Willies American Guitars

2018 Martin D-28 Authentic 1937 Aged Natural, Aged Adirondack Spruce top with VTS, Madagascar Rosewood back and sides. First this guitar has amazing rumbling low end and long sustaining clear top end. Even a jaded older acoustic player will get weak in the knees. “OMG Here! Play this one!” You maybe don’t want to spend $100K on a real 1937 Martin D-28 herringbone? This will give you everything...

Natural, a good-sounding acoustic electric with quite a bit of good honest playing wear on the top and back. Sitka Spruce top, three-piece Indian Rosewood back and Indian Rosewood sides, bound ebony fingerboard with style 28 pearl dot inlays, 1 3/4” nut width, modified low oval neck profile with high performance taper, scalloped 1/4” top bracing, factory Fishman Aura VT pickup, with dings and...

Natural, Sitka Spruce, gloss top, pretty grained rosewood back and sides. 24.75” scale, In good shape, no cracks or repairs, a few small nicks here and there scalloped braces, 1.73” nut width, rosewood fingerboard and bridge, tortoise pickguard, Grover tuners. Factory Fishman pickup with sound hole volume and tone controls. A nice USA-made J-45. Comes with the original hard case.

Three Color Sunburst, nitro lacquer finish, in excellent condition, just some very light playing wear, no abuse, nice dark rosewood fretboard with clay dots, all stock, nice and light at 8.2 pounds, a pretty great mid- period reissue, comes with the original bridge cover and trem arm in the original tweed hard case.

Black, maple top on mahogany body, repaired headstock, added Duncan humbuckers, shows quite a bit of jean rivet wear on the back and pick scratches on the front, nice and resonant unplugged, a good solid utility Les Paul, perfect for the road. Comes with the original hard case. $1599

Heavy relic in heavily-faded Lake Placid Blue, made of very light ash it weighs a mere 6.5 pounds. Quartersawn neck (for strength), rosewood board sorted for best dark color. Wonderful flat-pole Broadcaster bridge pickup and Twisted Tele neck pickup. Compound 9.5” to 12” radius for easier bending, oval “C” shape. We remember this guitar very well. Teles this light and this resonant rarely get...

Early reissue, stack-knob Jazz Bass in stylish factory black nitrocellulose lacquer, alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, and tortoise guard. Some wear and checking but overall reasonably clean, fully functional, structurally, mechanically, and electronically sound, including the cool concentric volume and tone controls for each pickup, all-original save for the D and G tuners, which...

Sunburst, great sounding example in a good looking finish. Also with an easy to play bigger neck and Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard and bridge (the better to hear you with my dear). This has several large repaired cracks. Repeat: these are all thoughtfully repaired. Otherwise, is all stock with no bracks on back or neck. And maybe because it is ladder-braced and all of the cracks are repaired it...

Natural, a timeless classic that has stood the test of time. The D-18 features a Sitka Spruce top and resonant mahogany back and sides, Has an unbound ebony fingerboard with style 18 dot inlays, a comfortable 1 3/4” nut width and a GE modified low oval profile with high performance taper for hours of easy playing. Forward shifted scalloped Golden Era bracing that enhances its powerful, articulate...

Natural, a retired model with vintage specs and modern electronics. Martins OM or Orchestra Model was built to be heard in a room full of other instruments. Dang, those trumpets are loud. With it’s longer 25.4” scale and scalloped bracing it projects like a guitar with a much larger body. Has a Sitka Spruce top, book matched Indian Rosewood back and sides, ebony fingerboard with diamond and...

Natural, what an incredible sounding Dreadnaught! Huge tone, as close as you can get to a pre-war D-28 but without the hefty price tag features include hide glue construction, Adirondack Spruce top with VTS tone system, Guatamalen Rosewood back and sides, forward shifted scalloped aged top bracing, authentic 1937 neck profile, ebony fingerboard with abalone 1937 diamond and square inlays, 1 3/4”...

Natural, Sitka Spruce top with bold herringbone trim, Indian Rosewood back and sides, unbound ebony fingerboard with abalone diamond and square inlays, 1 3/4” nut width, modified low oval neck profile with high-performance taper, nickel open-back tuners, a modern classic, loud with plenty of clear low-end thump, all the guitar you may ever need. New standard features include an angled nut for...

Mahogany over mahogany. What a great sound...midrange for days. 25.4" scale, 1 11/16" nut width. X braced. Records incredibly well, present but without needing excessive corrective eq. Everyone should have a mahogany guitar at some point. Comes with a new deluxe gig bag.

Natural, 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 the nut, modified low oval neck profile, non-scalloped top bracing, nickel open-back tuners with pearloid buttons, warm rich mahogany tone, these record so well, everyone should try one, comes with a new deluxe gig bag. $1699

2000’s Gittler Guitar Yes, it’s a guitar. You can see Andy Summers playing one in the Police’s Synchronicity video. There is also a video of Kenny Loggins playing one of these. Allen Gittler made 60 guitars in NYC and 300 more after he moved to Israel. He passed away in 2002. There is one at the Museum of Modern Art and other museums. Today they are made in NYC again. These are expensive and...

