I totally relate to this. 2 years ago, my wife had pro luthier put the headstock back on and fix the fretboard of my Ibanez JTK1 which was my first serious guitar. I remember crying when I broke it. It had been sitting in a case for a long time. When I got it back I was ridiculously excited, and still am, every time I pick it up. Glad you got yours back in action.
It's awesome that even cheap gear can still be good these days, or even the 90s. When I started playing in the 70s my first guitar was a no-name bolt-on Les Paul copy made of plywood that my dad got from some music store in Cleveland. From what I remember it had hideous action & playability and it came in one of those old cases that were not quite hard and not quite soft. It was like tolex covered cardboard lol.
That is really cool that you have a guitar like that, your first really good electric from back in the day.....I have my 2 guitars I started on from when I was around 16 still on my guitar rack next to my many other guitars and I will be 57 in August, I will never get rid of them, because they are like yours highly sentimental and meaningful in my guitar life, they are a Yamaha RGX110 white single humbucker super strat style, and a Lotus Braziliburst Les Paul style both modded over the years multiple times. I am really glad I was able to met you in person at Sweetwater, you are a truly genuine person :)
A few years ago I took my first guitar, a sticker bombed plywood strat copy and went to town on it. I hadn't played it since the 90's basically but after going through and modifying a bunch of other high end guitars I realised there was no reason the strat couldn't be a great guitar. Took it to a luthier for a full fret level and crowning. Swapped in Locking Sperzel's, highwood saddles, brass block, new springs, finessed the bridge plate... Bare knuckle sinner set with three individual volumes which I ended up swapping for an EMG 81/S HS setup with a single neck volume control and a modified 5 way switch setup... Man, it's probably my favourite guitar. Despite my PRS, Fender, Gibson's etc, with no other guitar do I have the connection like I do with that one. Love it.
Thanks for sharing, Fluff. I so regret not keeping my first electric guitar. It was a Peavey T-25, and I let it go at a garage sale around 2005 because, at the time, I never thought I would want to play guitar again. Little did I know, scars would heal and the desire to play & create would come back!
This is a really cool video. I dig the sentiment. To see them both together and how far you've come. It's a tangible reminder of how hard work pays off.
I just fixed up my first electric guitar myself. It’s a 1995 Epiphone SG i bought new when i turned 14. new nut New pots New condensers New jack New pickups ( gibson p 496r / p 500 ) Fretjob done by myself (thx to stewmac) First fiddle is always something special. I just love mine again.
Love this story! A Squier HM (heavy metal🤘) Series bass was my first real bass back in 1992. It has been in bad shape & nearly unplayable for the the better part of 25 years with worn out frets and barely functioning electronics. This video might be the inspiration needed to re-fret it and drop in a set of EMG Frank Bello signature PJ pickups.
I just recently got my first guitar a few weeks ago as a birthday present to myself and its a black Strat just like yours and I can already tell how sentimental this is gonna be for me. Thanks for sharing your story!
Straight Faced! I love seeing that you had one of their stickers slapped on this gem. I loved that band and hardly ever hear anyone reference them in any capacity. Great video, always love seeing peoples first guitars and how they fix them up. I feel like 85% of peoples first electric is a strat that’s filled with stickers, as was mine. I have so much sentimental love for that!!
My first guitar was a beat-up 1994 USA Peavey Predator that I got out of a pawn shop for Christmas when I was 12. The way it was beat up with absolutely sad and I played it and played it and played it until it could no longer be used and after I played my second guitar for a while I decided that I should get the old one restored and the grandparents agreed to take it to somebody they needed to restore it. So we restomodded it leaving as much soul intact as we could while improving the playing experience.
Thanks Fluff - this gives me a lot to look forward to. 28 years old struggling to pay the bills, but working towards where you're at with things every day. :)
Man I remember first seeing this guitar on the digitech drop pedal demo you did about 8 years ago. Granted I saw that video in 2018 first. Love seeing it back. Sounds awesome
Yup - still have my first. A late 80's, plywood, Washburn super-strat. It got a big refurb a few years back - it needed a new neck and got a sparkly paintjob in the process. I do need to give it another, proper setup though as it's been a bit neglected (and I dislike setting up Floyd Rose trems) - but this video is inspiring me to get out the tools and get hep back into her best shape for some riffage.
Been through a similar experience, played my first good guitar, a 79 strat, into the ground, got it refretted a couple of years ago, brought part of my childhood back!
I recently just dug out my first guitar, an old Washburn WR series that I got about 20 years ago, and I've been thinking of doing this same thing. The pickups are shot, so replace the pups, do a full re-wire job, maybe re-fret and have someone really give some TLC to the neck. I'd love to have that thing back in working order.
Awesome story man. My first electric was a Ibanez RX20. It was red with a white pick guard. I got it for Christmas when I was 14. I wish I still had it to go with my collection now and the memories. I traded it years later (1997)for a Ibanez SG bass to join my first band when I was 17 lol.
I remember watching your channel when I was first getting into recording about 7 or 8 years ago, and thinking that sticker bombed strat was the sickest guitar ever. Very cool you decided to fix her up! These days my main guitar’s a Fernandes strat with a humbucker and a sustainer. Over V’s haha
Damn, that guitar sounds good AND looks good! There's something about your first guitar and keeping it close by/giving it some love once in awhile. Glad you fixed it up, Fluff!
Ya man, when I went to gear fest a couple years ago, I took one of my guitars, and had them plek it, and do a full set up. New hand cut nut, and what was cool is they let you watch it get done. Totally killer. I’ve had like 5 guitars done with them.
Awesome story. I also still have my first guitar, also a MIM Fender strat but it's a '91. Made minor cosmetic adjsutments (black pearl pickguard, straplocks) but it definitely needs new frets and maybe new pickups. it was my only guitar for about 20 years.
I still have my first decent guitar, a ‘67 or ‘68 Gibson SG junior. The only original parts are the body, neck and knobs. It’s on its 2nd set of frets, 2nd tuners, 3rd or 4th big scratch plate, 4th bridge and 6th or 7th pickup and pot arrangement. And as you might expect it got a (lovely white) refinish along the way. Plays better than ever but won’t fetch the £4,500 some chumps are asking on eBay for a good condition example with the cardboard case.
Your story on this strat is similar to my first bass. Squier P bass that has had the neck replaced twice, routed out a place for a J pup, put a set of Seymour Duncan 1/4 PJs in there, and put a hipshot D-tuner on there, and it plays and sounds like a dream now.
That's awesome, dude. Sounds like we started playing around the same time. I got my first guitar in April of '95, 2 months after I turned 15. Don't have that one anymore, but I do have one from that early trading lineage. It's a beat up, sticker covered '98 Ibanez GAX70. I got it when I was 18, and upgraded the pickups to the current DiMarzio Evolution & PAF Pro about a year later. It's the first guitar I ever had that had humbuckers. I used that guitar for shows with every band I've been in, and it's on a lot of my recordings. I named him Hot Rod because he kinda looks like a beat up ol' race car that ain't gonna do much, but plug it in and it'll change your mind quickly.
I recently just restored my 1st guitar as well. An old Korean made Ibanez RG from 2003. Not a very valuable guitar to anyone but me lol. Had the frets dressed, blocked the trem, and swapped the pickups for for Dimarzios. Still not the most comfy guitar I have, but at least it’s playable again, sounds better, and gives me a warm feeling when I look at it 😂
I have the exact same journey with my Squier from 1990...body only is original...it's a really awesome guitar now and it gives my USA Strat a run for its money
I miss the days when you could get a Mexican Fender for $299. Cool guitar man. I sold my first guitar to my friend/bandmate, a sunburst Samick Strat copy. He upgradded the pickups, redid the paint job to color changing metallic paint (greens, blues, purple) and loves that guitar. I got an Ibanez RG220B, which I still have, along with 3 other RGs now.
made me want to pick up my first guitar (which is also a fender strat ) thanks for reminding me of when i started to play. can't believe is been 24 years already. cheers
I have 2005 Epiphone Les Paul that's been through it. would love to have it worked on and change the pickups. It's been a road warrior. Even though it's a cheap guitar it did way better than I ever expected. Needs love love put back into it.
