Quote Originally Posted by andrewdosborne View Post
Similar story to pablos', had a crappy classical guitar in early high school. Got fed up with that as so hard to play. Jacked in the classical guitar lessons, managed to borrow a well used black LP copy from a school friend. This guitar was on its last legs but at least a bit more playable (cant remember the brand as too long ago!). Things improved with that axe and got the guitar bug but developed an aversion to Gib**n guitars (even though a crap copy put me off, how silly). Moved on swiftly to a Japan Fender Tele (cherry red with some sparkle in the finish and nice white/black body binding) that had a rosewood fretboard that smelt just like chocolate! Then - 30+ years of Teles until now...

I should say my very first guitar was a Harmony acoustic my mom gave me. Wasn't bad at all except it was almost as big as I was.

Andrew, I've probably owned every major and many indie guitars over the years and about 10 years ago? I went back to Tele as my main guitar. Just something about Teles. Easy to play. Not too big or heavy and there'a pretty much no musical genre you can't play on them. Love my Tele!