Cool Used Guitars is Almost All We Do
Willie's American Guitars specializes in vintage, used and new electric and acoustic guitars as well as tube amplifiers. We also carry many fine basses, ukuleles, mandolins and effects pedals. Satisfaction guaranteed. Website is updated daily. We are moving to a new St. Paul location in May 2022!
Closed May 16-23 moving
Closed except online, mail and phone sales.
while we move to:
1381 Eustis St
Still in beautiful St Paul 55108
Same phone: Phone, mail order and deliveries only. Thank You! Our Appointment Policy
To play guitars you'll need an appointment.
Curbside service for repairs and accessories available any time during business hours. No-touch walkthroughs are allowed if no sales appointments are in progress. Food Shelves still need help
Willie’s is known for selling professional and investment-grade equipment. A tool of the trade, yet luxury items for most.
We also remind everyone that we musicians are usually the first to answer the call to help.
We will endeavor to offer a few impromptu free micro concerts on Facebook live.
It is our hope that these little “treats” remind us all to offer help to those that struggle.
The pandemic hit lower-wage earners the hardest. Please support you local food shelves wherever you live. Locally we support 2harvest.org We’ll offer up some more musical treats as a thanks. 2harvest.org
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New Listings
1997 Gibson ES-175

EX++, super-flamed maple, natural finish, nickel hardware. Medium-large neck, plays and sounds great, nice and light for such a big guitar at 6.75 pounds, 1 & 5/8" nut, incredible looks. These don't last long ... $3,150.00
2000 Fender American Precision Bass Special

Sunburst, near mint, hard to tell from new, essentially a P-bass with a Jazz pickup, rosewood fretboard with Jazz bass taper and nut width. Comes with the original strap, strap ... $1,500.00
2011 Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster

Sienna Sunburst over a beautiful ash body. A top-of-the-line Fender with NS noiseless pickups, S-1 switch and locking tuners. The S-1 put the pickups in series when engaged or parallel ... $1,550.00
2012 Paul Reed Smith Custom 24

Flame maple top in Fire Red Burst, not a "10" but we'd be hard-pressed to say why, V12 finish, mahogany neck and body, 1 & 5/8" nut, "pattern regular" profile, outline bird inlays, great ... $1,999.00
New Martin 000-15M Lefty

Natural, hard to find left-handed model, this 000 sized model features: solid mahogany top, back and sides, rosewood fingerboard with abalone diamond and short square short pattern inlays, 1 11/16” at nut, modified ... $1,349.00
New Martin GPC-11E

Natural, Grand Performance cutaway body, Sitka Spruce top, Mutenye back and sides, Fishman MX-T pickup with soundhole tuner, Richlite fingerboard and bridge, good looking gloss finish, a good sounding guitar ... $999.00
New Larrivee 000-03M Recording Series

Natural, solid mahogany top back and sides, why Mahogany? Resonance and sustain. Some say it’s less prone to cracking but don’t push your luck, all guitars need to ... $1,898.00
2007 Guild F-512

Natural, Sitka Spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, factory D-Tar pickup bound ebony fingerboard with MOP block inlays, in great shape with some light playing wear on back, the ... $3,250.00