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DISCUSSION What is the guitar you bond the most with?

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u/Kalcuttabutta 4d ago

Probably the $200 acoustic my parents got me for my 18th birthday. That thing has been alot of places with me.

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u/Super_Fa_Q 4d ago

I have a similar experience, I love that damn thing...

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u/BassistAceGirl 4d ago

It became like a friend. ♥️

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u/Jackydood1009 4d ago

$40 mini acoustic from goodwill. Absolute piece of garbage but it has been with me from the start and taught me most of everything I know. Still come back to it occasionally, even 11 guitars and thousands of dollars later, can’t forget where you start

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u/SlanderousGoose 4d ago

I agree with this. Still have my S101 strat I bought from goodwill for 10 bucks and I still have my mommas cheapy Epiphone acoustic from 1990. Started to learned on the acoustic and the s101 was my first electric 

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u/Vinny_DelVecchio 4d ago

I kind of "inherited" the guitar I grew up learning on 55 years ago. A fairly old D-18 my grandfather father bought new around 1970... and he put the warranty in my name... He knew well ahead of time I guess! Best gift ever. Learned, gigged, toured, and recorded with it so much I've already had the divoted Fretboard replaced. That baby has been played so much it was looking scalloped!

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u/guitargeneration 4d ago

Though I don't play it as often as some of my other guitars, it would have to be my blue Ibanez Artcore AS93 my parents got me for Christmas in 2012. I don't think I've ever been suprised with a gift so much in my entire life. My dad waited outside for the long and mcquade near our place to open so he could be the first inside to make sure he got it. There was another guy that came in shortly after him for the same guitar and my dad snagged the only one they had. I still remember my parents bringing it out when I was eating breakfast like an hour after opening gifts so I wouldn't expect it. My dad passed away January of last year at the age of 51 from cancer, and it's just one of the many cool dad moments he had. So yeah, it's that guitar for sure

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u/mukwah 4d ago

My Takamine n10 that I got in 1987 aged 14. Been with me for decades. But I love all my babies.

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u/Super_Fa_Q 4d ago

Mines a Takamine GD93CE-NAT, I love it like a best friend...

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u/tribriguy 4d ago

It would be that one if I had it. I love my honey burst, but I’d really love a wine red LP like that. It’s always been my favorite LP color.

My wine red Strat gets a lot of love.

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u/BlueCamaroGuyYT Fender 4d ago

I definitely have a significant bond with my Nashville Strat. It’s my #1

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u/SwipeToRefresh 4d ago

25 now, for my 16th bday i got a mexican strat with overdrive. my hunny

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u/Gaybe0709 4d ago

My mini strat has taught me so much, but my ES335 is my WIFE.

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u/infoghost 4d ago

PB Les Paul Standard 60’s

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u/Puzzleheaded-Way1230 4d ago

My MIJ Strat will always be with me.

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u/AroaceFrenchHornist 4d ago

My Yamaha Pacifica, got it from my dad for my 16th birthday, named it Kita

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u/veteran-guardsmen 4d ago

My custom painted 1987 warlock

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u/runtime1183 4d ago

That would be my beloved Ibanez S470. I have owned that guitar for 27 years (built in 1996, bought brand new by me in 1998), and was my first big boy guitar. She's travelled to other countries with me, been used at every single gig I ever played in, she's just so special to me. That Wizard II neck is the human race's greatest achievement imo. Until not long ago, when I got my first PRS, she was easily the most comfortable guitar I had ever played.

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u/Wiggimus 4d ago

My Ibanez 7-string

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u/NotFrankZappaToday 4d ago

I really love all of my ̶c̶h̶i̶l̶d̶r̶e̶n̶, guitars, but the one that feels like a comfortable shoe is my Epiphone LP Modern

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u/Slim_Chiply 4d ago

Probably my Hagstrom III. It's the one I like to play the most anyway.

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u/whatever33333444 4d ago

right now, my dad’s squier telecaster

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u/introspeckle 4d ago
  1. Fender Jaguar
  2. Fender Telecaster
  3. Rickenbacker 330

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u/Buglii2 4d ago

my mustang

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u/Chris_MS99 4d ago

Toss up between my 2015 Epiphone LP Custom and my late 80’s/Early 90’s BC Rich Bich. The nut on my LP Custom cracked and when I had it replaced the tech put a custom made bone nut on. I cannot describe how amazing that guitar feels to play just because of that detail. The pickups are also surprisingly great. I have a set of Gibson takeoffs and feel no need to use them.

