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Gibson Custom Les Paul Class 5 Quilt Top Electric Guitar Transparent Black

Feb 14, 2010 Gibson Less Paul

The figuring on this Gibson Les Paul Class 5 Quilt Top looks like the bottom of storm clouds just before a tornado. The brilliant red finish is highlighted by gold transparent top hat knobs, nickel hardware, and a perfectly fashioned bound rosewood fretboard. The electric guitar has loads of natural sustain from the weight-relieved mahogany back and set mahogany neck with long tenon is accentuated by the Gibson Burstbuckers.Gibson’s Custom Shop produces some of the finest electric guitars on earth. Using the best materials money can buy, a staff of skilled luthiers reproduce some of the greatest Gibsons of the past and create stunning new instruments for players and collectors who demand the best.

 

Schecter C-1 Classic Electric Guitar Antique Amber

Feb 14, 2010 Schecter Electric Guitars

The Schecter C-1 Classic Electric Guitar gives you huge sustain and crunchy tone with premium Seymour Duncan humbuckers, maple neck-thru construction, and a string-thru-body tailpiece with TonePros tune-o-matic bridge. A quilted maple top and intricate vine-of-life fretboard inlay give the C-1 Classic looks to match its tone. The substantial-yet-fast maple neck has a rosewood fingerboard with creme binding, 24 jumbo frets, 25-1/2″ scale, and Grover tuners. The mahogany body has natural binding on the top.

 

Line 6 HD150 Guitar Amp Head with Spider III 4×12 Cabinet

Feb 14, 2010 Vox Guitar Amp

This Line 6 Half-Stack includes the HD 150 Guitar Amp Head and Spider III 4×12 stereo speaker cabinet.The Line 6 Spider III HD150 Guitar Amplifier Head delivers killer amp and effects models, and a ton of presets created by some of the world’s most notorious guitar stars from bands including 311, Thursday, Lacuna Coil, Hawthorne Heights, Slipknot, Ash, Albert Lee, Athlete, John 5, and many more! Line 6 has also given the Spider III 120 another 150 song-based presets—sounds from such classics as No More Tears, Enter Sandman, Stinkfist, Back In Black, Bark at the Moon, and many more!. These presets combined with 7 quality effects models, make the Spider III a giant of tone that give you any sound you want, already dialed in. Now you can rule the stage with the Insane model with its truly massive gain or explore your sensitive side in the studio with the Clean model. It’s all up to you.New to the Spider III amplifier is a huge range of killer mid-gain guitar tones. A critical advancement was made to the sound and feel of the Spider III line when a discerning panel of artists focused in on the venerable “mid-gain” range of tone to deliver the complex, layered and dynamic amp tone we all appreciate from classic and boutique amps.Amp Models: Clean: Red LED – Select this Amp Model and adjust the tone controls to get crisp, amazing clean tones, great warm jazz tones, and all the high-end shimmer you’ll need with a generous amount of bottom end.Glassy: Green LED – Line 6 developed this Amp Model to emulate those late 60′s and early 70′s clean tones. It is like a 1973 Hiwatt Custom 100 with an extended tone control range and tightened up low end.Twang: Red LED – This Amp Model draws on the mid 60′s Fender amps, including the blackface ’65 Twin Reverb and blackface ’64 Deluxe Reverb. We wanted an Amp Model that has that classic glassy high-end tone, with some snap and bite.Twin Twang: Green LED – This Amp Model is based on* a number of vintage tweed amps: a ’53 Fender tweed Deluxe Reverb, ’58 Fender tweed Bassman and a ’60 Gibson Explorer to create a swingin’ Rockabilly tone.Blues: Red LED Based on* a mix of a ’65 Marshall JTM-45, a ’58 Fender Bassman, a ’63 Fender Vibroverb and a Supro, this Amp Model slides between gritty swamp-infected cleans to syrupy smooth, walloping drive tones.Class A: Green LED – This Amp Model is based on* a fawn Vox AC-30 amplifier with an updated and expanded tone control circuit. It captures that early British pop rock tone that the Beatles and the Stones are so well known for.Crunch: Red LED – This sound was crafted from studies of the ’68 Marshall Plexi 50 Watt. This type of Marshall amp was used by a number of early metal bands. Crunch provides a wider range of tone control settings than the original Marshall amp had.On Fire: Green LED – This Amp Model is based on* a 68 Marshall Plexi 100 watt with a few added extras; The combination of a Variac

 

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar Ebony

Feb 13, 2010 Gibson Less Paul

The Les Paul Custom has long been a favorite of guitar players and collectors. The pinnacle of electric guitar elegance and beauty, this limited edition Custom features the trademark split diamond headstock inlay and lavishly bound body, chrome hardware, and 490R/498T humbuckers that are uncovered to reveal black bobbins.Gibson’s Custom Shop produces some of the finest electric guitars on earth. Using the best materials money can buy, a staff of skilled luthiers reproduce some of the greatest Gibson guitars of the past and create stunning new instruments for players and collectors who demand the best.

 

Epiphone Les Paul Special II Electric Guitar Vintage Sunburst

Feb 13, 2010 Epiphone Electric Guitars

What’s so special about the Epiphone Les Paul Special II Electric Guitar? The super-low price for starters and that’s not all. Made with a basswood body, bolt-on mahogany neck, smooth 22-fret rosewood fingerboard, this baby is every bit as handsome as its uptown cousins. Features 700T/650R open-coil humbucking pickups that deliver long, singing sustain and true Les Paul tones. Limited lifetime warranty.

