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dezb1 · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 6:24 am Post subject: Bought my first guitar... again.

Seeing as holidays are cancelled this year I've bought myself a new guitar project - one of these 'Satellite' Woolworths specials was the first guitar I ever owned, MIJ, plywood, bolt on neck. I remember it being an ok instrument, but I was far from an ok player. - it's took a bit of elbow grease but it's starting to look good, hoping I can give it a good setup and make it a decent playing guitar - if not at least it'll be a trip down memory lane.

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westtexasred · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:42 pm Post subject:

Congrats! I had one like that,got it at Crazy Eddie's Record Store in 1978 for $99. Wish I still had it.

dezb1 · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:45 pm Post subject:

Rockin it in the pic Westie

Aye, I bought this as I've always been a bit sad i didnt keep my frist guitar. Had to fix a chip in the fretboard today where it looked like someone shot it with an air rifle... hopefully not a sign of frustrations to come.
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Freddy V-C · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 3:09 pm Post subject:

Lovely stuff! My first electric (Squier Affinity Tele) is still the only guitar I've kept for longer than 2 or 3 years, play it all the time and I still love it. Glad you were able to rekindle, even if it isn't the exact same guitar.
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dezb1 · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 3:24 pm Post subject:

Freddy V-C · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 3:26 pm Post subject:

I intend to! Actually slightly prefer the feel of it over my Fender Tele.

I played bass for a couple of years before I had a guitar (my mates were all learning guitar and I was a contrarian), and it does seem a bit of a shame that I didn't keep my first bass. It played/sounded like shit though, so probably not that big a deal.
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paul_ · . Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 9788

I think the only guitar I ever sold on was my first guitar, an MIC Squier Bullet Series Stratocaster. It was very much "shitty Squier junk" (a thing we all-too-frequently pretend never existed now, though admittedly that's because they got their shit in one sock a few years after this with the big headstock Affinities). I guess it would've been a '95 or '96, and I see that they made some in Korea around that time too.

The neck was the main problem by miles, but like, even the paintjob was really poorly done (and it was A BLACK STRAT, The Brooding Man's Times New Roman of guitars... I didn't even think you could fuck that up).

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sunshiner · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:01 am Post subject:

Modern bullet strats aren't that awesome either. 9 out of 10 are super heavy. 9.5 radius with some super jumbo frets makes it really awkward to play
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dezb1 · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:26 pm Post subject:

Well finished the work on the guitar. Strung it up and had a good shot at annoying the neighbours last night, am rather pleased with it, it's looking good for a 40ish year old guitar.

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Bacchus · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:02 pm Post subject:

Looks well!

cooter · . Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 1188 Location: Blue Ridge, GA

Nice.

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paul_ · . Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 9788

Wow, it's held up well. I have a reasonably well-cared for mid-90s Epiphone Custom that looks older than that just from natural aging of finish/binding, hardware, etc

dezb1 · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 2:20 pm Post subject:

Cheers I'm very pleased with it. I have found the fly in the ointment thought I have one note that buzzes like a mofo if I play D at the 5th fret on the A string, the 5 other notes on this fret are fine. - am now looking into sorting this... hoping the next fret up has popped a bit and a light tap down will suffice.
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izodiak · . Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 1522 Location: Netherlands

Looks very clean... I got a nice black guitar with no golds etc etc...very nice looks of this clean design.

Wanted to ask is it something special for this kind of neck joint, its no usual les paul style.

Put in some TV jones Razz

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dezb1 · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:50 pm Post subject: