A rare early example of the master’s Exel. Model, this has the early spelling and the earlier body size and shape. 3” depth and 16 5/8”,width.slim neck profile. Lovely engraved fret markers and pearl button tuners.The...
Pleased to offer this near mint 1963 Gibson Byrdland for sale. This is a one owner guitar, bought new in 1963 and never gigged and only played at home for family (fast tempo Italian standards I’m told). This guitar was...
Freshly inspected and set up in-house by our esteemed Guitar Tech. In Very Good condition with modest wear for an instrument of this age, including scratches, worn gold plating, natural aging of finish, and other normal...
Freshly inspected and set up in-house by our esteemed Guitar Tech. In Excellent condition with minor signs of handling and use. This remarkable instrument has a unique design which springs directly from the heart and...
1962 Gibson L-5C in very good condition. This Gibson has a replacement ebony bridge that was made in house by Tom Crandall who also repaired a small piece of binding on the pickguard. This L-5C was constructed with a...
Magnificent 1950 Gibson Super 400CN, in excellent preserved and playable condition. This is an incredibly rare model, one of only seven identical guitars produced in 1950! It was made at a pivotal moment in Gibson’s...
This Fender Montego was made in the USA in 1971. It shows only very light wear, and is in fairly immaculate condition overall. The guitar is 100% original. This is a unique and very rare piece of Fender history. Fender...
A fantastic instrument equipped with its two original PAFs. Sent back to Gibson in 1973 for neck repair, it came out with a new one, hence the volute behind the headstock, typical of that era. It’s a sound instrument,...
If you're old enough to remember George Gobel, you're as old as I am (and that is old). I barely remember my father watching "Lonesome George" on the old Admiral (don't remember Admiral, either, do you?) in glorious...
Absolutely stunning. This is the crazy rare thinline version Emperor made by Gibson after they bought out Epiphone. It uses a lot of Epiphone parts but the construction is strictly Gibson. Epiphone parts include the...
This is a very special guitar, # 26 in the series of 25 Gibson Super 4000 Chet Atkins guitars. It was made by Gibson Custom staff for Don Auten, manager of the Custom Shop when the series was conceived and built. This...
Pre-Holiday Sale! Here is a beautiful Gibson Super 400C in excellent condition with no issues. It is equipped with an original Dearmond 1100 pickup and control pod, and is set up just like Kenny Burrell's 60s Super...
A rare and fine 18” deluxe 7 string New Yorker , by the master James D’Aquisto. The guitar has a floating DeArmond pickup and remains in very fine original condition with no breaks or repairs. A full rich sound .Deluxe...
57 single unlabeled PAF equipped 175. A classic gigging Jazz guitar. Replaced knobs , but all else correct.Some wear on the back of the neck. Good neck angle , original frets still in good playable shape. A fine...
1953 Gibson ES 295.. Professional refin by Lay's Guitar Shop. Original electronics. non original Gibson Case Bigsby added. Bigsby bridge original pickguard
When I started taking guitar lessons when I was 12, my teacher was an old Italian gentleman who only played (and only taught) jazz. He would teach me blues or rock but he was pretty much the only teacher in town in...
Ken Parker 7-String Acoustic Archtop (used,1993) This beautiful guitar's name is "STORMY" Highly figured Maple back & sides on this 7 string archtop from Ken Parker Hazelficte (Bearclaw) alpine spruce top Venetian...
This is the cleanest, nicest, best playing example of a one PAF 175 I could find, having had pretty much every other kind of PAF arch top before I finally gave up and decided I’m strictly a P 90 guy. I acquired this...
A fine playing and sounding full body 350. . The guitar shows a bit of checking but hardly any wear at all. Pro refret. Full warm and fat P-90 sound .Early three knob configuration; 2 volume , master tone.
Sunburst, one of only 4 made that year. A jaw dropping work of art and tone. EX. Not every guitar description requires a post-graduate history lesson so forgive us but the Super 400 is the state of the art in guitar...
1974 Gretsch White Falcon model 7594 PT, this is a very unique special order variation of this model, Rare version with Deluxe Gold Sparkle binding, Falcon inlay on peghead, Special wiring schematic, Ebony board with...
GIBSON L-5C, 1962, sunburst, sharp cutaway, McCarty pickup/pickguard, 1 11/16" at the nut, fairly slim neck profile, finish may have been redone, a very rare model, vgc+, hsc...$12,500, reduced..$10,500
2000 Fender Custom Shop D'Aquisto Stephen Stern Masterbuilt Ultra Archtop in excellent condition. This Fender is all original with no history of repairs. This Stephen Stern built Ultra archtop was constructed with a...
Fine sounding 1937 Excel by the great and original builder John D’Angelico. An in interesting late 30s example with 30s features and engraved blocks in the board, but one off the earliest curved f hole guitars . (...
A beautiful highly figured cutaway Emperor. Factory fitted with a double Johnny Smith setup at a later date , the guitar remained original and is in near mint unplayed condition. A rare and fine instrument .
1956 Gibson Super 400 in Custom BLACK finish. Here is a super cool, and super rare, Super 400. Although not completely original, I have gone through the guitar and come up with the some conclusions… Looks like this...
1942 Gibson L-5 in excellent condition. Carved spruce top, flame maple back, sides, and neck, ebony fingerboard with pearl block inlays, Brazilian rosewood bridge, replacement gold plated Grover Imperial tuners, and a...
C. 1967 Jimmy D'Aquisto Hagstrom Prototype in great condition. Around 1966 Jimmy D'Aquisto began a project with Hagstrom guitars in Sweden where he would train their builders to make high quality archtops in the style...
Early '59 cutaway New Yorker, unusually fine condition. King of the Archtops, D'angelico New Yorker cutaway from 1959. Great woods and color, a great player and rather great sounding, made at the end of the period when...
Circa 1935 Stromberg G-3 in very good condition. This Stromberg is all original with no history of repairs. This G-3 was constructed with a pressed spruce top, laminated maple back and sides, and a maple neck with a...