What is your oldest guitar?

[spawnofthesith]

Oldest by production would be my PRS custom 22 (2000) oldest I have is my '18 LP standard, purchased in 2020 (I entirely stopped playing guitar sometime in 2018 and sold off everything I used to have before reentering the fold shortly before covid)

 

[hemmelight]

'04 R0

This is the best-looking LP I've ever seen. Perfect finish / colour, awesome figuring, lovely dark rosewood board.

 

[Rock Chalk]

This is the best-looking LP I've ever seen. Perfect finish / colour, awesome figuring, lovely dark rosewood board.

Wow....thanks mang!

 

[norminal]

I’ve shown this already, but a 1993 Ibanez S540OL. It doesn’t get played, sits in a case, and is for nostalgia purposes only. All the others get played frequently and get the shit beat out of them.

 

[AutomationBias]

Oldest by production would be my PRS custom 22 (2000) oldest I have is my '18 LP standard, purchased in 2020 (I entirely stopped playing guitar sometime in 2018 and sold off everything I used to have before reentering the fold shortly before covid)

I had a Custom 24 with that finish in like 97 or 98. GREAT guitar.

 

[Zodiac]

2005 Gibson Firebird Studio

 

[mavrick102000]

2010 LP Gold Top.

Wish I still had my double cut Hondo from back in the 80's. Had the cream bobbin Dimarzio's in it. It was a great guitar considering how little I paid for it - although it seemed like a lot because - teenager.

 

[la szum]

I’d be down if he were local! Hell, I think if him and la szum were local we’d probably be roommates.

Haha! First thing we need to do is entrap that Iced Coffee Ghost who keeps spilling shit and lock his as up!

 

[la szum]

What a GREAT thread! I may have every post in it. So cool!

 

[la szum]

Longest owned guitar is an Acoustic of all things. Yamaha FG. Probably more
time on that than any other guitar I have owned. I think it's from around 1988
or so.

Longest owned Electric, and oldest Electric I own, is a 1995 PRS 22 Trem. Such
a great playing guitar, but with a stupid-ass Rotary Pickup selector.

 

[DrewJD82]

Haha! First thing we need to do is entrap that Iced Coffee Ghost who keeps spilling shit and lock his as up!

Apparently my coffee table came with some ghost repulsion abilities because it stopped with the ice coffee at least, however, that bastard has been showing up when I get shitfaced and just as I’m dozing off on the couch it’ll come tip my damn drink over in my lap. I’m gonna have my friend film it next time for proof, she’s seen it happen like 4x now herself.

 

[la szum]

Really need to get in on the groundfloor with this Ghost CoffeeTM

 

[la szum]

And why did I never think that Coffee Tables were not for feet or massive books full of nothing
but pictures, but are actuallly for catching Coffee. Duh?! So obvious now.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Longest owned guitar is an Acoustic of all things. Yamaha FG. Probably more
time on that than any other guitar I have owned. I think it's from around 1988
or so.

Longest owned Electric, and oldest Electric I own, is a 1995 PRS 22 Trem. Such
a great playing guitar, but with a stupid-ass Rotary Pickup selector.

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That's a beauty. Black with natural binding =

 

[la szum]

That's a beauty. Black with natural binding =

Thanks! It's pretty neat, because that natural binding is also the Maple top on it. They are
one and the same.

That damn 5 Way Rotary, though. Proves me to me that being different to be different is not
always a wise thing in life.

 

[Stratzrus]

That damn 5 Way Rotary, though. Proves me to me that being different to be different is not
always a wise thing in life.

When I was a music major in college there was a social imperative as a composer to be an innovator. One of the worst things you could say to one of us was "That's been done before."

Unfortunately that led to the creation of a bunch of absolute crap, stuff no one would want to listen to, just because it was different.

 

[Warmart]

Thanks! It's pretty neat, because that natural binding is also the Maple top on it. They are
one and the same.

That damn 5 Way Rotary, though. Proves me to me that being different to be different is not
always a wise thing in life.

Pop a 3-way toggle in there! I would! Beautiful guitar, btw

 

[JiveTurkey]

2005 Gibson Firebird Studio
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Firebirds are generally super underrepresented, imo. I love 'em

 

[HotRats]

'04 R0

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double cream humbuckers!

In my opinion LP with cream HB are the best looking. Few years ago I had these two.
The R8s and R7 I currently own I've decided to leave them stock.

 

[HotRats]

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My second oldest is my beat-to-hell 1970 ES-335. I bought it almost 30 years ago from the classifieds in the back of Vintage Guitar magazine.

wow man!