I also have a Mexi Fender Strat that I've had since I was 14/15. My dad fixed it up years and years ago but it's been in storage for probably 15 years now and seeing this video kind of makes me want to pull it out and get it into playable shape.
I think all guys that were born in the late 70s early 80s have this guitar. A couple years ago I did something similar for my old squire that I bought at a pawn shop in 1994. New neck, electronics, full pro set up. It's currently one of my better playing guitars.
I just hotrodded my old MIM strat I got when I was 12. (Im 31 one). Love the guitar, but thought it could use some new features. Got new hardware, bone nut, nice locking tuners, lollar 64 Pups, US jack, new bridge/trem. neck and frets are nice and worn
I still have my beat up Epiphone Les Paul Goth, that I got when I started to learn. Never gonna get rid of it. Love to see the strat getting some TLC. 🤘
Never really been a Strat guy personally, but my ex-guitarist in our 90's punk band "30 Deep" played a Mexi Fender Strat on tour w/ his original Yamaha Pacifica as backup. Both actually had the same single coil sized bridge humbucker as yours does now coincidentally. Noticing that kinda got me in the feelz just now : ) Thanx! Ha! Anyway, that said? I'd freakin love to get myself a decent Squier Strat, mod it w/ the Corgan Lace p/u set, and get my Siamese Dream on thru my EHX BMP Deluxe! I've become a shameless Squier fanboy over the past two decade ever since getting my VM Jag bass HB Special. My current #2 player is a 2014 (Alder/Rosewood) Affinity Jazzmaster HH with Grover tuners. Those were stupid bang for the buck guitars IMO. I later got a second 2017 (poplar/laurel) one, but it didn't have the same mojo so I eventually sold it. Am I oversharing again?!😅 Yeah... I do that.🙄 Awesome video as always Ryan! Cheers amigo! ✌🤟🖖
I can relate I have my first guitar also a squier strat. Atm just the body remains in a case right now sadly. Frets were toast and truss rod went on it. I need to get a new neck at some point love to have it playing again!
That is sick bro! I'm in the process of rebuilding it's bittersweet to see it change but I'm excited to put it all back together and give it the playtime like it deserves again 🤘
I still have my first Mexican Strat! Thank you for inspiring me to dig it out and give it some love! I'm hoping that I can give it to my niece one day :)
Nice man, my first electric guitar was junk that wasn't worth saving... same with the 2nd and the third... until my 4th in 1996 and I still have that beast sitting here in perfect playable condition :D
Are you playing in "Fu Manchu" in 1997 ??!!!! ahah !!!! Everybody should keep his first guitar! I still got my Korean Neon Yellow SL - STD 3 "Aria Pro II" from 1989. I turned it Tiger Stripe recently, and put some tlc in it !!
I grew up in a really poor family and i always wanted an electric guitar since my 11 years old but my parents couldn't afford one. So i made a promise that with my first pay check i would by one. I played one crappy acoustic for years and from time to time my best friend electric. I was 19 when i got my first pay check and on the exact same day i bought one ibanez art 125 for 450€. Now, almost 15 years later, i have 5 guitars and way more expensive but my first one it's still and it always be my first love. I mode it a bit. Changed the pickups ( emg james hetfield signature) the knobs etc etc. Don't know... It feels like home.
If I do anything with my sticker guitar, it's going to be a nice satin clear coat when it's finally full - the fretwork is going strong ('99 Ibby AX7521). My first electric guitar was destroyed and burned/lost. I replaced it with one still in rebuild that fits perfectly in the old case, because it's the previous model that's better broken than my new one was new. Q. Models A. They both cost 200 bucks each: brand new Ibanez Roadstar II RS135 in Comet Blue with fulcrum trem (destroyed) well loved Ibanez Blazer BL200 in natural ash with Kahler (bought working and killer but I broke/rebroke/broke again the pickguard/wiring into pieces with a few drunken stumbles in my younger rampages, as the jack is literally attached to the pickguard - design fail)
I started playing in 94 - my first electric was a brand new Jackson Performer PS2 (the one with 24 frets and a vintage trem). I swapped it for an Encore guitar a year later and it's impossible to find them now :(
cool, i'm in the process of resurrecting my first sticker covered squier strat (96). replaced the broken pickup, but turns out its wound differently and so i gotta get other 2 that match it to get the expected strat like tones...also going to drop in new switches and wiring because the old switches and pots got fucked from when i stomped on it at a show once. guess i wasn't kurt cobain after all, lolz. anyways, yeah sentimental guitars!
