The very first electric guitar you ever owned, how good or how crap ?

Kebabkid

I think mine was a goody and I gigged it, eventually,once I was ready. It was 1980

It was a black Westbury Standard with cream  Dimarzio Super Distortion pickups.
Neil McDonald of one-time Nightingale basses company did a superb set up on it.

I should never have sold it

cpcompany

An Axe super strat shaped guitar. Parents got iir as a Christmas present from Grott Guitars in Newcastle. It was absolutely terrible mind

chromatuna

Utter Crap! I was around 15 in 1975 and bought a Zenta weird strat kind of thing from a local shop with a couple of old guys working there - organs, accordions, that kind of thing - I had no one to advise me and it was truly horrible, horrible old sales guys. Followed it with a Columbus SG which was reasonable. I think it looked like this one...

http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=62611

Pickups look like gold foils....

Jonathangus

Not too bad for a first guitar, I guess (to think I used to drool over the Marlin Sidewinder!)

Korean Squier Strat, purchased for £169 in 1988.  Currently resides in the living room as my 'pick up and noodle in front of the TV' guitar.  Shielded the cavity and scratchplate with kitchen foil.  Very skinny neck, grooves in the first few frets, but it's my first guitar and it's going nowhere.

Floof

Marlin Sidewinder. Wonky frets, twist in the neck.

Not at all good. 

NPP

mine was a Marathon, a black HSS superstrat thing with a Kahler trem bought in what was then West Germany in the mid-80s. Everything about it was shit - plywood body, tone-killing Kahler, shit pickups, tone-killing neck that when I put it on a different body proved that it was truly tone-killing. 

It motivated me to save up for a proper instrument - if you can call a late 70s Fender Strat a proper guitar but I guess mine is, I stuck with it and a few pickup and hardware swaps later, and stripped of its poly finish it is still my main guitar. Choice for lefties was always a little limited. 

koneguitarist

Mine was a Sunbro strat copy in blonde but resprayed it black (amongst other colours) and fitted a Gibson Dirty Fingers pickup in the neck position, still not sure why? 
Good guitar though.

Chris_J

mburekenge said:

Marlin. Nuff said.

Marlin Sidewinder here too!

thermionic

scrumhalf said:

One of these:

http://xelectrical.com/images/5107.jpg

Beyond crap.

I had the same, £25 from a pawn shop in Shotton. Yes it was crap, but I thought it was brilliant at the time. I didn't even have an amp for a few months, but I used to plug it in to my parents' 1960s radiogram. Amazing I stuck with it really, but here we are!

About a year later, my 16th birthday coincided with my (rather good) O-level results, and relatives kept giving me cards with fivers and tenners in them, which I spent in Andy's Guitar Workshop in Denmark Street on one of these:

https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/10483651-e9a0-4b39-b212-a48900c35580/f0cc503b-3d28-4a2e-b034-aabdf5b05c7b/original.jpg

Bolt on neck and a bent-ply top, but still a very nice guitar that served me well for the following five years.

MartinB

I had a '92 Korean Squier Strat.  As far as I can remember the neck was OK, but the pickups were awful microphonic things, the tuners were dodgy, one of the pots fell apart and the body was plywood which showed the laminations through the finish after a couple of years and cracked at the neck pocket.  This blog remembers 1992 as the year when they got a bit crap, and if mine was indicative then they may be right.  https://planetbotch.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-1992-squier-mik-stratocaster.html

MartinB

I had a '92 Korean Squier Strat.  As far as I can remember the neck was OK, but the pickups were awful microphonic things, the tuners were dodgy, one of the pots fell apart and the body was plywood which showed the laminations through the finish after a couple of years and cracked at the neck pocket.  This blog remembers 1992 as the year when they got a bit crap, and if mine was indicative then they may be right.  https://planetbotch.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-1992-squier-mik-stratocaster.html

richardhomer

CSL Telecaster Custom (‘Keef’ style) copy in 1975. Really cool first electric - very playable.

Rox

A Satellite Les Paul copy.  Was it any good?  It was a Satellite Les Paul copy, so... er... no.

Limehouse_Blues

Of all these first real six strings I'm wondering how many, if any, were bought at the five and dime?

lasermonkey

Mine was a mid-60s Kawai S-170 electric which my uncle gave me shortly before he died. It's vaguely offset in shape and has a neck like a baseball bat (those of you who describe old Gibson necks this way have no idea!) and pickups that are microphonic as hell, but it sounds amazing.
i still have it.

AlexC

A White Hohner Strat. It was fine as at it went. But I was twelve so Lord knows what I'd think of it now. Anyway, I loved it at the time. Think I sold it and 'upgraded' to a Red Columbus which was Tele shaped with 2 humbuckers and a pointy headstock. I would imagine those things have been rounded up by the Taste Police and buried in concrete by now.

mynamesnotbob

It was a black Sunn Mustang - it was OK actually and did the job, I swapped it for an air rifle with a mate. I was mainly a bass player, so it was just for messing about and writing - it became a parts donor as I made a guitar for my Tech GCSE, so I still have the parts in the house but sitting my first built guitar made of oak IIRC

flyingv

Columbus Les Paul about 1975

viz

scrumhalf said:

One of these:

http://xelectrical.com/images/5107.jpg

Beyond crap.

I've got one of those. Surprisingly difficult to get to keep alight after the lighter fluid's burnt off. 

artinski

A 2003 Framus Renegade Custom. Telecaster style guitar. Veeery nice. Swamp-esh body, ovangkol neck, ebony fretboard, MOP-inlays. Locking tuners. Seymore Duncan PUs: 59 at neck position, Jeff Beck at bridge position. I loved it. I sold it. I regret it.