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Fender Standard Jazz Bass Black Rosewood Fretboard

Jun 30, 2010 Fender Bass Guitar

The Fender Standard series Jazz Bass guitar delivers the sounds, looks, and feel today’s bass players demand. It features that classic Jazz Bass old-school design together with contemporary features and refinements that make it an excellent value and a great choice for today’s bassist. Featuring an alder body, 2 redesigned Standard Jazz Bass single-coil pickups, and updated vintage-style knobs, this classic bass lives up to its Fender legacy.

 

Fender Custom Shop Time Machine Series ’56 Stratocaster Closet Classic Electric Guitar Black

Jun 30, 2010 Stratocaster

This awesome reproduction created by the Custom Shop for the Time Machine Series looks like a 30-something that has aged gracefully since 1956. The Classic Fender Strat features an alder or ash body depending on finish (ash on the vintage blonde), and the original 10/56 shaped maple neck. Includes a deluxe hardshell case.

 

Gibson Custom 1954 Les Paul Custom with Bigsby VOS Electric Guitar Ebony

Jun 30, 2010 Gibson Less Paul

Les Paul wanted two colors used on the Gibson guitar that would forever bear his name: gold (for its connection to all things fine) and black (because a player’s hands would be easily visible against a dark background). Les got the gold in 1952, but had to wait for the black. The Les Paul Custom was introduced in 1954 and featured elegant appointments like gold hardware, multiple binding, and an ebony fretboard. The ’54 Custom was also the first solidbody Gibson guitar to use the ABR-1 bridge, the familiar piece of hardware we’ve all come to know as the Tune-O-Matic. Matched up with a vintage-style Bigsby vibrato, it’s an unbeatable combination.Underneath it’s luxurious inky finish, this historic recreation of the original 1954 Custom features a carved mahogany top, a solid mahogany back, one-piece mahogany neck with long neck tenon, an early ’50s rounded neck profile, 24-3/4″ scale length, and a 1-11/16″ nut width. It also has multi-ply white/black binding on the body and headstock, with white single-ply binding on the fingerboard. Its finer appointments include gold hardware, an ebony fingerboard, large pearl block inlays, pearl headstock inlay, and kidney bean tuners. The original circuitry is preserved with the use of CTS pots and bumble bee capacitors in the signal path and the unique pickup array of a vintage P-90 pickup at the bridge and a rare Alnico V pickup at the neck.The Alnico V pickup was designed in 1952 by Seth Lover and Walt Fuller for Gibson to succeed the P-90 pickup on several of Gibson’s distinguished archtop jazz hollowbodies, most famously the L5 CES, ES-5, and Byrdland guitars. Similar to the P-90 in appearance, the Alnico V is easily recognized by its distinctive rectangular pole pieces. It gets its name from the stronger Alnico V magnets, while each coil has 10,000 turns of 42-gauge wire to achieve its clear, round, ringing sound. It made its debut on a solidbody Gibson in the Fretless Wonder of 1954; the Les Paul Custom, or Black Beauty.Vintage Original Spec series instruments receive a special nitro-cellulose finish treatment yielding the patina of a gently-aged vintage guitar while handcrafting enhances comfort and playability. Each VOS model has a solid mahogany back; historically accurate long-neck tenon for strength and sustain; and period-correct neck profile, hardware, and electronics.

 

Fender Left-Handed Highway One Stratocaster Electric Guitar Wine Transparent

Jun 30, 2010 Stratocaster

Wide seventies headstock, fat frets, scorching alnico pickups, upgraded vintage-style bridge, and super-light nitro satin finish make this American-made left-handed Highway One Stratocaster ready for the open road. Alder body, C-shaped maple neck, and Greasebucket tone circuit round out a classic electric guitar.

 

