MY FIRST EVER GUITAR - Vantage Avenger

[@OlaEnglund]

Dug up my first ever electric guitar, It was not in a playable shape, but thanks to some teching it's fitted with Seymour Duncan Slug and Custom 5 Neck!

[@AlmanJanyshev]

Hi mr. Englund. What do you think about Dean attempts to do Lightning bolt colored guitars such as Blackbolt ML or Razorback Slimebolt. By the way Vantage is good for beginners

[@tricore6408]

Imagine telling yr 13 y/o self you would be shredding the guitar for a worldwide audience 🤘🏻

[@jfo3000]

My first electric had tiny frets and...Flatwood strings! Impossible to play or bend or do much of anything on that log. It was a 1974 Aria copy of a Mosrite Ventures model, yep, like a Nirvana guitar. Wish I still had it.

[@peterbagosi3862]

Make it chug again! I wanna see a "Ola's guitar painting tutorial. "

[@martinhroch344]

Lucky bastard. My first guitar was a $40 strat copy that basically fell apart over time.

[@nolanmacdougall1154]

One of my first guitars was a Washburn strat style that I sold probably 18 years ago to a local music store. I walked into the music store two weeks ago and hanging on the wall was my blue Washburn that had sat in there storage warehouse for 18 years needless to say I bought it back

[@denverrandy7143]

Nice man,yea that first one is hard to get rid of....was playing a house party and at the end of the set I smashed it like a DUMBASS trying to pretend I was kurt cobain or something.i was only 16 and I'm 40 now.Im still pissed at myself for that.lol ya live ya learn. Glad you still have yours👍🤘

[@weinderdog1184]

Was it one of those mavericks? I had the maverick B4 in tobacco burst as my first guitar. I traded it away and I regret it haha

[@Davivd2]

Nice. I have an entry level Washburn BT-2 and a Fender Squire. Without a doubt the Washburn is much higher quality all around for the same price. I'm so glad that you got your guitar back. It's destined to belong to you.

[@jarrusjenkins]

Was it actually the very same one? If it was that's awesome!

[@tomas-skala]

I heard pretty same story somewhere else. In any case, if you are not lying, you’re a lucky man!

[@VictorAnselm0]

"Ola plays smoke on the water" Deep Purple: So you have chosen *video* *demonitization* ...

[@TheMasonator777]

That is legit one of the best sounds I’ve heard on this channel. Probably that thick neck.

[@jfo3000]

Or that high output passive pickup...no Djent outta that puppy!

[@garnetbezanson1404]

Funny running into you here lmao.

[@JimDewdGuitars]

My first guitar was an Ibanez iceman. Played lots of system of a down riffs on it.

[@denverrandy7143]

Very cool

[@dagoat8319]

T A B L E

[@isaiahgrandt5305]

We need Wes hauch to release a signature iceman

[@kaymonyoung1054]

If your FIRST guitar was an iceman, then you're pretty much living my dream.

[@JimDewdGuitars]

@@kaymonyoung1054 it was the black gloss with white binding. I wish i kept it.

[@deandar93]

I sold my first guitar to a friend of mine this video encouraged me to look for it and buy it back!

[@RaatoHamse]

My first guitar was my dad's old Charvel by Jackson model 6 Vintage 1987! I still play it!🔥

[@NookLeeArr]

As it happens, I was just playing along with you on my Vantage Avenger, which was MY first guitar! I finally got a router and made a new pickguard, and now it's beautiful again and sounds amazing. My silly modifications from my youth were having a Kahler installed with a DiMarzio Super Distortion. One pickup, one volume knob.. Nice to know someone else had a similar formative period with the Avenger!

[@CrushingAxes]

It's funny when we play our first guitars, we can even smell the teenager bedroom ! LoL!

[@denverrandy7143]

Lol I know right...bong hits and doritos😜

[@robbmars1686]

Love this comment.

[@RolandDeschain1]

Ugh! I remember what my bedroom smelled like. Socks, farts and cheap cologne when I had another futile date. Still the best years of my life, though.