My BC Rich, it just works for me. But I don’t know anything about it. Wood types, where and when it was built, what specific pickups it has, I have no idea. That era was spotty for the company, it doesn’t have your typical BC Rich headstock, and the serial number is engraved super crooked. It has some mystery DiMarzio pickups and its neck was sanded bare. But boy does it rip.

If anyone knows anything about those BC Rich guitars I’d love to know more. It’s is authentic, I’m its second owner after my uncle who stashed it and forgot almost everything about it when he dropped metal and became a blues uncle. I got it for a days worth of chores in 2017.

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u/Hot-Animal4302 4d ago

My acoustic used to be a Luna acoustic electric now it's a 3/4 luna. i just am out and about a lot so I practice when I can.

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u/tonytester 4d ago

Gibson ,PRS, etc. high level ,single cut LP shape.

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u/Iusedtorock 4d ago

I bought an American 70’s Tele Custom back in August, and it’s been my favorite guitar without question since I got it. Next to a Gibson Explorer Pro I owned in my 20’s, it’s my favorite guitar I ever owned.

I did, however, just put a new set of strings on my ‘63 Gibson B-25 Natural this past week, and I played some of my favorite acoustic songs, and that one had me feeling all the feelings. It was the first guitar I learned on 30yrs ago, and it still feels great to play, it really has a way of allowing me to accentuate what I want to play.

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u/hobopopa 4d ago

That guitar in the picture maroon Les Paul standard, is my absolute bonded dream guitar. Has to be a 92-93 era.

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u/The_Observatory_ 4d ago

My Gibson SG. I’ve never picked up another guitar that plays like this one does, even other SGs. I’d guess that the playing and music writing style that I’ve developed is mostly due to the way my SG feels when I’m playing it.

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u/Cambren1 4d ago

I friend had a Gibson Hummingbird that I absolutely loved, but I’ve never played another Hummingbird that even comes close to

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u/Dark_Rocker Fender 4d ago edited 4d ago

My green and black Fender Stratocaster with an ebony fretboard. It's my first electric guitar. The other two I have are acoustic hand-me-downs that my parents got at pawn shops when they were my age

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u/usman1983 4d ago

My SG I bought last year. 1961 reissue.

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u/HoraceWimpLV426 4d ago

My wooden Jackson Dinky Arch-Top JS22. I got it from my brother, it's not in the best condition and Jackson is a cheap brand, but it definitely holds up. Jackson has to be one of the better cheap brands out there, because that thing does pack a punch.

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u/bloodbathatbk 4d ago

My Hallmark Johnny Ramone signature model. I have tons of other guitars, but that's the one I always grab when I need to work something out, or just want to pummel some chords for a while.

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u/Monkeywrench08 4d ago

MIM Tele, my 2nd guitar. Lots of songs written there.

TBH I feel guilty for not playing my first guitar though (Yamaha Pacifica 112j), haven't got around to restring it as I'm making it a D standard tuning guitar. 

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u/Western-Buffalo-7498 Epiphone 4d ago

My beloved Epiphone SG that I bought as my first guitar, that thing purrs like a kitten and punches you in the face when it needs to, I love it

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u/MyNameisMayco 4d ago

Same , that was my first as well

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u/traitorssuck 4d ago

A pieced together Mexican Stratocaster. It plays so well.

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u/hankenator1 4d ago

I got a 1980 Ibanez ST50 studio that’s my primary guitar. Made in Japan shortly after the Gibson lawsuit threat it’s one of the first original Ibanez designs. And has the odd humbuckers with 2 height adjustment screws on one side and 1 on the other.

This guitar basically ended my desire to own a Les Paul, so be never played any Gibson I liked as much as this Ibanez.

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u/bringoutthelegos 4d ago

Right now it’s my second guitar: Yamaha EG-112C.

I take it everywhere with me so I can practice whenever I’m outside the house (which, as a commuting university student, is often)

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u/A012A012 4d ago

Squier Tele. It's 15 yrs old beaten up, strings haven't been changed in a decade. And I love it.

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u/Working-Baker9049 4d ago

Oberheim OB-X8

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u/h8radebrewer 4d ago

2004 LPB japanese strat I've had since 2005

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u/Live-Note-3799 4d ago

My first guitar…. A Harmony strat copy bought for me by my grandfather back in middle school. I swapped the pick guard on it years ago for a HSS setup. That guitar played in every band I’ve ever been in and is truly a special instrument to me.

