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2007 Santa Cruz H-13
$8,500
This is one only two guitars that I thought I would never sell. I looked for years for a small body guitar with huge tone. That's hard enough but I also wanted it to be black. It took me seven years to find it. Then I sold it to a friend. Then I bought it back. The only reason I'm selling it now is that my arthritis has gotten bad enough that I can't play acoustic/fingerstyle any more with...
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1959 Gibson ES-335
$145,000
There's a few good reasons why you don't see a whole lot of stop tail 59 blonde 335's. First they only made a total of 71 of them in 59 and probably close to half of them are Bigsbys. I'm sure a few got refinished and a few got broken so that leaves perhaps 25 or 30 stop tails. Nearly every major collector has one in his collection-it is considered one of top investment guitars and one of the...
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1959 Gibson ES-335
$88,000
You want to know how to find the best sounding ES-335's ever made? Look for a thin top late 58 or 59 with a "T" factory order. ES-335's are made in batches of 35 guitars called a "rack". Guitars in the same rack have the same factory order number except for the last one or two digits. I keep a very detailed data base of guitars with their FONs and serial numbers so if a guitar with a FON that...
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1960 Fender Stratocaster
$19,500
Does ugly count as a selling point? This one has got ugly pretty well nailed down. It was once a 1960 slab board Strat in the usual sunburst. It got played hard and things went downhill looks wise from there. Somebody got the idea that it would look good in cherryburst a color that looks bad on anything other than a Les Paul and maybe a 335. The refin was probably done by a pro but it has faded...
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1975 Martin D35
$2,750
Most guitars in the 1970's went downhill in a big way. CBS bought Fender and wrecked the quality by the mid 70's. Gibson was sold to an Ecuadorean beer and cement company and, predictably, the quality suffered. Epiphone left the US and Gretsch was sold to Baldwin and the guitar world wasn't going to recover for many years. Except for Martin. Martin wasn't without some problems in the 70's...
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1960 Gibson Les Paul Special
$12,500
There are a number of different versions of this guitar but they each have their appeal. There's the single cut, the double cut with the neck pickup butt up against the neck and there's this one which has the lower neck pickup. They moved the three way around a bit as well. The problem with the original double cut was weakness at the neck join. This version (which is actually called an SG-there...
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1958 Gibson Les Paul Special
$25,000
These guitars get no respect. Nothing sounds like a P90 and for rock and roll, the P90 has all the attitude you'll ever need. It can go from sweet to nasty in a heartbeat. Gibson made all sorts of changes in the LP Special-some good, some not so good. I think the single cuts are, over all, the best of them. The double cuts can be great but they have neck problems which they fixed by moving the...
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1964 Fender Stratocaster
$105,000
Custom color Fenders are very popular collectibles and have become very valuable depending on the color, rarity and model. Many of the colors, especially the light ones, tend to change over time due to the greening of the clear coat that seals the color. Blues turn green, whites turn green, reds turn brown. The more true the color, the more it is worth. Stratocasters in custom colors tend to be...
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1960 Gibson ES-345
$42,000
Back in the day, Gibson would build just about any guitar you wanted as long as it was based on one of their existing models. These one-offs or custom builds are rare and sometimes a little strange (Byrdland tailpieces on a 355 and ornate headstock inlays on a 335 and so on). This one is a pretty cool (and unique) mix of features. Gibson calls it a 345. OK, but there's no Varitone and I have...
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1953 Gibson Les Paul Custom
$45,000
I'm not quite sure what to make of this 53/54 Les Paul Custom. It is all original and is likely one of the first ones to leave the factory. There is no serial number on the headstock but there is a number that looks factory on the neck heel. That number doesn't match the format of any Gibson serial number so it could be an identifier put there by the owner. If someone has seen this on another LP...
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1960 Gibson ES-355M
$42,000
I'm a big fan of mono ES-355's (which is why I buy so many 59-60's). This 60 ES-355 mono is from mid year-early enough to get the black bonnet knobs and the amber switch tip and long guard. Shortly after, they went to the reflector knobs, white switch tip and short guard. The neck is slim but not too slim. The pickups are PAFs (double white in the neck, black in the bridge). The covers have been...
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1959 Gibson ES-335
$77,500
Mid to late year collector grade 1959 ES-335 in sunburst. There are a few distinct varieties of 59 335 and all of them are consistently excellent. The early ones with the huge neck, the later ones with the medium neck, thin 3 ply tops and thicker 4 ply tops, variations in neck angle and, of course, Bigsby and stop tail. Each has its strong points but I've never had a bad 59 (and that's out of...
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1957 Gibson J-200
$19,500
Here's a double guard 1957 J-200. Before you write to me to tell me the bass side guard was added later, you should know that there are a number of these J200's with unmatched guards out there. It seems odd that Gibson wouldn't match the guards but it also seems odd that so many (at least a half dozen that I've seen) would have been added like that. So, maybe the double guard is factory and maybe...
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1958 Gibson ES-335
$75,000
I love a 335 with a big fat neck. Even though I don't have big hands, that's what I play. But this 58 is simply too big for me. At .955" at the first fret and nearly 1.05" at the 12th, it's a Louisville Slugger. I'm also partial to thin top 335's which means 58's and a few 59's. The late 58's are my favorites. This one is fairly late-probably November...bound fingerboard, thin top, big neck and a...
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1965 Gibson ES-335
$22,500
With the "Covid Bump" in values receding into the past, guitars are settling into a stable price point. But that price point is a lot higher than it was pre Covid. That means your budget might not get you what you want. One of the best priced 335's right now is going to be a 65. There are a lot of 65 versions though. A lot of changes occurred in that year and that explains the rather large spread...
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1960 Gibson ES-330TDN
$24,000
1960 ES-330TDN. These don't come up very often but if you want a blonde ES and you don't want to mortgage the house, then a 330 is your best choice (an ES-225 is also a good choice but I don't have one at the moment). This a fairly early 60-still has the 59 knobs but has the 60 neck profile. It's slim and wide. Nut width is 1 11/16". Depth at the first fret is .80". Twelfth fret is .88". P90's...
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1965 Epiphone Embassy
$3,600
If you know your Gibson history, then you know that the Epiphone line was made in Kalamazoo right alongside the Gibsons from 1959 until 1969 or so. Manufacturing went to Asia after that. Most of the Epiphone line had a Gibson counterpart that was nearly identical. Sometimes the pickups were different, more often only the body shape was different. The sought after (and expensive) Gibson...
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1957 Fender Bassman 5E6
$9,500
It's getting a lot harder to find original tweed Bassmans so maybe instead of concentrating on the well regarded 5F6-A's that have gotten kind of pricey if original, you might want to look at the very underrated 5E6. These dual rectifier powerhouses are a bit more gritty than the 5F6-A and will break up at lower volumes. A 5F6-A has better headroom but you have to crank the crap out of it to get...
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1968 Fender Telecaster
$20,000
CBS Fender board room 1968: Young Exec: "Hey, why don't we cover a Telecaster with paisley or flowered wallpaper and sell it to those long hair hippie types? They're the ones who buy electric guitars anyway". Old Exec: "Are you nuts?". Could have happened. Anyway, Fender under stodgy CBS went ahead and bought a load of Borden's Cling Foil Contact Paper and covered a load of Telecasters and Tele...
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1957 Gretsch Duo Jet
$15,000
Funny how the Les Paul ended up being a $400,000 guitar while the average Duo Jet sells for under $10K. Gretsch designed the Duo Jet in 1953 to compete directly with Gibsons gold top just released in 1952. I have lately been surprised at how good 50's Gretsch's can be. Odd that they fell so far in the 60's. Cadillac Green was an option for the Duo Jet and they didn't make a whole lot of them....
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1958 Gibson ES-335
$75,000
Impossibly gorgeous 58 ES-335 blonde. It's an early one, so the neck is unbound and the neck angle is shallow. The original low profile ABR-1 bridge collapsed and disappeared long ago. Gibson replaced them with shaved full height bridges and this has one of those (no wire ABR-1). The top is a stunning piece of birdseye maple. This guitar has been played it's entire life-no case queens here. The...
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1959 Gibson ES-335
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I always have a few ES-335's put aside for regular customers who are looking for one. There is usually a 59 that isn't listed anywhere. I also often keep a red 64 available off market as well. Feel free to call to find out what I'm keeping in the vault.
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