[@LeeJoRo]

Jizz and Doritos

[@aristipposk]

Tbh that seems like a pretty good refinish, especially for a teenager!! I've seen a lot worse definitely

[@scourge34]

I've done a lot worse. 😂

[@russellzauner]

The "G" is for Gilbert lol

[@tobiash04]

maybe like 25 years into the future there'll be someone showing a solar as their first guitar edit: damn yall bitter

[@TheAndostro]

i don't think Solar will be someone 1st guitar cause they kinda expensive for begginer budget but maybe 2nd or 3rd

[@denverrandy7143]

Be a hell of a nice first guitar.👍

[@tobiash04]

@@TheAndostro of course but saying 'first guitar' sure sounds a lot better than 'first mid priced guitar' or something

[@TheAndostro]

@@tobiash04 yeah i get the Point and you right

[@tdwdguitars2852]

Maybe not first but imagine how rare our vintage solars will be

[@greenchilli6660]

There is literally nothing better than to still have your very first guitar you've ever played. I did manage to get close and buy the exact same Fender Stratocaster Mexico i used to have, so im happy enough, but i can only imagine the emotions / memories of playing your actual first guitar again after all those years, really awesome video!

[@Davivd2]

That's a classic guitar story. When I decided to learn to play because I saw a friend playing, he taught me Smoke on the Water and 30 seconds later I was a guitar player. The second riff I learned was Come As You Are. The third riff was Iron Man. It doesn't get any more cliche than that lol. I still have my first, a Fender Squire Strat. It was also a horrible guitar to play for beginners. The frets stick out of the neck and cut your hands, the action feels like you are playing rubber bands instead of strings. But hey, it got me started and I still love the thing.

[@cyrilst-m9890]

Hi, my best friend had a black avenger x-77 (with a Gibson pickup in the neck) when we both started guitar in high school black in 1993... Fun times, thanks for bringing black all those memories

[@robertbeuck7556]

I so enjoy your video spots. I love how you explained your first experience with an electric guitar I love the whole nostalgic sadness and sharing you go through with all of your videos you are the best Bro. She's one sweet fire-breathin dragon Bro

[@cpamiseso]

it's always nostalgicly happy to reminiscence with old guitars, i've had all sold years ago, no regrets cause now it's played by someone who truly cares, a fulltime musician dude (while me busy working in office to office).

[@projectexorcist]

From afar it looks good, then you get up close then you see the Jank of it, still probably better than any of us could do as a kid, keep up the good work!

[@howardthrust]

These Gits have great "Bones" and are STILL perfect "Foundations" for custom "Resto-Mod" builds! No need to be apologetic, here...I totally GET IT!! I have a Walnut-Bodied '84...VERY RARE, these days (meaning NO Body Refinish needed on this one; but it will get bigger frets and a Floyd "Rail-Tail)! Hey, you're ALREADY $500+ to "the good" for adding your own logo (That's what KIESEL charges for "Logo-Delete" on THEIR builds!).

[@nickbuchanan958]

Made my Tuesday! Having a my guitar video. Thanx ola!

[@Rex-hx4ib]

The first guitar I got was an epiphone les Paul. I still have it in my room because it has such sentimental value to me.

[@andreidoanca4262]

same here mate. I also still have my Epi LP! oh the memories...

[@coffinfeeder7732]

I should probably get around to giving mine some much needed work, but I often think I should just opt for a used Gibson instead.

[@Nekrozz4]

same, but I use mine again in band, where I need humbuckers

[@Max_94]

@@coffinfeeder7732 better with an used Gibson, I still have my two epiphones but now that I have Gibson too I won't buy another chinese guitars.

[@MarkSDD]

That thing looks great, even the refinish. Should add a tribute to it in the Solar range, the Solar Origin.

[@takotalucion9419]

Duuddeee that would be sick af

[@andreil1234]

but keep the neck chunky just make the shape comfortable with small shoulders and rounded edges ;)

[@jaedena4177]

Awesome that you remember the roots of your love for music. great relatable video as always thanks 👍

[@leegollin4417]

Probably your coolest guitar.