Cool story fluff🤘🤘 Wish I had my first real guitar, I bought one I found on eBay years ago ( it’s still in storage) need to paint it canary yellow still😂😂
Awesome video…I also started on a mid nineties Mexican strat that has been in storage to the point of being unplayable, would be fun to resurrect it as well
When my Dad died back in January I went back to the UK for the first time since the “biological event” and closed out his retirement bungalow. This gave me the opportunity to retrieve the first guitar I ever bought with my own earned cash, a late ‘60’s to early ‘70’s Antoria Soundmaster ES-330 type object that I bought from a school mate for £15 in 1977. I had left it at my parent’s place when I moved out so I would always have a guitar to play when I visited, plus my Dad still played a bit at that time. Well, full confession. I taught him just enough so that he could accompany himself on simple country tunes in his pro act so that I didn’t have to! Anyhow. It had a bolt-on neck. So I thought it would be no problem to take the neck off and bring it back packed in a suitcase. Yeah. At some point prior to me acquiring it the neck had been epoxied in place. Of course I didn’t discover this fact until I had removed two neck screws and snapped a third trying to get it out. I ended up snapping out the fourth and thought “No way back from here”, before literally ripping the neck out of the pocket. Well at least it fitted into the suitcase. When I got it back to Malaysia my guitar tech friend who does rescue jobs week in week out took one look at it and said “Not even the worst one I have in this week”, and got it playing again for a couple of hundred bucks plus. Which reminds me. I really ought to do a video with it…
Ugh… I lost my first guitar to a fire. 😕 it was on loan to someone and luckily they were okay but, my harmony strat copy from 96’ is gone. Wish I still had it because I actually know how to work on guitars now.
I'm pretty sure that is my red Strat in the Plek machine from your video. It's possible it wasn't, but odds are high since I had it done twice in the last month. First the time they missed a few frets and the last time the nut was cut too low and it buzzed open, so I sent it back. :(
It's not specific to your video but over time I've noticed I judge tone better with metal distortion. It boosts everything so much the slightlest poorness or the subtle virtues in tone are highlighted.
I totally relate to this. 2 years ago, my wife had pro luthier put the headstock back on and fix the fretboard of my Ibanez JTK1 which was my first serious guitar. I remember crying when I broke it. It had been sitting in a case for a long time. When I got it back I was ridiculously excited, and still am, every time I pick it up. Glad you got yours back in action.
It's awesome that even cheap gear can still be good these days, or even the 90s. When I started playing in the 70s my first guitar was a no-name bolt-on Les Paul copy made of plywood that my dad got from some music store in Cleveland. From what I remember it had hideous action & playability and it came in one of those old cases that were not quite hard and not quite soft. It was like tolex covered cardboard lol.
:) the two guitars on the rack together. Warms my heart too.
That is really cool that you have a guitar like that, your first really good electric from back in the day.....I have my 2 guitars I started on from when I was around 16 still on my guitar rack next to my many other guitars and I will be 57 in August, I will never get rid of them, because they are like yours highly sentimental and meaningful in my guitar life, they are a Yamaha RGX110 white single humbucker super strat style, and a Lotus Braziliburst Les Paul style both modded over the years multiple times. I am really glad I was able to met you in person at Sweetwater, you are a truly genuine person :)
that's the tightest neck pickup I've ever heard
niceeeee
A few years ago I took my first guitar, a sticker bombed plywood strat copy and went to town on it. I hadn't played it since the 90's basically but after going through and modifying a bunch of other high end guitars I realised there was no reason the strat couldn't be a great guitar. Took it to a luthier for a full fret level and crowning. Swapped in Locking Sperzel's, highwood saddles, brass block, new springs, finessed the bridge plate... Bare knuckle sinner set with three individual volumes which I ended up swapping for an EMG 81/S HS setup with a single neck volume control and a modified 5 way switch setup...
