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 ... $3,995.00

Natural, excellent condition, freshly strung and set up and a phenomenal sounding mandolin. One well repaired top crack next to the bass side fingerboard. Refretted (you’re welcome) and likely ... $1,900.00

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

All koa. This one has 2 back cracks (repaired) and some finish checking as it almost 100 years old. Somehow we just can't see the 'Downton Abbey" crowd playing these but Hawaiian ... $2,899.00

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

Sunburst, this magnificent hand carved guitar came from the golden era. They used the best woods with backs and tops carved like traditional violins. The gorgeous ultra flamed sold maple ... $1,450.00

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

Sunburst, carved archtop, these are basically a Gibson L-50 archtop, carved spruce, tapered headstock, maple back and sides. Big neck. All original with original tuners, bridge and tailpiece and fantastic ... $1,399.00

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

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

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 Pearl, early fifties model raided of its parts (pickup, pots, knobs and tuners) as so many have been. However, it still functions with a replaced Strat pickup and new ... $450.00

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

EX-, sunburst top, with "McCarty guard". These hand-carved 17" archtops were the instruments of guitar professionals in the day. The solid spruce tops were carved from select and aged lumber. This ... $4,500.00

EX++, sunburst finish. Crack-free and all stock except for new tuner buttons. These 17" guitars also have a longer 25.5" scale length, so not only an inch wider than the 16" ES-125 but ... $3,500.00

Ex+. Nice - clean- and cute, cute, cute. This smaller 22 & 3/4" scale guitar has all the right stuff vintage Gibson acoustic lovers want - only less (size, that is.) Small pickguard, ... $2,995.00

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

The tweed Champ was a huge success and of course the next model up was the Princeton amp with the tone control. While these are great on 10 the real sweet ... $2,799.00

1956 Gibson TV model in excellent condition. All original except the plastic tuner buttons. No mods, no repairs, and has never been unsoldered. This is late '56 TV with factory longer ... $12,500.00

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

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

Trans Red, in excellent condition, they made three models. This one top of the Speed Demon line. Has medium-large neck with a V profile. No serial number but with nickel ... $795.00

Sunburst, all stock, Gibson purchased Epiphone in 1956 to buy it’s stand up bass business but they got all the bodies and parts too. This guitar is made by Gibson ... $4,200.00

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

Slab board. Completely original in one of the rarest colors. Fiesta Red over sunburst. 100% factory original with factory hang tag. For years color over color was almost unheard of. Now ... $79,000.00

January of 1963 per the tube chart, 5F1 circuit, last of the tweed Champs, although in that time Fender made a number of Champs that were "tweed" in terms of the ... $2,350.00

Sunburst, fat neck, a guitar with great mojo that's seen hours/years of hard duty. Headstock repaired and Grovers added with pretty good touch up. Has changed pickups (slight rout ... $2,750.00

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

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

Internally called the ES-230TD. A guitar made famous by 1966 as George Harrison and John Lennon toured Europe with casinos as Paul McCartney had already been using one. Why the ... $6,500.00

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

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

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

VG++. A Brazilian rosewood classic. First, yes, this has been played, with its ambered lacquer finish, wear around the sound hole, finish checking, and an old repair near the fingerboard ... $7,500.00

VG+, 7.9 pounds, cherry red and quite faded, but original pickups, Klusons, pickguard, nylon-saddle Tune-o-Matic, trapeze tailpiece, etc. Had a neck reset long ago and a recent refret (you're welcome). A ... $5,695.00

VG++, natural. Very cool sharp Florentine cutaway with all solid-wood back and sides and a solid carved spruce top. This one is quite unusual as it appears to have a ... $8,900.00

EX++, Cherry finish on stunning quilted mahogany body, and very clean with original warranty card and owner's manual (listing the price at a whopping $415.00). 1968 was the last year for Brazilian ... $7,999.00

Large pickguard, cherry finish, EX- condition. A clean original example with a nice one-piece Honduran mahogany body and Maestro tailpiece. These are real classics with with bound Brazilian fingerboards, crown ... $6,950.00

Cherry Red faded, funny how many guitars Gibson made for Trini. His version of “If I had a Hammer” was #1 in 36 countries in 1963. He signed with Gibson late in ’64. He ... $7,995.00

Refinished top. We can say the top looks better in person than in photos. It's a very well-done gold finish. The back of the body is oversprayed too, and the ... $5,995.00