[@WalkenDead]

I think that at around that age you start really defining your own self, so to speak. For me it was around the same age, but it was GnR Appetite that really made me take notice

[@joshww2339]

Love the rail style pickups , Bill Lawrence vibe

[@skylinrg]

honestly this finish job doesn't look half bad!! i'm impressed

[@horsthorstmann7091]

My first guitar was a Stagg Strat, still have it

[@denverrandy7143]

Nice👍

[@larsheuker]

Same here. But my mom has it when i moved countries

[@zenmaster1752]

Nice guitar and nice sound. Thanks Ola !

[@3amir126]

holy shit! that's some history stuff right there... holy fawk! that guitar is hot dood

[@ryanbaumann5082]

My first guitar was an 80s squire strat, I also painted and customized with dimebucker. Sadly lost in house fire 5 years ago. Still kept the torched floyd rose to remind me.

[@jacksybicki7330]

dont know why i like seymour duncan tone so much nice job ola

[@denverrandy7143]

The Wamen Loveeee the geeeetar.👍🤘😜Love from Colorado my friend,it's snowing.Ugh.atleast I have some good Ola videos and Tunes🤘

[@Sabbra]

From here the painting is very good, very well polished

[@michaelthornburg2491]

Stumbled upon a Vantage Avenger x77 in a local pawn shop several years ago. Has Semour Duncan Humbuckers. The body had Dr Suess stickers all over it. I paid only $39.00 for it. I sanded it down and repainted it. This guitar plays and sounds awesome. Stays in tune better than some of my more expensive guitars.

[@karlmikhailtibule1481]

When Ola playing his first guitar, he will chug while listening some metal songs. So love your videos Ola.💖💖💖

[@Linogtr]

Holy shit ! I started on a Vantage too !!! Thanx Ola for making me feel old ... 😂

[@JoshuaM8]

Love the headstock on your childhood guitar! Mine was a Yamaha Pacifica 112V and the first riff I learned was Rock n Roll by Led Zeppelin, it's always cool to revisit playing on your first instrument. Thanks for the great video Ola! :D

[@underappreciated27]

Hey Ola (or Ola Ola for the Spanish speakers among us). From the serial number your Avenger was made in May 1981, which would make it one of the earliest AV-325's, made in the renowned Matsumoku factory in Japan. (I have an '84 model).

[@Turteng]

My first guitar was a Washburn WI-16, I still have it, and it's the only one I would never sell

[@darrylhenderson7184]

ola i have a left handed vantage acoustic guitar and i love it your vantage were made in japan your guitar is very well made i love ola keep on rockn

[@rickbrunet2559]

Great restoration Ola!!!!

[@bodimarley4283]

Namaste Ola. Love your stuff. Just finished guitar practice and turned your show on. My first was my friends Gibson LP Copy Hollow Body. Pevey Amp. No effects. Played Bastille Day by Rush followed by Beth by KISS. That's when I knew the Classical- Metal connection. Coming to you from Montana. US.

[@ScottGreenMusic]

That shape is rad. The short horns look great, and the bevels look comfortable.

[@TheStrykerProject]

That's so cool that you still have your first guitar. For some dumb reason, I sold mine (Peavey T-25). I wish I had kept it, though honestly, I'm not sure how much I'd play it.

[@johnskerlec9663]

Hey this is so cool. I have still got my Black VA from like 81. Original PUs, although I have since retrofitted Gibbo Bridge and Tail. I still use it to practice and comp. I used it in the original bands I was playing in. Bought it because it had switchable pups. I could go from SC to HB sounds. I loved it.

[@sevenity2677]

Very first guitar was Kramer striker single humbucker then Hondo LP copy. I like that guitar Ola and in white!🤘🏼

[@americansensei]

I have a black translucent Vantage Avenger! One of my favorite guitars!

[@Payne2view]

I'm glad you've still got that. I still have my first electric guitar too. It is a Tanglewood Baretta Jetstream. I spray painted the pickguard black and tried to stick gold glitter to it. What a mess. It needs a good restoration job on it; pickguard restored back, better pickups, etc etc etc. One day when I have spare money its on a list of things to do.

