What was your 1st Metal/Hard Rock Guitar?

[errrrrl]

My 1990 explorer... saved up and bought it new. I think I paid $1200 in 1990. I had to have it man.

 

[angelspade]

1994 Gibson Explorer...Loved that thing

 

[CrystalSky]

First guitar was already metal. An Ibanez RG350DX. Nothing to write home about lol

 

[Devin]

This is an internet pic, but this was the guitar.. A RR copy made by Arbor..
I didn't know who RR was, I just thought it was cool. The pickups were microphonic as fuck.

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Damn that thing is wild af

 

[Reiep]

Got Myself a Blackat Leon, mahogany neck and body with a flamed maple top and BK Black Hawks.

 

[rstites]

I'll join the ranks with Gibson Explorer. I bought a second hand one in 1984(?) for $400. It was black with a Dirty Fingers pickup. I played it for about 4-5 years early on as my primary. I remember it being pretty green and rusting out a bunch of hardware by the end from sweat! I swapped it for a Robin Melody in the late 80's and have stayed with super-strats since.

My love for Explorers has not faded as I've built a couple of bolt-on ones with strat-scale necks on them.

 

[Detroit1973]

A black & red sewries 10 out of the sears catalog.

 

[Joey B.]

A 1980's Kramer Pacer Imperial with the "beak" headstock and a Floyd Rose tremelo system.

 

[Strandberg Junkie]

1975. Had to beg my dad to co-sign on a store payment plan.

 

[Stradazone]

Charvel Star, picture of it in its current state, originally had a neck by Performance Guitar with a tele headstock

 

[Hamer95USA]

I bought a virtually brand new cherry sunburst 1981 Ibanez Destroyer II DT 400 with dot inlays from my friend's roommate in Foster City, CA around 1983 for $300. This Wiki page has the actual picture of what it looked like: Ibanez Destroyer II DT 400 I traded it away to Guitar Center in the mid 2000s to get myself a 1996 Gibson Les Paul Custom since I was moving away from pointy guitars. I kind of somewhat regret doing that now, but it was the one that got away from me.

 

[Ratou]

Gibson les paul studio in wine red bought new in 2008, replaced my squier strat. great guitar, still have it

 

[paulyc]

Ibanez PF230, a transparent black, 3 pickup, bolt on neck, gold hardware Les Paul copy. After that, a red G&L Rampage with a Kahler like Cantrell's.

 

[chris lykins]

Here's my 81 Rich Rich somewhere in France

 

[romanianreaper]

My first electric, and hard rock guitar was this monstrosity I got in mid 86'. Thankfully a friend wanted to trade his Ibanez Roadstar II for it, lol.

 

[Findthetone1]

My first electric, and hard rock guitar was this monstrosity I got in mid 86'. Thankfully a friend wanted to trade his Ibanez Roadstar II for it, lol.
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Holy hell, I had one too! Looked like this:

After that my first real rocker was an RG560. Wish I still had it sometimes

 

[Chris B]

My first electric, and hard rock guitar was this monstrosity I got in mid 86'. Thankfully a friend wanted to trade his Ibanez Roadstar II for it, lol.
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I had this exact guitar in white. It was a POS.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

No name tele that my brother took the neck from and stuck on a plywood body we painted black/white. It was a plywood " schenker" flying V and it sounded like absolute ass. High action. Not playable. But very smashable! Neither of us knew anything about guitars.

 

[guitarnate2000]

Mine was a Bentley Series 10 Charvel clone. standard strat trem. two months after I purchased it, the fingerboard came separated from the neck. local deal would not honor it so I was out 300 bucks. I joined FFA that year in school, borrowed the money from my parents to get a pig and feed. once it auctioned off in the spring I cleared exactly enough to purchase that guitar while all of my friends were playing Kramers.. talk about a shitty experience.. live and learn

 

[the rossness]

my old Peavey Wolfgang USA-