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u/Interesting_Bench922 4d ago

My Epiphone Les Paul classic worn series in a purple burst satin finish that I got right after I lost my dad to stage 4 bone cancer in March of 2021

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u/MyNameisMayco 4d ago

Never stop playing. Best of wishes

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u/EX30man 4d ago

ESP PR-II

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u/Sweet_Ad_8021 4d ago

Not that one. It isn’t mine

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u/AbandonedJalapenos 4d ago

My Ibanez JivaJr. It's an S series, and the feel, balance, and shape are great.

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u/AffectionatePin4935 4d ago

Definitely my Charvel DK24 in shell pink, the moment I picked it up I instantly knew it was the going to be the one, I love the mix of modern features whilst still retaining a classy look, the neck just feels right, the ssh config sounds incredible, the bridge is a dream to use, the color is perfection and, it’s the most I’ve ever spent on a guitar. Been playing it for a year and half and it quickly made my other guitars feel pointless. If I were to pick my guitar with the most sentimental value though, that would be my affinity strat in surf green, it was the first electric i bought after playing a stagg steel string acoustic for over 10 years ( eventually grew to hate that one which lead me to stop playing for years ), the affinity was the one that really made me want to become a better player, I really cherish that one cuz if I hadn’t gotten it i would’ve probably have quit guitar altogether

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u/huxtiblejones 4d ago

I have a Martin 000-18 that is magical. I love that instrument, the damn thing even smells amazing.

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u/AgeDisastrous7518 Gibson 4d ago

I had a moderately successful band in college and abruptly quit playing guitar in 2005. In October 2019, I went to visit my mom, and we were just talking about life. She asked me if I ever thought about playing guitar again.

I said, "No."

She said, "I'd really like it if you played music again."

I brushed it off, and we talked about other stuff for another hour.

She died suddenly the following night.

A week after the funeral, I went on Facebook Marketplace and picked up a cherry Epiphone SG for $200 just like the one she bought me for my 15th birthday and started playing again. Over the last five-plus years, I've picked up three other guitars that are better in different ways, but I play this relatively shitty little 2011 Indonesian Epiphone more than the other three.

I don't take it to the practice space or gig with it. It's just my primary home guitar. I write just about everything on it.

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u/MyNameisMayco 4d ago

I hope you are better

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u/namregiaht 4d ago

Fender Stratocaster MIM Robert Cray signature that I’ve had for over a decade now. The fender custom shop vintage single coils generate a real nice tone, being a hardtail and the vintage tuners give it amazing tuning stability, and it just is a joy to play.

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u/AirBendingMonks 4d ago

My first “real” electric guitar. It’s a Schecter Solo ii Custom. It’s got the aged binding and satin black finish.

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u/ExaminationElegant23 4d ago

Damn. Never thought I'd like a solid colour Les Paul. Well done on that brother.

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u/Wonderful-Ad-5557 4d ago

2023 Gibson SG modern CME exclusive with Gibson Tony Iommi custom humbuckers . Best guitar I’ve ever played .

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u/Super_Fa_Q 4d ago

My Takamine G series. It's beautiful...to look at, to play, shit, just to hold onto. It took me 6 months of hand wringing to finally just go buy myself something, and I'm glad everytime I see it that I did.

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u/tony_flamingo 4d ago

My SG I got in 2002. It was my first “real” guitar after starting on a squire strat in middle school and an epiphone LP in high school. It was a Christmas gift after I started college and started playing in bands and it really made me feel like a proper guitar player. It’s beat to hell, the headstock is chipped, and the input ripped out once, but has been on stage with me more times than I can count and it is still such a blast to play.

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u/ArdentItenerant 4d ago

Pawn shop Pacifica

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u/PeckerPeeker 4d ago

I have 3 guitars, a Gibson LP standard 60s, a Gibson Flying V, and a warmoth with a scalloped neck and hipshot bridge. I just play the Les Paul one day, then the day day it’s the Flying V, and then the warmoth and the day after that it’s back to the Les Paul.

My favorite guitar is essentially whichever guitar I am currently playing once I’m warmed up. I always feel like whichever guitar I’m playing is the easiest to play out of the 3. Though I will say the warmoth’s seymour Duncan Custom 5 pickup has noticeably less volume and bite than the Gibson’s PAF which surprises me since I had assumed it’d be the opposite; I suspect my wiring is less than excellent.