[@wrigleyx]

Me, Vantage 118T ! i guess that's why we are evil riffers !! you have done the PGM finnished ! 06:31 yeah ! on passe au montage ! Encore une super vidéo Ola :)

[@earthquakemagoon2505]

Sweet!!! I think it's great!! I wish I still had my first one I got in high school. 🎸😎👍

[@chrisact9601]

My first guitar was a Vantage Les Paul. Sold it years ago but I still have a Vantage bass guitar. Heavy as. A beast.

[@machine-madedog5059]

My first guitar was mid ‘90s Peavey Raptor EXP, HSS pickup configuration, white with a black pickguard. I kind of wish I still had it, not only was it manufactured in the USA but it was better-made than a lot of modern guitars.

[@dillonchamberlain]

Mine was an 80’s Tokai strat no pickguard double humbucker. Candy apple red. Still love it still plays great

[@mackslovelace]

I would 100% buy that. I’m all about the thicker necks and I dig the look.

[@jak9990]

My First was a Carreer les Paul. Loved it.

[@saltyapostle44]

I wanted to learn electric guitar when I was around 13 or 14 - but my hyper-religious mother said it was a tool of the devil and would not buy me a guitar. I did not learn to play until I was 22 years old and could afford to buy a guitar myself.

[@umrasangus]

That sucks hell.... Where were you living back then??? sounds like such an extreme way of thinking

[@yucatansuckaman5726]

Wanted guitar, got a bass instead 👍👍👍

[@ChristianF15cher]

Christianity is garbage.

[@isaiahgrandt5305]

@@ChristianF15cher not really my family is religious and my dad got me into metal since he listened to metal growing up like king diamond,six feet under and napalm death

[@JrodGtar]

I'm a Christian and play guitar and love metal....a generation before your mum, the organ was "from the devil". It sure doesn't say anywhere in the Bible that in instrument is evil.

[@majr6045]

Cool Guitar, great video just watched the whole thing on my mario beach towel

[@ledhendrix5054]

That Slug pick up sounds awesome , the Dogs Bollocks

[@tinkerbell4896]

Ah! I just happened to have my first guitar plugged in and ripping on it as this vid kicked up! Unreal! Rock On Ola!!

[@spyder8093]

My first electric rig was a ‘72 Chocolate Brown Fender Strat and a Fender Pro Reverb amp. That was 1974 when I was 14. 🤘

[@intrepidbiped]

The Avenger was my first guitar! Wish I still had it!

[@nigeldutru109]

Hey my first one was an avenger! I have modded it with new body headstock cut and tuners pickups neck reshaped but it is still with me and was a great start

[@doctordeutz3601]

I Think your refinish Locks Relay cool! I like it

[@pitaorj]

my 2nd guitar was a japanese vantage lp. After 23 years and more than 150 guitars later... still my number 1!

[@willclarke4631]

Matsumoku, I have an avenger 335 and love it. The stock mmk pups are really good. This guitar is why fender ceased manufacturing in the US in the 80s.

[@1175jaymz]

My first electric was a Vantage as well! Les Paul copy, tobacco sunburst. First song I learned was Enter Sandman. My friends brother has it now and I've considered buying it back from him!

[@COTG666]

I thought I was the only one that had a Vantage guitar. I still play mine and it works and plays really well.

[@allstarvb]

Thats awesome Ola !

[@2218256]

My first electric guitar is still my only electric guitar. A Black Vantage Flying V 575 I love it. $21 in 1985

[@randymiles904]

That's a good job on that finish man! Lol I love the faux f holes.🤘😆🤘 I've GOT. To mention, I've got my first solar on the way. It's a v2.6tbr. I'm stoked. It's beautiful and I had to have it.

[@titoxprogr11]

My first guitar was an ibanez grg 250 and I love it, I have it fully modified with a dimarzio x2n on the bridge, and a dimarzio liquifire on the neck, plus some good locking tuners

[@serfillustrated4018]

I really like the body shape on this guitar!!

[@stephenbonshire5678]

I remember the 1st song I learned was Breaking the Law by Judas Priest!!! A little not as cliche as Smoke on the water!!! Lol. I like these vlogs Ola🤙🇺🇸🙏

[@MrRhlozano]

Bad Ass Ola & thx for sharing this. Very cool. Wow the tones on the clean channel are outstanding.