Man, it's probably my favourite guitar. Despite my PRS, Fender, Gibson's etc, with no other guitar do I have the connection like I do with that one. Love it.
Thanks for sharing, Fluff. I so regret not keeping my first electric guitar. It was a Peavey T-25, and I let it go at a garage sale around 2005 because, at the time, I never thought I would want to play guitar again. Little did I know, scars would heal and the desire to play & create would come back!
This is a really cool video. I dig the sentiment. To see them both together and how far you've come. It's a tangible reminder of how hard work pays off.
I just fixed up my first electric guitar myself. It’s a 1995 Epiphone SG i bought new when i turned 14.
new nut
New pots
New condensers
New jack
New pickups ( gibson p 496r / p 500 )
Fretjob done by myself (thx to stewmac)
First fiddle is always something special. I just love mine again.
Thanks for this. It's always nice to see a musician who has that sentimental link to the gear they cut their teeth on.
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6:33 a JB Jr in the BRIDGE. Its is nice to revisit old friends, I refretted my own 1st guitar recently and am really enjoying it...again
Love this story! A Squier HM (heavy metal🤘) Series bass was my first real bass back in 1992. It has been in bad shape & nearly unplayable for the the better part of 25 years with worn out frets and barely functioning electronics. This video might be the inspiration needed to re-fret it and drop in a set of EMG Frank Bello signature PJ pickups.
I just recently got my first guitar a few weeks ago as a birthday present to myself and its a black Strat just like yours and I can already tell how sentimental this is gonna be for me. Thanks for sharing your story!
That Strung Out sticker. Man, those were some great days for punk.
Straight Faced! I love seeing that you had one of their stickers slapped on this gem. I loved that band and hardly ever hear anyone reference them in any capacity. Great video, always love seeing peoples first guitars and how they fix them up. I feel like 85% of peoples first electric is a strat that’s filled with stickers, as was mine. I have so much sentimental love for that!!
It's about time you show some love to your strat bro. I love the pickups that are in it.
My first guitar was a beat-up 1994 USA Peavey Predator that I got out of a pawn shop for Christmas when I was 12. The way it was beat up with absolutely sad and I played it and played it and played it until it could no longer be used and after I played my second guitar for a while I decided that I should get the old one restored and the grandparents agreed to take it to somebody they needed to restore it. So we restomodded it leaving as much soul intact as we could while improving the playing experience.
why not put a replacement red lace sensor? lace might have hooked you up
Thanks Fluff - this gives me a lot to look forward to. 28 years old struggling to pay the bills, but working towards where you're at with things every day. :)
Man I remember first seeing this guitar on the digitech drop pedal demo you did about 8 years ago. Granted I saw that video in 2018 first. Love seeing it back. Sounds awesome
I still have my first real ‘93 strat deluxe plus. Sentimental guitar to me too! Got to love the og guitars!
Yup - still have my first. A late 80's, plywood, Washburn super-strat.
It got a big refurb a few years back - it needed a new neck and got a sparkly paintjob in the process.
I do need to give it another, proper setup though as it's been a bit neglected (and I dislike setting up Floyd Rose trems) - but this video is inspiring me to get out the tools and get hep back into her best shape for some riffage.
Strats are so much fun to modify.
Love how that guitar turned out man and really dig the little 59 seymour duncan cant wait to get one!!!!
Been through a similar experience, played my first good guitar, a 79 strat, into the ground, got it refretted a couple of years ago, brought part of my childhood back!
I recently just dug out my first guitar, an old Washburn WR series that I got about 20 years ago, and I've been thinking of doing this same thing. The pickups are shot, so replace the pups, do a full re-wire job, maybe re-fret and have someone really give some TLC to the neck. I'd love to have that thing back in working order.
That's amazing!!
Awesome! I bought my first guitar at Don's in Auburn as well. Circa 1982 or so!
Awesome story man. My first electric was a Ibanez RX20. It was red with a white pick guard. I got it for Christmas when I was 14. I wish I still had it to go with my collection now and the memories. I traded it years later (1997)for a Ibanez SG bass to join my first band when I was 17 lol.
I have and love my first 2. My first is an 86 Charvel HH white with a black pick guard and nice pointy headstock. My second is an 83 2 knob strat.