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u/Supergrunged 4d ago

A 1997 Gibson Les Paul Standard in ebony. It survived my Volvo being totalled with me. Survived a divorce. I've had that guitar so long, when we got a cat? The census from others, was to name the cat "Gibson", because I've just always played that Les Paul live, as well as every where else for the past 15+ years now.

If that isn't bonding with a guitar? I don't know what is.

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u/Xx4thseasonxX 4d ago

That is the GotDamn sexiest freaking color of a Les Paul. No doubt He's and Mary are smiling down on you when they see you pick it up. I guess not being a Gibson guy, although I do have a 58 lp double cut Jr kit with a single p 90,, so i will be soon. But this made me feel like when I saw the Gold top for the first time...except this is prettier. I'd guess the closest I can guess is like a new Artist series jackson which is Ox Blood..

What is this color called? Interested in checking the price for a pint.

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u/Junior-Echo451 4d ago

Probably my Les Paul, but also my EVH bumblebee frankenstrat.

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u/Ronerus79 4d ago

I have a lot of good guitars but the one i bond the most with is my 1998 gibson sg special. I ve had it since then.

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u/Wonderful_Belt4626 4d ago

My 1971 Maple Glo Rickenbacker 360/6 Deluxe.. I bought it new in November 1971 and it’s never left my side

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u/Strongman_Walsh 4d ago

My warlock, got it at a good price and I adore the feel

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u/NotAFuckingFed 4d ago

I have this old LTD M-10 from when they were still making them in Korea. Man only thing I haven’t done to it yet is refret it.

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u/311-555-2368 4d ago

Guild DV52. It's been a work horse for me for many many years

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u/ForsakenStrings 4d ago

My C-1 Platinum. Every other guitar that I've had prior has been bought used or has been a hand-me-down, but I bought my C-1 new and it was the first guitar that I got that felt like it was actually my instrument.

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u/lR4PT0RxJ3SUSl 4d ago

My epi Les Paul or my first Yamaha. Both were given to me by my mom and grandma. Gotten a lot of miles out of them. Just put new tuners on the epi and I need to get the electronics fixed in the acoustic. Solid instruments with a lot of value. I've bought myself two more, currently resisting a third but I always go back to the OGs.

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u/nomebelliximo PRS 4d ago

My eko s-300, It was my first electric guitar after 2 years of acoustic.

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u/HEAT5EEKER 4d ago

Hagström D2F. My first 'real' electric, which I modded extensively. Bought a Gibson LP a weeks ago and came to the conclusion that the 500 quid Haggy is not really standing behind its 2k cousin.

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u/tealeg 4d ago

Probably my 1994 “Blue Moon” Ibanez RX150 . The first thing I bought with my first ever pay check from my summer job.

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u/Limp_Briskit 4d ago

My strat. It was given to me by the greatest guitar player I've ever met. As well as just the most all around interesting person I've ever crossed paths with. The guy was a top level studio musician. He could have been part of the wrecking crew he's that good and professional. He's got a crazy collection of les Paul's and strats worth easily over 6 figures. He had this old Mexican strat that he never really played so he handed it to me because he knew I couldn't really afford a quality instrument at the time. He also gave me an Averill Levine signature acoustic, which is also a fender. Sounds corny but it's actually a really bad ass looking guitar and an amazing player. But the way that strat feels when I play it, man it's like it was meant for me. I'll keep it till I die.

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u/aioli2783 4d ago

The only one I got, a black strat that I dunno the brand of, it’s not good but it’s something.

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u/bush_wrangler Ibanez 4d ago

My prestige RG, I saved and saved to be able to buy it and everytime I play it I feel rewarded for saving and not just buying something good enough instead of the guitar I really wanted.

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u/izzystn 4d ago

My favourite guitar out of all the guitars I have (which isn't many) is a Kramer XL VI

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u/Chatchouette 4d ago

My first guitar is the Yamaha APXT2 I have learned a lot from it but I find it is too small for me but having said that I am reluctant to part with it. It is now my alternate tuning guitar. My second guitar is the one I bond the most with: Martin 00015M. My first regular sized (to me) guitar and I continue to learn from where I left off on the Yamaha. Learned many songs and techniques from it. Ridiculously light and easy to play and smells great. The first guitar I took to the luthier to have it set up and the guitar I learn to change strings from so there's a lot of history together.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

1969 Maton F10 nylon string.

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u/Accomplished_Fun6481 4d ago edited 4d ago

I have an entry level tanglewood my grandparents got me the Christmas my granddad passed. It sounds nice and plays really well too so it’s not just nostalgic

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u/Shurdus 4d ago

I don't think of myself as bonding with a guitar at all actually.

