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True Vintage Guitar at the Charlotte International Guitar Show 2014
True Vintage Guitar will be setting up shop at the Charlotte guitar show this weekend, August 23 and 24. Will you be there? Come by and introduce yourself. Mine will...
Vintage Silvertone Amplifiers
Silvertone was the brand name that Sears was using for all of their musically related products in the 1960s including guitars, amplifiers, radios, record players and more. Sears would contract...
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...
1943 Gibson J-45 "Only a Gibson is good enough"
There's no question that some of the most highly regarded Gibson flat top guitars came out of the Gibson factory during the most wide spread war in history. The mysterious...
Vintage Chicago Made Harmony/Silvertone/Kay Electric Guitars
These Chicago made, formerly cheap guitars have been really hot on the vintage market lately. Players are finding out that solid American made electronics and kitschy visual appeal can do a...
1967 Martin D-28
The D-28 has been Martin's flagship model almost since it received a 14 fret neck in 1934. The Rosewood back and sides and long scale length make this a powerful, loud and...
Another 1956 Fender Deluxe
The Fender Deluxe (5e3 circuit) is the quintessential vintage amplifier. If you're a gear head then a 5e3 Deluxe is probably somewhere in your future, if not your present. Why...
1963 Epiphone Coronet Silver Fox
It's hard to beat a hot Gibson P-90, a wrap tail and a slab of Mahogany. 1963 was the first year of the batwing headstock and the custom color they...
1943 Gibson J-45
This 1943 Gibson J-45 came to me in the original case with zero prior repairs. The bridge had pulled up and the bridge plate had puckered a bit so I...
1966 Gibson ES-330
Here's another ES-330 that I was lucky to babysit for a time. This one was made in Kalamazoo, MI in 1966 but had been played very little before I snagged...
1949 Gibson Southern Jumbo
In 1942 the folks at Gibson's decided it was time to redesign the J-55 into something flashier, something that the folks south of the Mason-Dixon line would like. What they...