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I need to dig out a photo of me playing it when I was 14 wearing some spectacularly bad 80s clothes.
I do still have my first good guitar, a 1985 Japanese Squier Tele. I upgraded the bridge pickup to a Smit, and recently had the frets dressed by @miserneil.
I don't regret parting with any of the guitars that I've moved on.
My very first black Applause stratocaster had arrived back in the local shop for sale at the same price I bought it for privately some years earlier.
For old times sake I gave it a try and found I felt the same with it. Same reasons for just leaving it for someone else. I had moved on to better guitars at that point anyway.
My first guitar was a used Tele-shaped Kay, it was awful. - Wouldn't buy it.
My second was a new Les Paul-shaped Hondo, it wasn't much better. - Wouldn't buy it.
My third was a new 1983 US Telecaster in cherry sunburst, maple neck/board, white scratchplate. If I had the money I might well buy that one, it was lovely.
The only one I reeaallly regret is my first nice bass. Sold it in May this year after a long and hard struggle with myself, but told him if he ever wanted to get rid I'd have it back. Twat sold it on ebay four days later for 400 more than I let him have it without so much as a twitter to let me know he was putting it up. There's no helping some people.
It's Here!
And...
It's not 'mine'.
But I don't actually care because it immediately felt like 'home' and I completely love it.
It needed a damn good clean-up, new strings and a bit of a setup but it plays really nicely. Call me sentimental but it really does feel like getting an old friend back.
So it's the same model, same colour, but not your actual guitar?
I bought an old Hamer Special to try to "recreate" my first good guitar, a 1980 one I'd sort of butchered and fitted with a Kahler. But when I actually got it the thrill was gone, it's a bit tatty, too heavy and the neck's too thin (which sounds a bit like I'm paraphrasing the lyrics of "Oh Well").
I don't know how many of these came into the country in the 80s but I doubt it was many in this spec and colour. I've been keeping my eye out for one for at least 15 years and this is the first I've seen in all that time.
Apart from having a slightly less figured piece of wood for the neck than I remember my old one had, it's very easy to forget that it's actually a different guitar - it feels identical - and it's now 'my Aria'. This one will certainly not be going the same way as the first one...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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My foolish decision to sell my Squier Telecaster Custom ii (with the P90’s) is one that still causes me upset. I even sanded a forearm contour onto it. Like an idiot I gave up the chance to buy it back off a guy on one of the Facebook groups. In desperation, I have bought 2 of the same model that just weren’t ‘the one ‘ since. Oh I’d love it back
Playing with it over the weekend two things occurred:
1 Mrs Fred commented that it sounded really good and sounded like a bell. Interesting that a non musician would use a term that often gets used by guitar players to describe a nice guitar tone.
2. I started putting my right hand pinky on the face of the guitar when playing faster alternate picking passages. I haven't done that since I had the original one. That's some pretty ancient muscle memory at work there... Weird.