 

Ibanez GAX70 Electric Guitar Transparent Red

Feb 13, 2010 Ibanez Elelctric Guitar

Featuring the Artist body style and the GRX style neck, this is the most affordable ever in the 20-year Artist series. The Ibanez GAX70 features a Full Tune II bridge with stopbar tailpiece, and 2 Powersound humbuckers.

 

Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster HSS Electric Guitar Chrome Silver Maple Fretboard

Feb 13, 2010 Stratocaster

The Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster HSS, called by some a Fat Strat, is an electric guitar that is instantly comfortable, and it gives you irresistible tone and playability. You won’t believe your fingers and ears. The ultimate in high-performance, this premium model Strat has an ultrasmooth neck with hand-rolled edges to make it play fast, smooth, and sweet. Already loaded with all the impressive Deluxe series appointments, the American Deluxe Strat takes it to another level with a Fat Strat-style hot humbucker at the bridge, an LSR roller nut, and S-1 switching for even more versatility, extra punch, and sustain to spare. SCN (Samarium Cobalt Noiseless) pickups (2 single-coils) dish out vintage Strat sounds without the hum, and the contoured alder body fits like a glove.Other features of the Stratocaster HSS include polished chrome hardware, locking machine heads, American Deluxe tremolo with polished steel saddles, highly detailed fret and nut work, abalone dot inlays, and aged plastic parts. Includes Fender hardshell case.Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickupsIt’s no secret that pickup designers at Fender have been striving to develop the ultimate noise-free single-coil replacement pickup. In pursuit of both as little 60-cycle hum and extraneous noise as possible and the classic bell-like tones and fidelity of the original pickup designs, Fender has poured their energy into discovering a new world pickup for the ages. With open minds and a willingness to seemingly question everything, Fender partnered with legendary pickup designer Bill Lawrence. The pickup that was birthed from this extraordinary partnership is the Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickup. It has no hum, no microphonics, close to zero magnetic interruption of the string path, and the widest sonic parameters possible-from Fender classic single coils to tones not yet imagined. Truly a revolutionary design in guitar pickups.

 

Fender American Standard Telecaster Electric Guitar Candy Cola Maple Fretboard

Feb 13, 2010 Telecaster

The Fender American Standard Telecaster Electric Guitar is a pro player’s axe that delivers authentic Tele vibe. American Series pickups and deluxe hardware with original ’52 ash or alder body dimensions deliver more resonance and tone. The maple neck has a modern C shape with rolled edges and highly finished frets for easier playability. The detailed nut eliminates rattles and improves tuning stability. Custom staggered tuning machines eliminate the need for one of the string trees. Staggered pole pieces in the pickups provide balanced output across all strings, and especially improves tone for the G-string.The return of the American Standard Series Telecaster continues Fender’s tradition of commitment to the people who play Fender instruments out there in the real world. Today’s American Standard Telecaster guitars are worthy heirs of their revered ancestors-mindful of player needs and taking full advantage of modern advances, yet remaining completely true to the elements and spirit that made these instruments legendary in the first place. Improvements include redesigned bridges, neck and body finishes, and a Fender-exclusive high-tech molded case. Still there are the beloved hand-rolled fingerboard edges, alnico V pickups and staggered tuning machines for tone and stability guaranteed to last a lifetime (with its limited lifetime warranty)! So make history with the redesigned American Standard!American Standard Tele® Bridge Gives sought-after tone with modern improvements (no ashtray edges, 6 saddle adjustability). Redesigned plate features a classic styled Fender stamp on chrome plated brass. Brass and steel are the secrets to the Tele sound! Bridge Component Specifics American Standard’ saddles- The original vintage-style Fender bent steel adjustable saddle is one of the components that give vintage Fenders their tonal mojo’. Fender conducted tone comparison tests, and fell in love with them all over again. They have a wider tonal range and more character many other saddles. Then Fender improved them; narrowing the spacing to afford more room (and complement the bigger frets and rolled edges), and also elongated the string slot to reduce friction and string breakage, while improving the string break angle over the primary contact point.Bridge plate- The combination of steel saddles with a brass plate harks back to the magic combination of the most sought-after vintage Tele guitars (which had steel plate/brass saddles). The plate also features two extra mounting screws to improve resonance and body contact (as well as eliminating squeals’), and a stylized Fender logo to class up the instrument and nod to the design of 60s era Fenders (like Jaguar and Mustang bridges). Neck Gloss and Tint Seemingly a small or less important feature, this is a major feature. The old necks were satin all over primarily for the feel of the back of the neck. On these American Standards Fender kept the satin neck back, but still gav

 

Fender Custom Shop LTD 1963 Telecaster Custom Relic Electric Guitar Black

Feb 13, 2010 Telecaster

The C-shaped maple neck has a 9.5-radius which allows for amazing bends that will hardly ever “fret out”. Ser. No. R28173

 

Fender Standard Stratocaster Electric Guitar Candy Apple Red Rosewood Fingerboard

Feb 13, 2010 Stratocaster

The Standard Strat features a fast-action maple neck, comfort-contoured alder body, three single-coil pickups and standard synchronized tremolo—it’s where the tradition began and still carries on today.

 


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