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1957 Fender Stratocaster
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Incoming. My favorite year for Stratocasters is the very popular 57. Great pickups, killer V neck, Bakelite parts and tone like no other guitar in the world (except another Stratocaster). This one has been played hard and played often. You can spend $50K or more on a 57 but while it may look a lot prettier than this one, it won't sound or play any better. More details when it arrives (and a...
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1961 Gibson ES-335
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Incoming. A '61 ES-335 still has dot markers, PAFs, a wide nut and everything that makes a Golden Era Gibson great and yet they are the least expensive dot neck and, arguably, the least desirable of the 335's from 58 to 64. Most of you already know why. It's the neck. The necks on most 61's are very slim-some with a depth of .77" at the first fret and .87" at the 12th. Most are closer to .80" and...
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1959 Gibson ES-335
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Incoming. It's been a very long time since a no issue stop tail blonde 1959 ES-335 has come on the market. I haven't had one in nearly 4 years. There was one sold at auction in July of 2021. There have been a couple of 60's and 58's and a few with Bigsbys (including one I still have) but this is the first one to come along in 3 and a half years. And it's a beauty. This is the text and photos of...
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1959 Gibson ES-335
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Incoming. Mid year 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 more than 100)....
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1959 Gibson ES-335
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Not all 1959 ES-335's are created equal. This one kind of proves the point. Big neck (early) vs medium neck (later). Thin top vs "standard" top. Black PAFs vs white vs zebra. Shallow neck angle vs "normal" neck angle.
Big frets vs little frets. Bigsby vs stop tail. From a desirability standpoint I can say with reasonable confidence (I sell a lot of 59 335's) that some are definitely more...
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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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1957 Fender Telecaster
$21,000
Sure, black guard Teles get all the glory but they've gotten a little too pricey lately for most players. Let the Wall Street guys have them. Look to the early white guards because they are great, great guitars. There is nothing like the 56/57 V neck profile and 57's don't sound all that different from a 53. This one has a body only refinish (neck is oversprayed) which keeps it from decimating...
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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
$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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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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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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1959 Gibson ES-335
$84,000
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 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
$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
$72,500
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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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
$34,500
Here's a Fiesta Red 64 Stratocaster. Early enough (April) for a spaghetti logo and all the other pre-CBS features (clay dots, green guard) and why not-CBS wasn't in the picture until early 65). The guard is from a 63 (there is one extra hole under the guard to allow the 63 guard to fit)-other than that, it's original. It's been played and has some battle scars but the color is vibrant and the...
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