Very cool Fluff...I still have my first electric ...can relate to your sentiment
Fluff, Thank you for being a real. This is why I watch your videos.
I still have my fender pbass made in mexico..i bought new in 1992 new.. its still awesome and all original still..love it..good bass.
Great stories and productions. Great channel.
I remember watching your channel when I was first getting into recording about 7 or 8 years ago, and thinking that sticker bombed strat was the sickest guitar ever.
Very cool you decided to fix her up! These days my main guitar’s a Fernandes strat with a humbucker and a sustainer. Over V’s haha
Damn, that guitar sounds good AND looks good! There's something about your first guitar and keeping it close by/giving it some love once in awhile. Glad you fixed it up, Fluff!
That Lagwagon sticker money, love it!
Freakin awesome tones.
Ya man, when I went to gear fest a couple years ago, I took one of my guitars, and had them plek it, and do a full set up. New hand cut nut, and what was cool is they let you watch it get done. Totally killer. I’ve had like 5 guitars done with them.
Congrats on fixing it up! I hope you make more memories with it in the future.
Awesome story. I also still have my first guitar, also a MIM Fender strat but it's a '91. Made minor cosmetic adjsutments (black pearl pickguard, straplocks) but it definitely needs new frets and maybe new pickups. it was my only guitar for about 20 years.
I had my EC-1000 given a full plek setup and it's the best playing guitar I've ever owned now!
I still have my first decent guitar, a ‘67 or ‘68 Gibson SG junior. The only original parts are the body, neck and knobs. It’s on its 2nd set of frets, 2nd tuners, 3rd or 4th big scratch plate, 4th bridge and 6th or 7th pickup and pot arrangement. And as you might expect it got a (lovely white) refinish along the way. Plays better than ever but won’t fetch the £4,500 some chumps are asking on eBay for a good condition example with the cardboard case.
The Strung Out sticker is the most important part.
Your story on this strat is similar to my first bass. Squier P bass that has had the neck replaced twice, routed out a place for a J pup, put a set of Seymour Duncan 1/4 PJs in there, and put a hipshot D-tuner on there, and it plays and sounds like a dream now.
That's awesome, dude. Sounds like we started playing around the same time. I got my first guitar in April of '95, 2 months after I turned 15. Don't have that one anymore, but I do have one from that early trading lineage. It's a beat up, sticker covered '98 Ibanez GAX70. I got it when I was 18, and upgraded the pickups to the current DiMarzio Evolution & PAF Pro about a year later. It's the first guitar I ever had that had humbuckers. I used that guitar for shows with every band I've been in, and it's on a lot of my recordings. I named him Hot Rod because he kinda looks like a beat up ol' race car that ain't gonna do much, but plug it in and it'll change your mind quickly.
I recently just restored my 1st guitar as well. An old Korean made Ibanez RG from 2003. Not a very valuable guitar to anyone but me lol. Had the frets dressed, blocked the trem, and swapped the pickups for for Dimarzios. Still not the most comfy guitar I have, but at least it’s playable again, sounds better, and gives me a warm feeling when I look at it 😂
Love the Strung Out sticker.
I have the exact same journey with my Squier from 1990...body only is original...it's a really awesome guitar now and it gives my USA Strat a run for its money
Oh man that guitar is a monster for Pumpkins Nirvana and Helmet tones etc!
I miss the days when you could get a Mexican Fender for $299. Cool guitar man. I sold my first guitar to my friend/bandmate, a sunburst Samick Strat copy. He upgradded the pickups, redid the paint job to color changing metallic paint (greens, blues, purple) and loves that guitar. I got an Ibanez RG220B, which I still have, along with 3 other RGs now.
made me want to pick up my first guitar (which is also a fender strat ) thanks for reminding me of when i started to play. can't believe is been 24 years already. cheers
I have 2005 Epiphone Les Paul that's been through it. would love to have it worked on and change the pickups. It's been a road warrior. Even though it's a cheap guitar it did way better than I ever expected. Needs love love put back into it.
I also have a Mexi Fender Strat that I've had since I was 14/15. My dad fixed it up years and years ago but it's been in storage for probably 15 years now and seeing this video kind of makes me want to pull it out and get it into playable shape.