Epiphone Les Paul Ultra-II Electric Guitar Midnight Ebony

Jun 30, 2010 Epiphone Electric Guitars

The Les Paul Ultra-II is a truly different hybrid guitar combining a real Les Paul Guitar with a fingerboard-mounted NanoMAG Samarium/Cobalt pickup and electronics to produce shimmering acoustic tones with ultra-wide dynamic range. It is crafted with the same acoustic chambers as those in the regular Les Paul Ultra. Comprehensive NanoMAG controls are discretely incorporated into the back cover. True Stereo outputs capable of both mono and stereo with a regular cable.The NanoMAG is a magnetic pickup with an air coil and a composition of different samarium cobalt magnets incorporating active electronics in a minimum of space. The pickup is protected by an epoxy layer, and the silver-platinum shielding, together with the active electronics, provides a low impedance, hum free output signal. The NanoMAG pickup provides an acoustic sound, but can also produce sweet blues and jazz tones. It is very resistant to the feedback and offers incredible dynamics in all positions.Based upon Epiphone’s top-selling Les Paul Ultra, the Ultra-II adds a proprietary NanoMAG low-impedance pickup embedded into the fingerboard and custom electronics to create a Les Paul that is not only capable of blistering, electric guitar riffs but also shimmering acoustic-like tones and when combined, greatly expanded frequency range and tonal capabilities. The goal of the Ultra-II was to create a more versatile guitar that was capable of not only real Les Paul tone, but also acoustic-like qualities but without adding a lot of controls and changing the overall appearance of the legendary Les Paul. Unlike other instruments that attempt to create a completely new guitar design, Epiphone went about this differently by starting with a proven, electric guitar design and adding to it.The Ultra-II is all Les Paul. Its pair of Alnico Classic humbucking pickups combined with traditional LP design let’s you rock like legendary Les Paul players. However, the Ultra’s body is strategically chambered to not only reduce the weight, but to add subtle acoustic overtones. Taking advantage of this design, Epiphone teamed up with the premier German acoustic pickup maker, Shadow to take the Ultra to the next level. The result is the Ultra-II.At the heart of the Ultra-II is the NanoMAG pickup. Referring to its small size and its composition, the NanoMag is a completely new kind of magnetic pickup that combines 3 Samarium-Cobalt magnets with on-board, active electronics to produce a low-impedance pickup with absolute linear response and an uncharacteristically wide frequency range. Voiced specifically for the Ultra-II, the NanoMAG is embedded in the fingerboard after the 22nd fret. Positioned at this harmonic-rich sweet spot, the NanoMAG is able to capture all the harmonics – from the lowest to the highest – with incredible accuracy and all with ZERO noise or artificial coloration. This again is different from all other acoustic pickup technology.Front mounted controls for the Ultra-II remain i

 

Epiphone Les Paul Special II Electric Guitar Wine Red

Jun 30, 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.

 

Epiphone SG Special Electric Guitar Player Pack Cherry Chrome Hardware

Jun 30, 2010 Epiphone Electric Guitars

The Epiphone SG Special Electric Guitar Player Pack is everything you need to turn yourself into the hottest guitar star ever. The Epiphone SG Special is made with a bolt-on mahogany neck, basswood body, smooth 22-fret rosewood fingerboard, dot inlays, and chrome hardware. Dual humbuckers—700T at the bridge, 650R at the neck—deliver long, singing sustain and powerful tones.This package also includes an Epiphone Studio 10 amplifier with 10W power through an 8″ Electar Labs speaker; rugged gig bag; instructional video; pitch pipe; plus a strap, cable, and picks to put it all together. Everything you need to get going!

 

Fender Twin Amp 100-Watt All-Tube Guitar Amp

Jun 29, 2010 Fender Guitar Amps

Look inside the Fender Twin Amp and you can see ‘em in there, glowing with that warm, rich, physical juice — a broad river of power to carry your guitar‘s tone. We’re talking 100% tube signal path running 100 huge watts. We’re talking classic Fender tone with tube reverb and tremolo. A pair of the same 12″ Eminence speakers found on the ’65 Twin Reverb crank out bell-like tones from the Blackface-style normal channel and thick, bold lead sounds from the overdrive channel. 1/4-power switch lets you cook without blasting the walls down. Effects loop and 4-button footswitch included.

 

Gibson Les Paul Double Cutaway AA Top Electric Guitar Tv Yellow

Jun 29, 2010 Gibson Less Paul

If you want the sound and vibe of the famous Les Paul with the comfort of a double cutaway and the eye-candy of a AA flame maple top here’s your order. Not only does this model feature the double cut body that allows you to reach those uppermost frets with ease, the treble horn has slightly modified shape that provides even more comfort and playability. Solid mahogany body, ’60s- style slim taper neck for fast action, and 2 Burstbucker Pro pickups, each with its own volume control. BurstBucker Pro pickups deliver a tight, balanced, biting tone with plenty of midrange.

 

Ibanez S470DXQM Electric Guitar Red Viking

Jun 29, 2010 Ibanez Elelctric Guitar

The Ibanez S470DXQM brings a luxurious quilted maple top to one of the world’s most dangerous electric guitars. Maple Wizard II neck, mahogany body, 22 jumbo frets, bound rosewood fretboard, special ZR tremolo, and the unbelievably versatile H/S/H Powersound pickup set.

 


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