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Harmony Bobkat Video Blog
I picked up this Harmony Bobkat a couple of days ago. I didn't feel like writing tonight but I wanted to get the word out about these so I made...
The $200k Les Paul's little brother: 1960 Gibson Melody Maker
According to Gibson's website, the Melody Maker was the best selling guitar at the time. It was cheap and looked cool too. They produced them on the same line that...
Pre-war Epiphone Flat-top: 1940 Epiphone FT-50
I say 1940 but I don't really know. A friend on the Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum concluded that this was built by Epiphone in 1940 or '41. There were very few of...
Pre-war Gibson Flat-top: 1933 Gibson L-00
When I was back in school I was lucky enough to find a guy with an early 50s J-45 and a mid to late 30s L-00. I knew the J-45...
The One(s) That Got Away
Half the fun of vintage guitars are their history and the path they took to get to me. Some of the guitars I have bought came with pictures of the...
From the Bailey Brothers' VAULT: 1960 Gibson ES-355
You have heard of it happening. Most guitar shops will have somewhere that they keep the "good stuff." You are standing in your favorite local guitar shop. You overhear another...
Why this is probably not a 1961 Gibson ES-125- what do you think?
Gibson is consistent in only one thing: inconsistency. As a result it can be very difficult to date some vintage Gibsons. When I say Gibson here, I mean Kalamazoo era Gibson (up...
Just a good, southern late 50s Gibson J-45.. and a quick video of my 1964 Gibson B-25
Carl posted about this guitar in the comments section of the post of my 1953 J-45: I love getting these emails. You never know what you are going to come...
The Holy Grail of vintage guitar amplifiers: 1956 Fender Deluxe
I used to have a couple of tweed fenders and one was the Deluxe. It was a '59. The speaker had been changed a couple of times. The capacitors were...
Email Guitar- Look what we have here!
I got an email from a reader with a couple of pictures attached. Needless to say, I was pumped. It's a Silvertone 1446! It is always a great day when...
50s Kay Kraftsman Jumbo.... The poor man's J-200
I saw an old amp on Craigslist in Tuscaloosa the other day. It was a Silvertone 1472 sporting about 10 watts or so and a 12" speaker. I was heading...
Field Trip: 1957 Fender Vibrolux
A friend of mine called me the other day and said that he had just traded his old drum set for this 1957 Fender Vibrolux: Needless to say, I was...