I think all guys that were born in the late 70s early 80s have this guitar. A couple years ago I did something similar for my old squire that I bought at a pawn shop in 1994. New neck, electronics, full pro set up. It's currently one of my better playing guitars.
I just hotrodded my old MIM strat I got when I was 12. (Im 31 one). Love the guitar, but thought it could use some new features. Got new hardware, bone nut, nice locking tuners, lollar 64 Pups, US jack, new bridge/trem. neck and frets are nice and worn
I still have my beat up Epiphone Les Paul Goth, that I got when I started to learn. Never gonna get rid of it.
Love to see the strat getting some TLC. 🤘
I got my Charvel Duplantier Sig in white from Sweetwater. Had it plek'd to make it feel like a $1000+ guitar. Plays so god damn good.
Never really been a Strat guy personally, but my ex-guitarist in our 90's punk band "30 Deep" played a Mexi Fender Strat on tour w/ his original Yamaha Pacifica as backup. Both actually had the same single coil sized bridge humbucker as yours does now coincidentally. Noticing that kinda got me in the feelz just now : ) Thanx! Ha!
Anyway, that said?
I'd freakin love to get myself a decent Squier Strat, mod it w/ the Corgan Lace p/u set, and get my Siamese Dream on thru my EHX BMP Deluxe!
I've become a shameless Squier fanboy over the past two decade ever since getting my VM Jag bass HB Special.
My current #2 player is a 2014 (Alder/Rosewood) Affinity Jazzmaster HH with Grover tuners. Those were stupid bang for the buck guitars IMO.
I later got a second 2017 (poplar/laurel) one, but it didn't have the same mojo so I eventually sold it.
Am I oversharing again?!😅
Yeah...
I do that.🙄
Awesome video as always Ryan!
Cheers amigo! ✌🤟🖖
I can relate I have my first guitar also a squier strat. Atm just the body remains in a case right now sadly. Frets were toast and truss rod went on it. I need to get a new neck at some point love to have it playing again!
That is sick bro! I'm in the process of rebuilding it's bittersweet to see it change but I'm excited to put it all back together and give it the playtime like it deserves again 🤘
I still have my first Mexican Strat! Thank you for inspiring me to dig it out and give it some love! I'm hoping that I can give it to my niece one day :)
that's nice. from where it started to where it is
Lagwagon, Strung Out, Good Riddance...I'm pretty sure we would have been best buds in HS.
I want to say I remember this guitar from a video you did of the Digitech Drop.
Enjoyed the episode you enjoy that guitar 🎸
Nice man, my first electric guitar was junk that wasn't worth saving... same with the 2nd and the third... until my 4th in 1996 and I still have that beast sitting here in perfect playable condition :D
Awesome video !! Kinda a shame they didnt put a red lace or alternative lace back in the bridge position .. or did you ask for the diffrent pup Ryan ?
Maple neck for the win!!! 🤘
that strung out sticker makes this guitars stock much higher
My first real guitar is the same as Rob Scallon had as his first. A Ibanez SZ 520^^
I was shocked when I heard about it.
Are you playing in "Fu Manchu" in 1997 ??!!!! ahah !!!!
Everybody should keep his first guitar!
I still got my Korean Neon Yellow SL - STD 3 "Aria Pro II" from 1989. I turned it Tiger Stripe recently, and put some tlc in it !!
The Strat of Theseus
I grew up in a really poor family and i always wanted an electric guitar since my 11 years old but my parents couldn't afford one. So i made a promise that with my first pay check i would by one. I played one crappy acoustic for years and from time to time my best friend electric. I was 19 when i got my first pay check and on the exact same day i bought one ibanez art 125 for 450€. Now, almost 15 years later, i have 5 guitars and way more expensive but my first one it's still and it always be my first love. I mode it a bit. Changed the pickups ( emg james hetfield signature) the knobs etc etc. Don't know... It feels like home.
I still have my first Strat covered in stickers, even after 10 years it still sounds killer, I love my Pinky
If I do anything with my sticker guitar, it's going to be a nice satin clear coat when it's finally full - the fretwork is going strong ('99 Ibby AX7521).
