Do you still have your first real guitar?

I let some good stuff go because I didst know how or couldnt afford to fix issues like poor intonation(an actual 61' SG/LP that had been modded w/ a wrap around bridge), high action(that little Yamaha acoustic from early on), and the Marauder with the sloppy neck repair that played and sounded great but looked like crap and I thought just wasn't "cool" enough.
My first quality guitar with absolutely no issues is my 81' Carvin DC 100 which I still have. Solid as a rock that one is, still a great guitar.
Before that I had a decent little $200 Alvarez acoustic that I bought I college and sold after getting my D28 in 1985.
 
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I do. My first guitar was a budget Yamaha acoustic with high action that was quite hard to play, but I didn't know any better and that's what I learned on. This was 1975-ish. My piano playing sister's boyfriend gave her a used Norlin-era Epiphone acoustic which was way easier to play than my Yamaha and I convinced her to trade me. I still have that Epiphone and play it often.

As far as electrics go, I managed to save up enough money one summer to buy a brand new GIbson Sonex Custom. I thought I had arrived. I still have it, but very very rarely play it. Not mine, but looks exactly like it.

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No, thankfully...it was a really cheap SG copy with janky bigsby knock-off trem that would get stuck if you gave it a sideways glance.
 
No, I've usually been happy with the guitars I've owned but never been particularly nostalgic, so they went when I got something else. Generally I don't hold on to stuff I don't use.
 
Depends on what you mean by "real". I started playing on a $60 K-Mart Tiesco Del Ray tulip single pickup. I guess you could call it real. Sometime after that, someone gave me a Sears guitar that had an amp built into the guitar. Likewise, I suppose it was real. They were both mostly playable, but both had some serious shortcomings. They are both long gone, and I'm not quite sure what happened to either of them.

When I was 17 in 1978, I used the money I saved up working for a horrible company to buy a Les Paul Standard. It had a DiMarzio PAF in the neck and a DiMarzio super distortion humbucker in the bridge position. I hated the SD and traded it to a friend for a standard Gibson humbucker out of his brand new 79 LP Custom. The PAF got moved to the bridge, and the Gibson went to the neck. At the time, I didn't realize neck and bridge pickups were wound different.

I still have that LP, and the same pickups are in the same spots.

Oh, and my friend still has that 79 Custom. I don't think he still has the super distortion humbucker in it though.
 
Kind of. I had a Memphis strat copy that I sold to a friend but my Tokai is the first decent instrument I bought in 1986 or so and I still have it although the only original parts art the body, bridge and pickguarx.
 
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