Kids these days :)

[Siddius]

The ear gets used to quality. There is no reason to not let them start on quality unless you are worried about them taking care of it. There are so many people who get so used to mediocrity that it is what they excel towards. I imagine that we all want to set a kids sights high.

 

[Blue1412]

First of all, you get the "father of the year" award for letting your son play your MM guitar!


That being said, I had a sweet ibanez RG I wish I never sold, it was really broken in and played like butter.

 

[VinSun]

+1

 

[mtrejo]

I started with a $150 Westone guitar that I absolutely adore and still own. I was 13 when my Pops bought it for me.

I made that thing work for me and took it through its paces. Within the first year of owning it I took every single screw off to try and understand how it all came together, switched pickups on it and made other mods that I eventually never used. I really experimented with that guitar, not because it was cheap, I couldn't afford anything better, but to better understand what made this thing tick.

Not sure what the hell I did to it over time because I tried so many things, but it played like butter and sounded great too. DiMarzio Fred pickups helped too. Anyway, oddly enough, that has become my "vault" guitar because of so many fond memories and of any guitars I own, that one will never be sold.

Coincidentally. My first strings (and guitar strap) were Ernie Balls and I never looked back. I'm 41 now.

 

[AnotherNoob]

Oh man, your son doesn't know how lucky he is! Can't do better than the Petrucci's. My first was a poorly setup acoustic but I guess I stuck with it enough to get an Epiphone Les Paul 100. Pretty nice guitar if it would've stayed in tune. When I went to get a new guitar I was looking for an Ibanez Jem which I couldn't find around and so tried some Prestige RG stuff. I was used to fender necks coming from an MiM Strat and the Ibanez felt a little foreign, not to mention the pots were super hard to turn which is a pet peeve of mine. There was a Y2D in blue with a Floyd hanging on the wall which I had an infatuation with from a few months earlier. I tried it out and the neck won me over. Pretty sweet axe! Thankfully it sounds great too, pretty much every little feature on it is spot on for me. A JPX is pretty high on my list.