Electric Solid Body Guitars

showing normal light signs of use and wear – minor things like dings, rosewood fingerboard wear in the first 3 frets under the first three or four strings, and just a couple of scrapes, dings, etc. 

The fact that this vintage vision of virtue is stamped “ES” inside, for “Enter Special,” a rare feature, and was made with an unusual looking three-tone sunburst – shaded in a manner one normally never sees – is a plus; that it’s a bona fide ’66 is a plus (with just a few revisions), and that it plays extraordinarily well and sounds like Layla, herself, on a bed of lightly sweetened lingonberries, is indeed the reward that awaits us all at the end of a life well served.  This is priced at $8,243 or, at our Cash Discount Price, $7,995 but until the pickup is restored it can't be ordered on-line.

The Gibson Les Paul Custom was designed as the top-of-the-line in the Les Paul Series – and it is elegant, regal and stately beyond all expectations.  It has, for example, a crème bound ebony fingerboard that measures 1 11/16th” at the nut, and that fingerboard is inlaid with 10 large mother of pearl rectangles, or blocks.   All things considered, this guitar has survived the decades in rather nice condition, and it is, as expected, a player par excellence.

In all, this is an extremely fine rock ‘n’ roll performance tool, a sound machine with versatility and suitable for full stage domination.   You may recall that Pete Townshend of The Who used a Gibson SG Special as his primary instrument from 1968 to 1972.    Some memorable and even timeless music has been created using an electric guitar whose visage appears quite similar to this one.    This is an attainable alternative to the player on a budget who wants a USA-made Gibson for a price nearly anyone can afford.

Officially named the Telecaster in February 1951, the world’s first successful solid-body electric guitar turns 60. The Tele® revolutionized guitar playing, changed the sound of music and has become a signature instrument for guitarists worldwide. The 60th Anniversary Telecaster packs more than half a century of classic sound and design into one collectible U.S.-made instrument.  The Fender List Price is $1799.99

This is one of the most beautiful and specially hand-built Gibson Les Paul guitars as we have seen in many moons.   The top is made from highly figured maple finished in a color distinctly different than anything that has come before – suggesting a vortex of three-dimensional transcendence into another world entirely.  The gold plating on the pickups, tune-o-matic bridge, tuners and stop tailpiece is perfect – it has never seen the touch of a fuzzy fingered fretted instrument facilitator.

New for 2012, American Standard guitars and basses are now upgraded with Fender Custom Shop pickups* and other distinctive new features. Pure and simple, the latest U.S. - built versions of four design classics.

The Fender List Price is $1529.99

New for 2012, American Standard guitars and basses are now upgraded with Fender Custom Shop pickups* and other distinctive new features. Pure and simple, the latest U.S. - built versions of four design classics.

The Fender List Price is $1529.99

New for 2012, American Standard guitars and basses are now upgraded with Fender Custom Shop pickups* and other distinctive new features. Pure and simple, the latest U.S. - built versions of four design classics.

The Fender List Price is $1599.99

Fender’s American Vintage ’72 Telecaster Thinline guitar authentically evokes a historic member of the Telecaster family. Period-correct early-’70s details include a three-bolt neck plate with Micro-Tilt™ adjustment, bullet truss rod nut and vintage-style “F” tuners; with touches including Fender Wide Range humbucking neck and bridge pickups redesigned and re-voiced to sound even more like 1970s pickups.

The Fender List Price is $2439.99

Fender’s American Vintage ’72 Telecaster Custom guitar authentically evokes a historic member of the Telecaster family. Period-correct early-’70s details include a three-bolt neck plate with Micro-Tilt™ adjustment, bullet truss rod nut and vintage-style “F” tuners; with touches including a Fender Wide Range humbucking neck pickup redesigned and re-voiced to sound even more like a 1970s pickup.

The Fender List Price is $2149.99

Fender® introduces the American Special Series Stratocaster® guitar, which puts everything you want in an affordable U.S.-made instrument within your reach. Features include an alder body, maple neck with 9.5”-radius fingerboard and jumbo frets, Texas Special™ pickups, vintage-style synchronized tremolo and satin urethane finish. The American Special Series - guitars for the times.

The Fender List Price is $1249.99

Fender® introduces the American Special Series Stratocaster® HSS guitar, which puts everything you want in an affordable U.S.-made instrument within your reach. Features include alder body, maple neck with 9.5”-radius fingerboard and jumbo frets, Texas Special™ middle and neck pickups, Atomic™ humbucking bridge pickup, vintage-style synchronized tremolo and satin urethane finish. The American Special Series - guitars for the times.  The Fender List Price is $1249.99

Fender® introduces the American Special Series Telecaster® guitar, which puts everything you want in an affordable U.S.-made instrument within your reach. Features include an alder body, maple neck with 9.5”-radius fingerboard and jumbo frets, Texas Special™ pickups, vintage-style string-through-body Telecaster bridge with three brass saddles, and gloss urethane finish. The American Special Series - guitars for the times.

The Fender List Price is $1249.99

Officially named the Telecaster in February 1951, the world’s first successful solid-body electric guitar turns 60. The Tele® revolutionized guitar playing, changed the sound of music and has become a signature instrument for guitarists worldwide. The 60th Anniversary Telecaster packs more than half a century of classic sound and design into one collectible U.S.-made instrument.

The Fender List Price is $1799.99

Not to beat the deceased Equus caballus or anything but, as you may have heard, the Fender Stratocaster guitar changed the course of modern rock ‘n’ roll history.  Leo Fender of Fullerton, California is credited with having popularized the electric solid body.   He reasoned, correctly, that he could bolt a slim, easily playable maple neck with a maple fingerboard to a solid body made of alder or ash, add six-strings and the sound that would be created, when amplified through a tube amplifier (also of his manufacture) would actually turn out to do nothing less than change the course of Western music.

This guitar, whose original cherry finish is unfaded and nearly unworn, is in amazingly clean condition -- a virtual time capsule. We have never before seen a Gibson Les Paul Junior original cherry double cutaway maintained at this remarkable level of preservation.  That's really saying something!   If you are seeking more excitement than many a body can stand, this is the guitar for you.    This WAS $8242 but it is NOW ON SALE . . . 

One of the most striking and memorable designs in the history of the electric guitar, the Black Beauty is undeniably one of the most important electric guitars of the past 58 years.  Made from mahogany, this model and era guitar is famous for being the “Return of the Single Cutaway” Les Paul after a hiatus of 7 years during which time none were made.   Its frets were decidedly low profile which is why it retained its moniker of “Fretless Wonder.”  WAS $14,950 BUT NOW ON SALE FOR: 

The Model 660 and 660/12 feature a charactered Maple cutaway body based on an innovative design from the 1950's. A Rosewood fingerboard is punctuated beautifully with triangular pearloid inlay markers, while the maple double bound neck and body are solid through and through. Rickenbacker's trademark "checkered" black and white binding set off the body, while white binding graces the neck. The 660 is electronically engineered to the exacting standards of the vintage reissue series, complete with Rickenbacker's own vintage reissue-type pickups.

The Rickenbacker List Price is $2,649.00.

In our industry “originality” is the most important consideration, and this example is brilliantly original.  It is a guitar for which no excuses need ever be made.    This is an instrument that any collector of Fender Stratocasters would give his or her molars to cohabitate with.   It is the crème de la crème, the something that’s superlative, the prize that lies before your eyes.   It is the solid body benefit that befits each Bree or Benny.   You can cast your bet across the net and never find as pure a penguin as is this prodigious pterodactyl.  NOW ON SALE!  OUR PRICE WAS $32,476 BUT NOW ON SALE FOR: