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1952 Gibson Les Paul Model
The vintage guitar pictured below is a clean 1952 Gibson Les Paul Model, often referred to as a gold top. The Les Paul was Gibson's first solid body electric guitar meant...
2002 Gibson Les Paul Standard 50s Neck Plus Top
The Les Paul has been in production in some form since 1952 with a short hiatus from 1963 to 1968. The new Gibson company has been building the Les Paul...
Vintage Epiphone Wilshire Electric Guitar
The Epiphone Wilshire was introduced in 1959 as medium grade professional electric guitar. The Wilshire was a double cutaway, thin solid body electric guitar that initially featured Epiphone's New York made...
Vintage Gibson G101 Combo Organ
The Gibson G101 organ had a short but fantastic career and has now faded into vintage unicorn level obscurity. Both Ray Manzarek of The Doors and SunRa used this organ and are...
Vintage Guitar Appraiser
Are you wondering what your vintage acoustic guitar, vintage electric guitar, or vintage amplifier might be worth? If your cherished heirloom was stolen or damaged, how would you prove to...
Vintage Gibson Factory Order Numbers or How to date my vintage Gibson guitar
Unlike C. F. Martin & Co, Gibson only applied actual serial numbers to the higher end of their product line until 1962. In lieu of a serial number, Gibson...
Vintage Gibson Nut Width and Neck Profiles
Both players and collectors alike consider a guitar's nut width and neck profile to be very important. Gibson changed the standard nut width many times from the 1930s to the 1960s....
Consign your vintage guitar or amplifier with True Vintage Guitar
True Vintage Guitar offers consignment service for those who want to sell their guitar or amplifier at a professional level without the years of infrastructure building and hassle that it requires....
Clyde Pickerel's Banner Gibson J-45
Have you seen this guitar? It should be fairly easy to spot if it still has those fancy dressin's. I found this picture out on the internet of Clyde Pickerel...
The Gibson ES-330
Gibson introduced a new series of guitars in 1949 with the prefix "ES" for Electric Spanish. The Gibson ES-330 had to wait until 1958 for its introduction. The ES-330 was...
The Gibson Country Western Model
The Gibson Country Western Model debuted as its own model in 1955. The folks at Gibson gave the Country Western its own paper label with the name of the model...