Vintage Guitar Library: The Early Years of the Les Paul Legacy 1915-1963

Vintage Guitar Library: Vintage Fender Book

Vintage Guitar Library: Vintage Fender Book

I received a question on Instagram last week asking "Where can we find out more about our guitars? Websites? Forums?" There are some great websites and forums about vintage guitars...
1965 Silvertone 1457

1965 Silvertone 1457

This clean package just breezed through the shop: a 1965 Silvertone 1457 commonly referred to as the amp in case guitar. These were manufactured and finished by Danelectro, in Neptune,...
True Vintage Guitar in Iron & Air's Issue #034

True Vintage Guitar in Iron & Air's Issue #034

I'm really honored to be included in Issue 34 of Iron & Air focusing on resilience. My good friend Peter Corn wrote beautifully about the early days of True Vintage...
1952 Martin 000-21

1952 Martin 000-21

~Truevintageguitar.com~ This little gem recently breezed through the shop in unrepaired condition. The 000 sized Style 21 model is a 15 1/2" wide auditorium shaped body with Spruce top, Rosewood...
2019 Vintage Guitar Price Guide

2019 Vintage Guitar Price Guide

It's October in the vintage guitar world which means there's a new price guide. You can pick one up for yourself here: 2019 Vintage Guitar Price Guide. Contact me here...

2019 Vintage Guitar Price Guide - Order Link

1963 Gibson Hummingbird - Sound Clips

1963 Gibson Hummingbird - Sound Clips

        We are quite smitten with this clean 1963 Gibson Hummingbird! Would you like to hear how this guitar sounds? Here are two quickly made sound clips of...
Vintage Fender Princeton Reverb: replacement speakers

Vintage Fender Princeton Reverb: replacement speakers

The Fender Princeton Reverb might be the most versatile Fender amp ever made- it can growl like Tweed era Fender or sing sweet cleans like Silverface Fender. Dress the rest...
1952 Fender Telecaster - Barn Find

1952 Fender Telecaster - Barn Find

Leo Fender's Broadcaster, later renamed the Telecaster, wasn't the first solid body/Spanish style electric guitar. It was the first commercially successful solid body electric Spanish guitar. Its design was so...
Fender Jazzmaster guitars 1960 1962 1966 1971

Fender Jazzmasters! 1960, 1962, 1966, 1971

  This clean but lightly faded 1960 Fender Jazzmaster guitar came in and went out of the shop a few years back. I was thrilled to have it! It's one...
Gibson guitar buyer

Vintage Guitar Library: Kalamazoo Gals

I was contacted by a gentleman in Tuscaloosa a few months ago about purchasing his vintage 1963 Gibson Hummingbird guitar. I told him I'd love to take a look at...