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:

 

[Nathan Explosion]

That’d be the 80’s Warlock I have that I really need to slap some paint on and put back together. I can’t remember if it’s an ‘87 or an ‘84.

Similar story here. Bought this NJ series Warlock in 89 or 90. Wouldn't buy this shape nowadays but as an 18 year old kid I thought it was pretty metal. Sometime around 2003 I let my brother borrow it, and it ended up stored under his bed until a few years ago, when I thought about it and asked if he still had it. I expected it to be in rough shape after ~18 years, but it held up pretty well. The metric Floyd and locking nut cap screws were rusty, so I replaced them, installed a pop-in arm, cleaned everything up, and it actually plays better than I remembered.