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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
$25,500
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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1959 Gibson ES-335
$72,000
The 1959 ES-335 has outperformed (as an investment) every other guitar you can buy...including Les Pauls. Before Covid, a clean 59 ES-335 in sunburst was a $45000 guitar. During Covid it rose to $75000 for a clean one. By the end of Covid, excellent examples hit $85,000. Of course, they all aren't $85000 guitars. Condition, originality, neck profile, pickup bobbin color and a few other features...
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1963 Gibson ES-335
$27,000
1963 was a transitional year for the 335 so you need to pay attention to the details. Body shape can be the earlier Mickey Mouse ear or the later pointy horn. This is Mickey Mouse. Most MM ear 63's have the 60-63 ultra slim neck. This has the later big fat 64 size neck. Some have PAFs, some have patents, some have one of each. They're all the same except for the sticker. This one has the patent...
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1959 Gibson Les Paul Special
$18,000
If you're in the market for a Les Paul Special, you need to make a bunch of decisions because there are a lot of different versions of this guitar. If you want a single cut, move along, this is a double cut and not what you want. If you want a double cut, then you need to pay attention. There are no fewer than three-maybe four versions of the double cut Special. The first version has the neck...
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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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1963 Gibson ES-355
$55,000
Gibson, back in the day, would make you just about anything you wanted if you were willing to pay up and willing to wait. The top of the thinline series was the ES-355 and it came in any color as long as it was red. Want a sunburst? Gonna cost. I know of perhaps 8. Want a blonde? Gonna have to wait (and pay). I know of just 4 blonde ES-355's built before 1965. Tone wise, it is extraordinary. This...
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1966 Marshall JTM 45
$9,999
Jim Marshall started a revolution with the JTM 45. He was smart to base the circuit design on the venerable tweed Bassman-it is widely considered the pinnacle of tube amps for guitar. But it's not a tweed Bassman. The British components give it a distinctive sound that few can replicate. It's not as gritty and nasty as the later JMP 50-it's more "musical" at lower volumes and only roars when...
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1957 Fender Bassman 5E6
$10,000
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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2011 Gibson Les Paul R9
$5,250
This 2011 Les Paul R9 is the gloss finish version and not the VOS (which is a good thing, I think). It is all original and has been played but not much. The guard (included) has never been installed and the finish is in near mint condition on the top and sides with some minor surface scratches on the back near the control plate. No fret wear. Over all, a 9+. Weight is 8.5 lbs. COA and case candy...
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1960 Gibson ES-335TDN
$99,000
This is perhaps the cleanest blonde 335 I've seen in a decade. This beauty was played but somebody loved it and took care of it like it was his child. There is some player wear to the sides of the neck but nowhere else. The finish shines like it just left the factory and shows no checking and no scratches or significant dings. There is some light buckle worming on the back but nothing through the...
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1968 Fender Telecaster
$21,000
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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1953 Gretsch Duo-Jet
$8,000
It's 1953 and Gibson is showing early success with its new Les Paul model and Gretsch needs to play catch up. The first of it's single cut solid (well almost) body guitars is a run of 150 Duo-Jets. This first batch is the only one with the script logo. The design is very Les Paul like (at 1/50th the price today) with it's small single cut body and two single coil pickups. The bodies were weight...
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1958 Gibson ES-335
$77,500
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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1963 Gibson ES-335
$73,000
How do you value a guitar that is one of only two of its kind? Blonde 335's were available from 1958 to 1960. After 1960, they could be ordered special which explains why there are so few. I've seen a lot of 335's over the twenty years I've been dealing and specializing in them. I know of only two blonde block neck ES-335's shipped during the "Golden Era" of 1958-1964. This one and a 1964 lefty....
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1959 Gibson ES-335
$112,000
Let's say your holy grail guitar is a 59 blonde 335. They only made 77 of them so the chances of finding one are pretty slim but they do come up once in a while. About half of them have the "transitional" slimmer 59 neck which isn't what you want. So, now you're down to maybe 40 guitars. Now, you really care about tone and wouldn't it be great if you could find a big neck early 59 with a thin top...
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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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1964 Fender Stratocaster
$38,000
Here's a Fiesta Red 64 Stratocaster. Early enough (April) for a spaghetti logo and all the other pre-CBS features (and why not-CBS wasn't in the picture until early 65). The guard is from a 63-other than that, it's original. It's been played and has some battle scars but the color is vibrant and the playability and tone are excellent. The finish was removed from the back of the neck which is...
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