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Old 11-03-2009, 11:13 AM   #1
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My First $99 guitar
Impulse buy late 80's....

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Old 11-03-2009, 11:15 AM   #2
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before anyone gives Frets crap...ALL guitars had crackle finishes in 1988
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Old 11-03-2009, 11:26 AM   #3
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That thing is just beggin' for a pair of matching snakeskin boots...

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Old 11-03-2009, 11:26 AM   #4
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Do you still have it?
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Old 11-03-2009, 11:32 AM   #5
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I think it looks kinda cool...
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Old 11-03-2009, 11:34 AM   #6
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Do you still have it?
Unfortunately no. But that guitar did open the floodgates. I turned into that guy from the McDonalds commercial wandering around guitar stores with $100 bill asking, "What can I get for this?"

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Old 11-03-2009, 11:35 AM   #7
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I think it looks kinda cool...
It was very cool. A different guitar for me for sure. Floyd Rose, single HB rawk machine. But it played excellently and did in fact rawk!
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Old 11-03-2009, 11:47 AM   #8
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Man that brings back memories. My second guitar was a orange and black crackle super strat Charvette (Charvel's affordable line).
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Old 11-03-2009, 12:49 PM   #9
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Wow, that looks like it could have been taken yesterday
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Old 11-03-2009, 12:49 PM   #10
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My very first electric guitar was a Dean from Sears catalog that had a crackle finish. This isn't mine, but mine was exactly like this:



I got it around 1988.
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Old 11-03-2009, 12:52 PM   #11
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Impulse buy late 80's....
Dang!
That was from back when you used to buy expensive guitars! You've come a long way baby!
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Old 11-03-2009, 01:52 PM   #12
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Wow. We hereby kneel before your bargain greatness!
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Old 11-03-2009, 02:03 PM   #13
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Thats about $200 in todays money
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Old 11-03-2009, 02:40 PM   #14
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I quite like that finish!
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Old 11-03-2009, 02:44 PM   #15
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Old 11-03-2009, 03:58 PM   #16
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Mine was rendered to ash in a house fire in the mid 90s.

Not really a big loss, other than the sentimental value of losing my first electric guitar.
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Old 11-03-2009, 04:11 PM   #17
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do you remember what you traded it on?
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