Guitars

VG. "D" soundhole, petite model, simple construction, made in Paris, France. Django Reinhardt played only two brands of guitars, Selmer/Maccaferri and Bortolo Busato. Nicknamed "Pablo", Busato worked Selmer but ... $3,500.00

Scroll mandolin, VG++, original sunburst finish. After nearly a century this has a beautiful tone, with that woody "chop" yet a bit more sustain than the later f-hole instruments. All ... $3,450.00

Has exceptional tone but shows play wear. Original but now satin finish. Ebony board, original tuners, has two small pieces of binding missing from having been ... $2,500.00

For as long as I can remember National triplates were held in high esteem. German Silver body with nickel plating. With the three resonators serving the same purpose as an ... $7,900.00

Sold by Lyon and Healy of Chicago. Crack free and all original except the bone nut. It has a very unique fingerboard. Sorry no case. $495.00

Refinished and with new logo but a great-sounding 22-lug tenor banjo with brass tone ring and bound neck. Very cool-looking and comes in its original case. If you play ukulele, ... $595.00

EX, round-hole archtop guitar made by Slingerland. We just did a neck set so the action is good. Carved dark sunburts mahogany top, solid mahogany back and sides, mahogany neck ... $795.00

Mahogany body carved spruce top bound with ivoroid. Nickel tailpiece, mahogany neck with T-bar truss rod. 14 fret ebony fingerboard inlaid with pearl position markers. Hand polished lacquer finish top shaded ... $2,500.00

Stripped of its original sunburst finish then replated nickel. A style O wanna be if you will. The neck was painted black. Might be hiding ... $2,800.00

F-hole mandolin, sunburst, VG+++, a really nice script-logo prewar Gibson with a carved Adirondack spruce tap and aged maple back and sides. Note the elevated Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard as found ... $1,595.00

With spruce top, possibly a Model 45. Natural finish, EX- condition. Single cone with spider, bound fingerboard, 4 layers of binding on top, single layer on mahogany back and sides. Repaired original ... $1,200.00

Early model with single volume control, horseshoe pickup, painted steel body with a nice easy short scale at 22.5”. Great tone out of a legendary pickup. For many players Rickenbacker is ... $950.00

First-year for the Gibson cutaway. The effort it took the craftsmen at Gibson to recarve the solid wood sides on a hand-carved top-line model was extensive. So the name was ... $15,500.00

Grey, made by Valco in Chicago. Original alnico Rola 10" field-coil speaker (coded 285691). A pair of 6V6 power tubes (hey, if Leo Fender can do it Valco can too). Looks to ... $950.00

Serviced and ready with fresh strings, new bridge and freshly re-haired bow. Full size, Red Spruce top, flame maple boy. Ready to burn a barn down or just a new ... $595.00

Sunburst, hollow body, unbound Brazilian rosewood fretboard with dot inlays, nice chunky neck, three great sounding pickups, new wiring harness and five way pickup selector switch ... $950.00

Black/white trim, great guitar for recording also flat board playing slide. Missing knobs, but even these had Brazilian fretboards. Sorry, no case. $1,100.00

Sunburst, Spruce top, flamed maple back and sides. Script logo in pearl. Big block inlays into Brazilian Rosewood board with binding. Rare stair-step bridge and nickel “stepped harp” tailpiece. Refretted (... $2,100.00

VG+++, natural. A fantastic guitar. Previously owned by someone who played it professionally and it has the battle scars and tone to prove it. A firecracker! Repairs include replaced bridge, ... $4,795.00

Ex-. Matching dates body and neck (August of 1954), no issues, one-piece light ash body. Original plastic. Rather remarkable condition trem model. A blue chip investment like Broadcasters and Nocasters. With ... $75,000.00

A very, very sexy all-gold wraparound Les Paul that comes with the original 4-latch brown hard case and hangtags! This kind of find is getting exceedingly rare. The original fold-out "... $38,000.00

These all-mahogany guitars have always been popular. To quote the 1951 catalog: "Select mahogany body, top, and neck. Rosewood fingerboard and bridge, oval fingerboard with wide frets and white dots. Polished ... $3,750.00

Natural, soprano ukulele. From the original owner. A nice 85-year-old gentleman who bought it new loved it, played it constantly until a decade ago when it became hard for him ... $1,595.00

EX-, 4x8" combo amp made by Gibson. These are rather legendary with about 15 watts and highly-coveted gold Jensen 8" alnico speakers powered by 5879 power tubes and sporting a tube rectifier. Lightweight ... $1,950.00

