JonW
Joined: Mar 07, 2008
Posts: 237
Indiana
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Posted on May 21 2009 06:06 PM
Im actually still playing my first guitar. Its my only guitar. (Well, OK I have one bass as well, as of a few weeks ago.) Its an 85 Ibanez Roadstar II. A type of Strat copy, for the most part. HSS, bottom of the line at the time. It was made in 85. Set the wayback machine for 1987, when I was in high school. I wanted to try playing guitar and my parents bought me this one, used, along with a tiny Peavey Audition 20 amp. Its still in very good shape.
The back of the neck on this guitar feels amazing. Very smooth finish and a really nice C profile. Ill soon be upgrading and I still cant find the back of a neck on any guitar that feels as good as this one. The rest of the guitar
eh
its fine. Solidly built. The electronics are nothing special, but Ive been able to open it up and fix what problems have arisen.
Over the years Ive tried to play now and then. Never as serious as I have been about it in recent months. Its served me well and weve gotten way more out of it than whatever it was that we paid back then. (Maybe $150 including the amp?) Even after I upgrade Ill always keep it, for sentimental reasons. 
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J_Razor
Joined: Dec 29, 2007
Posts: 57
Buffalo
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Posted on May 21 2009 07:24 PM
Not really even sure what kind it was. Parents ordered a 1/2 acoustic when i was a youngin'. I think it came from J C Penny!!!
The first one I remember by name is a Korean made Squier Bullet which I still have. Did replace the pups with ESP single coils. Sounds pretty good to this day!
— the Keef Richards of Surf Guitar
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scotstandard
Joined: Nov 09, 2008
Posts: 1140
Davenport Iowa
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Posted on May 21 2009 07:34 PM
Are you thinking of "Westone"?
The guitar with the speaker in it is
synsonics terminator
My buddy had one, man did it suck. You can pick em up for about $30 on ebay all day.
My first guitar was my dads 70's, 80's white yamaha set neck double humbucker guitar, kind of looks like an sg. Cool neck. He has a hohner acoustic thats pretty cool too. His amp (that i hated as a kid) is a 1960 Fender Concert brownface. Someone pained it black, and put two huge magnet EV 12"'s in it. Wasent untill i was 18 or 19 till i realized how cool that amp is, and i surfed it for the first year or two untill i started buying my own amps.
he bought me for my birthday a early 90's USA peavey predator strat copy. I still have it. Its kinda beat at this point. I keep it in the basment as a test guitar when im working on amps. This one isnt mine but just like it.
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lonecat
Joined: Jun 09, 2008
Posts: 65
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Posted on May 23 2009 06:05 AM
I still have my first guitar, a circa 1970-71 Aria 5102-T Hollowbody.
I really wanted a Gretsch, but it was 1982, I was a high school kid and couldn't even find a Gretsch, much less afford one, but I got me a hollowbody, dammit!
It didn't have a bridge but somewhere I got ahold of a Gretsch compensated bar bridge, pinned the base and have used this guitar pretty much every day for almost 30 years as my noodlin' around the house guitar.
In 1983 I was into the neo-rockabilly/cowpunk thing, as well as the hotrod scene in a big way and pinstriped the snot out of it. I made some dice knobs etc....alll pretty stupid now but hey, I was 15. The finish is in great shape, I think they used about 5 gallons of poly to coat the thing. Ridiculous!
It actually plays and sounds killer. I refretted it in the mid 90's but they are worn again, especially the area around my capo on the 4th fret. The pickups are high output (the bridge is 13k, the neck 10.5 k). I'm going to refret sometime this summer. I love this guitar, in fact I bought a couple more over the years but the pickups were always weaker despite looking the same.
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morphball
Joined: Dec 23, 2008
Posts: 3324
Pittsboro, NC
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Posted on May 23 2009 08:04 AM
For a first guitar that's pretty kickass.
— Mike
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tiki101
Joined: Mar 22, 2009
Posts: 101
pgh, where the zombies live
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Posted on Jun 02 2009 02:52 PM
seriously.
did you stripe it? Really cool.
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lonecat
Joined: Jun 09, 2008
Posts: 65
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Posted on Jun 07 2009 06:23 PM
tiki101
seriously.
did you stripe it? Really cool
Haha...yeah, I did stripe it myself. I was 15/16 at the time and it shows a definite lack of , shall we say, restraint 
...everybody assumes I did that after Setzer and the rest of the Gretsch guys started striping their guitars, but my inspiration for that was the striping on the cover of Danny Gatton's Redneck Jazz lp.
(edited for a couple of really boner spelling errors.)
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