neck, and a black 3-ply guard. Played it that way for many years. Eventually converted to passive '50s style pickups and a single-ply white guard. Had an anodized guard on it at some point too. A few years ago, I took it back to the EMGs, added an '80s vintage Kahler to it, and converted to black hardware. It still has the original '50s style single piece maple neck, though I replaced the truss rod. It's kind of got a Charvel vibe to it now.

Here it is in the middle of the most recent re-vamp:

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My first guitar was a nylon string Hohner classical. First song I remember learning was an etude by Fernando Sor.
I never sold it, I left it behind in Massachusetts with my best friend at the time when I moved out west. He may even still have it.

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Did
Long ago

Strat-O-lyn acoustic with my name on the headstock in individual stickers

Every thing since then , has been one upgrade after another

I now have a dozen

Any one could find a new home at any time

They are tools, like the Crescent wrench in the toolbox
 
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Bought a 1976 Ibanez 59er in Gloss Natural with black binding, knobs and painted inlays with gold hardware August 1977 and sold it August of '78 to finance the Wine Red Grande' Flying V I so wanted and then didn't. Sold that to finance a new 1978 Gibber The Paul and been on a journey ever since. Wish I still had the Ibby! :headbang: :cool2:
 
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First guitar was a cheap Fender Squier. Played it for 15 years, off and on, because I didn't know anything about guitars and also (being a student) couldn't afford anything better. Last year, finally got a decent metal-focused guitar, so I gave away the Squier to my daughter's music school, where it's being used as a practice instrument for kids once they're ready to move from a three-quarter scale to a full-size guitar. Don't want it back, have no regrets about giving it away.

I can't remember what song I first learned front to back, but I feel like it was probably either "Karma Police" or "Fake Plastic Trees" (Radiohead).
 
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My first guitar was a super cheap entry level Jackson Kelly. I ended up giving it to my brother maybe six months later, and he traded it for the Charvel Model 4 I've owned since 2004.

I let the Kelly go because I stopped playing it after a couple months, mainly because I got a great deal on this:

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And it was my #1 guitar from 2000-2010. The first song I learned to play front to back was 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' by Metallica, and I learned it shortly after getting the Explorer. Last year I swapped the guard to black and replaced the black Custom & Jazz with a set of zebras including a push-pull tone knob to split both pickups:

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My first guitar was a 94 Samick bass. Sold that only just this year. My "first guitar" guitar was an Ibanez Roadstar II I picked up from a pawn shop for $120, which eventually fell to pieces. I've been chasing that particular dragon since. Between then and now, I've sold and dumped about a dozen different guitars. I'm trying to get rid of another guitar at the moment, which will leave me with three working. Maybe if I'd started playing younger, I might have held on to a 'first guitar' for sentimental reasons, but I'm just looking for a particular guitar that sounds a certain way and it doesn't seem right to me to "hoard" if something I don't like could be appreciated by somebody else.
 
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