Nice and straightforward, no frilly decorations, just pure 1950s American-made Waverlys with brass shafts, as used on so many thousands of 1950s American-made guitars. Tight and freshly oiled. $75

Up from the depths here, more resonator guitar parts, these beautiful, never-used biscuits from National with uncut maple saddles and correct attachment screws. Better yet, and even better than that, they all have the...

Up from the depths here, more resonator guitar parts, these beautiful, never-used biscuits from National with uncut maple saddles and correct attachment screws. Better yet, they all have the National logo stamped right...

Up from the depths here, more resonator guitar parts, these beautiful, never-used biscuits from National with uncut maple saddles and correct attachment screws. These three have the ultra-cool the National “shield” logo...

Exceedingly cool, nothing like these has been made for at least fifty years. Both nickel-plated; one with a great patina and one still shiny near-mint. Both of ‘em for only $75

Gibson made a lot of different models of acoustic guitars in the 1970s, and this style of ebony bridge was used on may of them. It has a reinforced area around the pin holes set into its top, does not go through, quite...

Switches on your Mustang all wonky? Pickups cutting out right in the middle of your hot solo? The problem is almost surely that the slide switches for each pickup are shot. These high-quality, double-pole switches from...

It’s endless, More from the years when I was buying parts direct from Gibson for I-don’t-know-what-reason, just showing up now, probably been here for at least thirty years. Gold-plated Humbucker covers, pole-piece...

Very clean used Nashville-style bridge, chrome, with wheels and posts, says Gotoh Japan on underside, excellent stuff, $35

NOS Gibson bridge from about thirty years ago, still sealed and blister-packed on its official Gibson Original Equipment card. This complete nickel Tune-o-Matic bridge set with wheels and posts, with my store price tag...

Coming out of storage here after literally decades, this is a complete bridge, including aluminum base with threaded posts and height-adjustment wheels, not just a top, intended to be used in conjunction with all those...

No idea where this came from but it’s got be extremely difficult to find one when you need one. Apparently never used, never on an instrument, chrome-plated stop tailpiece complete with height-adjustment studs and...

From out of our parts treasure trove, three stop tailpieces. One is unmarked, probably from a Gibson guitar; one intonation screw missing, other jammed but won’t matter when you’re using it as a tailpiece. One is marked...

These are a very rare find, American-made tuning machines made for Gibson F-style mandolins back in the day. The Kluson set, judging from the type of gears, is probably from the 1940s; the Waverly (bass side only),...

I’ll bet a bunch of you out there know exactly who made this and what it’s from; what I know is that it’s rare, it’s American-made, and it's from a top-grade American 1910s-30s guitar; I just can’t remember where I’ve...

Will the wonders never cease. Wildest part is, I actually know where and about when I got this, and it was not recently. When I started my store, in 1969, there was one main supplier of small goods to music stores here...

From that great year of 1874…….or maybe just a wee bit later. H. W. White’s fabulous invention that, far as I can tell from the original US Patent Office description and drawings, was intended to be both a...

This is a most unusual, extremely rare and certainly unique Gibson guitar, a complete L-5 with the then brand-new “small diagonal pickup” introduced in 1941. The entire body, and all of its internal structural...

It is known that John D’Angelico, the most revered maker of carved-top guitars ever to have lived, started out by learning to make mandolins from his uncle, Raphael Ciani, here in the Little Italy neighborhood of New...