The first guitar you really bonded with?

bloodandtears

FelineGuitars said:

Possibly my Japanese Charvel Model 2 from 1986 (although I liked both The Ibanez Iceman and the Aria XX Flying V I had)

That poor Charvel got so abused that there was nothing left of the body in the end, however I do still have it with a new body on it now....and a refret too!

This is gorgeous...

AndyR

A Westone Thunder 1A, bought new in 1981. It was my third electric, and first one that was reliable. I also had one of the first Rainbow 1 "335-a-likes" that came into the country.

I sold the Rainbow to a young guy with small fingers in the late 90s. The Thunder is with a nephew at the moment. I occasionally get nostalgic, but probably won't make any attempt to get it back.

I've pretty much bonded with every guitar I've touched since then...

ToneControl

Also a guitar I still own:

I got my first playable electric at 19 (Ibanez Blazer for £150), it was stolen  18 months later, after which luck returned and I got my first  excellent guitar, my only excellent one for  20 years really.

I had a bit of birthday money, and answered an ad in the back of a guitar mag

Basically a chap down south (Nick Beer - anyone heard of him?)  had built  2  Dire straits strat clones from  reissue parts from Chandler. One was spare. Or a GAS  casualty:   ESP mahogany body,  ESP62 neck, schallers,  SD  staggered pups,  anodised aluminium scratchplate, etc, etc. This was in the 80s, when ESP made  strat clone parts.
he had all the receipts,  about £500, advert was for £110, and the chap let me have it for £95, and threw in a trem , which I had fitted at A1 in Manchester.

Anyway, it's had various pickups, ended up with a Dave Gilmour EMG set. Not everyone's think, but  I like them a lot
The trem was always stiff, which I know realised I prefer, it feels more like a tremless guitar until you need to bend  the trem 
It still rarely goes out of tune, and still plays  like a  £2k guitar in today's money