[@SixString_J5]

I really feel like the guys at evertune would pimp that guitar out for you for being such an advocate of the system. Ola's very own high intergrity project.

[@denverrandy7143]

Lol some agufish speech "intergrity"😜

[@stefaneriksson2172]

My first electric guitar was a dark red Harmony les paul with di marzio pics back at the 1979 and I still have it... Ned some fretworks only after al these years.

[@silvoorbach9391]

love this series so much! we want more! xD

[@Clafrance1971]

Pretty killer tone on that Slug, but so much hiss!!

[@CraigRMerriman]

Cool! My 1st was a Vantage too, early 80s. The thing had a bunch of switches for coil split, series/parallel. Crazy

[@titoxprogr11]

My first guitar was an ibanez grg 250 from 2005 that I got from my older brother and I still have it. Recently I modified it, added a dimarzio x2n on the bridge and a liquifire on the neck and it sounds killer! Plus the neck is really good and I added some locking tuners so it stays in tune really well, even when I use the floating trem system.

[@TheHeadown]

Our childhoods and introductions as well as the development in the taste of music is often very similar

[@chriszaferes5984]

Very cool first guitar, IMO!

[@tx5brent]

I was lucky enough to get a Dean Baby Dime From Hell as my first guitar back in about 2004 when I was a teenager. My mate got it signed by Kerry King, even though it's nothing special, it still has a special place in my heart.

[@CannonballCrafts]

I have one of those. The original pickups were DiMarzzio SD's. It is a beast.

[@SlapMyBass3825]

My first guitar was a Kona Strat that came in an Electric Guitar for Dummies kit. I gifted it back to my father for his birthday a couple years ago, signed it (he has a lot of faith in me that I will become a touring musician one day) and now it hangs in a glass case in his living room.

[@gaukarmadhouse]

Dude that was my first guitar too! Same kit and everything. First time I’ve seen someone mention Kona.

[@patri_chaos]

My first one was a 100DM Conrad Versandhaus Western guitar... My first electric was a Defil Aster Rock LP... Still have it in my collection

[@VictorAnselm0]

Are we getting a video on that amazing custom Solar E from Hutchinson Guitars?

[@laxr5rs]

I understand the Gilbert connection. That was a really cool video.

[@kripes4967]

Man, those neck tones! Ola, you need to do some more 22-fret Solars!

[@morningblade87]

My early guitar story is very similar to yours, Ola. My first guitar was a cheap Jackson, which I still own but the electronics are all rusted out. I really want to get it pimped out too. I got it out of storage not too long ago and was actually pretty amazed at how nice the neck on it is!

[@stevemuzak8526]

It's actually not bad looking guitar. It's great that you still have your first guitar.

[@gaukarmadhouse]

Very snappy sound when you start playing leads on it! Sounds pretty awesome!

[@WalkenDead]

My first electric was a GTX blue crackle. I was at a complete loss with that Floyd style trem at the time. I really wish I had that guitar back

[@celticfury7328]

My first "real" electric was a 1979 Epiphone Genesis Standard, my older brother paid half and helped me buy it for my 16th birthday in February 1980 at a record store called Sound Odyssey which was in the Cherry Hill Mall in NJ. Paid $185 w/hsc, which to me was a friggin FORTUNE (I was making $3.35/hour working part time at K-Mart after school, most of which usually went to beer and weed for our "from Friday night until the police shut us down on Sunday" marathon band practices...hey, it was 1980 lol). Still have it, and even all these years later it's my secret weapon, an absolute Les Paul killer!

[@5150sux]

Dude that's a cool first guitar. Mine was a synsonics Terminator with built in speaker.

[@Rock-N-Roll-618]

Sounds great man!

[@alexlrnz4236]

Oh wow not only was this my first guitar also but the paul gilbert pgm is one of my dream guitars crazy..

[@jpmillman1]

My first guitar was a Samick standard strat.. I started to tinker with it too.. never came together again. Now I mod every guitar I get my hands on.. and finish them of course:)

[@zachpeterson1911]

This is my favorite video series on your channel... NEVER STOP DOING DIMEBAG VIDEOS!!!!!!!

[@geetarzzzz]

that guitar is super rad refinished. Has the paul gilbert f holes also!