My first electric guitar was destroyed and burned/lost. I replaced it with one still in rebuild that fits perfectly in the old case, because it's the previous model that's better broken than my new one was new.
Q. Models
A. They both cost 200 bucks each: brand new Ibanez Roadstar II RS135 in Comet Blue with fulcrum trem (destroyed) well loved Ibanez Blazer BL200 in natural ash with Kahler (bought working and killer but I broke/rebroke/broke again the pickguard/wiring into pieces with a few drunken stumbles in my younger rampages, as the jack is literally attached to the pickguard - design fail)
I modded my first electric and don’t regret it
I couldn’t sell it fir much, and never used it, now i use it a lot.
Awesome stuff! 🤘🤘
You and I have the same story lol!! Except I got a peavey predator! Love your stuff!
in 22 days, sunn is re releasing the 100s
SICK!!!!
I started playing in 94 - my first electric was a brand new Jackson Performer PS2 (the one with 24 frets and a vintage trem). I swapped it for an Encore guitar a year later and it's impossible to find them now :(
This guitar is literally as old as me, that’s crazy
The fact that every RUclipsr is mentioning gear fest and sweet water spamming advertising, I will make sure my next order is NOT them.
cool, i'm in the process of resurrecting my first sticker covered squier strat (96). replaced the broken pickup, but turns out its wound differently and so i gotta get other 2 that match it to get the expected strat like tones...also going to drop in new switches and wiring because the old switches and pots got fucked from when i stomped on it at a show once. guess i wasn't kurt cobain after all, lolz. anyways, yeah sentimental guitars!
Cool story fluff🤘🤘 Wish I had my first real guitar, I bought one I found on eBay years ago ( it’s still in storage) need to paint it canary yellow still😂😂
Dons Green River Music... ha ha ha ha.... i remember that place...
Mad tone. Is that the EVH your using? Cant fault an EVH
Hell yeah!
Awesome video…I also started on a mid nineties Mexican strat that has been in storage to the point of being unplayable, would be fun to resurrect it as well
When my Dad died back in January I went back to the UK for the first time since the “biological event” and closed out his retirement bungalow. This gave me the opportunity to retrieve the first guitar I ever bought with my own earned cash, a late ‘60’s to early ‘70’s Antoria Soundmaster ES-330 type object that I bought from a school mate for £15 in 1977.
I had left it at my parent’s place when I moved out so I would always have a guitar to play when I visited, plus my Dad still played a bit at that time. Well, full confession. I taught him just enough so that he could accompany himself on simple country tunes in his pro act so that I didn’t have to!
Anyhow. It had a bolt-on neck. So I thought it would be no problem to take the neck off and bring it back packed in a suitcase.
Yeah. At some point prior to me acquiring it the neck had been epoxied in place. Of course I didn’t discover this fact until I had removed two neck screws and snapped a third trying to get it out. I ended up snapping out the fourth and thought “No way back from here”, before literally ripping the neck out of the pocket.
Well at least it fitted into the suitcase.
When I got it back to Malaysia my guitar tech friend who does rescue jobs week in week out took one look at it and said “Not even the worst one I have in this week”, and got it playing again for a couple of hundred bucks plus.
Which reminds me. I really ought to do a video with it…
Love seeing all the punk sticker’s!
my first guitar was a Stagg x400 and I miss it so much.
I like these types of vids
Still have my first electric. Fernandes red strat style. Also has a lot of stickers but not thay many hehe.
Ugh… I lost my first guitar to a fire. 😕 it was on loan to someone and luckily they were okay but, my harmony strat copy from 96’ is gone. Wish I still had it because I actually know how to work on guitars now.
Shout out to the big homie Fluff from ‘98! 😂
That guitar looks like it's built for dookie and insomniac riffs
I'm pretty sure that is my red Strat in the Plek machine from your video. It's possible it wasn't, but odds are high since I had it done twice in the last month. First the time they missed a few frets and the last time the nut was cut too low and it buzzed open, so I sent it back. :(
It's not specific to your video but over time I've noticed I judge tone better with metal distortion. It boosts everything so much the slightlest poorness or the subtle virtues in tone are highlighted.