All-tube head made in England. Very clean and original including its Drake transformers. So, a Park Model 1206 is essentially a Marshall Model 2204 (the great 50-watt EL34 master volume circuit designed by Steve Grindrod in 1975) with a different logo, silver control panel, and silver knob caps. Like the Marshall-branded amps of this period, it’s powered by a pair of EL34s, has three 12AX7s in...

Natural, with new top. Yes, a well executed Sitka Spruce top. This was sold to a customer of ours years ago as an LG-3. The rest of the guitar is all 1953 Gibson with great Honduran Mahogany neck back and sides along with a Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard. We love the 1953 Gibson necks for their just perfect medium size. The frets are in great shape and the nut is original with factory lacquer on...

Sunburst with herringbone top trim, excellent condition with only the lightest playing wear, an amazing sounding Collings 00 Traditional, 12 frets to the body, slotted headstock, 24 7/8” scale length, Sitka Spruce top, East Indian Rosewood back and sides, ultra thin nitro lacquer finish, pyramid bridge, ebony fingerboard with short diamond and square inlays, bone nut and drop in saddle, 1 3/4”...

Natural, cutaway body, Western Red Cedar top with herringbone trim, Indian rosewood back and sides, unbound ebony fingerboard with dot inlays, LR Baggs pickup, in good shape with one ding on the top, no cracks or repairs, sounds real good with a warm mid-range that works well played fingerstyle or with a pick. An excellent US-made Breedlove acoustic electric. Comes with the manual and the...

Factory red tolex, closed-back 1x12” combo with a Celestion Classic 80, two independent channels with original footswitch, and comes with factory casters. A very strong 80 watts from a pair of EL34s and in our opinion one of the best implementations of channel switching on any amp, ever. The clean channel sounds like a blackface Super or Pro Reverb - tons of dynamics, volume, and clarity, and the...

Solidbody electric in Ruby Red, clean and original. A great reissue of the late ‘80s/early ‘90s RG550 model, part of Ibanez’s Genesis Collection, made by FujiGen Gakki in Nagano, Japan, and introduced in 2019. Nice weight at under 8 pounds, basswood body, bound granadillo fingerboard with sharktooth inlays, fast “Super Wizard” maple neck with 24 frets, 25.5” scale length, very flat radius of...

1935 Sunburst, Grand Performance cutaway body, Sitka Spruce top, Ziricote back and sides, Fishman MX-T pickup with soundhole tuner, Richlite fingerboard and bridge, good looking gloss finish, a good sounding guitar and a nice price point, ready for the road, comes with a deluxe gig bag.

‘70s FENDER BASS SALE – PRICE REDUCTION Olympic White, optional color, this was played in clubland and has the wear you might expect including finish checking, dings and three holes on the top horn. But look closely, very little buckle wear and no exposed wood or abuse. Does have some shielding paint in the control cavity and one changed tuner. The pots date to the 13th week of 1976. The pickup...

5A3 circuit, 12” Jensen dated the 33rd week of 1950. So, the grille is original but as you can see, the amp has been…cosmetically customized. Painted a shade of dark pink with some decorative flourishes around the edge of the TV-front cabinet. It actually has some folk art charm. Electronically, it’s pretty straight - freshly serviced (some original caps replaced but are included), original...

Natural, one owner, well played with finish checking and scratches. This was sent to the factory in 2015 for a complete overhaul. A complete list of the repairs at the factory is included with the guitar. The repairs include a repaired 8” crack, repaired back cracks with touch up, binding patch repair, Hard pad polish, new bone nut, neck reset, relgue braces. The total was $907.96. Again all...

Fiesta Red on alder body, nice and light at 8.8 pounds, maple neck and fretboard with a smooth satin finish, stock Lakland J-Bass pickups, Lakland bridge with string access through body or bridge, Hipshot tuners, in great shape, just some light playing wear, nice and light USA made Lakland J-Bass. Comes with the original hard case.

Fireglo, with cool checkerboard binding. Has a replaced Badass bridge (we can’t fool you) that has been routed into the body. Hey it stays in tune! It’s also been refretted (you’re welcome) so you can use round wound strings not that the lacquer on the fretboard is gone and it feels great. It is nice and resonant acoustically in part because it’s been played. Note the wear on back of the neck...

Butterscotch Blonde, “crafted in Japan”, this is a fun affordable vintage reissue that is fairly accurate with a flat-pole pickup, brass saddles, upgraded CTS pots, a slight V-neck contour, rounded knobs and old style switch tip. See-through butterscotch blonde over an ash body, Kluson reissue tuners. A great little Tele. Comes with a gig bag.

Original tweed, likely regrilled, replaced transformers, original speaker (a Jensen dated to the fourth week of 1951). So, a great-sounding “TV-front” tweed Deluxe, 5A3 circuit per the tube chart, freshly serviced and ready to grace a stage or studio near you. A pretty straightforward little 1x12” combo, 12 watts or so from a pair of cathode-biased 6V6s, two octal-based preamp tubes, a 6SC7 and...

Black with bound top on alder body, rosewood fretboard, two Elite Telecaster humbucking pickups, active electronics, two volume and two tone controls, very hard to find model in very good condition, does show some light scratches on the back and top, these make great recording guitars and are a must for the complete Tele collection, comes with the original hard case.