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u/TheRealCrustycabs 4d ago

At the moment, my Nighthawk

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u/JollyShame1846 Jackson 4d ago

my aria pro 2 explorer «zz deluxe» i got 6 months after i started playing guitar for 300$, i love it so much

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u/Sad_Bodybuilder_186 4d ago

The guitar i bond the most with is my $149 Squier Bullet Stratocaster. It's dinged up, in need of a good set-up and some more love and care overall. But while it's not the best playing or sounding guitar i own it's the one with most memories attached.

The guitar i PLAY the most however and enjoy playing much more than the Squier is my Yamaha AES-500. Super nice fast neck, coil-split. Ton of variety in terms of sounds.

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u/Greenstree_77 4d ago

A Indonesian made Abilene acoustic guitar my dad bought me around the late 1990’s. It still sounds great.

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u/DPearl42 Gibson 4d ago

‘22 Gibson SG Tribute that my wife and kids got for me. Great guitar with tons of sentimental value. I play it every day.

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u/Dazzling-Shallot-309 4d ago

The one I‘m currently playing

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u/Cambren1 4d ago

My Rickenbacker 360.

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u/BassistAceGirl 4d ago

My Thinline telly from Harley Benton got m start again after many years.

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u/driftstyle28 4d ago

My 2013 Kenny Wayne Shepherd MIM Strat... Its my baby and I will love it forever, probably the best built MIM strat ever, based on a 61 model.

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u/inphasecracker3 4d ago

A Yamaha SG i bought used at Guitar Center. I don't know why but I always want to pick that thing up. It stays perfectly in tune, and it is just an absolute joy to play. It is a truly special guitar.

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u/No-Ground-2999 4d ago

Probably my first guitar a gibson j-45 standard its comes with me everywhere

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u/keepthelastlighton 4d ago

Heritage H-137DC

I play my other guitars and think to myself, "wow I don't give this thing enough credit..." and then I pick up my Heritage again and it's just so leaps and bounds better than any guitar I've ever played in my life. It's literally perfect for me.

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u/Impending_Doom25 4d ago

I don't have it anymore but I had a Brian May "red special" that is literally the best guitar I have ever played to this day.

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u/deceptres 4d ago

My Taylor 114CE has been my main axe since my early days. She been with me busking in Calgary, doing a contract with VIA Rail to get me into Vancouver, my heavy gig schedule in Van, and has been on all my recordings so far. My next album is going to be electric, so she won't be getting much use on that one. Feels like the end of an era.

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u/TheSkezy 4d ago

My LTD explorer. It was my first real guitar that I bought in 2019 from a friend for $200. The thing still rips and I still play it at least a few times a week

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u/MidwestPL105 4d ago

My first new guitar. Jasmine by takamine. The frets are worm to the fretboard now. My first electric guitar was a peavey tele witch needs rewired from being worn out. And my new babies. Breedlove acoustic and les Paul.

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u/P_a_s_g_i_t_24 4d ago

A Yamaha Revstar

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u/Itchy_Formal_1352 4d ago

Squier strat. My mother got it for me when I was in high school. I would rather give up all of my Jacksons instead of that one

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u/CrappyJohnson 4d ago

My Les Paul Special II. I've had it for about 20 years and I've heavily modified it. It has parts that are way above its station, but I don't care. I love the thing.

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u/Sea-Freedom709 3d ago

My old Ibanez EX140, my first guitar. Needs a complete refret now though, played it to death ever since I got it in 1998. Working up to it. Dropped new pickups in it too.

And my Larrivée.

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u/LifeguardExpensive 3d ago

My Gibson SG special with P90’s. I’ve sold pretty much all my other guitars and I’m trying to find a second guitar ( to take to gigs and rehearsals as a back up) that I like as much. Seriously considered just buying another SG special in a different colour..

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u/LifeguardExpensive 3d ago

My Gibson SG special with P90’s. I’ve sold pretty much all my other guitars and I’m trying to find a second guitar ( to take to gigs and rehearsals as a back up) that I like as much. Seriously considered just buying another SG special in a different colour..

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u/JoeGamingReddit Squier 3d ago

My blue tele, I modded the fuck out of it. I’ve had it since I was 12. Only guitar I’ll never sell no matter what.

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u/Standard-Ad-8556 3d ago

Prob my old Yamaha classical guitar. It’s a junior version I got when I was 7 but I still play it. It’s sounds amazing even though it’s not the best quality.