Natural, a real gem because it’s clean and sounds great. Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard and bridge and pearl dots, all solid mahogany. Harmony made soprano ukes that were $5.95 in the ... $395.00

Black, single pickup, nice big neck, super beat condition, not a great starter guitar but might be a good something different in the studio, sorry no case. $495.00

Red, missing trem but retains the original bridge and trem assembly that make these poor guitars like Rhinos that are hunted only for parts. Using Gibson Melody Maker pickup, having ... $695.00

Sunburst, thin body, maple neck and fretboard with dot inlays, big fat neck, dual pickups, three-way selector switch, cool, knobs and pickguard, no issues and plays ok.  Comes with the ... $650.00

Sunburst, all stock except bridge pickup rewound, Gibson purchased Epiphone in 1956 to buy it’s stand up bass business but they got all the bodies and parts too. This guitar ... $3,999.00

Black, 3 pickups, EX++. You might think we made a mistake because they did not make single-cutaway Les Pauls in 1961...did they? We've sold 2 early '60s Les Pauls that were ... $75,000.00

A nice clean original thin-bodied Gibson archtop. A great couch guitar, a great blues guitar and a pretty good jazz guitar. These were hugely successful guitars for Gibson and are ... $2,500.00

Sunburst. A very cool and rare guitar. VG+++. Some battle scars like missing binding on the end of the fingerboard, lots of dings, scrapes, and play wear. But all-original nickel ... $4,250.00

Sunburst, EX++, we find these to be a great first vintage guitar. Fully hollow so it works in the studio, jazz studies, recording, or just at home. Same pickup as ... $2,500.00

Sunburst, same guitar as a Gibson J-45. Same year as Paul McCartney’s famous natural finish Texan. Mahogany body and neck with Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard and bridge. Sitka Spruce top ... $3,500.00

Natural finish, near-mint. Wait. What did Paul McCartney play? Wait...I remember now, it was a natural-finish 1964 Epiphone FT-79 Texan. But didn't Paul's have a Detroit Red Wings sticker? Hey, ... $7,000.00

VG++. There were only 748 pre-1965 Gibson Doves shipped in total, in sunburst and natural combined, and they were very expensive in the day. There were only 248 Gibson Doves made in ... $10,500.00

EX, sunburst. A beautiful factory-original ES model Gibson with stoptail, big neck, and steep 17-degree headstock pitch angle. The sunburst is rather fetching with with darker finish at cutaways applied ... $15,000.00

All stock, VG+ and sounds fantastic. All nickel parts as you’d expect. Gorgeous design and unique neck-through give these guitars a unique appeal. This one had a body crack ... $10,500.00

Natural, all mahogany, sounds great, went through our shop for a bridge reglue and set up. At this point with Gibson, we might mention the headstock pitch and Brazilian fingerboard ... $1,095.00

Original factory Candy Apple Red finish, EX-. Neck date September 1965 and is unbound with matching Candy Red headstock. A great-feeling neck, Brazilian board of course. The body is good, the ... $10,500.00

Faded sunburst, Ex-. As you know, 1965 was a transitional year. Between 1964 and 1966 three things happened: 1: Neck width got smaller...this is the biggest thing to add value and this guitar ... $12,700.00

Natural, flame maple back and sides, mahogany neck, Brazilian Rosewood board and bridge with a nice wide grained Sitka Spruce top, tear drop pickguard. Gibson used Dove maple bodies for ... $3,500.00

Sunburst, Spruce top, mahogany back and sides, rosewood fingerboard, 1 9/16” at nut, X braced, great playing Gibson era flat top, pro replaced bridge, some old back crack repairs too, all work ... $1,795.00

Sunburst, very clean with original hang tag and keys for the original case. Striking color and tone. These are getting hard to find! A nice refret done (you're welcome) and ... $7,995.00

Ex++. Let us geek: Unique asymmetrical mahogany body, mahogany neck. Fender/Gibson Firebird-style headstock with logo over flamed maple veneer. Built-in stand (patent pending, or at least it was in 1966), ... $2,950.00

Archtop guitar with solid spruce top. The Patrician was mid-line for Harmony as one of the cheapest Grand Auditorium archtops or "pro-level" guitars. No, this will not replace your Gibson ... $1,195.00

Guitar with amp-in-case combo, big neck, near-mint. The 1457 amp is much like a Vibro-Champ, an adorable, simple, great-sounding handwired amp with 1 6V6 tube (5 watts) and a cool 8" Jensen speaker. Unlike ... $1,800.00

Natural, Solid Sitka Spruce over solid flamed maple back and sides. They only shipped 418 of these top-of-the-line Gibson flat tops and have proven to be one of the most recorded ... $6,700.00