What is your oldest guitar?

[Devin]

I have 3 that are just 1 year apart from each other but my oldest is my 1989 Hamer USA Californian

 

[Los-D]

Donated this one a few years back but it was my first guitar (had it for 25 years). It is a Harmony Nylon 173 (I think) from early to mid-sixties. Had it refinished black because, why not (it was beat to heck before that).

 

[stonge]

some old things - 1946 Gibson L7, 1950ish Gibson L48, and 1950 Gibson L7 with original Ted McCarty pickup. The 46 is a beater barely holding together but the notes come out of that thing like gunshots. As a friend said "that guitar has no indoor voice" lol.

 

[joezlo]

Good point.

3 of my guitars show up in this vid, including Wolfie - the Stock Peavey.

 

[murphy brown]

My oldest is a Fender Wildwood II acoustic from the 1960s.
The one I've had longest is an Electra Les Paul Custom copy from 1971.

We'd love to see and hear it.

 

[gearJunkie]

1992 Steinberger GM7TA

 

[Eagle]

1992 Steinberger GM7TA

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Big fan of Steinberger.

 

[gearJunkie]

Big fan of Steinberger.

This one is kinda of interesting in that this model came out of Gibson's Nashville plant, but instead of a serial number starting with TN# it has a Newburgh, NY serial starting with N#.

 

[unix-guy]

I have a number of 1987 and 1988 Ibanez S-series and P-series guitars... But I also have a 1986 Ibanez Proline and a 1986 Ibanez RS430.

 

[Eagle]

This one is kinda of interesting in that this model came out of Gibson's Nashville plant, but instead of a serial number starting with TN# it has a Newburgh, NY serial starting with N#.
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They took a number of necks with them so there is a cross over.

 

[AFKAEjay]

1950 Gibson ES150. It's both my oldest and longest-owned (since 1976) guitar.

I own a sibeling…175 from the same year.

Longest in possession is a MIJ strat I got in 90/91

 

[FuzzyAce]

I own a sibeling…175 from the same year.
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Longest in possession is a MIJ strat I got in 90/91

Beautiful.
An old bandmate of mine owned a '59 ES175 that was .

 

[AFKAEjay]

Beautiful.
An old bandmate of mine owned a '59 ES175 that was .

Yeah, great area for 175s. Build much lighter then they did in the 80s…so much more resonant.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Yeah, great area for 175s. Build much lighter then they did in the 80s…so much more resonant.

Yep, I was surprised how light it was. Wonderful guitar. Enjoy the one you have!

 

[LScottK]

My current oldest guitar is a 1980 Ibanez LR10 (Lee Ritenour signature guitar of a 335). Pic is below. At one time I had a 1967 Gibson ES-345. I modded this guitar by replacing the trapeze tail piece with a stop-bar tail piece. All these years later, I still have the tail piece. In my defense for "ruining" a now vintage instrument, I had the work done in the mid 70s when a '67 was not as valuable as it is today.

Here is a pic of the LR10: